Atari XL/XE -=Auf Wiedersehen Monty=- Silly Venture 2024 Summer Edition

[@HyLsT16]

Wow ! Such hires resolution with colors and animated background + sprites oO Monty tune sounds very well. Excellent job !!

[@Nevers0ft]

Great port, really loving the Pokey version of the main tune.

[@Pec3t]

Game looks amazing. This is the best color hires graphics for 8bit Atari at this moment.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

Gr.8?

[@Pec3t]

@@nickolasgaspar9660 yes

[@Foebane72]

@@nickolasgaspar9660 I get and love what you did there, being an Atari 800XL user myself! :)

[@AtariForeva]

The game is superb, I played it on my 65XE. Was PMG overlay trickery known in 80's? I don't remember seeing it. Most games were in 160x192 4 colour resolution vs high res like this one.

[@przemekkobel4874]

I remember playing some Mahjong variant that was using this technique (it even supported ST's mouse on port2 IIRC). Overall it was pretty obvious you can use it in high res, the only question was about how much effort it takes, and whether the results are worth it. Turns out, very much so.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

The PMG mode on an NTSC (checked it on Altirra) looks very similar to the VBXE mode! Any feedback from a real NTSC hardware?

[@TheLemminkainen]

Monty with pokey spice sounds nice

[@ArttuTheCat]

I still have both MONTY ON THE RUN and AUF WIEDERSEHEN MONTY as the tape versions for my Commodore 64 😺👍🕹️. And ever since i loaded the tape version of MONTY ON THE RUN for the first time on my Commodore 64 as a little boy back in the late 1980's, i have noticed the loading screen of the ZZAP! 64 magazine - and it was absolutely retrospectively brilliant 😺👍🕹️! Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

[@Emulous79]

@@ArttuTheCat Hi again. I remember all that too.

[@ArttuTheCat]

Once i get to my summer vacation this year's September, there are two things, i'm gonna do: Draw my own art works 🖋️🖊️✏️🖍️ 😺👍 and, hopefully, play some Commodore 64 (tapes / disks / cartridges) and Amiga 500 games 😹👍🕹️.

[@tommik1283]

Colors are vibrant, better than C64, but the music is out of tune - Pokey limitation?

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

This specific song sounds off tune on all 8bit versions and that is its charm. Try ASMA and check some of the best composers for the system: BeWu, Wieczor, Marucha, VinsCool,X-Ray, Triace, StaxX, XTD, Ce-Pumpkin, Flash, Samurai, Kjmann, 505, Miker, MCH, PG, Raster, Dhor, DJ V, Chiummo, Jimpack, Stanley, Dj Andrey Balkonsky, Makary Brauner, Gnome Design, Kozyca, SoTe, V0yager, Farkas, Tatqoo, GMX, Fred Booker, Synthpopalooza, Chip Champion, Marcys, Trener, AceMan, Zilq, Caruso, Born, SuperJet Spade, Cedyn, Lorien, Chema64, Bac, XLent, Fragmare, Greg, Benjy, Buettner, Kulor, Profi, Buettner, Dojwa, Zaborowski, Casper, Seabrush, Slaves, Strobe,TDC, Morgoth, Poison, Sandor, Emkay, KE-Soft, Xxl, Hu-Soft, CEvE-Soft, ..."Pokey limitation" is an oxymoron.