2600 Shmupping

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:15 pm

antron wrote:I read later in the thread that it might hold a few hundred 2600 roms. Not the whole console set but definitely all the shmups! Most are freely downloadable from atariage, even homebrews currently for sale. Also, the USB cable connector on the model will be replaced with a mini-usb (that's not a place for a thumbdrive).

Kind of idiotic in this day and age to be stingy with memory and not give it enough to hold ALL Atari roms. Also, what's up with the pad? I wonder if this will actually be released by Atari (Infogrames); they don't seem to be doing so well financially.

ubersaurus · Post by **ubersaurus** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:46 am

Conquest of Mars is a homebrew I just learned up recently. Supposedly it's a port of an Atari 800 shooter...vertical scrolling, but unlike most you scroll from the top down.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:43 am

Hey, I've been playing Turmoil lately and was wondering how far people here can get. I noticed the record on Twin Galaxies is enormous, but I have yet to make it past level 8.

uber, that Conquest of Mars game looks neat!

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:09 am

ubersaurus wrote:Conquest of Mars is a homebrew I just learned up recently. Supposedly it's a port of an Atari 800 shooter...vertical scrolling, but unlike most you scroll from the top down.

It's a port of Caverns of Mars for the Atari 800. There is also a Flashback 2 version of Caverns of Mars, which sounds vastly inferior to both Conquest of Mars and the original Atari 800 version. Unlike the version of Caverns of Mars in the Flashback 2, Conquest of Mars has all of the areas of the original, though changed slightly as to not be exactly the same and due to the limitations of the 2600. I also heard that the Flashback 2 version of Caverns of Mars is full of flicker, which Conquest of Mars isn't.