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deathtrappomegranate

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In Topic: Hooked on 8-bit carts

Today, 11:36 AM

View Postwww.atarimania.com, on Sun May 27, 2012 11:14 AM, said:

Doesn't the Editor Assembler label seem a bit odd?

The expression "all 8 bit Atari computers" just doesn't sound very natural. The "ATARI INC." copyright - without the comma - looks suspicious as well.

Do all cartridges look like this one? Was the program sold in a specific box?

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My Editor Assembler cart is exactly the same. It didn't come with a box, though, so I can't say whether there were box variants corresponding to the different cart labels.

In Topic: Big Five - Activator Cart

Mon May 21, 2012 4:54 PM

View PostRybags, on Mon May 21, 2012 1:36 AM, said:

Long-shot theory - maybe they sent it to early reviewers with BBSB and made a special version of the game on disk/tape which needed the cartridge present. Easy way to stop the software leaking into the pirate channels before releae.

Sounds very plausible.

A second unknown cart in 24hrs. Very cool!

In Topic: The Block Cartridge - Protronics

Mon May 21, 2012 4:52 PM

Haven't seen this one before, but Rybags is almost certainly right about it. It's highly unlikely that there's any ROM in the cart.

It's interesting nevertheless.

In Topic: ATARI PROTOTYPE COLLECTION - ATARI 1450XLD 1400XL 1200 1090 XL-Expansion Sy

Thu May 10, 2012 5:23 PM

There's another thread about this in Marketplace, where the seller explains what happened.

In Topic: Atari XE system/games?

Wed May 9, 2012 3:49 PM

View PostLincoln, on Wed May 9, 2012 11:35 AM, said:

are there important variations of the games to watch for? (something about a blue box version?)

There are over 200 cartridge-based titles for this sytem, and that's just the games, and just the cartridges. It's pretty tricky to give you a concise list of what to look out for, but easy enough to say whether a particular title is a $5 game or a $100 game.

The "blue box" games that were mentioned are cartridge games that were released (or re-released) specifically for the XEGS. Many of them were already available for (and compatible with) previous generations of Atari 8-bit computers. "Choplifter" (discussed above) was released on cart by Broderbund, but the blue box re-release by Atari is significantly harder to find (and also has slightly improved graphics). Of the blue box games, the four that Rhod mentioned are the hardest to find (although not necessarily in the order that he gave ;-)).

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