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#31
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 10-04-2025, 10:27:13And:
Winzer
Panneaux Ecolauto, Les , Collection Codoroute
Hunchy 1066
Axis
Stock Market
Winzer
Panneaux Ecolauto, Les , Collection Codoroute
Hunchy 1066
Axis
Stock Market
#32
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 07-04-2025, 02:07:51Thanks Peter! 
#33
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 06-04-2025, 14:14:21New 7 GB compil. is about to be finished.
New adapts:
Art For Kids
Associe
Atari Joy 4 - 8 Games. C-M
Blaxx - Tetris variant
Border Zone - C-M
Bureocracy - Infocom txt adv
Card Addict
Chateau du Monstre
Cutthroats - Infocom txt adv
Cybercon III - fixed
Deadline
Declic Solfege
Diosa De Cozumel
ECO HAG2 v.
Educ Maternelle 1 CE
Educ Maternelle 2 CE
Enchanter - Infocom txt adv
Exonathan M5eme
Fire Snare
Gaminours Shapes and Colors - 5 lang
Gaminours et les Paysages Magiques - 5 lang
Gaminours and the Puzzle - 5 lang
Gaminours Retrouve les Formes - Francais
Geographi Primaire
Guillotine
Herewith the Clues
Histoire Primaire
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The) - Infocom txt adv
Hollywood Hijinx - Infocom txt adv
Infidel - Infocom txt adv
International Rugby Challenge
J' Addition e et je Multiplie
Je Reconstitue les Fables de la Fontaine
Juppy
Lecture CP
Leonid
Marketing Invaders - 3 games
Maths Blaster +
Maths 2
Maths 5
Maths 54
Maths CE
Maths CM
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Memory Recall
Mickey et la Machine
Minos ACC
Minos Pressimage
Miracle Boy in Dragonland
Missile Alert
Mission X
Nord and Bert
Omira
Only Valency
Ooze Creepy Nites
Oriental Games
Pack Educatif 3
Pack Educatif 3
Pictionary
Planetfall - Infocom txt adv
PlayhouseStrip Poker
Plundered Hearts - Infocom txt adv
Project Prometheus
Protonz
Puffys Saga blitter v. fixed
Seastalker - Infocom txt adv
Sesame Street
Sherlock the Riddle of the Crown J.
Snowball
Spellbreaker - Infocom txt adv
Starcross
States and Countries
Stationfall
Strange War
Street Fighter JY
Superchicken
Super Soccer Challenge
Suspect - Infocom txt adv
Suspended - Infocom adv
Targhan HAGE v.
Templos Sagrados
Temps d'une Historie
Tetris ACC
Toogle
Touring Car Racer
Transworld
Trinity - Infocom adv
Ultimate Arena
Warrior ST
Wishbringer - Infocom txt adv
Witness - Infocom txt adv
YamicroC
Zork trilogy
Zupple
ZX81 Emulator
As may see plenty of French educative games (few with Engl, De, Ita, Esp lang. too) done - they are usually with nice graphic .
Many games needed diverse fixes, finding floppy images with all good files ..
Most interesting was case of double error in code for screen delete . Loop counter for deleting 32 KB was given without prefix for immediate data, so what was used is content of some low RAM loc, and value was 2x bigger than needed, so even with correct prefix it would damage RAM area above screen buffer.
It crashes even with running from floppy if there is 4 MB RAM in Atari - not so rare case of such error in games. It seems they they did not have test machines with so much RAM around 1989 .
I plan to add couple games more, and then will write here about how to get it ..
New adapts:
Art For Kids
Associe
Atari Joy 4 - 8 Games. C-M
Blaxx - Tetris variant
Border Zone - C-M
Bureocracy - Infocom txt adv
Card Addict
Chateau du Monstre
Cutthroats - Infocom txt adv
Cybercon III - fixed
Deadline
Declic Solfege
Diosa De Cozumel
ECO HAG2 v.
Educ Maternelle 1 CE
Educ Maternelle 2 CE
Enchanter - Infocom txt adv
Exonathan M5eme
Fire Snare
Gaminours Shapes and Colors - 5 lang
Gaminours et les Paysages Magiques - 5 lang
Gaminours and the Puzzle - 5 lang
Gaminours Retrouve les Formes - Francais
Geographi Primaire
Guillotine
Herewith the Clues
Histoire Primaire
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The) - Infocom txt adv
Hollywood Hijinx - Infocom txt adv
Infidel - Infocom txt adv
International Rugby Challenge
J' Addition e et je Multiplie
Je Reconstitue les Fables de la Fontaine
Juppy
Lecture CP
Leonid
Marketing Invaders - 3 games
Maths Blaster +
Maths 2
Maths 5
Maths 54
Maths CE
Maths CM
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Memory Recall
Mickey et la Machine
Minos ACC
Minos Pressimage
Miracle Boy in Dragonland
Missile Alert
Mission X
Nord and Bert
Omira
Only Valency
Ooze Creepy Nites
Oriental Games
Pack Educatif 3
Pack Educatif 3
Pictionary
Planetfall - Infocom txt adv
PlayhouseStrip Poker
Plundered Hearts - Infocom txt adv
Project Prometheus
Protonz
Puffys Saga blitter v. fixed
Seastalker - Infocom txt adv
Sesame Street
Sherlock the Riddle of the Crown J.
Snowball
Spellbreaker - Infocom txt adv
Starcross
States and Countries
Stationfall
Strange War
Street Fighter JY
Superchicken
Super Soccer Challenge
Suspect - Infocom txt adv
Suspended - Infocom adv
Targhan HAGE v.
Templos Sagrados
Temps d'une Historie
Tetris ACC
Toogle
Touring Car Racer
Transworld
Trinity - Infocom adv
Ultimate Arena
Warrior ST
Wishbringer - Infocom txt adv
Witness - Infocom txt adv
YamicroC
Zork trilogy
Zupple
ZX81 Emulator
As may see plenty of French educative games (few with Engl, De, Ita, Esp lang. too) done - they are usually with nice graphic .
Many games needed diverse fixes, finding floppy images with all good files ..
Most interesting was case of double error in code for screen delete . Loop counter for deleting 32 KB was given without prefix for immediate data, so what was used is content of some low RAM loc, and value was 2x bigger than needed, so even with correct prefix it would damage RAM area above screen buffer.
It crashes even with running from floppy if there is 4 MB RAM in Atari - not so rare case of such error in games. It seems they they did not have test machines with so much RAM around 1989 .
I plan to add couple games more, and then will write here about how to get it ..
#34
Software / Re: Interesting HDDriver discu...
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 11-03-2025, 19:15:40I had a TT once. Really nice machines but I ended
up selling it.
I could kick myself - really wish I'd kept it now.
up selling it.
I could kick myself - really wish I'd kept it now.
#35
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 11-03-2025, 19:13:27Thanks Peter.
#36
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 11-03-2025, 13:51:32And another case with some bad ST image dumps online: Herewith the Clues !
There are ST image files at atarimania and at emu-land.net . In both cases there are 4 corrupted files (1 on first, 3 on second floppy) . Luckily STX images at atarimania are OK, so I was able to convert them to good ST images - there is no copy protection.
Did hard disk adapt. Soon will put it on site, and good ST images too .
Did some educational games too - by Micro-C - yep, French . Need yet to do couple, test and add usual screen, box shots converted for ST(E) . Hardest part was pretty unusual copy prot.
There are ST image files at atarimania and at emu-land.net . In both cases there are 4 corrupted files (1 on first, 3 on second floppy) . Luckily STX images at atarimania are OK, so I was able to convert them to good ST images - there is no copy protection.
Did hard disk adapt. Soon will put it on site, and good ST images too .
Did some educational games too - by Micro-C - yep, French . Need yet to do couple, test and add usual screen, box shots converted for ST(E) . Hardest part was pretty unusual copy prot.
#37
Software / Re: Interesting HDDriver discu...
Last post by Petari - 11-03-2025, 13:32:44Indeed interesting discussion. But I never had some CT60 and like accelerator. So, can not say anything about driver requirements for it. What I made was fast RAM support for TT . It was long time ago, with TT what I got for some months for SW development, test.
As remember ACSI driver for TT needs to perform disk transfers only with ST RAM, and that's because DMA chip is same as in Atari STs (I even tested speed, and it is same too, despite TT has much faster RAM) . So, if SW asks some transfers with Fast RAM it needs to use some little ST RAM there will data loaded from disk (or saved to disk from), and it needs to be loaded with current content for next section transfer before DMA transfer to disk, or needs to be saved after loading from disk to Fast RAM. Something similar is needed when loading/saving to/from odd RAM address .
It was tested by me and users, and I did not receive any complains from TT users.
As remember ACSI driver for TT needs to perform disk transfers only with ST RAM, and that's because DMA chip is same as in Atari STs (I even tested speed, and it is same too, despite TT has much faster RAM) . So, if SW asks some transfers with Fast RAM it needs to use some little ST RAM there will data loaded from disk (or saved to disk from), and it needs to be loaded with current content for next section transfer before DMA transfer to disk, or needs to be saved after loading from disk to Fast RAM. Something similar is needed when loading/saving to/from odd RAM address .
It was tested by me and users, and I did not receive any complains from TT users.
#38
News / Re: How to be useless
Last post by Petari - 26-02-2025, 19:01:34And of course it just go on at AA - thread started in 2021 - and no proper explanation, solution. While I solved it somewhere 10-15 years ago. 5.25 drive on ST
I wrote about danger of damaging PSG chip in ST when connect directly 5.25 inch drive - as some of them load some control lines much more than 3.5 inch drives, and that results in breaking of PSG chip, after what no floppy work. No word about it in AA thread.
Well, if there is no problem with PSG line overload there is still problem of slower seek rate of 5.25 drives. And of course it has nothing relevant with 40/80 track switch. Seek rate in 80 track mode is simply higher because larger disk size, so need bigger movement. And I write this according to my experience. I tested with number of 5.25 inch drives, and all needed 6 ms seek rate .
And yes, there is TOS function to set it to it, but only in later TOS versions.
Seek rate setting program by TGB1718 is not well written. For write to very low RAM, what needs supervisor mode XBIOS #26 is better - only one TOS call instead 2 . But that address depends from TOS version, so better to use XBIOS call for step rate set - present in later TOS versions.
Of course, best is to just not mess with floppy drives now - too much risk for already fragile old Atari STs .
Why I messed with 5.25 drives on Atari ST ? It was long time ago, before 2000 . Needed to transfer some SW, data with such floppies. Now I'm happy if see some 3.5 inch drive working.
I wrote about danger of damaging PSG chip in ST when connect directly 5.25 inch drive - as some of them load some control lines much more than 3.5 inch drives, and that results in breaking of PSG chip, after what no floppy work. No word about it in AA thread.
Well, if there is no problem with PSG line overload there is still problem of slower seek rate of 5.25 drives. And of course it has nothing relevant with 40/80 track switch. Seek rate in 80 track mode is simply higher because larger disk size, so need bigger movement. And I write this according to my experience. I tested with number of 5.25 inch drives, and all needed 6 ms seek rate .
And yes, there is TOS function to set it to it, but only in later TOS versions.
Seek rate setting program by TGB1718 is not well written. For write to very low RAM, what needs supervisor mode XBIOS #26 is better - only one TOS call instead 2 . But that address depends from TOS version, so better to use XBIOS call for step rate set - present in later TOS versions.
Of course, best is to just not mess with floppy drives now - too much risk for already fragile old Atari STs .
Why I messed with 5.25 drives on Atari ST ? It was long time ago, before 2000 . Needed to transfer some SW, data with such floppies. Now I'm happy if see some 3.5 inch drive working.
#39
Software / Re: Puffy's Saga
Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 11-02-2025, 18:54:12Thanks Peter...! This game reminds me of Gauntlet II in places.
#40
Software / Re: Puffy's Saga
Last post by Petari - 11-02-2025, 17:14:29Solved work of blitter version with 1 MB RAM only (from floppy) - it needed some 50 corrections in code.
Hard disk v. with it needs 2 MB RAM min (as usual) - and there are state saves, as usual
Unlimited health opt. too.
Page with DLs
Hard disk v. with it needs 2 MB RAM min (as usual) - and there are state saves, as usual
Unlimited health opt. too.
Page with DLs