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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".
someone's found something useful to with Flash!
2600 game one Flash...too bad I can't play it in lynx...grrrr....stupid 386.
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Kudos to those who get the reference. IN any case, this game's getting bookmarked. It'll be fun to tinker with.
This
I'm too young for this. I have it loaded and all I see are boxes and lines. Something must be wrong...
Er, I know we're all pro fair-use, anti-DRM and whatnot, but isn't this about the same as linking to a copyrighted MP3 file for the world to download? Seems like we're crossing a line here - Infogrames does own the copyright to this game, and I doubt they gave this guy permission to use it.
I'm all about beating down the RIAA and MPAA and such, but I'm a little uncomfortable at such a blatant disrespect for copyright law that's been around for far longer than the Internet.
I'm not old enough to have played "adventure" you insensitive clod!
What is a clod anyway??
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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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How does this get to be front page news? Seriously, is this just a slashdot DDoS attack on some guy's page? Old games have been created in Flash since its genesis, and this is nothing special.
If someone actually managed to write an actual emulator with Flash -- believe me, it could be done, as one was even written in QBasic a few years back -- then that would definitely be qualified for front page news. In fact, I'd hope it would be in the running for story of the year.
It's probably nice work, but c'mon, editors -- it's not worth slashdotting some guy's homepage.
They sold a game cartridge that just displayed
Click here to get the plugin
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
"Note: Allow One minute to download. Requires IE5."
After Slashdotting:
"Note: Go to bed and have a nap. Still requires IE5".
What next, a text version of Quake?
... wait.
Oh
There's something nostalgic about playing a game you played as a kid, way back when there was nothing unusual that your character was a pixel the size of your fist.
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Great! I can use my Xbox, Xbox Linux, Mozilla 1.1 and the flash plugin to play Atari 2600 games! This rocks!
You are in the hall of the mountain king, with passages off in all directions.
A huge green fierce snake bars the way!
] OPEN CAGE
(releasing the little bird)
The little bird attacks the green snake, and in an astounding flurry drives the snake away.
Oops, wrong Adventure.
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You can't get the dot. Worse, there's no sprite flicker. The sprite flicker made it possible to get to the secret room. Since atari games only could display 1-2 sprites at a time, sprites would flicker if you had more than 2.
Also, the green and yellow dragon speeds are switched. The line wall don't change to the color of the object you're carrying. And you can't switch to the harder levels, such as the one with the white castle.
You can tell I spent WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much time playing adventure as a kid. Hey, it was 20 years before counterstrike!
2. The Atari version won't suffer from the slashdot effect like this flash based version will two minutes from now.
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Was that it was fairly complex to solve it. Good times.
Well, I was just playing Baldur's Gate II earlier this evening, and to see how the level of complexity has risen in "adventure games" is just amazing. I solved Atari's adventure in about two minutes just a second ago. I have been playing Baldur's Gate for about 80 hours and I'm not done with it yet.
Flat5
...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.
Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
How about some of the real stinkers nobody wants to admit they remember, like Journey: Escape? Even better, E.T., in which the splash screen took up half the game's memory.
...or, worse even, the original (Atari) version of Pac Man, which may go down as the worst console port in history.
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This is crazy, he managed to create a version of adventure where the graphics randomly slow down when being chased by the dragon!
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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...
Cyrix made 386 processors?
I guess I missed that one, thankfully.
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It's arguably the first RPG in the universe, the first game with a bonified easter egg, and it's retro.
;-)
Slashdot is news for nerds and this is...
1] eclectic
2] stuff we did before nerds became "cool"
3] just plain fun!
This counts as news in my book -- it counts as a bookmark too
Now that I have discovered HomeStarRunner, I can never hear mention of the game Adventure without thinking about this
I always fondly thought back on adventure and how much I played and enjoyed it.... Now after beating it in about 5 min I feel that I should have gotten out a little more as a kid. Damn you slashdot and your nostalgia killing links!!
People seem much brighter once you light them on fire.
Adventure Clone for PC
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Howdy Nathanan ! Could you please be kind enough to give me my cartidge back, I never gave it to you, bastard !
Thanks,
Joel.
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You forgot:
3. The old Atari didn't suck 3 amps of electricity like your computer does.
Trolling is a art,
I even still have the maze memorized, and I was 6 years old when I played this?
I gotta go grab an Atari emulator for OSX. Grundle, Yorgle, and Rhindle, here I come!
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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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Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
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Seriously... things like Stella and MAME are cool. Stella is cool for about 5 minutes and MAME is cool for about 10 minutes.
The best way to honor the good old arcade games is to recreate them under modern specifications. The authors of the classics pushed their available technology to the limit as today's programmers should.
Consider Arkanoid(Breakout)... that game was unbelievably addictive. Unfortunately, playing the emulated version just isn't the same feeling that those feelings of nostalgia promised to bring.
Then Reflexive Entertainment came out with Ricochet Extreme and I can't think of a more honorable remix of the original Breakout/Arkanoid games. Grab the demo off Cnet and you'll see what I mean.
While everyone else is trying to recapture the original Arkanoid, Reflexive gave it a new life.
The old games should be remembered for how hardcore they are in terms of programming. In every other respect, they should either be updated or left in the past.
Laws are for people with no friends.
But Adventure was tres cool; I spent many an hour playing that game. Combat was a favourite, but the coolest was Defender - the first game I flipped a million on. For the console, of course.
sadly enough, nintendo made an 8-bit game many years later that would have confused you just as much. hydlide. and everyone hated it, that is its legacy. i tried out this adventure game and i honestly don't get it either :)
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I'm still waiting for Doom 2600.
I always wondered how to get past that stupid snake...
:)
Now if I could just get the bird in the cage...
Who said Freedom was Fair?
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.
There's also "Zork" as a 404 error page: Zork
Link. :)
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How do you play this game? All that's happening to me is that I'm getting eaten by the dragons. Then a bat flies by, gloating with a chalice. I managed to get a black key to a black castle, grab a chalice from a red dragon, which then followed me until I got eaten.
Tweet, tweet.
Atari 2600 games often had numerous game variations, such as Space Invaders which had 112 different combinations of visible/invisible aliens, slow/fast missles, various 2 player options, etc.
For Adventure there where 3 difficulty levels:
1 - smaller map - only the blue maze, gold and black castles
2 - full map - all items started in a preset location(though the bat would move things around during game play)
3 - full map - all items started in random locations
Hehe, along with a lot of others, I think it's time to throw in my little nit-pick (c'mon, it's about an Atari game, I'm allowed, aren't I?)...
The yellow dragon isn't afraid of the yellow key. He's supposed to run away if you've got it, hehehe...
Don't get me wrong though, I'm just kidding- This is great. I support anything even on the subject =)
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It works with Mozilla and the Linux flash plug-in.
And also in Konqueror 3.0.x, with the plugin.
Sometimes it was better to have no graphics as opposed to crappy ones. Later, they evolved a bit into having graphics and input commands (no mouse). Damn, but don't you miss the old "King's Quest" or "Space Quest" games (graphics and text input). Not the mousy ones but the ones you had to think and type?
Crappy graphics, but at least you could move with the keyboard and still type
"look under bridge"
"take ball"
funny you mention trying to port the legend of zelda; someone ported a little tiny bit of sonic the hedgehog to flash. it's pretty choppy, and not many moving sprites on the screen at once, but not TOO too bad.
not sure how possible it would be to make something nice out of it, though.
Yeah -- if you mean the one with the bird and the cage, it's actually still around, in the bsdgames package.
Daniel
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Make Shortcuts
/s
/u /s
enable:
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
disable:
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
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it also works with netscape 6 on linux and Windows. so the requirement for IE is completely and totally bogus.
it 's an incredible achievement.... but sad that someone so talented in flash doesn't know that other browsers and Operating systems exist...
I'll bet my left kidney that it works on a Macintosh and in mozilla or netscape.
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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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With my parents cleaning out their garage, I was recently reunited with my Atari 2600. Adventure was absolutely one of my favorites, so I popped the cartridge in and started running through the game. My wife was quite disturbed that I dashed right through the all the mazes. I know I haven't touched the thing in at least 10 years, but the game map is burned into my head forever. I'm sure I could have done something better with those brain cells, but I'm glad I didn't. Anybody else got video-game-map-burn-in? I'm pretty sure the original Legend of Zelda (for NES) is permanently imprinted too.
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.
This problem began only a few months ago. Anyone know if it's because a recent version of Flash is not friendly to slow CPUs, or is it just that some artists aren't testing their pretty creations on a system which is slower than their graphics workstation?
I just played it and its very much like the original, except there is no fog in the maze and the magnet seems to be broke (doesn't work across screens).
//m
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Why settle for a flash version when you could hop on ebay and pick up an atari + games for well under $50? Just last week I got myself an Atari 7800 that way. I've spent this week finding my old paddles and cartridges... Flash versions might be fun, but you can't beat the tactile experience of the old paddles! d I really like the 7800 joysticks, too.... even worked on C-64's and Amigas!
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ouch, what an awful mistake! if you can find the DW games on ebay i definitely recommend purchasing them. or the ROMs ;) by far the BEST games ever made for NES. too bad they were horribly underproduced and negligibly marketed. everything2 has some good writeups on the DW series. dragon warrior 4 rules
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I'm not sure about the bird and the cage. I never got very far in this one. As I recall you could hold like three things at a time in your inventory. There was a sword, a helmet, and magic wand, and then a bunch of treasure. The object was to escape from a castle. I remember it had a lot places like "Red Room" and "Green Room". Don't know if this is the same game, or if it was just playing a cheap PC rip-off.
Anyway, if anyone cares, my humorous story was that I was playing this game off of a 5 1/4 floppy disk and was having a lot of trouble getting past a certain point. The door to one room was blocked by a enemy you couldn't fight. I took out the disk and resolved to continue the next day (there was a save game function). The next day, I put in the disk and started the game, but for some reason, parts of some of the walls (created with ASCII char 178 or so) were missing! I thought that was weird. On a whim, I tried to walk through the new space and it works! I thought that was awesome and I resolved to explore this new part of the castle. I found some neat stuff, but didn't want to save since this was cheating, so I decided to see how well the programmer had made the game. Since the object was to escape the castle, I simply ran to were there was a hole in one of the outer castle walls and ran through it to an area that you should not be technically able to get to. Sure enough, it declared that I had one the game. (Although I didn't score many points because I never collected all the treasures that were in the parts of the game I hadn't explored yet.) I eventually figured out why this happened - When I removed the 5 1/4 floppy, I found that a piece of paper had be stuck to the bottom of the disk and was covering up a little piece of the magnetic disk. Oddest bug ever.
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Well done. There is a nice touch of realism that you might not have noticed: Turn off the console, and you get TV snow.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Oh, I bet you're talking about "Castle adventure" or something like that. Fun game :) I wonder if there are any copies of it still around...media from back then tended to degrade pretty fast.
Daniel
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That's only because you apparently don't really understand it.
This isn't the original Adventure game. It's a re-write. It acts like Adventure, but it isn't. It's like DR-DOS acting like MS-DOS. Or Exult acting like Ultima 7.
Sorry; you're really off base on this one. Copyright doesn't apply in this case.
Now, trademark is another issue, and it's not usually as cut-and-dried.
Ob: IANAL
Thanks. You were right. I was thinking of "Castle Adventure". Found a copy of it right away off of google, but it ran so impossibly fast that it wasn't playable. I don't think slowdown or even moslo will be able to slow my computer down enough to play a 286 game on a athlon 2000+. Too bad.
I'm currently looking for the source code (It would have been in basic, right?) so that I can add a WAIT or a SLEEP or something to slow it down a bit. Wish me luck.
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Yeah, I did that when I first finished the game in hopes of getting a game programming job. That was about the time the economy went in the shitter, so I stayed with my posh web programmer gig :)
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Hm, I remember it being an EXE or COM file..AFAIK you couldn't compile Basic, no?
Probably you could run it in Bochs or something, and throttle the emulated clock rate.
Daniel
Hurry up and jump on the individualist bandwagon!
I would hope you know about this already, but go to the main menu, and select the video game background (button 13 i believe) and then mouse over the email button :)
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I don't know about basic, but DO know qbasic and have a compiler for that. And, AFAIK, qbasic is designed to backwards compatible with basic programs. So if I can find the code for it in BASIC, I can change the one or two commands that have changed and compile it myself. But I had no luck finding the source. I e-mailed someone who had a turbo-pascal version of it, but he hasn't gotten back to me and I don't know pascal anyway...Oh well....
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and it took me all of like 1 minute to beat it. Was the original game this easy or is this not really a port?
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