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Differencies between tape- and disk-games


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Games were often released both on disk and tape. Sometimes the tape  had less features than the diskversion, e.g. I believe that Zorro had fewer rooms on tape.

 

Does anybody know other games with different versions on tape?

 

I'm getting Zorro soon on tape Ive the disk version I'll let you know, but I've got Gauntlet on tape and on disk the only differece with the two is the load time. :roll:

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I remember The Goonies on tape and this version had different music on title screen that the disk version. What's more - of course the texts like "Press Play and Return" and so on. :)

 

Now I have somewhere the 130XE version of it - made straightly from tape version.

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Games were often released both on disk and tape. Sometimes the tape  had less features than the diskversion, e.g. I believe that Zorro had fewer rooms on tape.

 

Does anybody know other games with different versions on tape?

 

I'm getting Zorro soon on tape Ive the disk version I'll let you know, but I've got Gauntlet on tape and on disk the only differece with the two is the load time. :roll:

 

In Gauntlet you could jump to the next Level or you could try to jump to a higher level though... So the Gamepay is not linear. While on Disc the program simply can load different Levels by reading different sectors and different tracks, on tape the datablocks are straight one after the other.

 

So my questions are:

 

Is it possible to jump over several levels on the Tape version?

If it is so.... How is it realized in the Tape version?

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Hmm... Was there the tape version of Jumpman?

 

Maybe Jumpman Junior... - a kind of rip of Jumpman :]

 

Yep, there was a cassette version of Jumpman. I had it because I couldn't afford $500 for a disk drive at the time so I was limited to a 1010. How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading :x

 

Mendon

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Hmm... Was there the tape version of Jumpman?

 

Maybe Jumpman Junior... - a kind of rip of Jumpman :]

 

Yep, there was a cassette version of Jumpman. I had it because I couldn't afford $500 for a disk drive at the time so I was limited to a 1010. How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading :x

 

Mendon

 

B&C have the Jump-Man tape version and I've just put on order I want to see this! :D

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international karate... wasn'T it "SELECT" where you can switch between the backgounds ingame wise? but i guess that this was made by a cracker and not the original... (what kind of sense?)

 

hmmm... i have goonies on tape & disc. i haven't them here but if i remember it right the version was 99% the same?

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How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading  

 

Yep I remember that. Lordy did that game take forever to load. The tape version didn't have the Randomizer option where the disk version did.

 

Tempest

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Regarding Gauntlet - is there an ATR image of this title

without the 'cracked by the Fox' loading screen?

Looking at the loader code it appears that there may

have been an actual loading screen there?

 

BTW: I like the 'Remove Cartridge' animation 8)

 

Regards,

Mark

 

PS1: Gauntlet looks simple enough to make a cart from.

 

PS2: Can someone send me a CAS version of a Channel 8 adventure.

This had a cute (but lame) intro where the 2 halves of the '8' flew together.

None of the disk versions appear to have this.

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Regarding Gauntlet - is there an ATR image of this title without the 'cracked by the Fox' loading screen? Looking at the loader code it appears that there may have been an actual loading screen there?

Gauntlet was released by Mindscape in the US so there may have been a company logo there. Trailblazer is another European game published by Mindscape and it has that logo...

 

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I don't want to make I new post this tape related!  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEBBI:IT

 

Now I can put the tape files to disk!  :D

 

18 quid??

 

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I don't want any one to have it! :D

 

Sounds like Alpha Systems' C.O.S. software. Does the same thing, and should be easy to find here in the states.

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