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[ziggystar]

Raised Eyebrow. Just found this disk in a box of disks from an ex-Atari employee.

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Edited by ziggystar, Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:48 PM.

[ziggystar]

As far as I knew, Robot Tank was only for the 2600...

[miker]

Try dumping the contents. Maybe some unreleased proto (or at least some source-code) is there on this disk.

[www.atarimania.com]

Bump... before everyone forgets about this.

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[Numan]

Guess he forgot about it.

[Gunstar]

Robot Tank is an Activision game isn't it? If so, I doubt a prototype would be on an Atari labeled disk.

[Bryan]

Gunstar, on Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:44 AM, said:

Robot Tank is an Activision game isn't it? If so, I doubt a prototype would be on an Atari labeled disk.

Atari sold boxes of branded disks like the one above so best case scenario would be that this disk contains some sort of development files by an Activision employee using Atari disks which ended up in the hands of an Atari employee (which could happen since the Activision guys were ex-Atari guys and were probably still friendly with those not in management). It also could be that an Atari employee dumped a Robot Tank cart for analysis. The disk could be formatted for a non-Atari system, though.

[Mclaneinc]

Guys, I suggest a swat team raid on Ziggys house, this is something we have to know about

[bbking67]

What type of systems were used to code atari vcs games? maybe it's source code...

[ziggystar]

Ill boot up my atari 800 reading program and see whats on it!

[Gunstar]

It would be fantastic if it's an actual A8 version of Robot Tank. That game is fantastic on the 2600, I'd love to see a graphically and sonically enhanced A8 version.