Atariausgabe releases 1-9

[Petari]

Found it at atarimania. Of course, games, mostly in German lang. And lot of it is for monochrome video mode (was popular in Germany). It uses not so well solved depacker, so I made it to start different way (no need for extra reset) . Also made unpacked floppy images - they are for HD floppies - capacity needed is in range 1 - 1.4 MB . And then it works well with half MB RAM in ST(R) . I guess that will work fine with Gotek - I'm sure that more people has it now than HD floppy drive with Atari ST(E) .
 I needed to do file name corrections by 2 games. And there are 2 with missing file(s) - will see in list.


  Atariausgabe  1-9   game list

     1.  Strategie   Monochrome
   Airline    5 M
  Europa   5 M
  Fussball   1 M
  Hotel 2    5 M
  Imperator    5 M
  ImperiumOEL   5 M
 Tresor   1 M

   7 working games    5 with half MB RAM

   2.   Action SW  Color
  Azarian   5 J
  Alien Blockade  5 J
  Clowns   5 M
  Durchbruch   5 M
  Felder    - missing exec !
  Hacman   5 J
  Master Hit  (Speed Master)   5 J
  No Name  1 J
  PD Super  5 J
  Star Battle PD   5 J
  Trido   5 J

   10 w games   9 with half MB RAM

   3.  Strategie  Monochrome
  12JHT  5 M
  Anno1700  5 M
  Drachen  5 M
  Galactica  5 M
  Metropol  5 M
  Napoleon  1 M
  Universum  5 K
  Wagnis  5 M
  Barbaren  5 M
  Isola   5 M
  Logiker  5 M

    11 w games  10 with half MB RAM

  4.  Adventure   Color

  Arcturus   1 M
  Moor   5 J

  2 w games  1 with half MB RAM


  5.   Simulation - board games mostly  Monochrome

  4Gewinnt   5 M
  Aerger   5  M
  Disc    5 K
  Explode  5 M
  Glückrad  5 M
  Gobang   5  M
  Hangman  5  M
  Kreuz As   5  M
  Memory    5 M
  Monopoly  1 M
  Pool     5  MK
  Roulette  5 M
  Shanghei   5 M
  Shogun   5 M
  Stagger   5 M
  Up&Down   5 M
  Yatzy (Yachtsee)  Eng. Dan.  5 M
   Zarge   5 M
 
  18 w. games   17 with half MB RAM


  6.   Economy SW    Color
 
  Avalun 2    5 M
  Big Deal 1    5 M
  Dallas   5 M
  Match (Spaceball)  5 M
  Tauris   1 M
  Trainer  M 5 Med.res.
  Tri Yatz PF (Yachtsee)   M 5 Med.res.

  7 w. games  6 with half MB RAM


  7.   Action SW Esclusiv  Monochrome

  Baller   5 M
  Bank Robbery  1 M
  Bounce  5 J
  Bumerang  5 M
  Diamond   5 JM
  Fire Set  (Feuerwehr)   5 J
  Invaders  5 KM
  Killer   -  works not, file(s) missing
  Macpan  5 JM
  Megaroids  5 K
  Monkey (Business)   5 JK
  Mr Hüpf   5 MK  (fixed)
  Push  5 M
  Tetris  5 K

  13 w. games  12 with half MB RAM


   8.  Strategie   Color

  Adel  5 M  Med.res.
  Greece   5 M
  Hotch Potch  5 M
  Imperium   5 M
  Mile Stone  5 M
  Queboid  5 J
  Top 20   5 K
  Celest  Engl.  5 M  Med.res.

 8 w. games  8 with half MB RAM


  9  Adventure SW Exclusiv   Color

   Larn   5 K
  Lost Civilisation  5 K
  Mörder  5 M  Monochrome  (fixed)
  Lords of Fate (the)    5 K  Med. high res
  Vault 1  5 K
  Vault 2  5 K\
  Vault 3  5 K
  Zaubertrank    5 K   Med. high res

 8 w. games  8 with half MB RAM

 
  Sum:   84 working games
    76 works with half MB RAM . 8 needs min 1 MB RAM
  Stays for versions not packed. Packed releases need mostly min 1 MB for all.
  When running from floppy. Hard disk run needs 1 or 2 MB RAM min .

 This will go in my new hard disk compil.  Will add corrected floppy versions to my Atari ST Game Archive.
And idea is to make new selections - best color games on 1-2 floppies. And same with monochrome ones.
 Suggestions are welcome .
You can try games with emulators, of course .
Here is HD v. of part 1 :  Atariausgabe 1 for HD 2MB Ram min

[Ronald J. Hall]

Hmm, I downloaded this and tried it on my STacy. I ran both executable files and it always
rebooted the machine.

This is with TOS v3.06, Ultrasatan, with no ACC's or AUTO folder programs, hi-resolution.

I'll try it again today with TOS v1.04 and see what happens.

Thanks.

[Petari]

TOS 3.06 on Stacy ? 3.06 is for TT. Isn't it 2.06 ?
Problem is probably in high RAM usage - like HDDriver set for very large buffers, some resident SW active.
And it works with TOS 2.06 well - 2 MB RAM min.

[Ronald J. Hall]

TOS 3.06 on Stacy ? 3.06 is for TT. Isn't it 2.06 ?
Problem is probably in high RAM usage - like HDDriver set for very large buffers, some resident SW active.
And it works with TOS 2.06 well - 2 MB RAM min.

Well, it's because I've got a Pak 030 accelerator board in my STacy. So it's TOS v3.06, 40mhz 68030, 40mhz 68882 FPU, and I've got a STorm-ST board so I've got a total of 12 megs of RAM.

Surprisingly, most of your adapted games work with this setup. Well done. 

When they don't, the Pak 030 has a "compatibility" mode that allows it to downshift to a regular 68000 at 8mhz, and TOS v1.04.

Anytime I've had problems (which are few and far between), I just switch to the compatibility mode and it usually works.

I've still not tried that yet with this release, I'll try to get to that later today and report back.

Thanks much! 

[Petari]

HAGE adaptations do not support 68030 CPU . Plus, in this case individual games should be corrected for it, and there is 7 of them. And even if they work, big part of them would run too fast. I needed to add special TT slowdown code in many games.

[Ronald J. Hall]

Okay, I switched the Pak 030 in the STacy down to 8mhz, TOS v1.04
compatibility mode and now they work.

You're right about it being a bit mixed. Some are mono and some are
color. I didn't try every single one but went through a handful and
those were okay.

Thanks much!