The unofficial Atari 7800 game & hardware update thread - Retro Forum

7th_lutz · 2010-07-13T04:30:00+00:00

I found there only will be 10 copies of Failsafe at the Atariage Booth for the Classic Gaming Expo. This isn't a lot of copies failsafe left at the Atariage store. I don't know when the shipment comes in after the Failsafe becomes out of stock. All I know about Failsafe for sure is there The last I heard, A long time abandoned homebrew game Froggie will be worked by the original author. Froggie actually is the arcade game Frogger. The game originally got started in May of 2005 The game was almost completed in early January 2007, when things happened in the author's life outside of the internet. the catch is Froggie was designed with the xboard in mind. Xboard wasn't that popular in the Atari 7800 community and no games were completed for it. That board was supposed to have more ram and a Atari 5200 sound chip. The catch with that was that board was the fact it would make changes to the originally Atari 7800 motherboard including 128k ram and a sound chip used on Atari 5200/Atari 8 bit computers and it was a royal pain to install to my understanding. The good news is the game would be able to work on the Atari 7800 Expansion Module. Xboard and the Expansion are two different animals. The Atari 7800 Expansion module wouldn't the issues like the Xboard did and it actually has additional stuff that makes it easier for people to program for the Atari 7800 besides memory, I don't know when Froggie will get released and it shouldn't be asked about any updates on it due to the history of the game not being worked on. There is a newer version of Pac-Man Collection being worked. It will have the same chip as an Atari 5200/ Atari 8bit computer does. Other improvements includes 11 more random mazes based on the NES Tengen Ms. Pac-Man, improved Pac-man shap, and more arcade accurate AI. It sounds like it is going to be an Atari 7800 expansion module game. Arkanoid isn't going to be worked anytime soon. The author get married earlier this year to my understanding, and I am pretty sure the author is busy as a result. I don't know the update status on Frenzy. What I know is the author of Frenzy also helped working an updated version Pac-man Collection and will be moving in a matter of months to another state. I don't know when the person will be working on for games and the amount of time for show to program a game after moving. I don't if the Author is working on Frenzy. The person has been working at least a couple Atari 7800 homebrew games.

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jonalexander
Wed 2nd Sep 2020

10 years later and the XM never shipped and nobody was refunded. Curt Vendel up and kills himself and leaves a mess behind.

jonalexander

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Octane
Wed 2nd Sep 2020

I don't think we need to revive this.

Octane

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