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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

thefcpguy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:09:50 +0200

I've used ADTPro (http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/) to create floppy disks from disk images, and I took a swing at Marble Madness. The disk boots into ProDOS and gets to a black screen with "Marble Madness" in white type, and then hangs.

I used to have an actual floppy of MM back in the day, but I can't seem to locate it.

Cheers,
Bill

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Blaming Halo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:41:01 +0200

I was just going to ask if there's some sort of fix for Paperboy or if anyone could provide me screenshots, but then I tried it in MESS using the bootable image from virtualapple.org (don't know if newer MESS has support for it, but on .124 there is no slot7 and I assume no Hd support), and it works. At least it doesn't hang on the title screen. Yay.

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Drewbie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:07:01 +0200

Upload it Alex

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

blix3 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:24:16 +0200

Alex, How might I get a copy of that patched version?

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Alex Lee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:54:37 +0200

The 2image of Marble Madness won't run from a hard drive, but I have a patched version that will. Annoyingly, however, the patched version I have then won't run from a floppy drive. Such are the perils of hard drive installable IIGS games I guess!

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

blix3 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:57:48 +0200

I downloaded the ActiveGS version of KEGS, and Marbles Madness runs fine on it. For some reason, on my vanilla XP system, the game doesn't work in KEGS v.0.91. Well, I will soon be able to play it on a real GS.

Oh, does anyone know if the game can be run on a GS from a hard disk (or in my case, a CFFA card pretending to be a hard disk)?

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Mitchell Spector — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:40:25 +0200

I know the Digital Gang version (interestingly, one of the first deprotected GS games; their animated title screen was actually done in 6 color Hi-Res!) runs fine on KEGS32. Just tried the copy here on the Fairway though, that too runs fine in emulated form. It's quite likely the image became corrupted after you downloaded it.

Marble Madness has trouble booting off a floppy disk on a hardware GS *if* a DMA SCSI card is present, you have to set slot 7 to "Your Card" to get around it. I wonder if this is related to it not working on your emulators.

As Alex pointed out, the volume name "MUSICGS" is normal. From what I recall, the music engine used in Marble Madness is Music Construction Set GS, which by no coincidence also has the volume name "MUSICGS". Will Harvey used the Deluxe Music Construction Set GS for his later games, Zany Golf and The Immortal....which is interestingly because that program was never was released!

Another interesting bit of trivia, I just discovered, after getting a hold of a hardware Atari ST last month, that the graphics from the IIgs version were directly borrowed from the Atari ST one! So are a number of other games to my surprise, such as Winter Games. I did a double take when I booted up those games! And speaking of Marble Madness, I ran into another piece of possible trivia some years ago. Remember the 1975 film Death Race 2000 (the original, not the remark)? There's a scene with Sylvester Stallonechasing down someone and I swear, the first level music from Marble Madness is played--note for note! Did the author of the arcade version get inspired by this film? (I saved the audio clip to my hardisk as an MP3 if anyone wants to hear it; I wonder if anyone else has noticed this besides me).

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Alex Lee — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:47:22 +0200

I'll have to find a little more time to test downloading the Marble Madness 2image myself, but my guess is if it freezes KEGS then it's one of those games it has trouble emulating. Gauntlet and Paperboy, off the top of my head, are games that NO IIGS emulator seems to be able to play, although rather than crashing the emulator, it's usually the virtual IIGS that just hangs.

The name of the disk 'MUSICGS' is normal, as Will Harvey programmed it with the game looking specifically for its files under that volume, which is the same as another program he did 'Music Construction Set'.

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blix3 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:46:24 +0200

Drewbie, Thanks for that info. I'm going to do a IIGS upgrade to one of my //e's soon, so I'll be able to run Marble Madness and lots of other GS software on a real Apple. Much as I like the KEGS emulator, there's nothing like the real Apple experience.

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Re: Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

Drewbie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:48:03 +0200

Hi,

I have downloaded and used that on my GS only the other week, i just tried it again and it indeed is labelled as MUSICGS, but boots as marble Madness...though i am using a Real GS to do it. I have just tried that on ActiveGS 1.9 from FTA and the 2mg disk boots fine.

Cheers
Drew

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Marble Madness.2mg doesn't work

blix3 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:36:16 +0200

The downloadable 2mg image of Marble Madness on Memory Fairway is apparently corrupted. It freezes the KEGS emulator on my iMac and crashes KEGS32 on my PC. I've been running lots of images from Memory Fairway in KEGS without problems, but this one refuses to run. Interestingly, although the file carries the correct name Marble Madness.2mg, when I load it into an emulated 3.5" drive in the emulator, it shows up as "MUSICGS."

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