[hatari-devel] Fire button freezes Hatari in the Downfall game

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On tiistai 21 joulukuu 2010, David Savinkoff wrote:
> I noticed a bug with Hatari's fire button while reading some atari-forum
> posts. The Downfall game requires the fire button to be pressed to start
> the game. If the button is pressed for more than one frame the game will
> freeze,

So it seems.

I'm pretty sure this worked with 2005 version of Hatari (way before v1.0)...


> thus, the button must be tapped quickly. When the game goes to
> the next round the button must be successfully tapped quickly again to
> continue.
> 
> This problem existed with early versions of Steem and was solved.
> Maybe Hatari could have this one looked at before the next version. :)
> 
> Downfall:
> http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-downfall_9157.html

Btw. This program doesn't need an MSA, it works fine with HD emulation...


>  Here is the story:
> 
> *Steem Authors: (Nov 24 2003 - Regarding Steem)
> http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1604&p=9711&hilit=Downfall
> &sid=db09b862bb7d2cd90be76e390556d81a#p9711
> 
> Downfall freezing up is actually a Steem bug, some silly keyboard
> controller speed thing, we will sort it eventually. To get round it
> currently tap the button as quickly as possible, if you still have
> problems then turn on slow motion as you do it, that will guarantee the
> button will be held down for only one frame.
> 
> In the game you can enable more of the options up the top by directing
> snow into the channels at the side of your area.
> 
> HTH,
> Russell Hayward
> 
> 
> 
> *Amimitl: (Dec 11 2010 - Regarding Hatari)
> http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20307&sid=2190f572e673214b
> 3d648b8628ad1a5c#p177859 OK, didn't know about the previous post. I
> should have searched for that.
> 
> I would have never guessed that that was the problem.
> 
> I tried and have successfully entered  the game with the tapping trick,
> some times know. But you usually don't make it after the first time, so
> you'll have to reboot several times to get the timing right for the
> tapping. Next problem is the game consists of rounds, so when one player
> has won the first round and you're on to next round, if you don't time
> the tapping right, the game will again freeze. So I don't think it works
> fine in Hatari, but it can work as long as your good with the tapping.


	- Eero