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HSC7 Game 16: Preppie & Preppie II


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#1 therealbountybob OFFLINE  

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:10 PM

Preppie! & Preppie! II

With still no sign of a shoot'em up, the Preppies' romped home in the voting!

Scoring for both games will be combined.
Bonus HSC points for top three places for each game plus an extra point for the winner of each!

Atarionline.pl has various xex and atr files. Atarimania only has .cas files but has instructions: Preppie! & Preppie! II
;)

Game closes on Sunday 26th September 10am BST

Atarimania ratings 7.2 & 7.1

da da da da, da da da da, da-da-da-da-daaahhh :music:

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:30 PM

oh well maybe someday i will pick a winner...

sloopy.
(have the same problem at the track ;'D
and, 1st post!

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:18 PM

Those .CAS files take forever to load. I guess not forever, but long enough that you want to hit BRK key or something.

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:17 PM

View PostDivya16, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:18 PM, said:

Those .CAS files take forever to load. I guess not forever, but long enough that you want to hit BRK key or something.

You load it from the real hardware? With Atari800MacX it loads in 1 second. Just deactivate the Speed Limit.

I do not have a tape here, so I was going for the ATRs, but I couldn´t find any Preppie1 ATR which works with the SIO2USB. So I took the XEX and use the SDrive, that works fine.

Edited by skr, Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:19 PM.


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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:48 PM

View Postskr, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:17 PM, said:

View PostDivya16, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:18 PM, said:

Those .CAS files take forever to load. I guess not forever, but long enough that you want to hit BRK key or something.

You load it from the real hardware? With Atari800MacX it loads in 1 second. Just deactivate the Speed Limit.

I do not have a tape here, so I was going for the ATRs, but I couldnīt find any Preppie1 ATR which works with the SIO2USB. So I took the XEX and use the SDrive, that works fine.

I got the .CAS file and it takes a long time on emulator and on real machine. I didn't see any speed limit sign in the emulator. I think it's 55 mph normally on the road.

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:55 PM

Hope this doesn't turn out to be my best.

12,221 for Preppie.

Preppie II score to follow shortly (after a couple more attempts at Preppie)

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 PM

Attached are standard length ATRs of the two games if anyone wants to try them.

-Steve

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:41 AM

PREPPiE! 15,680
PREPPiE II 12,710

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:01 AM

View Posta8isa1, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 PM, said:

Attached are standard length ATRs of the two games if anyone wants to try them.

-Steve

I'll try these as my cassette file seems to have issues. I cannot grab either of the white dots in the picture. Or is there something else I'm supposed to do (level 5).

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:23 AM

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal
Yeah, these are the really heavy golf balls so you can only carry one at a time despite being a giant :D

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

Okay, I guess that was the issue. I need to take one ball at a time back to the starting point.

By the way, did you vote for Preppie?

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:36 AM

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM, said:

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

Okay, I guess that was the issue. I need to take one ball at a time back to the starting point.

By the way, did you vote for Preppie?
no but I am listening to By the Way as I type ;) I voted for Diamonds & DSB (I think)... rarely does what I vote for win the poll but I'm happy to play any game so that's ok :) Will give Preppie a bash tomorrow (he's not that far away) :evil:

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:08 PM

View Posta8isa1, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 PM, said:

Attached are standard length ATRs of the two games if anyone wants to try them.

-Steve

Thank you very much, these work fine. Never played Preppie much, because it is boring and too slow to play. And next week Iīm going to the US, so I donīt know if I will have enough time to play it:

Preppie 1: 12480
prep1.jpg
Preppie 2: 5540
prep2.jpg

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:10 PM

View Postskr, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:08 PM, said:

View Posta8isa1, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 PM, said:

Attached are standard length ATRs of the two games if anyone wants to try them.

-Steve

Thank you very much, these work fine. Never played Preppie much, because it is boring and too slow to play. And next week Iīm going to the US, so I donīt know if I will have enough time to play it:

Preppie 1: 12480
prep1.jpg
Preppie 2: 5540
prep2.jpg

You can play NTSC version in USA. If you come near Edison, NJ, I'll play with you two player.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:10 PM

View Posttherealbountybob, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:36 AM, said:

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM, said:

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

Okay, I guess that was the issue. I need to take one ball at a time back to the starting point.

By the way, did you vote for Preppie?
no but I am listening to By the Way as I type ;) I voted for Diamonds & DSB (I think)... rarely does what I vote for win the poll but I'm happy to play any game so that's ok :) Will give Preppie a bash tomorrow (he's not that far away) :evil:

I think we need a definition of Preppie so we know what it is. (I mean the game not the AtariAge user.)

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:29 PM

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:10 PM, said:

You can play NTSC version in USA. If you come near Edison, NJ, I'll play with you two player.

Actually what you see are screenshots from my NTSC XEGS, so I already play NTSC. ;-) I come to Phoenix, Arizona. Not around the corner I guess.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:02 PM

View Posta8isa1, on Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 PM, said:

Attached are standard length ATRs of the two games if anyone wants to try them.

-Steve

Thanks for the ATRs; that sped things up. And I'm glad you used 8 letter filenames as I don't like those long filenames especially with puntuation marks and spaces.

Here's my first time playing this. This looks like frogger, but the boat part is like Keystone Kapers elevator and sounds like it.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:59 PM

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM, said:

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

Okay, I guess that was the issue. I need to take one ball at a time back to the starting point.

By the way, did you vote for Preppie?

funnily enough I did. not that I am any good, it's just the first game I ever bought, and the reason that my parents bought me a 400 in 1982 after seeing it running in a local computer store.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:06 PM

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:10 PM, said:

View Posttherealbountybob, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:36 AM, said:

View Postatariksi, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM, said:

View PostPreppie!!, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:20 AM, said:

As long as you have dropped off any balls that you have collect you should be able to pick up those two balls as normal

Okay, I guess that was the issue. I need to take one ball at a time back to the starting point.

By the way, did you vote for Preppie?
no but I am listening to By the Way as I type ;) I voted for Diamonds & DSB (I think)... rarely does what I vote for win the poll but I'm happy to play any game so that's ok :) Will give Preppie a bash tomorrow (he's not that far away) :evil:

I think we need a definition of Preppie so we know what it is. (I mean the game not the AtariAge user.)


from Page6 magazine Issue 2 Feb/mar 1983

PREPPIE is like Frogger in that you have to get your 'Preppie' (American for schoolboy) across the golf course with assorted mowers, tractors and golf buggies and then across a river with boats, logs and alligators. In this game however you must retrieve golf balls and make it back again. The game is not too difficult to play (I scored over 12000 the first try!) and is probably ideally suited to children even if they just watch you play. The graphics and the music will keep them enthralled and there will be howls of laughter when the Preppie falls in the river or gets squashed by a golf cart!

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:16 PM

Preppie!

13,000


This might be as far as i get with this one.
I think i'm going to read the Preppy Handbook. :) ;)



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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:18 PM

Hmmm. Preppie II seems like it takes a long time to play one game. The little intermissions are ok.

Preppie: 13030
Preppie II: 15870

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:31 PM

I really like the intermissions. Like Pac-Man, but even more silly.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:30 PM

View Postlittleman jack, on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:31 PM, said:

I really like the intermissions. Like Pac-Man, but even more silly.

It doesn't do anything during intermissions unlike Atari 5200 Pac-man intermissions. It's better to have a pause. Is there a pause in this game-- I haven't found any key yet.

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Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:51 PM

Preppie : 14,440
Preppie 2: 15,690 17,700
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Combined: 30,130 32,140

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Edited by a8isa1, Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:01 PM.





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