Atari 8 Bit Gamebase

[hardmanm]

The reason the new MDB is smaller due to it being compacted to remove all deleted data, in access when you delete stuff it dosn't remove it from the mdb file till it is compacted. The copy of the mdb is in case your database file gets corrupted, i forgot to compact that version.

I am very glad to hear that people are enjoying this release, i spent a lot of time fixing stuff, and improving the scripts. I spent 2 months testing it, a lot more than i ever have before.

[Paul Irvine]

Yup the db is very nice indeed, clear you did a lot of loving work on it.

One thing tho, the screen size update from the other day actually meant I lost one of the screenshots being displayed, I had to use the built in next screen arrow to see it.

I don't know if I'm missing something, I'm running at a res of 1280x1024

[hardmanm]

You can change it back to the original screenshot size by enditing the settings.ini file to 320 by 200.

[Flarp]

This seems like a very good project but I can't get Altirra 1.6 to do anything with it? Whenever I try to play a game it just opens Altirra and doesn't start the game.. no matter which game I try.

I'm running Win7 64bit not sure if that makes a difference or not.

[Flarp]

I should mention that I hear the game music playing when Altirra starts but there is no video.

[Flarp]

That's weird I heard the sound in a game but no video like I mentioned.. then I went under the "View" tab in the emulator and clicked on "Display Alt+1" and it fixed the problem now all the video for all the games seems to work though some games all I get is garbled video.. but that just might be the status of the emulation for that game?

[hardmanm]

Hope everyone who has downloaded the gamebase is enjoying it, if anyone finds and errors or problems, feel free to post them on here.

[Paul Irvine]

That's weird I heard the sound in a game but no video like I mentioned.. then I went under the "View" tab in the emulator and clicked on "Display Alt+1" and it fixed the problem now all the video for all the games seems to work though some games all I get is garbled video.. but that just might be the status of the emulation for that game?

Can you name a few of the trouble games please Flarp...

KC's script is more than fine, all I can imagine is either there's an issue with your settings which if you go to the Altirra dir and from a command line type altirra /resetall , that will set all to deault.

The other possibility is that key values passed by the script are incorrect for the game, even will all the testing it's not impossible that a game or two might get thru that have bad settings.

Hence lett me know what games and I will try them and then if there's fixes needed I'm sure Mark will update the emu for that.

[Paul Irvine]

Btw Mark, how are you handling the multi disk games?

Manual go to the gbgame dir?

[Flarp]

Well I did the /resetall as you suggested but it didn't seem to fix anything.

I don't have time to test them all but here are problems I've had with the #'d games..

180 - Scrolling garbled
221 Baker Street - Black Screen and no signs of loading or anything

3D24 - black screen looks like it's loading but nothing ever happens
3D Laby = Garbled
3D Maze Escape = Garbled
3-D_Tic_Tac_Toe (1979)(Atari).zip = Blue screen.. ready prompt
747 Flight Simulator = Blue screen and ready prompt

[Paul Irvine]

Hi Mark, I'm going to start going thru the games as and when I have time, the keys for Attack at Ep Cyg 4 are wrong, it needs to ran under 800 mode...

I know you don't have the time to check all games 100% but I have the time at the moment so will give you a full list for games that come up incorrectly upon boot, I cannot cover in game fall overs tho

This may well cover Flarp's issue...

[K.C.]

Underground-gamer is down at the moment, so i have decided to upload it to Megaupload.

UG is back up again!

[hardmanm]

Some of the games are basic tapes, it will say at the bottom of gamebase, they will require you to manually type run"C: and return to load the tape image. I have been using the lastest beta of Altirra which is downloadble at the link below.

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-1.7-test2.zip

Dont forget to copy the roms over into the new versions folder. To keep up with development of altirra thry the forum below.

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=304

[Vicman]

Underground-gamer is down at the moment, so i have decided to upload it to Megaupload.

UG is back up again!

GREAT NEWS

[Paul Irvine]

Some of the games are basic tapes, it will say at the bottom of gamebase, they will require you to manually type run"C: and return to load the tape image. I have been using the lastest beta of Altirra which is downloadble at the link below.

Hi Mark, you have beaten me to it there re the run"C, here's a list of things that need a look at, I'm only in the A's so far.


All settings for Altirra


180 ntsc ->pal...Too fast and it's a Pal game anyway..

3d24 intentional corruption on main screen

5x5 Edytor Hasel is expecting 5x5_Edytor_Hasel

747 Flight simulator needs name extended RUN"C to load

Acrobat (Muenzenloher) needs to be 800 OSB

Acrobata needs name added with RUN"C to load it..

Addition with carry needs name extended with RUN"C to load

Adventure Craze needs to be xl mode..

Adventure International Value packs 1 to 4 need name to say for Altirra drive must be set to virt read write or real read write...

Air Attack (b) Works much better in 800 mode and OSA, otherwise you can almost never hit a plane


Airline _ Adventure International Needds 800OSB

Ali Baba and the 40 theives needs to be 800 mode

Alienbusters likes 64K or can crash with more

All star Baseball needs to have the cassette boot at startup unticked and then a RUN"C once at ready..

Alphabet Soup needs name with RUN"C added

Anduril needs 64K 320k kills it

Ants in your pants, might be worth a comment that it takes ages to work..Loolks corrupt till then

Arcade II needs Basic

Can't make Acedemic skillbuilder mix work with Altirra at all...