RevEng Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 The same rom on the same 7800 with a Harmony cart plays just fine. I expect batari's 7800 compatibility fixes are in play here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Never had an issue with it using CC2 either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely Mountain Hermit Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Any news on this project anyone would be willing to share? Not to be impatient, but I'm really looking forward to playing this one on cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Is this an adult video game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely Mountain Hermit Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 In case anyone wants to take a look, Alex posted the latest binary on page #10: Anyhow, the latest binary is here. I hope he is doing well. This is an incredible game - and some of the finest work ever done on the Atari. ... and given the difficulty of writing games, this is probably the finest game programming ever. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Agreed, Just checked it, this game is brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapetino Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Wow. Although I've been hearing about this game for a long while, I'd never played it until now. VERY impressive, and hope it gets completed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 It's pretty to look at and the platforms and objects are in different places every time you play. I hope it will be a good influence on others who make games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely Mountain Hermit Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 It's really the perfect Atari game. Simple, yet challenging and strangely hypnotic. I really hope Alex is doing ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_Explodes Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 One of my favorite Atari games of all time. GREAT to hear that Alex is alive and kicking somewhere! I was worried! Hooray! - Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I found a harmless bug in the last posted version, which I will christen "the MGD extended remix bug" Start a game with the fire button and a few seconds later hit the reset switch. The first few bars of the music will be from a random part of the song, different for both channels. Clearly some variables aren't being initialized as the music routine expects if the game ends without a death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version? I have made multiple attempts to contact the author (electronically and otherwise) and unfortunately I have not heard from him. He took his forum offline some time ago and hasn't posted any news to his site since 2005. He hasn't logged into his AtariAge forum account since September 2007. If anyone else had communicated with him in the recent past, please let me know. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I found a harmless bug in the last posted version, which I will christen "the MGD extended remix bug" Start a game with the fire button and a few seconds later hit the reset switch. The first few bars of the music will be from a random part of the song, different for both channels. Clearly some variables aren't being initialized as the music routine expects if the game ends without a death. Hee hee. You found that too. I think its nice feature... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Is the creator of this game still around and are there plans to make a finished cart version? I have made multiple attempts to contact the author (electronically and otherwise) and unfortunately I have not heard from him. He took his forum offline some time ago and hasn't posted any news to his site since 2005. He hasn't logged into his AtariAge forum account since September 2007. If anyone else had communicated with him in the recent past, please let me know. ..Al That's too bad, this is an absolutely fantastic game. I would have loved to have seen a finished product in cart form. I'd consider it a must have homebrew. It's too bad. Thanks for the info Albert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 That's too bad, this is an absolutely fantastic game. I would have loved to have seen a finished product in cart form. I'd consider it a must have homebrew. Agreed on all accounts. It's too bad. Thanks for the info Albert. I still hold out hope that Alex will contact me at some point. I hope he is doing well. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Hee hee. You found that too. I think its nice feature... Yup! I thought it was a kinda fun bug too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e1will Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 If you have the bubble when you hit the black Abyss, then you just kind of drift along for a while, racking up points (and watching fruits flicker in and out of existence), until you suddenly hit a kind of glitchy section (gray with golden-yellow platforms) and your man is immediately forced off the top of the screen: I hope Alex's health allows him to finish this one (a brain hemorrhage?! Yikes!!), because it's a freaking great game -- I agree that it's easily in the top 5% of Atari 2600 games. I was curious what there might be "after" the golden bars of death, so I tweaked a couple of bytes to make it survivable. It's posted in the Hacks forum, if anyone else is curious: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/161888-man-goes-down-hack/ --Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwk3 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Just wondering if anybody might have new info? I hope Alex is doing well, I remember he had some health problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Repeated attempts have been made to contact him, but so far - no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Now that more AtariVox+ units have sold and are still available to purchase, any thoughts about releasing this, arguably a top Vox game and 2600 game, as 'unfinished'? The label contest chose a label. Even if this was supposed to have an ending and becomes impossible, it still has replay value for a better score (and it saves them!) Pac Man ends at level 256 and was supposed to continue. And all the other arcade 'kill screens' I can't think of at the moment. It is 16K so not taking Melody boards away from other games (but maybe more time consuming creating? Not sure.) It will bring some money for AtariAge. I think there is still demand these seven years later, and nine years after this thread began. EDIT: Last version still available here: http://www.herbs64.plus.com/files/mgd.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 I suppose the source code was never posted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 I suppose the source code was never posted? As far as I know, no. Albert has gone to considerable lengths to try and locate and contact Alex, to see if he could get permission for another programmer to finish the game up. The manual is probably about 75% finished. I was working on it with Alex when he left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killersquirel Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Where can you get the atarivox+'s? -mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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