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Flash Version of Adventure
chefmonkey writes "Of course, everyone remembers the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure." While you've been able to play it on a wide variety of emulators for a while, now playing in your web browser is just one click away. Yes, that's right, someone has gone and created a flash version of Adventure." I haven't checked it yet to see if you can get the "dot".
Instead of playing it in Flash, you could just get an Atari emulator like Stella, and then get the Adventure rom here.
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It works with Mozilla and the Linux flash plug-in.
Just download the shockwave file.
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The original author of the game, Warren Robinett (who also wrote Rocky's Boots) has it available for download on his website. He has always come across in interviews and the like to be the sort who would be honored that someone enjoyed his game enough to build a version of it in flash.
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...is Craig Pell's Indenture. Copies can be found around the 'net, but I found one here on RetroRemakes which has similar recreations for other games. Indenture is different from Adventure in that it includes an extended game mode that involves tokens and has some secrets that I'm not sure I've ever seen explained outright, although several people have claimed to have figured it out. Interview with Pell is here.
IIRC, Indenture was written in assembly and it requires a DOS-like system to run. Not sure if it'll work correctly on newer Microsoft systems, like WinXP, but you might get lucky.
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I did a little poking around and found a map of the original Atari version, including notes on how to get into the easter egg room. It would seem that this Flash version is somewhat incomplete, both the "microdot" and easter egg (as well as half the mazes) appear to be absent.
Interestingly enough, the creator of Adventure, Warren Robinett apparently also co-created my absolute favorite Apple II game, Rocky's Boots! Ah, the memories of building the ultimate death machine to tackle that little aligator at the end...
Here a quick way to enable and disable flash at will. You can have it installed and not worry about it showing nothing but ads. The instructions are only for Windows2k and mostly for IE, but you should be able to adjust them for any windows version and mozilla.
First, you must install flash on your system.
Second, mark the "Downloaded Program Files" directory as read only. This can be found by clicking on Tools->Internet Options. Then click on Settings then View Objects. This will show you where the folder is. Normally it's under C:\Winnt\Downloaded program Files. So mark is as read only.
Third, you need a back of the Flash.ocx file. So find it (normally c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash) and copy it to a file named flash.ocx.bak.
Fourth, you now setup two bat files to run simple cmds. I've called them enable.bat and disable.bat.
Here's enable.bat:
pause
c:
cd "c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash"
copy Flash.ocx.bak Flash.ocx
You are able to run this program when IE or Mozilla is open. To see the Flash file, just hit refresh.
Here's disable.bat:
pause
c:
cd "c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash"
del Flash.ocx
Obviously nothing special. This command can only be ran if IE is closed. It'll say "File in Use" if IE is open and on a flash site.
For Mozilla, just goto Help and About Plugins. You find the Flash plugins and create similar bat files that copies and deletes it.
Now, someone needs to create a toolbar plugin that can automate this with the ability to disable flash while IE is still open. Anyone up to the task?
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Warren Robinett does not own the copyright; Infogrames does. Infogrames, being a company, is more interested in protecting its intellectual property rights than in being "honored" by unauthorized fan-made works. (If they weren't so inclined, their management could be sued and put in jail for neglecting their fiduciary responsibility. That's business.)
It's odd that he would have it available for download on his site even though he has a disclaimer about you should own the game before you have the right to play it. Below is the quote i pulled from his site:
"Play Adventure.
Adventure can be run nowadays on a PC using an Atari 2600 emulator (such as PCAE or Stella) and a ROM image file ( here or here) of the Adventure cartridge.
To have the right to play the game, you should own an Adventure cartridge. You can buy an Adventure game cartridge (and an Atari 2600 console, if you want) at a web auction site, such as eBay (Top > Computers > Games > Atari). Atari game carts go for a few dollars each, and for $20, you can get an Atari 2600 console and a dozen game carts. "
I don't know what everybody else out there is experiencing when trying to run Adventure in flash.
Most modern browsers should run it just fine, I personally use Opera and it works just fine (I just had to enable popups for a second) I also know mozilla can handle flash as well as opera.
As a side note whenever browsing with these "alternative" browsers make sure to set it to identify as what it really is. I am sure if web sites more visiters using other browsers, statements like "IE 5 required" will start to disappear.
That was the lowest difficulty level. The highest "3" had an additional castle, 2 hidden mazes, the bat which had an annoying habit of taking items you needed and all the items were randomly placed throughout.
Open the gold castle first. There's a sword inside that kills the dragons.
I played this game tonight for the first time in twenty-some years. Amazing how it all comes back!
The shaped sprites could appear once, twice or three times on the screen, or once double-wide.
Even stranger, the "background" was only 20 pixels wide, and that filled half the screen. The other half was the same 20 pixels, either repeated or mirrored. And, like the sprites, you needed to change the pattern every few scan lines to actually get shapes.
In adventure, you were the missile/ball (probably the only game that did this), the side bars that kept you from going off the side of the screens (the ones that you needed to go through to get to the easter egg) were paddles, and everything else was a shaped sprite. The bridge, I think, was a double-wide sprite.
Given these constraints and 128 bytes(!) of RAM, it's amazing that you could actually write games at all, much less something as intricate as Adventure.
The yellow key doesn't let you get throught the yellow bar, the black upside-down U doesn't -DO- anything and I can't get in the castles!
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And nobody has posted a manual yet. For those of you who are young whippersnappers like me, here's the manual: http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.html?Sof
Naturally only young people are allowed to follow that link.
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I just figured this one out: Move against a wall, hit the 'Screen type' switch so it goes black'n'white, hit the 'Screen type' switch again and you'll be able to pass through all walls on that screen.
:-)
God I'm sad.
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