Trip-a-Tron on the Mac

david.pettifor · Post by **david.pettifor** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:13 pm 0

Does anyone know if it is possible to run Trip-a-Tron on the Mac? I have tried using the NoSTalgia emulator, however it seems to bork at the "Press the Left Mouse Button" prompt. I'm using an Intel iMac with a single button Mighty Mouse. I presume that "left clicking" would be accomplished by just clicking the single mouse button?

Any help most appreciated.

David

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:17 pm 0

Welcome david.pettifor, to the fluffiest

forums

on the

net!

Don't know the answer to your question, but hopefully someone'll be along to advise.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:34 pm 0

Evening, david.pettifor, and welcome, but I wish I had better news for you.

Unless someone can kick it a bit harder than I have, Trip-A-Tron seems not to work (yet?) on NoSTalgia. I've tried to with three different TOS images, and then tried it on WinSTon on my PC, and WinSTon wins.

The message, by the way, should be:

Press Left Button For Mouse
Press Right Button For Pro-Draw Tablet

so if it's only displaying the first of these two lines, things don't look good.

By hell, though, this is a blast from the past, and no mistake!

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:38 pm 0

Have you both used the two disk version?

There is a one disk ST version up on the archive now:

http://www.medwaypvb.com/llamadloads2.html#AtariST

Dunno if it'll help, but no harm in trying.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:49 pm 0

Bugger me, I'd forgotten T-A-T came on two 360k disks. Mind you, it was 18 years ago... and boy, do I feel old now!

Sadly, though, no better with this. "Press Left Button..." message, and that's it.

EDIT: And, while I think, the (massively-underused) Lightsynth forum is probably the ideal place for this thread...

david.pettifor · Post by **david.pettifor** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:29 am 0

Thanks for the responses everyone and the warm welcome to the forum. I have tried both versions PVB, which I downloaded incidently from your wonderful web site!

Both versions however, appear to fall over on the initial screen, when "Press Left Button for Mouse" appears. Also, as Kelloggs mentioned, it does not display the full message, the text "Press", flashing continuously.

Also, apologies for posting to the the wrong place, I didn't notice the Lightsynth forum last night! Doh!

Do I need to inform anyone in order to get my thread moved to the correct forum?

David

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:15 am 0

A passing admin could probably do it, but they're like buses...

I suspect, if it poses a problem, it will be Fixed.

bgudna · Post by **bgudna** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:41 am 0

this is an excellent question .. iÂ´ve never gotten it properly to work on the mac .. therefore iÂ´ve never experienced trip-a-tron .. i weep

Post by **RiK** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:15 pm 0

Kelloggs wrote:A passing admin could probably do it, but they're like buses...

I suspect, if it poses a problem, it will be Fixed.

Just passing like...

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:44 pm 0

RiK wrote:
Kelloggs wrote:A passing admin could probably do it, but they're like buses...

I suspect, if it poses a problem, it will be Fixed.
Just passing like...

Cheers, RiK. See, I knew there'd be one along in a bit!

To be honest, I don't know what best to suggest. Anything written 18 years ago for such a (relatively) mismatched architecture stands very little chance. An update to NoSTalgia is probably the best to hope for...

As it turns out, the version of WinSTon I tried doesn't emulate it properly, either; you can get into it, but if you press Esc to bring up the control panel, it just stays black until you press escape again. I suspect our Mr. Minter may have been doing Interesting Things here.

david.pettifor · Post by **david.pettifor** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:18 pm 0

Kelloggs wrote:To be honest, I don't know what best to suggest. Anything written 18 years ago for such a (relatively) mismatched architecture stands very little chance. An update to NoSTalgia is probably the best to hope for...

Sure. I have contacted the author of NoSTalgia to see if he can throw any light on where the problem may be... I also dropped an IM to YaK, and he seems to remember getting Trip-a-Tron working on his PowerBook and that the issue was hardware related. Curious.

Once again, thanks for all the help. Most appreciated.

David

david.pettifor · Post by **david.pettifor** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:46 pm 0

* UPDATE *

I have contacted the author of NoSTalgia regarding Trip-a-Tron and received the following response...

Philippe Gerin wrote:I'll try to debug the game and check for the problem.

Here's hoping!

David

bgudna · Post by **bgudna** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:33 pm 0

ooohhh things are cookin!
first the awesome tempest 2000 port and now this!

time to break out the painkillers!

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:32 pm 0

cowabunga initiate g4 bootup frenzy

.
Tempest/oids and possibly trip a tron i think i may have soiled myself

david.pettifor · Post by **david.pettifor** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:06 pm 0

Just a quick update...