I'm back! (And Getting N501 fully working)

[doctorclu]

Hey everyone, I recently got my interest back in the Nuon world when I found a N501 in a pawn shop for $19.95. That was fun.

Actually didn't get a chance to power it up till today. I need to stop with this adulting. Gets in the way of my gaming. Anyway, powered it up, it loaded a disc, but the start button on the controller (which is tested fine) did not start the game. I probably need to open up the N501 and see what the disconnect is on the controller port.

Aside from that, played some Merlin Racing on my Toshiba 2300 and had a blast in the meantime.

But someday I will get to try those homebrew games. Got the N501 and it just needs a little love. And a remote control one day.

 

[Stephen]

Tempest 3000, VLM2, and my demos

 

[jonas]

No way! pics

 

[The Helper]

I want to try Decaying Orbit.

 

[doctorclu]

Jonas I'll have to come up with a pic. I have since bought a second N501 since for $50 since the first did not come with a remote.

I also figured out that the controllers need to be connected when you start a game or the N501 will not recognize the controllers. Cool. Played some Merlin Carts (love that game) and Ballistic (another game I like).

Tried burning Doom on Burn on the Mac in PC Joliet format at 8x speed (lowest it would go) but made two coasters so far.

 

[doctorclu]

Alright! Was able to burn a Doom disc on the Mac using Burn.

The trick was putting in some LARGE padding files so I added some movie files the Nuon couldn't read, about 450 mb worth. This is great! So how hard is it to port a game?

 

[doctorclu]

So now I can burn a disc no problem but currently working to figure out the boot loader. Made a few more coasters where the the disc comes up with the standard VLM menu but not with the programs I have loaded on the disc. Bootpak when executed does not seem to be building a directory. Still working on this one.

At least I got Doom working.

 

[doctorclu]

Alright, I figured out the bootpaxker for the most part.

Got the Bootpac to see my list.

So here is how it went.

• Ambient Monsters - Worked. Basically a ocean of rubber ducks that look like Cookie Monsters.
• Atari / C64 Video Game Music Player - Worked. MULE was a great song. So far that is the only good one. I tried to cue up Bruce Lee but I guess the song was different on the C=64 verses the Atari version.
• Atari 800 Emulator - Came up "Remove cartridge". Figured out the L1 and L2 buttons reset. You can hold down "start" to disable the cartridge. Didn't get anything to load after that.
• Atari 2600 PacMan - Good version. At least it used the thumb stick and could go up more often than the other Pac-Man games.
• BOMB - Cute game. Would have been better with a death animation than just screaming.
• Breakout - Good to finally try Stephen's work on this. Was saddened that only one ball at a time could be a hit verses the multiples on occasion in the regular Breakout. Controls and hit detection were really strict.
• Chomp - Worked. Up practically didn't work on the logitec controller.
• Decaying Orbit - Worked, great game, gets difficuly quickly.
• Doom - Didn't work in the bootloader setup.
• PacMan - Tournament Edition - Worked, up worked a bit more in this version.
• SameGame - Shapes and colors versions, both fun.
• Sheshell's Sea Adventure- This Space Invader type game has some WEIRD animals in it. Otherwise fun.
• Snake - Couldn't get this to load under the bootloader.
• Synth Demo - Both were great.
• Yaroze Classics - This didn't work.

AND I also added Killmind (which needs to be added to the download list). This was a fun game and one of the better games of the above list.

 

[doctorclu]

Alright, I got the Atari800 emu to load MULE. After hitting the button on the initial warning screen THEN you hold down C and it loads MULE. Not as slow as I thought it would be, though sound would be nice.