Shannon Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Just downloaded a bunch of game menu disks made by homesoft, but I was wondering... What is homesoft? Was there a method to the madness? IOW did they have a specific reason for putting the games on the disks in the order that they did? I'm just wondering what differentiates them from other multi-game disk collections I have seen out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Just downloaded a bunch of game menu disks made by homesoft, but I was wondering... What is homesoft? Was there a method to the madness? IOW did they have a specific reason for putting the games on the disks in the order that they did? I'm just wondering what differentiates them from other multi-game disk collections I have seen out there. I don't know, but I made a sorted list so I could find the games I was looking for. Games_sorted.rtf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Hey thanks, that'll come in handy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zektor800 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 (edited) Awesome list. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! As for what makes them different, well, some of these compilations contain homebrew titles (such as Burgertime aka Beef Drop) and it seems they are continually updating these multi disks with the recent addition of the Boulder Dash variants. Hey, whatever they are, they are great. I personally love multi disks, and much of the time I just mount a random one in APE, power on the 800XL, and enjoy. I end up trying games that I probably otherwise would have overlooked this way. Still, very nice to have a list of the titles contained Edited October 13, 2006 by zektor800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Yeah I was just wondering if there was something, somehow, special about them. Like "fixing" games to properly run on XL/XE models, etc. Although I did notice that some files still have the scene intro loaders. I usually dump my stuff on those megadisk images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 (edited) Here is a sorted excel list I updated to reflect all 325 disks, links do not work though. HomeSoft__s_Index.zip Edited October 13, 2006 by tjlazer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 I think mine went through 318, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 At the risk of being dense,is this a list of the files on the Holmes CDs? If not,what are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 14, 2006 Author Share Posted October 14, 2006 At the risk of being dense,is this a list of the files on the Holmes CDs? If not,what are they? Well the first one is an .rtf file. You should be able to load that into Word or Wordpad. The second one though is a spreadsheet and you will need Excel, or something that can read Excel spreadsheets. And to answer your question. Yes. The first list goes up to disk 318, the 2nd to 325. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 I know tne format of the lists. I just wondered about the content,as I have the three Holmes CDs,and they are not numbered in disks like this.Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 If you dont have Excel Install Openoffice a duse that spreadsheet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 They are numbered according to the images on this site: http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Is there a place where you can download them in larger chunks? 325 download would just be painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 14, 2006 Author Share Posted October 14, 2006 (edited) I know tne format of the lists. I just wondered about the content,as I have the three Holmes CDs,and they are not numbered in disks like this.Thanks. We are talking about "Homesoft" Not to be confused with "Holmes" Sorry I didn't catch that minor difference earlier. Is there a place where you can download them in larger chunks? 325 download would just be painful. There is plenty of software out there that will let you get multiple downloads from a webpage like getright, or if you use firefox you can get an extension called turboDTA. That's how I did it. Edited October 14, 2006 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Is there a place where you can download them in larger chunks? 325 download would just be painful. How badly do you want them? 2500 games ought to be worth a couple hours work, and you don't even have to work a couple more on the sorted list like I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 (edited) If you dont have Excel Install Openoffice a duse that spreadsheet It is even easier to use QuickView. Yes,I was confusing the Holmes archive with Holmesoft. All is clear now. Maximum thanks! Edited October 14, 2006 by dinosaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Hey all together, you are quiet funny making a lot of work to create a gamelist of my archive. If you visit my site at http://www.atari8bit.de.vu and open your eyes you will see that the first download of each category (sort by number or first letter) will be an actual game list To the archive content: No - there are no special rules how the games are located on the disks. But most of the games, especialy most games of the last about 100 disks are manipulated to one-file-versions or faster executing Basic-progs or any other minor changes... A lot of the games which work that way you will only find at my site Greetz, Homesoft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Hey all together, you are quiet funny making a lot of work to create a gamelist of my archive. If you visit my site at http://www.atari8bit.de.vu and open your eyes you will see that the first download of each category (sort by number or first letter) will be an actual game list To the archive content: No - there are no special rules how the games are located on the disks. But most of the games, especialy most games of the last about 100 disks are manipulated to one-file-versions or faster executing Basic-progs or any other minor changes... A lot of the games which work that way you will only find at my site Greetz, Homesoft I started with your list, and changed it into what I wanted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 But most of the games, especialy most games of the last about 100 disks are manipulated to one-file-versions or faster executing Basic-progs or any other minor changes... I love your Image archive. Especially the mentioned one-file-versions of Turbo BASIC programes. For example the Turbo Basic game Sheep Race. This is a nice little game that needs normally DOS and DUP, Turbo Basic as AUTORUN.SYS and a small Basic loader (AUTORUN.BAS). The loader loads first the title screen and then the main program. Instead of that many files on one disk only one COM-file - great work! In the german magazine READY I write every month a short review about new homesoft images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 14, 2006 Author Share Posted October 14, 2006 To the archive content: No - there are no special rules how the games are located on the disks. But most of the games, especialy most games of the last about 100 disks are manipulated to one-file-versions or faster executing Basic-progs or any other minor changes... A lot of the games which work that way you will only find at my site Greetz, Homesoft Oh ok. That pretty much answers my question. The Holmes archive had some basic games converted too bootable .ATR's. Problem is, alot of them were missing files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Homesoft prepared new disks. Look at new Boulderdash clones... http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=7 Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Best download manager to use is Flashget (you have to register it to get shot of the advertising) but it's still fully usable and not crippled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 New disks appeared on Homesoft site (333, 334) http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=7 Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Yay, i hadn't noticed before but Reaxion is on a Homesoft disk! i reckon that's how you know you've arrived as an Atari coder right there... =-) [big, happy grin =-] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 New disk appeared on Homesoft site, numbered 335. http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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