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[Goochman]

Folks,

This is a 2 week event ending 10/29 midnight EDT
Play on default settings and use the UDPATED Dig Dug Rom or Datasoft disk release to play.

Good Luck!

Dig Dug

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•  digdug_r2.zip   12.03K   88 downloads
•  digdug_r1.zip   12.14K   82 downloads

[Goochman]

The dig dug to play should look like this

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[Goochman]

47310 - initial attempt

Ill be away a few days so no score updates most of this week - we've got 2 weeks to play this one

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[Brad2600]

Add me to this club! I highly enjoy this game and I've started to really get the hang of it. It took a couple of tries to get the score below and I played on the default settings using my 800XL hooked to a C64 monitor.

24.170

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[emkay]

Kepone said:

Add me to this club! I highly enjoy this game and I've started to really get the hang of it. It took a couple of tries to get the score below and I played on the default settings using my 800XL hooked to a C64 monitor.  

24.170

Sorry, but as you might have recognized it alright... you are using the different version... not the version that is belonging to this competition.

[Brad2600]

Awww...

[Goochman]

Folks,

I cant see anyone getting a good scoreon the original release due to its limitations - I will accept scores from either version but you are better off with the 2nd release vs the first.

[Brad2600]

I do have Atari800WinPlus if you can point me to the ROM. Otherwise, all I have is the first version.

[Goochman]

Ive posted both .exe's to use with an emu

Youve been warned on R1

[Shawn Jefferson]

Well, that exe won't run on my real XL. I did some minor surgery on it and now it does, as long as I run it with the Translator disk. It was doing some PORTB writes, I NOPed them. It must still be doing some illegal jumps though, since it still won't work without the translator.

BTW: I couldn't get it to work with the MaxFlash "translator" cartridge, I wonder if it is doing some writes to the cartridge space too? There's a section that does something like this:

LDX #0
STA D000,X
STA D400,X
STA D200,X
STA D300,X <-portB
INX
BNE backupthere

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[Shawn Jefferson]

Oh, and now to actually play it!

[Shawn Jefferson]

44500

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[Shannon]

Goochman said:

47310 - initial attempt

Ill be away a few days so no score updates most of this week - we've got 2 weeks to play this one

Cool.... That will make it easier for me on my 4 day or 6 day in a row work weeks.

I usually have enough time, but sometimes family matters interfere.

[Shannon]

Shawn Jefferson said:

Well, that exe won't run on my real XL.  I did some minor surgery on it and now it does, as long as I run it with the Translator disk.  It was doing some PORTB writes, I NOPed them.  It must still be doing some illegal jumps though, since it still won't work without the translator.

BTW: I couldn't get it to work with the MaxFlash "translator" cartridge, I wonder if it is doing some writes to the cartridge space too?  There's a section that does something like this:

LDX #0
STA D000,X
STA D400,X
STA D200,X
STA D300,X <-portB
INX
BNE backupthere

Yep definitely a cartridge check (I believe) anything that loads 0's into an address area like that is usually to foil copying attempts. Oddly enough it ends up screwing with the PortB like you said.

[Shawn Jefferson]

47290! So close. This game gets pretty hard near the end, with all those "ghosts" flying at you.

[Goochman]

Sorry Shawn - 102610

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[devwebcl]

Goochman said:

Sorry Shawn - 102610

wow great score!!!

I did 17k+, but I didnt know I have to capture the score before the "game over" or I lose it.

well, I'll try harder, but I dont think I'll be first this time

devwebcl

[bjk7382]

Here is my score for now. And I don't see 100k as being too far out of my reach It is all how you handle the double enemies, and how you make your tunnels.

52,880

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[Goochman]

136290 - Ill take a break for a bit

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[Shawn Jefferson]

Any hints? I'm finding 50,000 hard to achieve most games!

[Goochman]

Its all about the bonus - dont worry about dropping rocks on the bad guys cause if you wait too long they will bury you.

I usually go after the single enemies and pump them up on the way to a rock - wait for the early movers to come over and drop - find another rock to drop (enemy or not) and grab the bonus - then 'pump dem up' to finish

[RJ]

205,330

C'mon gang- you really need strategies for this 20+ year-old classic?

[Shawn Jefferson]

I do!

[davidcalgary29]

I recall getting a score of over 2,200,000 on one occasion, but just forgot to get a polaroid of it at the time (that particular game took over 5 hours to play).

Is it just me, or does the difficulty ramping cease at level 24?

[Goochman]

It ramps - but we need a game played in the last week or so