yuppicide Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 I'm a little confused as to where I should begin asking questions on Harmony and bAtari Basic, so I'm posting this here. Just got my Harmony and a 2600. My computer won't read SDHC cards, so right now I'm forced to use developer mode which I can only load in one game. I've been working on a game in bAtari Basic. 16K. I have a title screen that shows a skeleton, it makes the words "Skull Island" move back and forth and every few seconds flashes yellow (simulating lightning). On Stella it looks perfect. When I load it into Harmony it looks different. I can hit fire button and the game starts. That looks and works fine. Here is a screen shot from Stella of the title screen: .. then every few seconds the "lightning" comes in and it looks like this: On Harmony, the lightning screen seems to come out fine, but the grey screen comes out mostly black. You can't see the skeleton like I can in my screen shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 The dark grays display black on some televisions. It has nothing to do with Harmony or batari Basic really. The best solution is to use brighter colors - I assume you are using 2, 4, and 6 - bump it up to 6, 8, and 10 if you want a picture that will display brightly enough on most televisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 Thanks so much. I didn't know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 Figures, I need to reprogram the firmware. Pulling the unit out of your computer without safely disconnecting will do that? Thought that was only for memory card? Last night I played my game, Girlfriend fell asleep for the maiden voyage, though, so she didn't get to play. This morning I go to try it out and screen is all black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Figures, I need to reprogram the firmware. Pulling the unit out of your computer without safely disconnecting will do that? Thought that was only for memory card? Last night I played my game, Girlfriend fell asleep for the maiden voyage, though, so she didn't get to play. This morning I go to try it out and screen is all black. If you program a single image to Harmony, it replaces the firmware with the game, so you need to reprogram firmware to get back to multicart mode. It should also work again if you reprogram a single image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Alright. Let me try and reprogram a different game and see if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Might be the 2600. I got it to load Atlantis, but only once. I'll open it and clean the contacts.. if need be I'll take it back to the store when I can and see if he has a game I can try out there to determine the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjaukifa Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm a little confused as to where I should begin asking questions on Harmony and bAtari Basic, so I'm posting this here. Just got my Harmony and a 2600. My computer won't read SDHC cards, so right now I'm forced to use developer mode which I can only load in one game. I've been working on a game in bAtari Basic. 16K. I have a title screen that shows a skeleton, it makes the words "Skull Island" move back and forth and every few seconds flashes yellow (simulating lightning). On Stella it looks perfect. When I load it into Harmony it looks different. I can hit fire button and the game starts. That looks and works fine. Here is a screen shot from Stella of the title screen: .. then every few seconds the "lightning" comes in and it looks like this: On Harmony, the lightning screen seems to come out fine, but the grey screen comes out mostly black. You can't see the skeleton like I can in my screen shot. Off-Topic Question: How did you get Skull Island to appear like that? -Disjaukifa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer4x4 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 I'm a little confused as to where I should begin asking questions on Harmony and bAtari Basic, so I'm posting this here. Just got my Harmony and a 2600. My computer won't read SDHC cards, so right now I'm forced to use developer mode which I can only load in one game. I've been working on a game in bAtari Basic. 16K. I have a title screen that shows a skeleton, it makes the words "Skull Island" move back and forth and every few seconds flashes yellow (simulating lightning). On Stella it looks perfect. When I load it into Harmony it looks different. I can hit fire button and the game starts. That looks and works fine. Here is a screen shot from Stella of the title screen: .. then every few seconds the "lightning" comes in and it looks like this: On Harmony, the lightning screen seems to come out fine, but the grey screen comes out mostly black. You can't see the skeleton like I can in my screen shot. Off-Topic Question: How did you get Skull Island to appear like that? -Disjaukifa Did you try turning up the TV's brightness and contrast? I had the same issue when trying Phasor Patrol. I cound't see the grey shield effect and incorrectly thought it was a Harmony issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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