I recently started playing Thrust (platinum edition). Fantastic game!!!
Unfortunately, I am having problems with it acting strangely and ultimately hanging. It plays fine for a while, and then the planet color starts changing every 1/2 second or so. All the other graphics stay the normal color, but the planet itself (playfield) starts changing. For example on a yellow planet, it will suddenly change to white, then grey, then a really light blue, and back to yellow (not sure about the exact sequence of colors, but something like that). Then after a a bit of that, the game completely locks up, or resets. I've seen the screen simply go black, and require a power cycle. It has also gone to black and white vertical bars and lock up, and once it reset back to the title screen and fixed itself. Normally, when it gets in this mode, I have to power cycle it to get it working right again, and then a few minutes later, same problem.
This is on a light sixer with the CyberTech AV mod.
Every other game I've played seems to play fine. I've compared my Thrust+ Platinum binary to the one on AtariAge and it compares perfectly.
As far as controllers go, I'm using a Starplex controller (Asteroids like button layout) in the first controller port and a driving controller in the 2nd port. I use up/thrust, down/shield/tractor-beam and fire on the Starplex, and only rotate with the driving controller. The only odd thing I can think of is that the starplex controller does allow up and down to be pressed simultaneously; I'm not sure if the foot pedal controller that is explicitly supported prevents that or not.
Anyone seen such a problem? Got a fix/workaround?
Thanks,
Pete
Unfortunately, I am having problems with it acting strangely and ultimately hanging. It plays fine for a while, and then the planet color starts changing every 1/2 second or so. All the other graphics stay the normal color, but the planet itself (playfield) starts changing. For example on a yellow planet, it will suddenly change to white, then grey, then a really light blue, and back to yellow (not sure about the exact sequence of colors, but something like that). Then after a a bit of that, the game completely locks up, or resets. I've seen the screen simply go black, and require a power cycle. It has also gone to black and white vertical bars and lock up, and once it reset back to the title screen and fixed itself. Normally, when it gets in this mode, I have to power cycle it to get it working right again, and then a few minutes later, same problem.
This is on a light sixer with the CyberTech AV mod.
Every other game I've played seems to play fine. I've compared my Thrust+ Platinum binary to the one on AtariAge and it compares perfectly.
As far as controllers go, I'm using a Starplex controller (Asteroids like button layout) in the first controller port and a driving controller in the 2nd port. I use up/thrust, down/shield/tractor-beam and fire on the Starplex, and only rotate with the driving controller. The only odd thing I can think of is that the starplex controller does allow up and down to be pressed simultaneously; I'm not sure if the foot pedal controller that is explicitly supported prevents that or not.
Anyone seen such a problem? Got a fix/workaround?
Thanks,
Pete
