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#1
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - Today at 10:59:36Soon new image. So far did:
Artefact
Balade Outre Rhin
Balls (Top Notch)
Basket Manager
Ben in Paradise
Blox
Bounty Hunter
Brainbox
Breakers
Challenge Foot Junior
Checkmate
Code Route
Color Beyond Time
Columns 2
Darius+
Datachess
Dizzy Lizzy 2
Douglas Rockmoor 2
Dungeon Lord
Folle Lecture de Don Quichotte
Frank and the Lost Aubercine
Free Climbing
French Mistress
Freaked Out 2
Fuji Tetris
Fun Schhol 2 for 6 to 8 years
Gerhild's ..
German Master
Going Down with the Captain
Hippo's Outrageous Jokes and Quotes
Hole In One Golf
Joey The Dungeon King
Kleur Boek
Laser Chess
Leeds United Champions
Mindfighter
Monte Cristo
Not a Penny More
Pipeline (2) Budgie UK
Pro Soccer 2190
Quink
Reederei
Skat 2000
TetrisST
Travel Game
Zaan
Zenith
Will add some 5-10 and it will be available in December .
Artefact
Balade Outre Rhin
Balls (Top Notch)
Basket Manager
Ben in Paradise
Blox
Bounty Hunter
Brainbox
Breakers
Challenge Foot Junior
Checkmate
Code Route
Color Beyond Time
Columns 2
Darius+
Datachess
Dizzy Lizzy 2
Douglas Rockmoor 2
Dungeon Lord
Folle Lecture de Don Quichotte
Frank and the Lost Aubercine
Free Climbing
French Mistress
Freaked Out 2
Fuji Tetris
Fun Schhol 2 for 6 to 8 years
Gerhild's ..
German Master
Going Down with the Captain
Hippo's Outrageous Jokes and Quotes
Hole In One Golf
Joey The Dungeon King
Kleur Boek
Laser Chess
Leeds United Champions
Mindfighter
Monte Cristo
Not a Penny More
Pipeline (2) Budgie UK
Pro Soccer 2190
Quink
Reederei
Skat 2000
TetrisST
Travel Game
Zaan
Zenith
Will add some 5-10 and it will be available in December .
#2
Software / Good images of Labyrinthe de l...
Last post by Petari - Today at 10:28:53 There is educational game with nice graphic Labyrinthe de la Reine des Ombres (Retz, 1991) , for which no images online (only at 1 place with bad image of first and missing image of second floppy).
So, if you can help will be nice contribution to community. I will do hard disk adapt and floppy images without copy protection - what will be on my site for DL .
So, if you can help will be nice contribution to community. I will do hard disk adapt and floppy images without copy protection - what will be on my site for DL .
#3
Software / Help needed with game Mindfig...
Last post by Petari - 21-10-2025, 11:36:16 It is from 1988, by Abstract Concepts, and pretty much unknown. I was able to find only Automation crk. what may missing 1 file. There are files MINDF001.PIX to MINDF016.PIX, but MINDF015.PIX is not present.
Little strange, so it may be missing from crk.
If anyone has access to game floppy or know some other crk. please check for that file.
Btw. game has pretty silly bug : it worked for me only under TOS 1.00. Tried with 1.02 and 1.04 - error.
So, they did not test it well, as TOS 1.02 was there (since 1987). There are some other games with similar problem, so I went in tracing down problem - usually it is because of some minor differences in TOS function calls. But it was something else, and needed lot of time to spot it: they used tst.w d0 instead tst.l d0 - after free RAM function call . So, it is practically matter of luck with which TOS v. it will give negative result with that tst.w :-)
I fixed it, and it works fine with TOS 1.04 - what I use in my hard disk adaptations (in RAM). And yes, I did it, and will be DL-able in day-two .
Little strange, so it may be missing from crk.
If anyone has access to game floppy or know some other crk. please check for that file.
Btw. game has pretty silly bug : it worked for me only under TOS 1.00. Tried with 1.02 and 1.04 - error.
So, they did not test it well, as TOS 1.02 was there (since 1987). There are some other games with similar problem, so I went in tracing down problem - usually it is because of some minor differences in TOS function calls. But it was something else, and needed lot of time to spot it: they used tst.w d0 instead tst.l d0 - after free RAM function call . So, it is practically matter of luck with which TOS v. it will give negative result with that tst.w :-)
I fixed it, and it works fine with TOS 1.04 - what I use in my hard disk adaptations (in RAM). And yes, I did it, and will be DL-able in day-two .
#4
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 14-10-2025, 18:46:41 And more:
Checkmate
Pipeline II
Going Down With the Captain
Data Chess
Color Beyond Time
Kleur Boek
Reederei
Skat 2000
DL at usual place.
Checkmate
Pipeline II
Going Down With the Captain
Data Chess
Color Beyond Time
Kleur Boek
Reederei
Skat 2000
DL at usual place.
#5
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 14-10-2025, 13:16:29 New adapts done in last weeks:
Joey the Dungeon King
Gerhild's Challenge
Laser Chess
Artefact
Columns II
German Master
Balade Outre Rhin
Above 7 is DL-able at my WEBsite, on usual place.
Joey the Dungeon King
Gerhild's Challenge
Laser Chess
Artefact
Columns II
German Master
Balade Outre Rhin
Above 7 is DL-able at my WEBsite, on usual place.
#6
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 14-10-2025, 13:13:04Quote from: dakidski on 26-07-2025, 18:45:04More random feedback and suggestions:
• Game menu is incompatible with EmuTOS 1.4.
• Add 50/60Hz toggle in game menu or game launch menu (where trainer, 8MHz/16MHz is selected).
• Include screen resolution toggle (low/medium/high) in game menu.
• Add a visual reminder to press 'M' for MHz selection on the game launch screen.
• Include more roguelikes: Moria, NetHack, Larn, Angband, and AtariCrypt's RogueCrypt.
• Add Black Sect to the collection.
• Enable full keyboard control (arrow keys) for the menu, bypassing joystick input, as keyboard is required to press space after game selection. Joystick control is less relevant for Atari ST users. Let the Amiga Gamerz stick to their joysticks! <img src="https://forum.8bitchip.info/Smileys/default/wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" class="smiley">
Game menu will be not compatible with EmuTOS, any version. The real reason: EmuTOS is not enough compatible with regular TOS versions, and lot of games (some 30%) has problems with, or works not at all.
Will see about adding 50/60 Hz toggle in game launchers. Nobody other asked so far it.
No sense to change resolution in Game Menu. Game will start in res. for which is written. Plus, res. change from some program does not work in TOS, GEM . It needs restart, reset. Game menu will run in low res in color mode, and in high res in monochrome mode. Can start in med res, but it has no sense, and picture display will not work well.
I don't think that need visual reminder for pressing M for MHz change - so much everyone can remember.
As state save and exit to Desktop keys may change (depending from game's key usage) it is shown on launcher screen.
Rogue times for me will come with roguelikes :-)
Black Sect - sure, good one.
Joystick control was asked by couple people. And they are by me Atari XL (former) users, so not good with mouse, unlike Amigos . Game menu is designed with mouse control in first place. And of course, keyboard is active during Game Menu's run, and after starting game too . And Atari ST users need joystick for big % of games.
#7
Software / New 1 GB game compil. special ...
Last post by Petari - 21-09-2025, 19:01:06 As is known internal ACSI-SCSI adapter in Mega STE and Stacy has limited disk access to max 1 GB disk space (area at start) . Same is with some old ACSI-SCSI external adapters.
So, this is good for such config. And for Satandisk, BlueSCSI with MSTE and Stacy. Of course usable with ICD extended adapters too, and with newer ACSI-SD adapters like ACSI2STM , SD4ST ...
Count of games is 772 on 2 partitions, and there is 100 - 100 MB free space on then, good for state saves, adding some new game adapts. With Game Menu program, screenshots from games . Selection of games is by quality in first place.
Mail me for details how to order it .
So, this is good for such config. And for Satandisk, BlueSCSI with MSTE and Stacy. Of course usable with ICD extended adapters too, and with newer ACSI-SD adapters like ACSI2STM , SD4ST ...
Count of games is 772 on 2 partitions, and there is 100 - 100 MB free space on then, good for state saves, adding some new game adapts. With Game Menu program, screenshots from games . Selection of games is by quality in first place.
Mail me for details how to order it .
#8
General chat / Re: VCF Midwest 2025 Pictures!
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 18-09-2025, 08:28:33Here are a few videos of my modified Atari STacy from VCF Midwest 2025.
This first one is the game Gauntlet II running on the STacy. Simultaneously, we had it playing on another LCD screen via the STacy's external color monitor port.
Double the screens, double the fun!
(unfortunately, because of the way it was filmed, Youtube placed this as a "short")
https://youtube.com/shorts/C2IDBsJkNyE?feature=share
The second one is the STacy playing Spectrum 512 pictures (by Anima) while music from a MOD based on the game Xenophobe is being played. The music is actually coming from an audio CD.
https://youtu.be/xxDHBBuZH4s
The third video shows my Atari STacy running the Ambience demo. The STacy has a color LCD via the RGB2HDMI mod. Audio is provided through a small modification that brings the signal out from the Yamaha sound chip to an external RCA jack. This is then plugged into a LG XBOOM Go P7 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, which takes the mono signal and does simulated stereo. The demo is pretty impressive considering that it's running from a single floppy disk.
https://youtu.be/EPPUeVYU6A4
This first one is the game Gauntlet II running on the STacy. Simultaneously, we had it playing on another LCD screen via the STacy's external color monitor port.
Double the screens, double the fun!
(unfortunately, because of the way it was filmed, Youtube placed this as a "short")
https://youtube.com/shorts/C2IDBsJkNyE?feature=share
The second one is the STacy playing Spectrum 512 pictures (by Anima) while music from a MOD based on the game Xenophobe is being played. The music is actually coming from an audio CD.
https://youtu.be/xxDHBBuZH4s
The third video shows my Atari STacy running the Ambience demo. The STacy has a color LCD via the RGB2HDMI mod. Audio is provided through a small modification that brings the signal out from the Yamaha sound chip to an external RCA jack. This is then plugged into a LG XBOOM Go P7 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, which takes the mono signal and does simulated stereo. The demo is pretty impressive considering that it's running from a single floppy disk.
https://youtu.be/EPPUeVYU6A4
#9
General chat / Re: VCF Midwest 2025 Pictures!
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 16-09-2025, 22:53:37Oh, "Power of Vintage" had his usual great segment covering VCF 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRndvWLeWs
A certain STacy may or may not be in there around the 6:45 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRndvWLeWs
A certain STacy may or may not be in there around the 6:45 mark.
#10
General chat / VCF Midwest 2025 Pictures!
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 16-09-2025, 22:43:17Here are some pictures from VCF Midwest 2025 which I attended. I had an absolute blast! Enjoy.
(Click on "See More", then open up the first picture in each post - from there you can just cycle through the pictures)
https://www.southernamis.com/group/general-discussions/discussion
(Click on "See More", then open up the first picture in each post - from there you can just cycle through the pictures)
https://www.southernamis.com/group/general-discussions/discussion