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GroovyBee
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7800 Homebrew games in development
I've been a 7800 developer since April 2009 when Wasp! was announced using my "C" games development library.
This is my current list of 7800 games in development :-
Harry's Hen House (Stock machine)

Apple Snaffle (XM mandatory)

Halloween themed game (no release name yet) (XM mandatory)

Outpost 26 (XM mandatory)

Dungeon! (XM mandatory)

Fruitarian (XM mandatory)

7800 Completed homebrew games
This is the list of games that have been completed and released on cartridge :-
Wasp! (Stock machine)

Worm! (Stock machine)

7800 eXpansion Module (XM)
The XM team was formed around Curt Vendel in the summer of 2010 to develop an expansion system for the Atari 7800. The XM adds the following to a stock 7800 :-
7800 BBC Micro game ports
First developer to port a BBC Micro home computer game to the 7800.
Development thread for Tempest (WIP) (XM mandatory)

7800 Graphics modes
G2F - 4 colour changes per scan line in 2BPP.
160C - 169 colours on screen at once.
7800 Game programming tools
a78psd - A utility that converts ProSystem emulator *.sav files into human readable form. It will also analyse the Display List List (DLL) entries and Display List (DL) "headers".
Colour picker - A utility for displaying all 256 colours on a 7800 simultaneously.
NTSC bitmap - A *.gif containing the colours taken from ProSystem.
7800 Game cartridge availability
You can purchase Wasp! from the AA store here.
You can purchase Worm! from the AA store here.
7800 Game reviews
Wasp! was reviewed in edition 66 of Retro Gamer here and scored 72%.
Worm! was reviewed in edition 76 of Retro Gamer here and scored 79%.
Miscellaneous PC utilities
SaveKey - Handles data upload and download to SaveKeys.
a52mm - Atari 5200 Ultimate SD Cartridge Menu Mangler.
Hardware development
GB-XC1 - PlayStation controller interface.
Mattel Intellivision games in development
These are my current Intellivision games in development :-
Apple Snaffle

Mystery Castle
I've been a 7800 developer since April 2009 when Wasp! was announced using my "C" games development library.
This is my current list of 7800 games in development :-
Harry's Hen House (Stock machine)
Apple Snaffle (XM mandatory)
Halloween themed game (no release name yet) (XM mandatory)
Outpost 26 (XM mandatory)
Dungeon! (XM mandatory)
Fruitarian (XM mandatory)
7800 Completed homebrew games
This is the list of games that have been completed and released on cartridge :-
Wasp! (Stock machine)
Worm! (Stock machine)
7800 eXpansion Module (XM)
The XM team was formed around Curt Vendel in the summer of 2010 to develop an expansion system for the Atari 7800. The XM adds the following to a stock 7800 :-
- System BIOS
- 128K of bank switched RAM
- HSC BIOS and 2K of non-volatile memory for high score game saves
- POKEY and a YM2151 for arcade quality audio
- SIO and XEGS keyboard connectors for A8 peripheral compatibility (software required)
- NES like mappers
- PIA (optional) for internal custom expansion
7800 BBC Micro game ports
First developer to port a BBC Micro home computer game to the 7800.
Development thread for Tempest (WIP) (XM mandatory)
7800 Graphics modes
G2F - 4 colour changes per scan line in 2BPP.
160C - 169 colours on screen at once.
7800 Game programming tools
a78psd - A utility that converts ProSystem emulator *.sav files into human readable form. It will also analyse the Display List List (DLL) entries and Display List (DL) "headers".
Colour picker - A utility for displaying all 256 colours on a 7800 simultaneously.
NTSC bitmap - A *.gif containing the colours taken from ProSystem.
7800 Game cartridge availability
You can purchase Wasp! from the AA store here.
You can purchase Worm! from the AA store here.
7800 Game reviews
Wasp! was reviewed in edition 66 of Retro Gamer here and scored 72%.
Worm! was reviewed in edition 76 of Retro Gamer here and scored 79%.
Miscellaneous PC utilities
SaveKey - Handles data upload and download to SaveKeys.
a52mm - Atari 5200 Ultimate SD Cartridge Menu Mangler.
Hardware development
GB-XC1 - PlayStation controller interface.
Mattel Intellivision games in development
These are my current Intellivision games in development :-
Apple Snaffle
Mystery Castle
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- Member Title 7800 Developer
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Busy bee!
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Gender
Male
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Location
North, England
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Interests
Atari 7800, writing games, software, electronics.
I also own an Atari Mega 2, 520ST, Atari TT, Vader, Jr., several 7800s, XEGS, 800XLs and a 65XE. I've recently acquired a NES and an Intellivision too.
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In Topic: Colossal Cave Adventure diary
Today, 6:35 AM
If you used radix 40 you could pack 3 characters per word. That gets you upper case 'A' to 'Z', '0' to '9' and four left over for punctuation e.g. ' ', '.', '?' and '!'.
In Topic: Turbo Forth Game Competition
Today, 3:54 AM
Good luck to the people that enter the contest. I'd love to enter but its been a long time since I programmed in FORTH and I have a ton of other retro project project commitments this year so realistically I won't have time to pick up the language again.
In Topic: XM Status Page...
Yesterday, 4:47 PM
Sorted!
In Topic: Request For Comments: P-Machinery improvements
Yesterday, 1:30 PM
I'm not familiar with your framework but I think continuing your tutorial series would be good. If we could have a "Programming Intellivision for newbies" as a sub forum of the Inty programming forum to go along with it then it could all be contained in one place. That would make your life easier to update the required files on AA as and when required.
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