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Joystick will be default controller. I am waiting for reports from beta testers that are testing it with the Trackball and Driving Controller.

Well doing the ship and objects coming up the web should be easy with the 7800. I am wondering what would be a good way to do the web graphics itself.

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

HeliCommander
A New Arcade Game for Atari XL/XE Computers
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Arcade Action Game in the style of Chopper Command and Choplifter
  Game Cartridge requires an Atari Computer with 16K of RAM and 1 Joystick
  Parallax Scrolling creating a great 3D effect and colorful scrolling objects and background
  Enemies - Choppers, Tanks, Bombers, Trucks, Bunkers, to challenge you.
  Many Challenging Levels to play
  This game was extensively beta tested to assure quality
  See video for more  

Actually it is joystick and keyboard. Up-Down-Left-Right to move the helicopter. Use the Left-Right Arrows on the keyboard to point the helicopter left or right. Press Down Arrow to point the Center the Helicopter to shoot at the ground.
The trackball is just about the only other controller that has up-down-left-right. I did add optional controllers to Megaoids - Joystick, Paddles, and anything that uses that "grey code" to rotate the ship left or right. So the trackball should work with that game.

To further answer that question, it will work with a trackball if the trackball has joystick mode. If I was to add trackball mode, it would end up playing the same.

Joystick will be default controller. I am waiting for reports from beta testers that are testing it with the Trackball and Driving Controller.

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

I am looking for an Atari 7800 programmer to assist with development. Trying to figure out to set it up with 4k of RAM. Tempest Xtreme and Tempest Elite uses lots of pre-calculated tables, will graphics 15 screen, and player-missile RAM. So it would be a different game almost written from  scratch.

I am looking for an Atari 7800 programmer to assist with development. Trying to figure out to set it up with 4k of RAM. Tempest Xtreme and Tempest Elite uses lots of pre-calculated tables, will graphics 15 screen, and player-missile RAM. So it would be a different game almost written from  scratch.

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

This is a game we have been working on for almost 5 years. Tempest Elite runs on a standard 64K Atari computer and has the ability to detect VBXE and Stereo Pokey. When detected it loads the subroutines (drivers) to take advantage of the upgraded hardware in 320x192 256 color mode. If not detected it will run with original Atari 8-bit Antic GTIA player/missile graphics in 160x192 4 color mode.
 

 

HeliCommander
A New Arcade Game for Atari XL/XE Computers
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Arcade Action Game in the style of Chopper Command and Choplifter
  Game Cartridge requires an Atari Computer with 16K of RAM and 1 Joystick
  Parallax Scrolling creating a great 3D effect and colorful scrolling objects and background
  Enemies - Choppers, Tanks, Bombers, Trucks, Bunkers, to challenge you.
  Many Challenging Levels to play
  This game was extensively beta tested to assure quality
  See video for more  

HeliCommander
A New Arcade Game for Atari XL/XE Computers
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Arcade Action Game in the style of Chopper Command and Choplifter
  Game Cartridge requires an Atari Computer with 16K of RAM and 1 Joystick
  Parallax Scrolling creating a great 3D effect and colorful scrolling objects and background
  Enemies - Choppers, Tanks, Bombers, Trucks, Bunkers, to challenge you.
  Many Challenging Levels to play
  This game was extensively beta tested to assure quality
  See video for more  

HeliCommander
A New Arcade Game for Atari XL/XE Computers
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Arcade Action Game in the style of Chopper Command and Choplifter
  Game Cartridge requires an Atari Computer with 16K of RAM and 1 Joystick
  Parallax Scrolling creating a great 3D effect and colorful scrolling objects and background
  Enemies - Choppers, Tanks, Bombers, Trucks, Bunkers, to challenge you.
  Many Challenging Levels to play
  This game was extensively beta tested to assure quality
  See video for more  

Actually it is joystick and keyboard. Up-Down-Left-Right to move the helicopter. Use the Left-Right Arrows on the keyboard to point the helicopter left or right. Press Down Arrow to point the Center the Helicopter to shoot at the ground.
The trackball is just about the only other controller that has up-down-left-right. I did add optional controllers to Megaoids - Joystick, Paddles, and anything that uses that "grey code" to rotate the ship left or right. So the trackball should work with that game.

I am providing this post for technical discussion and feed back about the games I have written. If you have a technical question or wish to tell us what you think about the games, feel free to post something here. Please keep things polite here.

Delta Space Arena
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/385-delta-space-arena-announcing-a-brand-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-home-computers/
 
Laser Blast X
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2702-laser-blast-x-cartridge-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-now-available-3995-from-video-61/
 
Megaoids 2016
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2701-megaoids-cartridge-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-now-available-3995-from-video-61/

http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2687-video-61-atari-sales-service/?hl=amokbots

HeliCommander
A New Arcade Game for Atari XL/XE Computers
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Arcade Action Game in the style of Chopper Command and Choplifter
  Game Cartridge requires an Atari Computer with 16K of RAM and 1 Joystick
  Parallax Scrolling creating a great 3D effect and colorful scrolling objects and background
  Enemies - Choppers, Tanks, Bombers, Trucks, Bunkers, to challenge you.
  Many Challenging Levels to play
  This game was extensively beta tested to assure quality
  See video for more  

I am providing this post for technical discussion and feed back about the games I have written. If you have a technical question or wish to tell us what you think about the games, feel free to post something here. Please keep things polite here.

Delta Space Arena
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/385-delta-space-arena-announcing-a-brand-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-home-computers/
 
Laser Blast X
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2702-laser-blast-x-cartridge-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-now-available-3995-from-video-61/
 
Megaoids 2016
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2701-megaoids-cartridge-new-game-for-atari-8-bit-now-available-3995-from-video-61/

http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2687-video-61-atari-sales-service/?hl=amokbots

Megaoids - Blasteroids type game now available on cartridge for $39.95 just in time for CyberMonday. The game was influenced by the arcade Blasteroids game. Instead of lives, you have shield energy that go down everytime you collide with an asteroids or exotic matter. The shield energy gets recharge when making contact with those glowing spinning orbs that pop up after destroying the asteroids. This also has fast moving laserbolts, can shoot multiple bolts at once. The game is full of sound effects, power ups, and exotic matter that redirect, grow, or clone the asteroids.

I made a game many years ago in Turbobasic XL, many years ago around 1990. I decided to rewrite it totally in assembly language. I took the original font from its Turbobasic counterpart and updated it for this machine language version. As many of us know a 100% machine language port can run and play much smoother. There are more things can be done at the assembly language level that is hard to do in Complied Turbobasic. The Turbobasic version ran into limitations and I always wanted to do better. The orbs are now animated and move, no longer have slow downs, have stars in the background, and many more things move at the same time.
 
Features: Fast Pace Games with Mulitcolor graphics.
Selection of Controller Type: Joystick (Default), Keyboard, Paddle, Trackball (Indy 500 or mouse) controller.
(The Trackball) option goes by "Grey Code" left right input, so if you know your input device outputs to the computer using it, the game should be able to read it.
Solid original Atari 8-bit cartridge shell.
 
The game is available here.

http://members.tcq.n...deo61/main.html
 
We have also release Laser Blast X on the same day. Megaoids was originally intended to be release in early October but was delayed due to personal issues with a member of our team.