Outrun For Atari XL/XE 8-Bit Systems, Progress 2/2/2010

[Abrimaal]

Is it anywhere to download? I've never known it was released for 8bit Atari.

[vacuumnoise]

did u ever finish this?

[jipavl]

I've just watched the Commodore 64 Outrun video here on YT and this certainly looks as good as the C64 version does. Nice work.

[marquis0r]

very nice tune!

[SoloKazama]

Make car more red (i know atari's red sucks- but still not that brow c* :P ) your RMT music = awesomeness

[janmansde3dede]

@SoloKazama I think he ran out of colors and had to sacrifice the red by replacing it with the divers hair color.

Just thinking what if that happens in real life "Hey johnny I've forgot that I used the red paint for my house,

No problem ! I use my hair dye"

[BTEXPRESS1000]

Fantastic!! I know the Atari release schedule was sometimes a bit behind the Spectrum and C64 - but never in a month of Sundays did I expect to be waiting a quarter of a century for Outrun to come out on the Atari!!!!! Keep up the good work :)

[wubble78]

I nearly cried right there in the computer game shop when the man told me there wasn't a version of Out Run on the 800XL.

[ogicabp4u]

Wow fantastic...everything looks great apart from the Car. The best 8 bit sprite for the car was on the Amstrad. The 8 bit atari systems used some strange methods to create sprites which is why its probably quite difficult to create a decent looking car on one of these machines. Fantastic , really showed up those old programmers who used to work for probe/US Gold.

[JayArgonaut]

@ogicabp4u lol yes! Probe were a dreadful bunch of programmers working for U.S. Gold: a software house that would make a mess of even converting Space Invaders. 

[AtariAndre42]

@ogicabp4u The Atari sprites were called Player/Missile graphics and it was the first home computer to feature anything like that at all. You can't compare it to any machines from 5 years later, like the C64 or Amstrad.

The P/M graphics were conceived in an era when Space Invaders was the bomb (1979) and was meant for these kind of simple moving objects...

[wandov8]

NIce!

[johnwx777]

Keep it up.If only we had a game like this back at the time....

The Testarossa does look a bit strange here though.

[madmax2069]

@johnwx777 Yeah some aspects it looks like a pickup. but yeah keep it up looking good

[Nintendavin]

Wow. The US gold versions don't even hold a candle to this.

And this is still in development AND on an 8 Bit XL.

[jf8943pkg]

Wow, great stuff!

[Deokishisu]

What program did you use to make the music for this, it's amazing!

[windwar14]

@Deokishisu

I Made The Music Using "Raster Msuic Tracker"

[olynxmano]

The game looks ok, but it is a big mistake NOT to do the street with PM graphics. The chamode overlay would look more professional then.

[snicklin99]

Super work! I remember having a friend who had a Spectrum telling me that Spectrums are better than Atari's as they had more of the big name games like "Outrun". I always knew that Atari was technically superior though. Anyway, when this is completed, Atari will have the game that it has been yearning for, for so long.

[flashjazzcat]

Superb work. I love the high score screen, too.

[StaxX28]

Wow !

Looks great, I can't wait to see it finished !