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[dykesr]

Man now i really wish i would have been there this weekend. DAMN IT!!!

RD

[www.atarimania.com]

Hi Lee,

Do you have any further info on the A8 version (as I suspect both were written at the same time)? This could mean other SEGA games were in the works for the platform... The A8 program is credited so this may be a good place to start...

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[GrizzLee]

I'll have to play it again on real hardware. I don't recall any flicker.
The screen dump I took, just didn't have any enemies in it. Here is one other. At most, only 2 enemies appear on the screen at once.




Regards,
-Lee

[Saikyo]

Is it just me but does that score counter look very similar to the thunderground
score counter?

Also it looks like tac scans, is this a feature in all segas 2600 games or is it
just coincidence?

BTW Cool pic! hope more info on this surfaces soon!

[Tempest]

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Is it just me but does that score counter look very similar to the thunderground  
score counter?

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The graphics kind of remind me Thunderground. I wonder if they had the same programmer?  

Tempest

I beat you to it about 5 posts ago. Glad to know I'm not the only one sick enough to notice that...

Tempest

[Saikyo]

Yeah so you did silly me

You know it seems wierd though becase nearly all the sega 2600 games I
have seen have a similar or same layout.

Look at Tac-Scan same Sega copyright date and same score counter, also these three
sega games have the same two borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Could that mean that all of Sega's 2600 games are simply re-programmed
versions of thier old games upgraded into a new game?

Maybe clonespy could help us out here!

[Tempest]

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Look at Tac-Scan same Sega copyright date and same score counter, also these three  
sega games have the same two borders at the top and bottom of the screen!  

Could that mean that all of Sega's 2600 games are simply re-programmed  
versions of thier old games upgraded into a new game

No I think it just means that they had a standard kernel they used and the programmers shared it.

Tempest

[Mindfield]

Saikyo said:

Yeah so you did silly me

You know it seems wierd though becase nearly all the sega 2600 games I
have seen have a similar or same layout.

Look at Tac-Scan same Sega copyright date and same score counter, also these three
sega games have the same two borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Could that mean that all of Sega's 2600 games are simply re-programmed
versions of thier old games upgraded into a new game?  

Maybe clonespy could help us out here!

They probably all use the same kernel -- not unusual within the same company. Cuts down on development time when they don't have to write a new kernel for every game and can just concentrate on graphics, sound and game logic.

[Osmeroid]

Probably jumping the gun big time here, but has anyone heard if it's going to be released?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Saikyo said:

Look at Tac-Scan same Sega copyright date and same score counter, also these three sega games have the same two borders at the top and bottom of the screen!

Could that mean that all of Sega's 2600 games are simply re-programmed versions of thier old games upgraded into a new game?

I don't think so. Maybe some small routines could be reused, but the main kernel has usually to be rewritten from scratch. IMO that's more a matter of corporate identity (e.g. like the Activision rainbow and score font) than reusing code.

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Maybe clonespy could help us out here!

Try yourself! (CloneSpy)

[GrizzLee]

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Probably jumping the gun big time here, but has anyone heard if it's going to be released?

We are working on it. We've narrowed it down to one of 3 people we need to contact (Maybe all 3). It appears that maybe more than one person worked on the game. It will be released pending permission from them. That was the request of the programming group that had it. I am just as anxious as anyone to release it myself.


Regards,
-Lee

[Mindfield]

/me dry-washes hands in gleeful anticipation

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Lee Krueger said:

We are working on it.

Great!

[Saikyo]

[quote="Thomas Jentzsch"][quote=Saikyo]
[quote]Maybe clonespy could help us out here! [/quote]
Try yourself! ([url="http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34495"]CloneSpy[/url])[/quote]

Cant dude dont have my ROMS anymore I sold my atari remember?
Any way I never had Tac-Scan or Thunderground I just assumed from the screenshots I found (however they were on the TV boy so I have played them before!)

[Osmeroid]

Thanks Lee - I was hoping you's say something like that!!

[Godzilla]

BUMP

any word on the progress of this title someday worming it's way out to us hungry 2600 heads?

[GrizzLee]

I've located the programmer. He, like me had a computer crash. We are in the process of exchanging email to secure permission to release it. Vacations, work etc...


Be patient.

-Lee

[Godzilla]

Always patient. Ever curious.

[Vic George 2K3]

The game name makes me think of one of the songs from Sonic CD that sounds like they're singing "X,X,O,I" or "XX or Y"

[Tempest]

Any updates to this?

Tempest

[GrizzLee]

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Any updates to this?  

Tempest

Nope. We have not heard a peep form the programmer for several weeks despite a few emails we have sent.


On the brighter side, we will have it available to play at the NWCGE booth at CGE. Stop by and give it a go.

-Lee (Heads out the door to CGE in a couple of hours).

[MegaManFan]

I don't remember seeing Ixion at the show. Did I miss something?

[Mitch]

MegaManFan said:

I don't remember seeing Ixion at the show.  Did I miss something?

Hmm, I saw it. It wasn't on all the time though.

Mitch