Top Document: Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 8.2) What cartridges were released for the Right Slot of the 800? Next Document: 8.4) What programs run only on the 400 and 800 models, and why? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Section started by Andreas Koch. a) The following games support 4 joystick head-to-head play: (Only possible on the 400/800 since only these computer models have 4 controller ports) - Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Quality Software - Aliens a PD-game by ??? using an altered Dandy program (the Dandy font and thus the graphics were changed, however, the levels remain the same and can be used in both games); - Asteroids cart. by Atari, - Basketball cart. by Atari, - Battle Room (CIA vs. KGB) a PD game by SNACC - Dandy disk by APX, - Depth Warrior by ??? from ROM magazine, Aug. 1984 *** - Floyd of the Jungle - Major League Soccer cart. by Thorn EMI, - Major League Hockey cart. by Thorn EMI, - Soccer by Gamma Software - Hockey by Gamma Software - Maze War disk or cart. by ???, - M.U.L.E. disk by Electronic Arts, - Roadblock by Brian Holness from Compute! magazine - Silicon Warrior disk or tape by Epyx, - Sky Warrior by ??? from ROM magazine, June 1984 *** - Survivor disk or cart. by Synapse, - Tank Battle by Fred Pinho from Antic magazine: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n2/animate.html - Volleyball by ??? (PD game written in Atari BASIC); - Yellow-Brick-Road by ??? from ROM magazine, Feb. 1984 *** *** these programs are reported to be 4-player programs, I'm not sure if they are meant to be 4-players simultaneously or 4-players - one after another (try to find out!); b) The following games support 4 paddle head-to-head play: - Castle Crisis by Bryan Edewaard, 2004 - IQ by David S. Maynard for CRL, 1987 (same game as "Worms?") - Warlords by ?, year? (pd version, unlicensed) - Worms? by David S. Maynard for Electronic Arts, 1983 c) The following game supports 4 players on all machines, using special 4-button keypad controllers linked together with RJ-11 jacks (standard phone jacks) to a box with 2 joystick port connectors: - PQ: The Party Quiz Game by Suncom d) The following programs support multi-joystick games, using extra hardware called Quadrotron (from the German Atari Magazin 2/1989): - test program for 4 joysticks (and assembler source); - Quadro-Tron by H.Schoenfeld (4-player Tron-clone); e) The following programs support multi-joystick games, using extra hardware called Multijoy (multijoy4 for up to 4 players, multijoy8 for up to 8 players and multijoy16 for up to 16 players; originally developed by Raster/Radek Sterba, but also available from ABBUC): - Astro4Road by Fandal - Bremspunkt (demo-version) by T. Butschke - Bremspunkt (full-version) by T. Butschke - Card Grabber by F. Dingler - Cervi by R.Sterba - Cervi 2 by R. Sterba - Fujirun by Schmutzpuppe (see below!) - Hardwaretester/Peripheral Test 2.0 by Florian Dingler, 2008 - Icehockey by F. Dingler - Multijoy-tester by Fandal or Raster - Multris by R.Sterba - Quadrotron-M4 by R. Sterba - Sheep-Race by F.Dingler - Shot'em All by R.Sterba The following patches are available at: http://mitglied.lycos.de/gunnarbusse/bajamar/download.htm - Asteroids, modified for Multijoy by Schmutzpuppe - Basketball, modified for Multijoy by Schmutzpuppe - Tennis, modified for Multijoy by Schmutzpuppe - Dandy, modified for Multijoy by Schmutzpuppe - M.U.L.E., modified for Multijoy by Schmutzpuppe And the following patches are available at: www.atari.fandal.cz - Wingman modified for Multijoy by Fandal - (Thorn EMI) Hockey modified for Multijoy by Fandal - (Thorn EMI) Soccer modified for Multijoy by Fandal - (Gamma) Hockey modified for Multijoy by Fandal - (Gamma) Soccer modified for Multijoy by Fandal - Battle Room modified for Multijoy by Fandal - Silicon Warrior by Epyx modified for Multijoy by Fandal - Mazewar modified for Multijoy by Fandal - Survivor modified for Multijoy by Fandal - Floyd of the Jungle modified for Multijoy by Fandal User Contributions:Top Document: Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 8.2) What cartridges were released for the Right Slot of the 800? Next Document: 8.4) What programs run only on the 400 and 800 models, and why? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Michael Current <[email protected]>
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