+-^CrossBow^- Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 Not sure if anyone cares about this game. But I on a whim since lots of other games were broken I decided to see what was fixed. Low and behold Jinks is now playable again...well as playable as it could ever be that is.. just an FYI... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 I'm cancelling all of my meetings today! Jinksfest 2002!!! hee hee Cousin Vinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 Wow, I was using satire, ubersarus...I hate that game. I'm glad someone likes it though. To me, it's as tedious as "playing Pick up Sticks with our buttcheeks", to loosely quote Del Griffith. CV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 I wasn't referring to your post ;p I just actually like the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 I remember playing Jinks like a madman when I was kid, that and Galaga. Had I a second player, I would have gone nuts with Ballblazer too, because I loved that game. Back to Jinks. Like Breakout, but not really. How can you lose? [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: ubersaurus ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbrit2 Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 What I find particularly interesting about Jinks is the opening screen. The one with the voices. Welcome! *Boioing!* You can't catch me! Yeow! Why on earth would the Atari people have put Gauntlet sounds into this game if the sounds weren't already available on the 7800 development systems? There's got to be a 7800 Gauntlet prototype hiding out somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 I've always wondered about that myself. I bet there is a Gauntlet proto somewhere, but since 7800 protos are few and far between I doubt we'll ever see it. The best thing about Jinks is the title screen, it all goes down hill after that... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Propane13 Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 I always guessed that Dark Chambers was as close to Gauntlet as they'd get. Is it so different from Gauntlet? I've theorized that it actually is Gauntlet, but there were problems with releasing it under that name. Any ideas? Re: Jinks 1) What does the title screen signify? Who is the falcon/bird? 2) And is the game conquerable (I seem to recall playing Level 1 repeatedly, and it got harder each time until it stayed about the same)? Anyone ever take it farther? [ 01-04-2002: Message edited by: John K. Harvey ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 There doesn't nessessarily have to be a Gauntlet prototype. The original C64 version of Jinks has a nice SID tune with sampled voices in the intro. The TIA chip in the 7800 isn't really capable of this type of music. Therefore the 7800 version of Jinks uses a little sampled tune for the menu music. Maybe Peter didn't have enough space to fit in a sampled version of the intro tune as well, and thought the Gauntlet samples fittet the game just as well. The 7800 version of Jinks was programmed by US Gold in the UK, which I believe also did the computer versions of Gauntlet. I would habe been no problem to take the samples from one of the Gauntlet version for one of the 8-bit homecomputers, as they all used the same 4-bit volume changing technique to output sampled sounds. But I guess you could just ask Peter Pachla where he got the samples from. I think he is still active in the Vectrex programming scene. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbrit2 Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 Hm, the plot thickens. But now you've got me curious about this C64 version of Jinks, which I had never heard of. Time to dig around the C64 archive sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 a excellent point to start is www.c64.com heaven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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