Atari 8 Bit Gamebase

[hardmanm]

It seems i made some mistakes with the update pack, all the new games are in the root of the games directory, and need to be moved within their folder. The same is for the updated covers.


Thehe are also some missing games located here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/396703901/Update2.rar

[Flarp]

It won't let me d/l the update pack it says it can only be downloaded 10 times. Could you re-post it please

[Vicman]

Hi hardmanm,

can you please reupload your "update1"-Pack, 'cause it's allready 10 time downloaded....

upps....flarp was faster

[Paul Irvine]

Sorry Mark...Last bits missing..


3864 Cover Covers\J\jockywilsoncompendium.jpg 2355 Jocky Wilson's Darts Compendium
3985 Manual manuals\Scans\Mission\mission_shark_k7.jpg 514 Mission
945 Cover Covers\N\neverending_story.jpg 551 Neverending Story
3868 Manual manuals\Scans\Temple of Darkness\temple_of_darkness_i.jpg 6875 Temple Of Darkness
3867 Cover Covers\T\temple_of_darkness_k7.jpg 6875 Temple Of Darkness
3866 Manual manuals\Scans\Vengeance\vengeance_i.jpg 6874 Vengeance
3865 Cover Covers\V\vengeance_k7.jpg 6874 Vengeance
959 Cover Covers\Z\Zaxxon.jpg 1041 Zaxxon
3965 Cover Covers\K\zumbaja.jpg 2851 Zumbaja

[hardmanm]

I will sort the missing files out tomorrow, as well as the update release.

[chfortier]

Can someone reupload the first update pack please ? Download limit reach.

[hardmanm]

i have created a better update pack, which should contain all needed files, within there correct folders.

etract within the gamebase folder, and overwrite any duplicate named files.

http://rapidshare.com/files/396988637/A ... 0.rar.html

[Paul Irvine]

A little edit from me, while testing all the games there were a few that didn't work Altirra at that point, ones like Brutal Karate and Pyromania for examples.

Since I passed those fixes on Phaeron very kindly looked at the list I sent him and fixed all but one of the games. Use version 1.7 beta 17 or above for those.

So if you are looking at the Gamebase and see Not Working In Altirra then still give the game a go, that was old info passed on to Mark that was correct at the time.

Also, I could not play every game all the way through, they were given a decent test and hopefully I got all the problem games but remember things like adventures will often want to save to a disk so if you get Error 139 in basic games or the game makes a rather rude noise and dies then it might be worth going to File / Disk Drives in Altirra and setting the R/O to either R/W or VirtRW.

All the games I found that needed it have been updated by Mark already but I dare say there's still some in there.

Btw, the difference between R/W and VirtRW are simple, R/W meaning Read Write will physically write to the image whereas VirtRW isn't permanent and just fools the game into thinking you can save to the disk. Obviously if you are playing an adventure and you have the option to save then use R/W otherwise you will have to start again each time

There are a few games that use a different version of Basic, these are best played in Atari800Win Plus(as long as you have the needed basic rom) as Altirra does not have a setting for this at present and we are hoping to persuade Phaeron to add it..

Oh last but not least, almost all games use a choice of the option Keys (F2 to F4) to start or change options, most used is F2 to start a game, also used is either joystick button in port one or two (or simulated keyboard presses) BUT, some games are 'different', Simulations will used most of the keyboard but other games use unusual keys like the shift keys to start or in a throw back to early games use the letter S to start.

If in doubt Mash keys

[.mad.]

Thanks Mark,
Here are the updated screenshots i promised.
crunched them all to save 20MB of space.
re-snapped the few small screens.
examples
Blockade (Kemal Ezcan)
Touch
Jumper
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BIJ2D8S0

don't overwrite, just replace the screenshot folder with this one.

use the new SETTINGS.INI included, to resize the gamebase screenshot window to 336x240.

[Crosis]

i have created a better update pack, which should contain all needed files, within there correct folders.

etract within the gamebase folder, and overwrite any duplicate named files.

http://rapidshare.com/files/396988637/A ... 0.rar.html

Is this update pack a "fixed" version fothe last 2 you posted recently in the past 2/3 days?

[Paul Irvine]

i have created a better update pack, which should contain all needed files, within there correct folders.

etract within the gamebase folder, and overwrite any duplicate named files.

http://rapidshare.com/files/396988637/A ... 0.rar.html

Is this update pack a "fixed" version fothe last 2 you posted recently in the past 2/3 days?

Yes, no folder swapping etc

[hardmanm]

A new verion of Altirra is out, adding much better cartridge support

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-1.7-test20.zip

[Paul Irvine]

A new verion of Altirra is out, adding much better cartridge support

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-1.7-test20.zip

And thanks to Phaeron a command line option to make the cartridge system easier, but that's not in the GB as it stands unless Mark has been a fast mover

[hardmanm]

I have now added the ability to auto select cartridge headers by useing the key=value variable called mapper and assigning it a value.

i hope to test all carts soon and post an update DB and script.

[Crosis]

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-1.7-test23.zip New beta