www.atarimania.com Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Superman II Is this a typo? Tower Toppler Is a more complete version available? IIRC, the game crashes on the second level. Mat ManiaXenophobe Any expected release date? Picnic Paranoia Any possibility of other Synapse / Atari games surfacing? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Tower Toppler Is a more complete version available? IIRC, the game crashes on the second level. Can you advise where this is known to occur? I have never run into this problem playing TT, but I have only reached the second level on two out of the three "streams". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 I could be wrong but I believe it's somewhere in the middle of the second level... IIRC, the screen gets filled with garbage and the game becomes completely unplayable. Anybody able to confirm this? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myatari Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I have a box of 7800 stuff. Most PAL. I did not see anything that had not been released but I'm not much on 7800. 2600 stuff includes Save Marry, Cracked, Klax, motor rodeo ++++ I sold a bunch of them on Ebay last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myatari Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Sorry typo; Superman III. The author told me he also did ET. Yes we have several other Synapse games that Atari had converted to single chip XE Supercart versions. I have never had a chance to compare them to Synapse released versions. Yes I have a whole box of 7800 carts. Most are PAL for some reason? I sold off most of the 2600 carts over the last few years on Ebay. I have some Save Mary and a few others still left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I have a box of 7800 stuff. Most PAL. I did not see anything that had not been released but I'm not much on 7800. Thanks for the info. If you need help figuring out what you have let me know. And if you decide to sell definitely let me know. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Don't hoard 7800 prototypes. Share with the 7800 community! Actually, please share info about all prototypes, but the 7800 has so few and there is a persistant problem of people that have them not wanting to share info about them. Witness: CHUCK NORRIS MISSING IN ACTION, which has been well named! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylama Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Barbados Booty? Never heard of it! Does this game actually exist, or was it vaporware? Is there an ATR floating around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 Barbados Booty? Never heard of it! Does this game actually exist, or was it vaporware? Is there an ATR floating around? It was supposed to be the sequel to Montezumas Revenge. AFAIK it was never started. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Any game with booty in it gets my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 the Mogul Maniac on 8 bit i have isnt a proto. but wasnt released on the 8 bit in cart form as far as i know. and you were telling me it wasnt a disk form released game. not sure what to make of it. i got 1 or 2 people helping me look into it but it might be worth a good head scratch. dont want you getting mad at me temp. but i watned to toss it in and let ya all know. cause i forgot some guy had a site saying this game did not exist and after i supplied the proof he took it off the list and listed it under the ROMOX listings. but go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I'd consider Mogul Maniac as an Amiga prototype as the game was never released by that company... but Romox bought the rights to the program, which was definitely part of the range sold through their ESD terminals on ECPC cartridges. What we need to know is what happened to the other 20th Century Fox games mentioned in the Romox catalog, for which A8 screenshots exist... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Now for some really hot stuff Info / pictures courtesy of Bill Gaskill: http://www.atarimania.com/xxxxxxxx.doc -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I wonder if thats the same Marc R Benioff whos the CEO of salesforce.com? Seems like an unusual name and he is in the software industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Yep, same guy E-mailed him twice but got no response. Tempest, would you like to give it a try? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I'd consider Mogul Maniac as an Amiga prototype as the game was never released by that company I am with you so far. ... but Romox bought the rights to the program This is the part that I have been unable to confirn. Is it listed in any ROMOX catalog or literature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Well, afaik (the author told me) Tower Toppler had been developed on a NTSC system. And yes, I have it in my collection, but I do own a PAL system. The problem with TT is that it crashes completely after level two on a PAL system (it should be fine on a NTSC system the author said, since I don`t have NTSC I could not test it). Anyway level 2 is fully playable, but when it comes to the interlude (where you drive a submarine) the game crashes, which is very sad, because you cannot play the remaining six towers then... After all, the XL/XE version is poor compared to the great 7800 version (high res. with many colors and sprites; XL/XE: high res., no colors / only bw; fewer sprites and some of them appear as garbage at least on my PAL system). So, if you like TT, then buy a 7800 and the 7800 TT cart... -Andreas. P.S.: I do have Montezuma (16k) on cart. Here in Europe this game was also available on tape - and the cart version is a port of this tape. I also have Jinks on disk, it was developed officially by AMC for Rainbow Arts (who should do it for Atari). In my eyes it is a boring game and requires a 64k Atari to run. Video 61 burned this AMC version on a cart - without asking for permission. Hey Lance, since I am the copyright holder of all AMC programs nowadays, what about sending me at least one of those Jinks carts ?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 22, 2004 Author Share Posted September 22, 2004 So Tower Toppler truly is in B&W? I assume this is because they used the highest possible resolution mode. Is the PAL bug the reason it was never released? What about the rumor that said carts (or at least boards) were actually produced and sat in some warehouse for years? BTW who is the programmer for XE TT? also have Jinks on disk, it was developed officially by AMC for Rainbow Arts (who should do it for Atari). Ok so was this the version that Atari was going to release or is this a different version? I heard there are two, a 64K one and a different, stripped down version that Atari was going to release. Do you know anything about that? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 So Tower Toppler truly is in B&W? I assume this is because they used the highest possible resolution mode. I thought it just used some kind of artifacting that made it appear Black and White on PAL machines. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 Chances are it uses artifacting. Your color flavor depends on which NTSC machine it is running on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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