Cousin Vinnie Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I don't think there has ever been three 7800 homebrews released at the same time. Is there anyone else who is giddy? Cousin Vinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8th lutz Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I am very pleased about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 So am I. It's great to get new games for my 7800 and these are well made games. I also am glad to see a re-release of Beef Drop for the 7800! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Was it the encryption that had prevented new 7800 games from being released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip_Cannon Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Only you Vinnie... as always, only you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8th lutz Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 (edited) Was it the encryption that had prevented new 7800 games from being released? It was the case before the encryption found in late 2001. I highly doubt it was the reason after 2002 as a result. The first homebrew 7800 game released on cartridge happened in 2005. The game was called Combat 1990. There were attempts of doing games for the 7800 before 2005. They were never released on cartridge or completed. There were attempts on doing homebrew games like Space War as an example. It was the first attempt to do a homebrew 7800 game. The attempt happened in 2003 or 2004. It appeared to be a programming issue by the complaints I read in the past. Edited December 27, 2007 by 8th lutz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 And two of these 3 are "Hacks" although PMC is VERY good at "hacking" games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Hi Vinnie I also ordered all the three.Very good,to see new games for my favorite system. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboypacman Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I ordered B*nq with my christmas cash and i cant wait to play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 (edited) Wasn't the 7800 encryption system hacked by someone at atarihq.com (John Hardie i was told) Edited December 27, 2007 by carmel_andrews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Can't wait to receive b*nQ. I will order Space Duel and Asteroids Deluxe after my wallet has had time to catch its breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8th lutz Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Wasn't the 7800 encryption system hacked by someone at atarihq.com (John Hardie i was told) It was more like John finding the encryption document with a Pitfighter demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 anyone know if space duel features the one player controlling 2 ships tethered mode like the arcade? thats what I love about space duel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 anyone know if space duel features the one player controlling 2 ships tethered mode like the arcade? thats what I love about space duel. No it doesn't. It was the one feature PMP just couldn't get to work. Everything else is there though and it is a great game. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 And two of these 3 are "Hacks" although PMC is VERY good at "hacking" games. Thats true, but as we know Bobs hacks are so good, they are unrecognizable from the original games, I have played Asteroids Deluxe and Space Duel extensively on my CC2, and there seems to be very little of the original game left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomickneedrop Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I must admit...this feels mighty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 (edited) anyone know if space duel features the one player controlling 2 ships tethered mode like the arcade? thats what I love about space duel. Thank you! That's the game I played with the dual ships in Pizza Hut back in '85 or so. It has to have been Space Duel! Didn't it have the spark traveling along that tether so that when one ship exploded, the other went up, too? IIRC, it ran on a color vector monitor and you could see the damage each ship took when it was hit. It allowed up to three hits per ship. I played the Space Duel Bob has been working on with DevOS. It's pretty good. Someone mentioned Geometry Wars in the same sentence as Bob's Space Duel, but that's comparing apples to oranges. A browse through the HSC will reveal that I'm a big fan of the 7800 Asteroids as it is. I could do with any version of it, and I will probably be placing my own order next week with Christmas cash (I wanna run it by the wife first since it's gonna be over well over $30 or so). I agree with what was said of Bob's hacks earlier--he leaves very little of the original game. If one didn't know better, they'd think they were playing a totally different cart especially with Pac-Man Collection! I like that one, and I'm not really a big fan of Pac-Man as it is. Edited December 28, 2007 by shadow460 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Wasn't the 7800 encryption system hacked by someone at atarihq.com (John Hardie i was told) It was more like John finding the encryption document with a Pitfighter demo. Well, the main thing that was needed was the key itself. And that was in the encryptor binary. The encryptor was an Atari ST executable, and it was found on a hard drive that was rescued from an Atari dumpster, along with the Lynx and Jaguar encryptors. (A couple of years later, someone found a copy of the 7800 encryptor on another rescued hard drive.) For my own version, I disassembled the executable (much of it was in C, but the crypto routines were all in assembly), then made a direct translation of the resulting assembly language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-in-NJ Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I've ordered B*nq as I love Q*bert. The 5200 version is great, but the 7800 graphics look quite a bit better. I've got the Sony CD-ROM and it just ends after you finish screen four on level five! Didn't order Asteroids Deluxe or Space Duel as I've never been a fan of Asteroids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I ordered all three yesterday along with some 2600 titles anyway Ive always loved Asteroids Deluxe and Qbert and Ive only played Space Duel a few times in my life but remember liking it alot. Now the hard part waiting for them to arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I got my order in for all of them as well. The hardest part *IS* the waiting Come on!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I ordered my copy of Space Duel. Now where's a 5200 version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I'm still looking for coders to translate the Centipede sources into Millipede, use the Desert Falcon engine to make a Zaxxon game and take the Galaga sources I have and make Galaxian and potentially Gorf as well... Anyone interested, please PM me. Lets keep the new 7800 development going strong!!! Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 (edited) I'm still looking for coders to translate the Centipede sources into Millipede, use the Desert Falcon engine to make a Zaxxon game and take the Galaga sources I have and make Galaxian and potentially Gorf as well... Anyone interested, please PM me. Lets keep the new 7800 development going strong!!! Curt I like the sound of all of those, now if I could only code And I hope that PMP can get SI done next year Edited December 30, 2007 by mimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted December 31, 2007 Author Share Posted December 31, 2007 Why would we need Galaxian? How about a good version of Galaga or Galaga '90? I had a great dam idea for a hack that would almost be an original game. The game would be awesome. I wish I was good enough at code to program it. Cousin Vinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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