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[Goochman]

HSC Season 2	Contest Ends:	Noon 6/3/05 EDT
Bandits	Score	Cosmic Tunnels	Score	Twin Galaxies Scores
emkay	211265	krupkaj	125600	Score	Player
madbutscher	189610	goochman	109700	58,540	Stephen Knox
_Fandal_	133085	_Fandal_	100700
krupkaj	129440	vdub_bobby	21600
doctorclu	24870	devwebcl	51700
goochman	24465	krupkaj	32300
vdub_bobby	13415	goochman	23000
Xebecs Demise	12090	vdub_bobby	21100
rj	0	doctorclu	15900
R.I.K. of Kaisersoft	0	Shawn Jefferson	0
devwebcl	0	doctorclu	0
deathtrappomegranate	0	devwebcl	0
advfan	0	chriss	0
bjk7382	0	Bunsen	0
Shannon	0	Shawn Jefferson	0
Shawn Jefferson	0	bjk7382	0

[_Fandal_]

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[Goochman]

24465

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[krupkaj]

Great game
80895

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[_Fandal_]

krupkaj, on Mon May 23, 2005 9:59 AM, said:

Great game
80895

I agree! I love it!

98840

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Edited by _Fandal_, Mon May 23, 2005 9:43 AM.

[emkay]

Bandits is the first game that I've voted for running the comptetition,

[_Fandal_]

109.265

Almost unplayable after reaching 100.000

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[doctorclu]

Anyone have a image of the game they can post here? Want to see if I can get a score in before next monday.

[krupkaj]

doctorclu, on Fri May 27, 2005 8:43 PM, said:

Anyone have a image of the game they can post here?  Want to see if I can get a score in before next monday.

you can download it here:
http://www.atarimani...&VERSION_ID=492

BTW my current high score is 95460, It is very tough at higher levels.

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[emkay]

This is my current score: 126145

[_Fandal_]

Your last score was real challenge, Emkay!
My score: 133.085

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[Goochman]

Excellent folks! Im having a hard time getting back to 24K again! Long time since I hit 50K

[doctorclu]

Current score 24,870.

I tip my hat to those that made more than that, a difficult game.

[emkay]

To make you guys sweat again

149450

[_Fandal_]

emkay, on Tue May 31, 2005 10:16 AM, said:

To make you guys sweat again

149450

OK. You're the best!!! I'll not try to beat your record any more!

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[vdub_bobby]

This game is hard! And man am I bad at it

7330

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[_Fandal_]

vdub_bobby, on Wed Jun 1, 2005 12:58 PM, said:

This game is hard!  And man am I bad at it

7330

Use autofire and shield and you'll be happy!

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[emkay]

_Fandal_, on Wed Jun 1, 2005 8:47 PM, said:

Use autofire and shield and you'll be happy!

No! Autofire kills the timing that you need for the shots. With Autofire you gain unwanted gaps and the enemies a.k.a. Bandits can fly though.

[krupkaj]

emkay, on Wed Jun 1, 2005 11:12 PM, said:

_Fandal_, on Wed Jun 1, 2005 8:47 PM, said:

Use autofire and shield and you'll be happy!

No! Autofire kills the timing that you need for the shots. With Autofire you gain unwanted gaps and the enemies a.k.a. Bandits can fly though.

yes, autofire is not the best in this game.

my last score is 129440. I think I cannot beat emkay...

edit: I forgot the screenshot

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Edited by krupkaj, Wed Jun 1, 2005 4:23 PM.

[Xebec's Demise]

I started playing this with Atari800win Plus 4.0 and it seems to be running very fast! Almost impossible to dodge those smart bombs. Should I be running this PAL or at a slower speed? Maybe it's easier with a joystick?

For anyone else that tries this game, be sure to:

"Load with OS-B. Disable "SIO patch for fast disk access".

Also make sure that you put the memory size on 48k only.

You should get an exclamation mark in the bottom right hand corner of screen. It will look like it has frozen at a blue screen, just wait for quite a while because it takes a bit of time to load.

http://www.atarimani...&VERSION_ID=492

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Edited by Xebec's Demise, Wed Jun 1, 2005 5:01 PM.

[emkay]

Xebec's Demise, on Thu Jun 2, 2005 12:23 AM, said:

I started playing this with Atari800win Plus 4.0 and it seems to be running very fast!  Almost impossible to dodge those smart bombs. Should I be running this PAL or at a slower speed?  Maybe it's easier with a joystick?

Not shure...

I played a "fast game" at 60Hz getting nearly 70000.
Hm... like in some other games, it seems, that use the 60Hz are making the gameplay faster/harder, but more precisely.

What makes me more wondering is, that a game like "Bandits", that uses a full software-sprite-engine, is running faster on 60Hz (even if less CPU cycles are left for a frame) than on 50Hz.

[Xebec's Demise]

70,000! wow, I can rarely get past 10,000.

Ok, also I just looked at a screenshot of the game at atarimania. It looks like there is a shield over the player spaceship.

Is there a way to activate a shield? That would make it easier!

[Goochman]

Pull down on the joystick and the shield will appear - careful since the blue bars on the bottom represent the amount of power left (they regenerate slowly) - Push up to turn shield off (it takes 1 bar before it will turn off).

Fun game

I got 50K once

[vdub_bobby]

Tough tough tough! Small improvement to 9330.

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[vdub_bobby]

vdub_bobby, on Thu Jun 2, 2005 9:49 AM, said:

Tough tough tough!  Small improvement to 9330.

And a little more to 13,415

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