+MrFish Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 What's up with this game on the XL/XE's? Does Atari not know how to implement diagonal scrolling?!?!? There's nothing wrong with the 7800 version. This is awful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Even worse is trying to figure out your final score - the game ends and goes to demo mode real quick and never shows your final score again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdie3 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Agreed. Nothing compares to the 7800 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 Agreed. Nothing compares to the 7800 version. 960741[/snapback] Well, it's not like the XL/XE's can't do smooth diagonal scrolling (take Blue Max for instance). Were they in such a hurry to get it done, or what? I can't imagine that they would look at this game before sending it out for production, and think that everything was fine. Were they on drugs? It seems like you would have to be on drugs to actually play it. This can be safely filed under the "headache-ware" section of the Atari library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Agreed. Nothing compares to the 7800 version. 960741[/snapback] Well, it's not like the XL/XE's can't do smooth diagonal scrolling (take Blue Max for instance). Were they in such a hurry to get it done, or what? I can't imagine that they would look at this game before sending it out for production, and think that everything was fine. Were they on drugs? It seems like you would have to be on drugs to actually play it. This can be safely filed under the "headache-ware" section of the Atari library. 960965[/snapback] Afaik, the programmer(s) did send a lot of (alpha, beta, ...) versions and a lot of updates to Atari. Alas, Atari was so stupid to burn the wrong version. When the programmer told them, the ROMs were already burned, so Atari did not care anymore... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Afaik,the programmer(s) did send a lot of (alpha, beta, ...) versions and a lot of updates to Atari. Alas, Atari was so stupid to burn the wrong version. When the programmer told them, the ROMs were already burned, so Atari did not care anymore... -Andreas. Interesting, BTW is the "right" version floating somewhere around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 I have the cart - pretty sure is the right version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 I have the cart - pretty sure is the right version 961205[/snapback] I think what krupkaj means by the "right" version, is one that has proper diagonal scrolling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 The 7800 version was started by Warner no? And the XL/XE version was quickly and cheaply converted by Jack no? If this is the case, XL/XE Desert Falcon suffers from the same problem as 7800 Karateka: Jack too cheap to pay people to get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 The 7800 version was started by Warner no? And the XL/XE version was quickly and cheaply converted by Jack no? If this is the case, XL/XE Desert Falcon suffers from the same problem as 7800 Karateka: Jack too cheap to pay people to get it right. 962507[/snapback] So we were "Jack-ed"...Son-sa-bit-chez... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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