The Atari 8-bit thread

[TL]

Anyone know how A8 versions of:

Infiltrator+Joe Blade fared next to the C64 versions?.Owned both on C64, but never tried on A8.

Also, Bop 'n' Wrestle, Mindscape, 1 of the only commercial releases to use the extra Ram on the 130 XE (for smoother animation)?.

I already posted an 8-bit wars for Joe Blade with both version in it

Here is the Atari XL/XE version of Infiltrator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5LuU8_luS0

[Rogue Trooper]

Anyone know how A8 versions of:

Infiltrator+Joe Blade fared next to the C64 versions?.Owned both on C64, but never tried on A8.

Also, Bop 'n' Wrestle, Mindscape, 1 of the only commercial releases to use the extra Ram on the 130 XE (for smoother animation)?.

 

I already posted an 8-bit wars for Joe Blade with both version in it

Here is the Atari XL/XE version of Infiltrator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5LuU8_luS0

Sorry, my bad, i meant Joe Blade 2, commented in your splendid 8 Bit wars /Joe Blade a while back.

I like the look of A8 Infiltrator!.

[Rogue Trooper]

Anyone know anything on:

Opeartion Blood' on A8 (A.N.G Software), unoffical? port of Operation wolf? Looked pretty good from still shots i saw in mag. snippet.

[TL]

Anyone know anything on:

Opeartion Blood' on A8 (A.N.G Software), unoffical? port of Operation wolf? Looked pretty good from still shots i saw in mag. snippet.

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs3Xknb-HJQ

[Rogue Trooper]

Cheers yet again Laird.

Assuming here that likes of operation Blood and Barbarian were a case of the Poles thinking that if no-one else was going to convert the games to A8, they'd do it themselves, guess by porting C64 code?.

Could have sworn i saw Anco's Kick Off being reviewed in an old Atari mag (but cannot find it again), did my eyes decive me?.

Also, thinks like Infiltrator (disk only?) and Airball (cart only?) on Atari * bit systems, US Only releases? as again, the sort of games i was crying out for as an Atari 800XL owner, but i never saw here in UK.

[TL]

Could have sworn i saw Anco's Kick Off being reviewed in an old Atari mag (but cannot find it again), did my eyes decive me?.

Nope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rispzk_4zUw

[Rogue Trooper]

Could have sworn i saw Anco's Kick Off being reviewed in an old Atari mag (but cannot find it again), did my eyes decive me?.

Nope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rispzk_4zUw

Blimey, that looks like it belongs on the 2600! Makes the C64 version look good.

Learnt a lot about what games i missed out on, A8 wise, good few i'd have loved, but others no loss what so ever.

[TL]

Here is another game that went unreleased by Atari although it was finished, like Commando it is also very similar to the 7800 version, the XL/XE version of Xenophobe. It's since been released and sold on a cart.

Again I think this is a really impressive conversion and its a real shame it wasn't released back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWSiZAmfH08

[Rogue Trooper]

Here is another game that went unreleased by Atari although it was finished, like Commando it is also very similar to the 7800 version, the XL/XE version of Xenophobe. It's since been released and sold on a cart.

Again I think this is a really impressive conversion and its a real shame it wasn't released back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWSiZAmfH08

Love the look of that.Really gutting to see so much A8 stuff over the last few days alone, that would have been a real shot in the arm for the system, yet was either never released or USA only, so much wasted potential at the time....

[TL]

Did you know there are actually 2 versions of Jet Set Willy for the XL/XE?

The original but rather poor version by Tynesoft that has the amazing Rob Hubbard music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdh4PO7aT68

And this conversion of the ZX Spectrum version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsCP7JlXY1A

[Vyothric]

That Jet Set Willy music is one of my favourite game music tracks ever

[TL]

It's still being worked on but here is an early build of the Atari XL/XE version of Silkworm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRyvf6jsKb4

[onthinice]

Thought this might be the XE version...

[TL]

It is indeed!

[Havantgottaclue]

I'll be interested to see how the programmers manage to put background graphics in behind the sprites in that conversion of Silkworm. It won't be easy ... maybe some imaginative use of PMGs will help.