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16*16 sprite record end contest

November 15, 2004 by leonard

News illustration image Hi all !

Phantom is the one who beat my record first with 221 sprites. As promised, here is the way to see my actual record.

Get the disk you downloaded some month ago, and simply type:

LEONARD REALLY LOVES RC4

Let's discover the number of sprite in the demo!

Go on Leonard homepage and enter in the Atari Record Contest section to get the demo.

Game of the week-end #2

November 13, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Most of you waited for more news about the forum. Sorry, it's still down but it should be back very soon! We have found a new host and the upload is on the way.
This week-end we put another rare game as we promised it. This is another french game (we have a bunch of them) and it was published by Carraz Editions. This time, the Atari Legend team provides Roman Policier which let create your own stories like a thriller writer. Funny concept for every kind of public. This is one of the rare stuffs made by Carraz which isn't an educational game. Already a big thank you to the fine people of Carraz for making this possible!

Go there and download Roman Policier. Also more Carraz games will be available very soon ;-)

16*16 sprite record

November 7, 2004 by leonard

News illustration image Hi,

Phantom has beaten my previous 220 sprites record with 222. (To be honest, the sprites are a bit close together, witch make the clearing easyer, so I don't think he can display 220 of them with my curve).

Anyway congratulations to him, it's not an easy task to display more than 220 sprites.

As I promise, I'll give you the password for my actual *secret* record. I'll post the password the 15, november. So if any coder re working on the record they have time to publish their demo before I release the password.

Of course you can still try to crack the password till the 15 november ! :-)

Leonard/OXYGENE

Temporary forum set up

November 6, 2004 by Silver Surfer

News illustration image We have set up a temporary mini Atari Forum until the real thing gets back up again.

http://atarilegend.com/pbpBB/

Game of the week-end #1

November 6, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image We inaugurate here a new feature of the site: the game of the week-end. This feature will offer you a rare game each Saturday. This game may be a disk found in an old box, or a game newly cracked by us. In both cases it has never been spread before.

And guess what? The first game we offer now is a Loriciel title. It's not a new crack, but a new patched version of Quasar. The disk previously worked on french TOS only. Our best cracker Klapauzius has managed to remove the bug, translated into the english language and has also trained it. It's probably not a big game (it goes back to 1986) but it was a shame non-french-TOS users couldn't play with it.

So go to the Quasar page to get the Atari Legend version! French users won't miss the Troll & co. version, that works on french TOS only.

ATARI 16x16 Sprite Demo Contest

November 5, 2004 by pht

News illustration image While the forum is down, we got this message from Phantom :

Hi ! I can't wait for the forum to come back...
Here are 4 of my attempts for the sprite contest :

1 - 162 (250 balls with a cheating method - already published on forum but with a loading bug corrected) - SainT v1.80 seems not to boot it ?!
2 - 162a (216 balls with leonard curve) - no boot protection for SainT user - screenshot
3 - 162b (220 balls - record is equalized) - no boot protection for SainT user
4 - 162c (222 balls- record is broken) - no boot protection for SainT user

Thanks,
Phantom

Screenshot of Zany Golf
Random review

Real golf bores me to death, but this game is truly funny. You don't have to choose the right club out of a set of thirty, or to calculate the wind direction and intensity, or the friction of the terrain; just hit the ball and try to send it inside the hole.

July 9, 2001 by Lorenzo

Read the review of Zany Golf

Did you know?

In the mid 80's Atari was approached by a company called Nintendo. They asked if Atari was interested in distributing their new 8 bit system. At that time, Jack Tramiel was head of the Atari company. He declined the offer, saying Atari wanted to stop releasing consoles and focus on personal computers instead! So in the end, Nintendo had to distribute the consoles themselves ... In just a few months, they wiped Atari from the throne!

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