Atom Software Archive

[oss003]

Hi Phil,

If you download the AtomSoftwareCatalog_20180225_V10.zip, you'll find an Excel sheet with all titles.
Just filter the status on missing and you'll get a list.

Greetings
Kees

[sPhilMainwaring]

Thanks Kees

[hoglet]

I see this is now page 39 ... is there a list of the "Really Missing" titles now, as opposed to the list on page 1 (or is the list on page 1 always current?)

It's pretty current. I last updated it a couple of weeks ago:

Last edited by hoglet on Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:15 am, edited 20 times in total.

Why do you ask? Do you have some new leads?

Dave

[gelthor42]

Hi all,

I'm new here and I just recently managed to get myself an Atom from someone I met at a car boot sale for a very low price. I was really pleased to find it still works pretty much perfectly as far as I can tell. It seems to be a fairly "vanilla" machine, no colour board or extra interfaces, but I think it has got 12K of RAM at least as games like Jet Set Miner work fine. If anyone could point me in the right direction to maybe get a colour board or sd card interface that would be great.

The only way that I have to load software at the moment is via the tape interface, using either a PC outputting the audio or a real tape. I found some .atm files online from this software archive, converted them to wav with atm2wav and played them into the machine. Mostly this works fine but I still get quite a lot of "error 94" issues after loading is complete with certain games. The Acornsoft Adventures (Dungeon, House, Intergalactic etc) will not load at all. There are several files that make them up, the loader, the game engine and the game itself. I load the loader first, select my game, then load the engine followed by the game but all it ever gives me is error 94. Also games like Hammurabi and frogger appear to load successfully, then give me an error 94 when trying to run them. Would appreciate any advice on what I could do, perhaps there are other load commands I could try but have already tried load, *fload *r."filename" *run"filename". Could also be that some of these games are not meant to be loaded from tape i guess

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post!

Cheers,

[hoglet]

Welcome to Stardot.

Acornsoft Dungeon does contain two files, but should be possible to load manually from tape with:

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*LOAD ADVENTUR
*RUN DUNGEON

But you will need to have 12K (and no RAM faults).

The other Acornsoft adventures are similar:

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*LOAD ADVENTUR
*RUN HOUSE

and

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*LOAD ADVENTUR
*RUN INTERGAL

Dave

[gelthor42]

Brilliant, thanks! Just tried it and it works pefectly, I shall remember that one. Cool to have some adventure games on the atom to go with all the arcade classics.

[leenew]

Hi,
Whilst searching for some BBC Micro games, I came across these in "Games Computing" magazine (issue 2, Feb. 1984)

The magazine is quite hard to find so maybe these are missing from the archive??

Lee.

[CMcDougall]

came across these in "Games Computing" magazine (iss2, Feb84)

good spot Lee , they are not in SectionD : books / mags

[gob33]

Dont know if it is usefull, I found some archives in Russia :
GameBase Acorn Atom by Vicmans.rar - 109 Мo
GameBase Acorn Archimedes v4.rar - 307 Мo
GameBase Acorn (AcornMania v2.1).rar - 506 Мo

-----------------------------------------------------------------
GameBase Acorn Atom
Created by Vicman 2010

v2.0 Update 13th February 2013 by OX
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Video Clips by Vicman
Screenshots by Vicman & .mad.
AcornAtom Emulator by Wouter Ras
GEMUS Script made by K.C.
New Games and help by KC.
Updated script for ATM files by OX.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Tape-Images collected/preserved by :

Leendert Bijnagte, Graham Fowler,
Friso de Haan, Menno Lauwerens
Roland Leurs, Steve Webster
Erik Agrell & Wouter Ras
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Most extras (covers etc.)
greatfully taken from :

http://electrickery.xs4all.nl
http://members.casema.nl
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk
-----------------------------------------------------------------
THANK YOU.

First thanks goes to Jimbo for his superb Frontend

K.C. for betatesting & GEMUS-Script
.mad. for Beta-testing & redumping

The DosBox-Team
Xpadder Developer : Jonathan Firth
Joy2ToKey Developer : Ryo Ohkubo
-----------------------------------------------------------------
If you can help preserving any Software
for the Acorn Atom, or maybe you
already have Games for using in the
Emulator, that are not in the GB,
please contact me in the GB-Forum

Same applies to any pictures,scans, etc.

Regards,
Vicman

[Multiwizard]

Hi,

I'm intending to check all my tapes early next year hoping to find some unknown titles...

But first I like to change my Acorn Attic into an Atom Attic before checking any further...

Yesterday I had the urge to pick a tape and check a bit...

I don't know if these games are unknown, but,, just in case...

PARACHUTE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWr151ZWLM

SHOPPER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsoS3LeqQ7o

GATTACK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBp9gCM0lrM

I was afraid to save them the wrong way so I saved them all from #2900 to #3C00 just to be sure, see attachments below...


Greetings, Wim...

[Multiwizard]

Hi,

at the moment I'm checking all my MDCR (Mini Digital Cassette Recorder) tapes...

I did run into this game, it uses a lot of ram memory, #1000-#8000 & #9800-#A000.

TOPOGRAFIE

It was partly running at #A000 but Kees (oss003) chanced it into #1000. (because of the graphics)

Enjoy...


Greetings, Wim...

[Multiwizard]

Hi,

on my MDCR tapes I also found 2 for me unknown Atom games:

SCRAMBLE
DEADSTAR

Especially DEADSTAR which I (so far) even could not find in the MIA list...

Enjoy...


Greetings, Wim...

Edit:

Upsy, I forgot to post the YouTube links :

SCRAMBLE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9i2kCJnHdQ

DEADSTAR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1JAWIbrPg

[oss003]

Hi Wim,

Scramble is already in the archive: Acorn Scramble PCW
Deadstar by R.Knapen is a new non commercial game, ..... great find ....

Greetings
Kees

[Multiwizard]

Hi Wim,

Scramble is already in the archive: Acorn Scramble PCW
Deadstar by R.Knapen is a new non commercial game, ..... great find ....

Greetings
Kees

Hi,

thanks Kees...

I already had found SATURN in the archive list which is also from R.Knapen but I couldn't find this (SCRAMBLE) one.

Ok then, just one great game then to add to the list...


Greetings, Wim...

[oss003]

Hi guys,

just found 2 games that I can't find in the Archive ...... Logger and Worm

Greetings
Kees

[Festuceto]

Hi
Will you make an update of Atomulator archive with all these new games?
Thanks

[oss003]

Hi
Will you make an update of Atomulator archive with all these new games?
Thanks

Yes, but I don't know how many free space there is in the menu ...... Dave?

Greetings
Kees

[CMcDougall]

can't find in the Archive ...... Logger

is that a 100+ people abroad holiday village game, where you poop in the pool & shut it for two days....

good find Kees

[hoglet]

Yes, but I don't know how many free space there is in the menu ...... Dave?

There should be plenty of free menu space in section B.

I was intending to do an update to the Archive . But I'm a bit tied up over the next couple of weeks redecorating the hall. If it's not already done, I'll work on this during ABUG.

Dave

[hoglet]

I hate decorating, so I started work on this instead....

Here's a summary of the submissions since V10 (25/02/2018)

Did I miss anything?

AGD Games from Kees:
- AGD 1: Foggy's Quest (C)
- AGD 1: Foggy's Quest (M)
- AGD 2: Grumpy Santa
- AGD 2: Christmas Gift Hunt
- AGD 3: Aeon - Arrival at the Planet
- AGD 3: Aeon - Surveying for Crystals
- AGD 3: Aeon - Communications
- AGD 3: Aeon - Escape from a Dead World
- AGD 4: Baldy ZX
- AGD 4: Baby Monkey Alba
- AGD 4: Brick Racer
- AGD 4: B-Squared
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Bustin' Ghosts
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Lurching Dead
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Summer Breeze
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Jet Pack Bob

Submissions from Kees:
- LOGGER
- WORM

Submissions from Wim:
- PARACHUTE
- SHOPPER
- GATTACK
- TOPOGRAFIE
- DEADSTAR

Games Computing Type In from Lee:
- Solitaite (TODO: someone needs to type this in)
- Yahtzee (TODO: someone needs to type this in)

ROMS:
- Program Power Monitor ROM

Kees, one issue is the titles of some of the AGD games are quite long. I will have to abbreviate these, e.g.:

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A.AEON 1 - ARRIVAL (32K)     AGD
B.AEON 2 - SURVEYING (32K)   AGD
C.AEON 3 - COMMS (32K)       AGD
D.AEON 4 - ESCAPE (32K)      AGD
--------------------------------

I was going to set the "publisher" to AGD for all of these as it's short, but is there something else you would prefer?

(We can also use groups to for the different AGD Packs.)

Dave

[oss003]

Kees, one issue is the titles of some of the AGD games are quite long. I will have to abbreviate these, e.g.:

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A.AEON 1 - ARRIVAL (32K)     AGD
B.AEON 2 - SURVEYING (32K)   AGD
C.AEON 3 - COMMS (32K)       AGD
D.AEON 4 - ESCAPE (32K)      AGD
--------------------------------

Looks ok to me.

I was going to set the "publisher" to AGD for all of these as it's short, but is there something else you would prefer?

(We can also use groups to for the different AGD Packs.)

I don't think we should add Pack numbers, that's just done for publishing.

There is a new BeebSID disk volume 19 .... viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2530&p=223513&hilit ... 19#p223513

Greetings
Kees

[hoglet]

Hi all,

I've just published a development build of the Atom Software Archive: V11BETA1:
https://github.com/hoglet67/AtomSoftwar ... e/releases

Additions since V10 are...

AGD Games from Kees:
- AGD 1: Foggy's Quest (C)
- AGD 1: Foggy's Quest (M)
- AGD 2: Grumpy Santa
- AGD 2: Christmas Gift Hunt
- AGD 3: Aeon - Arrival at the Planet
- AGD 3: Aeon - Surveying for Crystals
- AGD 3: Aeon - Communications
- AGD 3: Aeon - Escape from a Dead World
- AGD 4: Baldy ZX
- AGD 4: Baby Monkey Alba
- AGD 4: Brick Racer
- AGD 4: B-Squared
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Bustin' Ghosts
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Lurching Dead
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Summer Breeze
- AGD 5: Bouncing Bob - Jet Pack Bob

Submissions from Kees:
- LOGGER
- WORM

Submissions from Wim:
- PARACHUTE
- SHOPPER
- GATTACK
- TOPOGRAFIE
- DEADSTAR

ROMS:
- Program Power Monitor ROM

BeebSID19 - Classical

The only thing that's still on the TODO list is to type-ins found by Lee in Games Computing Magazine (Solitaire and Yahtzee):
viewtopic.php?p=215303#p215303

Anyone feel like typing either of these in?

Dave

[hoglet]

I just noticed there are now three currently MIA "Atom" titles at CCH in Cambridge:

The Keys of Kraal (Program Power):
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... aal-(24K)/
Edit: I've not heard of this for the Atom. I think 24K/B/G suggests this may actually be a Nascom title. (manual).

Moonraider (Program Power):
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... oonraider/

Cosmiad (Highlight Software):
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/42413/Cosmiad/

Dave