wrenchien Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 i'd thought i'd share these freeware creations with you for those who have emulated 800 xl.. some pinball games i made last year with pinball construction kit.... see what you think of them.. the first has beastoids and quickness.. pcsc1.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrenchien Posted October 13, 2004 Author Share Posted October 13, 2004 you'd probably best run these under atari800win... the other disk includes the pinball construction set games joyride pinball, and deep funk .. something i did well before i came here.. when unzipped they're in xfd format... anyway, if you can get them to run, enjoy them. pcsc2.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Great Do you mind if we archive your creations on our site and offer them for download? Thanks again for sharing! -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnice Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 That reminds me, Atarimania, I was supposed to send you some PCS games that my brother and I created. I didn't have any extra floppy disks at the time. However, I came across about 100 of them about two months ago, so I think I can do it now! Please send me a private message with your address, and I'll try to send off some PCS games to you when I have a chance. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrenchien Posted October 14, 2004 Author Share Posted October 14, 2004 no, atarimania, i don't mind them being offered for download at all. go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrenchien Posted October 14, 2004 Author Share Posted October 14, 2004 btw jnice, try to get those disks converted to emulator format, so all could share if they don't have an atari computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrenchien Posted October 19, 2004 Author Share Posted October 19, 2004 ohhh here's one i decided to work on.. another one i'll think about making, then when both are done i'll put them up for anyone wanting them. . this is a preview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 you'd probably best run these under atari800win... the other disk includes the pinball construction set games joyride pinball, and deep funk .. something i did well before i came here.. when unzipped they're in xfd format... anyway, if you can get them to run, enjoy them. Yeah. May be I'm stupid but what should I do with those binaries on the disk? They're not executables and I wasn't able to load them into Pinball Construction Set either... Thanx, F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Hello, I also made 2-3 pinballs with the PCS some years ago. recently I am collecting the pinballs created with PCS - at current I have 12 disksides each with 7-8 pinballs (all packed with Superpacker to save disk space)... So, if there is some interest in these pinballs, just e-mail me and I will return some ATR images to you... -Andreas. P.S.: Mail: abbuc#abbuc*de PPS: Other Pinballs: Night Mission by Sublogic, Pinball Simulator (?) by Codemasters, David`s Midnight Magic by Broderbund (and later Atari); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Yeah. May be I'm stupid but what should I do with those binaries on the disk? They're not executables and I wasn't able to load them into Pinball Construction Set either... This is really weird, they run fine when loaded as executables from DOS but aren't recognized as binaries when extracted -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Night MIssion is a fun Pinball sim for the 800 series! I made a few PCS boards myself, Ill post them when I get back in town. I mad esome board based upon the Ultima games which were my favorite way back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Yeah. May be I'm stupid but what should I do with those binaries on the disk? They're not executables and I wasn't able to load them into Pinball Construction Set either... This is really weird' date=' they run fine when loaded as executables from DOS but aren't recognized as binaries when extracted -- Atari Froghttp://www.atarimania.com[/quote'] Wow. Really very interesting. Thanx for the hint. Knowing that conversion to standard binary executables was easy one. See the attachment. F. pinballs.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Thanks for everything -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Ack - I found my PB Constr files and they dont work I had to 'made games' that I am posting here along with my save disks. The 'boards' atr works - the other 2 contain .pb files that Id like to play!!!! When I tried the PB Constr Set in emu mode I am getting an error 146 when trying to load a board - say it aint so pbconstr_boards.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 I found my problem - PBC doesnt save files to disk in a normal way, therefore without a direct disk copy the files wont work. Here are a few more of my creations - not everything on the disk loads - but there are a few WIP's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avram Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Has anyone tried this program on the black and white pinball games? It's located here: http://page6.org/pd_lib/pd_078.htm Here's some of the blurb from the website: For Pinball Construction Set fans everywhere, this unique program will convert those wishy-washy artifacted American colours into true solid colours for the PAL systems, the difference is remarkable! You don't need to own PCS however as the program will work on any Pinball file such as those on previous PAGE 6 disks. Here's your chance to have more fun in converting those old games and playing them again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Has anyone tried this program on the black and white pinball games? It's located here: http://page6.org/pd_lib/pd_078.htm Here's some of the blurb from the website: For Pinball Construction Set fans everywhere, this unique program will convert those wishy-washy artifacted American colours into true solid colours for the PAL systems, the difference is remarkable! You don't need to own PCS however as the program will work on any Pinball file such as those on previous PAGE 6 disks. Here's your chance to have more fun in converting those old games and playing them again! I tried it. It just changes display list and makes some changes to number characters. See below. F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avram Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Hmm. Not that impressive. Thanks for trying that - I can't run any Atari emulators as my PC's power supply blew up last night (I'm typing this on my mum's computer). Just hoping it hasn't wiped my hard drive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Well, the PCS Color Converter by Matt Trimby (published by Page 6 and mentioned above) converts black and white + artifacting Gr. 8 (NTSC) pinballs into 4 colors Gr. 15 (PAL) pinballs. Thats it. You know, PAL TV`s are unable to display color artifacting, so the Gr.8 pinballs will only be black & white on a PAL tv which looks very boring. with the PCS color Converter you can convert these b/w pinballs and add some color. The original Atari Basic program was quite slow (10-15 minutes to convert one pinball program), so I speeded it up, by using the TB XL Compiler and later run it as a CTB File with Runtime (now it takes approx. 1 minute to convert one pinball program). Of course there is also a cracked version of the PCS available that already has colors / creates 4 color pinballs (with a resolution of Gr. 15). It was made for the PAL users in mind, alas it converts the whole pinball into Gr.15 making the scores and highscores unreadable (the PCS Color Converter does not do that - at least the scores are still readable here)... So, here is my "small" collection of 93 pinballs created with PCS (only 2 or 3 of them have been created by me)... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Damn! the attachment was too big (1.2 Megabytes, only 1 Megabyte is allowed). So I have to unzip the stuff and try again later... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hey Goochman, please post your Ultima (and other) pinballs here at atari-age! The photos look very good... -Andreas. P.S.: Added a color version of the Wrenchien pinballs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Well, afaik PCS does save created pinballs in one of two possible ways: a) as boards that can be used with the PCS only b) as binaries that can be used without the PCS, by using a DOS or Gamedos When choosing version b), the PCS will create a sort of appended file (length = 243 sectors). Use a DOS and its file copy option or simply a file/multi-file-copier and copy the file onto another disk. It will then have a length of 242 sectors and work fine under every DOS and Gamedos... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 So, here is the first half of my pinball collection (6 ED disks)... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 And, here is the second half of my pinball game collection... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hey Goochman,please post your Ultima (and other) pinballs here at atari-age! The photos look very good... -Andreas. P.S.: Added a color version of the Wrenchien pinballs... They are attached in the above msgs - enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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