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Title: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: Level42 on August 27, 2005, 03:28:48 pm
Don't know if other people are aware:

One of the greatest platforming games on the Atari 8-bit ever was Miner2049er and it's sequel Bounty BobStrikes Back.

Of course you can play it on an Atari 8-bit emulator, but if you'd like it to run on windows, there's an emulator from the programmers themselves on:

http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/

You have to re-map your keyboard cause Esc is the jump key....

Have fun

Ow, the site is very nice, lots of stories about bigfivesoftware etc, and videos and stuff....great
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: Mario on August 28, 2005, 12:39:42 am
I sent an email asking Bill Hogue (the author) about a version which allows the keys to be remapped. He responded the same day (surprised me), and jokingly said that he'll do it someyear, and then pointed me to a keyboard remapping utility.

Did you check out the Good Morning America video clip from the 1982? The funniest part was how the host had to explain what computer software is.

Mario
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: chopps on August 28, 2005, 01:07:57 am
I gotta check this out.. Miner 2049er was one of my favorites as a kid on the c64
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: Hutt on August 28, 2005, 08:04:31 am
Sweet!! I have this game for years but never knew it existed!!!

I use CCS64 for Commodore and I have a DVD with about 10,000 roms on it so obviously I will never see 99% of them.
I checked it out and Bounty Bob was there.

I have always been a Miner2049er fan so this is really cool!!

Thanks!
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: chopps on August 28, 2005, 08:50:16 am
so you cant actually remap the keys in the game??  :'(

jump is esc??? wtf!!  ;D
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: Hutt on August 28, 2005, 09:06:47 am
so you cant actually remap the keys in the game??  :'(

jump is esc??? wtf!!  ;D

Go get the C64 version...you can do whatever you want...it will be better then an Atari version anyway.
Title: Re: Miner 2049er & Bounty Bob on your cab...
Post by: Level42 on August 28, 2005, 05:22:09 pm
BULL !!!!

The Atari version is the original version, so it's the best....now let me demlish another C64....