Atari Gets Combat Redux Results, Indy 500 Challenge

Thanks for AtariAge for its article the winners of its Combat Redux playfield design contest, since judges have now "chosen the 28 playfields that will be included in the Combat Redux binary and the cartridge", following a previously covered competition to create the best play areas for the unofficial Atari 2600 remake. Elsewhere, AtariAge has also launched an Indy 500 XE track design competition, utilizing an "easy-to-use Windows-based track editor" in order to "allow everyone a chance at creating tracks that might be included in a cartridge version of Indy 500 XE", an unofficial update of the classic Atari 2600 cart.

Sweet retro...

[BigZaphod]

Very cool! I mean, what else is there to say about it? Doing something like this for a dead platform doesn't make much economic sense and it certainly doesn't push the technology envelope. But dang it, it's cool anyway.

Everybody?

[El]

"easy-to-use Windows-based track editor" in order to "allow everyone a chance at creating tracks that might be included in a cartridge version of Indy 500 XE" Cool... it must run in WINE then, since it allows everybody a chance!

Everybody with a hex editor, at any rate

[mactari]

All the editor is really doing is allowing you to change a few bytes where it's storing its playfield information. If you dissemble it and look around byte marker LF715, you'll see what I'm talking about. Swap out some $FFs for $00s, recompile, and voila.

Hey, you Linux guys didn't really want a GUI, did you?!!

Awesome.

[mrseigen]

Now all they need is an on-cartridge track editor and they have the first truly replayable 2600 game. :)

Re:Awesome.

[foidulus]

Now all they need is an on-cartridge track editor and they have the first truly replayable 2600 game. :)

But that would require a.......menu..... An atari 2600 game with a menu? Heritic! Heretic! Burn them at the stake!

Yeah! They picked mine!

[Datoyminaytah]

I checked on this a few days ago, because I'd forgotten about it, and saw that my single entry had been chosen.

So, if I put on a resume that I have designed levels for Atari 2600 cartridge games (ha,) will they think I'm older than I am, or say "What's an Atari 2600"?

Re:Yeah! They picked mine!

[John Harrison]

Which one is yours?