Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Anyone seen this? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...9&category=1250 Apologies if this would be better off in the eBay forum, but I thought it'd be of great interest to everyone in here (it's not my auction though!). Good grief, source code by Chris Crawford. That's been a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Oh, the crime of selling these as blank disks and the suggestion that you can just notch the disk and format over them.. Ahhh, I just noticed this is B&C ComputerVisions selling them. I wonder how many thousands of these disks they have sitting around. I also wonder if the person winning the auction will use them as blank disks, or is interested in the APX programs (or at least interested in collecting original APX disks).. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted July 20, 2003 Author Share Posted July 20, 2003 Seems like this'd be surefire convert-to-cart material to me. (Easy enough for me to say - I don't even have a disk drive for my 400. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 I'm not sure, while some of the APX programs could be put on cartridge form (and were--Eastern Front, Caverns of Mars), I think many of these programs were probably written in Atari BASIC and wouldn't run in cartridge form. But I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I've looked at an APX catalog. For the curious, you can find a listing of the APX titles here, and many of them can be downloaded (with permission of the original authors).. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfnmadness Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Alot of the programs where ones found in mags at the time like Compute, where you typed in the program yourself. Still some good ones. It was kind of the early version of kazaa without the internet. People swapping disk instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Most of the disks in each pack are duplicates - you'd probably end up with 45 copies of "1000 great cooking recipes" instead of 30 - 40 classic APX titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Remember, you can download 93 APX programs from www.atariarchives.org/APX/ Recipe Search 'N Save, however, is not available. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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