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Atari 800 XL
« on: November 20, 2012, 05:43:02 PM »
Under the pressure of André, finally I put my hands on a nice Atari 800 XL setup with 70 games, books, a cartridge, etc. :D
As I never had an Atari computer, I was a bit afarid of handling it, but it is really simple indeed.
Now I can compare the games with the C64 stuff and open a new chapter in our nice discussion about these gems. ;D



I guess these bootmaster is some kind of a hack from 1996, but loading games with it is very, very simple.

The first game I loaded:


More games soon......
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2012, 06:11:12 PM »
YIIIIIIIHAAAAAAA !!!!  :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:

Congrats Béla and welcome to the wonderful world of Atari 8 bit machines.  These bootloaders were all-around BITD not just in '96 but already in the early 80s.... there are really fancy one's but I preferred the really fast one's ;)

It's very easy to create your own boot loader menu's (not that you will need it often now...)

Noticed how fast the games load.... ;D ;D ;D

Oh by the way from that floppy here's my list of best games:

1) Miner 2049er. If you like DK you'll love Miner
2) Bruce Lee. Classic in all ways.
3) Crystal Castles

And I'm afraid I  don't know Chuckie Egg (or it made very little impression on me)

So I....uh.......I just realized something........


I guess this means I'll have to get a C64 now......  ;D ;D
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2012, 06:22:06 PM »
Don't know Chucky Egg? Brilliant game 8)

nice to see that Videopac, my father used to own one so it was my 1st step into videogaming :spaceace:
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2012, 07:00:06 PM »
Quote from: Level42 on November 20, 2012, 06:11:12 PM

So I....uh.......I just realized something........

I guess this means I'll have to get a C64 now......  ;D ;D
Yeahhh, I'm really curious about your opinion about the other side. :D
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2012, 09:01:39 PM »
Nice pickup, Béla!  You'll have lots of fun with that setup.

Did AtariArtist come with the pen and tablet?
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2012, 09:03:59 PM »
I remember playing donkey kong on a catridge at a friend of mine back in the day.

Also i remember the hours of typing code and then discover in the end that there was a mistype somewhere along the way  ;D

nice pickup!

cannot tell anything else about is as i was a C64 man myself  ;)
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 09:31:23 PM »
Did they make Chuckie Egg for the Atari too? Always thought it was a ZX Spectrum only title.
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2012, 09:37:35 PM »
I played Chucky Egg on MSX and C64
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2012, 09:49:27 PM »
Quote from: ataritoobin on November 20, 2012, 09:01:39 PM
Nice pickup, Béla!  You'll have lots of fun with that setup.

Did AtariArtist come with the pen and tablet?
Unfortunately not, actually I've never heard about it, I guess it is this one:

Is it a good equipment?
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2012, 11:38:12 PM »
It was great for it's time. Better than Koalapad IMHO.
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2012, 12:55:10 AM »
Nice catch.

I started with an Atari 400 when it came out.

And of course you have to play Star Raiders and M.U.L.E. (Landing on the Planet IRATA;))

There are a lot of other great games, all Atari carts, the synapse titles (zeppelin, shadowworld, necromancer..., bristles, and you should Dandy give a try, (the father of gauntlee with 4! Player mode.

 
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2012, 05:43:51 PM »
Chickie Egg: ;)




It is very similar with Miner 2049-er, pics soon...... ;)
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2012, 08:39:20 PM »
Listed all the games on floppies, seems like we have a nice selection of games here :D

Blue Max                   Amaurote                       Spy vs. Spy 2         Ms.Pacman
Electrician                 Wizzard of Wor                Joe Blade               Attack of the Mutant Camels
Jet Set Willy              Deluxe Invaders               Pyramid                 Knight Lore
Oils Well                    Archon                          Tapper                   Popeye
Hero                         Quest for Tires                Boulder Dash 2        Robotron 2048
Pitfall 2                     Bounty Bob Strikes Back    Choplifter               Feud
Donkey Kong Jr.          Bruce Lee                       Missile Command     Joe Blade
Donkey Kong              Chuckie Egg                    Rampage                Agent USA
Spellbound                 Crystal Castles                Dig Dug                  Head over Heels
Miner 2049-er             Encounter                      Pacman                  Atomic
Pharao's Curse            Starquake                      Zorro                     Ghostbusters
Green Beret                Q-bert                          Spy vs. Spy             Ballblazer
Berzerk                      Blue Thunder                  International Karate  Dynablaster
Dan Strikes Back          Defender                        Kikstart                  Deflektor
Raid Over Moscow        Arkanoid                        Spy Hunter             Into The Eagle's Nest
Frogger                      Beach Head                   Jet Boot Jack          Zaxxon
Aroy the AArdvark         Cavernia                       Galaxian                 Lode Runner

If anybody has some more games and a possibilty to copy them, please let me know. ;)
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2012, 10:22:45 PM »
That's a good list!   :o

Don't forget Alley Cat and Caverns of Mars.  Also the Epyx "Games" series are great with friends (arguably the C64 versions might be better  ::) ;D)

There was another game I liked - not quite, but something like "Rainbow Road"?

EDIT: Ah!  "Rainbow Walker"



There's also actually a really nice recent port of Space Harrier here: http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/07/space-harrier-atari-8-bit-xexl.html
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Re: Atari 800 XL
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2012, 10:42:00 PM »
Thanks for the tips Steve, Epyx games are must have of course, used to play them a lot on C64. ;)
Never heard of Rainbow w
Walker and Caverns of Mars, but checked them on youtube and they look like great games. ;)
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