Uridium+ compo!

[louisg]

Hey, I opened a C64 Uridium+ thread over in the Hi Score section and figured I'd post here to entice people to play. Plus is the edition that says either "PAL" or "NTSC" on the title screen (detects smartly; I'm playing it on my NTSC system), has different levels, and lets the player land on the runway at any time.

If you haven't played Uridium before, it's an awesome classic-style game where you take on a huge star destroyer, chasing down squadrons through narrow corridors and strafing the ship to earn points. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but exhilarating once you get into the rhythm of it (fairly literally: you should reverse direction when you hear the alarm to dodge ships and shots).

So, who's game?

[Moniker]

Can you recommend an emulator? I've tried getting the C64/Amiga emulated before without success.

[ptoing]

WinVice is pretty good and easy to use.

http://www.viceteam.org/

If you have specific questions about how to run a game, lemme know.

[louisg]

Yeah, VICE is good. You can do "Smart Attach Disk/Tape" and then click autostart and it'll load it up. If you're in an emulator that doesn't automatically start the game, you may have to type:

load "*",8,1
(for disk. arcane, I know!)

CCS64 used to be good, too, if you're in Windows. If you're on a PPC Macintosh, try Power64.

Most action style games are designed to run under PAL and not NTSC. I'm just running Uridium under NTSC because I'm in the States and running it on a real system (it has minimal graphics glitching and is slightly faster).

[ptoing]

LOAD"*",8,1 will try to load the first prg on the disk, so this only works if the content of the disk is laid out as such. If there are multiple games or some other stuff on there it might not run what you want.

In that case you have to enter

LOAD"$",8 which will load the directory listing into memory, then type
LIST which will display the directory listing. depending on how long the list is it might not fit the screen so you have to stop it from scrolling with the RUN STOP key (and you have to find out which key the emu uses for this)
If you have the listing you can just write LOAD in front of the name of the prg then should follow the name in quotation marks followed by ,8,1 and nothing more after that, or a : which will ignore stuff after the command

After the emu is done loading and displays READY you type RUN or RUN: if there is stuff in the line you are typing and hit return.

If you know there is more than one game on there and you know the filename of the game you want to load you can do LOAD"U*",8,1 for example if you know that it starts with a U. and then again the RUN command once it is loaded.

If the game is preceded by a crack intro in most cases this is skipped with SPACE, in some cases with fire.

[Raytrace]

Yeah, VICE is good. You can do "Smart Attach Disk/Tape" and then click autostart and it'll load it up. If you're in an emulator that doesn't automatically start the game, you may have to type:

load "*",8,1
(for disk. arcane, I know!)

CCS64 used to be good, too, if you're in Windows. If you're on a PPC Macintosh, try Power64.

Most action style games are designed to run under PAL and not NTSC. I'm just running Uridium under NTSC because I'm in the States and running it on a real system (it has minimal graphics glitching and is slightly faster).

I see - is that a way of say having shortcuts straight into a game? Cause I have to say even though I was a C= 128 owner, I can't handle having to go through the C=64's basic screen everytime - I'm too lazy an old man at this stage :p

[Herr Schatten]

I see - is that a way of say having shortcuts straight into a game? Cause I have to say even though I was a C= 128 owner, I can't handle having to go through the C=64's basic screen everytime - I'm too lazy an old man at this stage :p

Depends on your emulator, I guess. The one I use (which is Power64 for Mac) lets me execute programs by doubleclicking their names from a disc menu that pops up when I open a disc image.

[Raytrace]

I c interesting - I should check ou the C=64 emus again