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Cool, me too! I had Jawbreaker on tape in '82, which came in a piece of styrofoam with a hole punched out for the tape, wrapped in a glossy sheet of paper for the docs. Preppie! and other AI games were packaged the same way. IIRC, the first early 3rd-party tape game I owned that had the luxury of a box was probably Canyon Climber.

I have one of those. I got mine when a friend and I were in some chain store in a mall 40+ years ago (no idea which store now) and they had a table with some people demonstrating the Astrocade. They also had a pile of those catalogs free for the taking. You can view the catalog HERE.

Here's mine, NTSC.

Yep, it was Ralph! What a character that guy was. I talked to him years ago on some car forum somewhere and haven't seen him since.

Hi, I already posted 3 out of the 4 total disk sides in this thread. The only one missing is the main program on Disk 1, Side 1, which is protected and I have no way to copy it.

Those are mine and wow, for a while there I thought I was the only one who actually held on to those. 🙂 It's great so to see you folks from the old club days. I was a member for a few years, from when the meetings were in a school cafeteria, right up the Allentown Expo where the mayor gave the club the key to the city. I also ran the ST SIG for a few months. My problem was that I was only 15 when I joined the club and lived 45 minutes away or I would have tried to get more involved. It was a great club in many ways but I have never to this day seen bickering and back-biting like I saw in those last few meetings. The debate I still clearly remember was a half-hour argument in the auditorium about whether a computer program should be used for the monthly drawings or should a kid draw the tickets out of a hat. I was also helping out at the Expo and saw enough shit go down during that event to write a book (much of it is mentioned in the Expo issue). I never went back after that. I still miss Jim Finley - that guy was an absolute hardware genius and I clearly remember ICD grabbing him to help run their booth at the Expo. I also have some great memories of a certain un-named board member openly copying floppies right on the sales floor at Sears in the Whitehall Mall while he was supposed to be working, he was actually the guy who told me about the club in the first place. I remember you well and you always did an excellent job, it's a bit late but thanks for your efforts.

Nice, I didn't even notice that - here's Data Disk, Side 1. Movie Maker - EA - Data Disk, Side 1.atr

Hi folks, I've recently been archiving some vintage floppies and happened to see this thread. I have the "updated" US version of Movie Maker and I've attached 2 ATR files: 1 - Program Disk, Side 2, which auto-boots and seems to be the same as the disk already posted above. 2 - Data Disk, Side 2, contains additional Gahan Wilson animation files for BDAY and XMAS which were not included on Side 2 of the Program Disk. Atari 800 connected to PC w/SIO2PC Cable running registered APE-->CopyMate 4.4 (D1:)-->1050 drive with Duplicator (D2:)-->APE ATR Image (D3:) Both of these disk sides are unprotected. Movie Maker - EA - Data Disk, Side 2.atr Movie Maker - EA - Program Disk, Side 2.atr

I do love these "show and tell" threads, here are the carts I'd consider rare from my collection. I also have a boxed In-Store Demonstration Cart around here somewhere.

I can't help but notice that I seem to be the only person in this thread so far who was stuck using a membrane keyboard on a 400 back then, I still can't believe I put up with that for a few years like I did. ("And we were damn glad to have it, too...") And you people who actually had 800s when you were that young...you're killing me here!

LOL didn't expect a trip up to the attic tonight but...hell yeah, I still have my The Programmer kit and 410 recorder. I bought an 800 a few years later from B&C when they were on closeout and have been using it ever since. Apologies for the crappy lighting.

Great thread. Here's my then-new setup from September '82, complete with black & white TV.. Not sure what joystick I had there, possibly one of these? My 13 year-old self was definitely loving life.

That Spectre GCR manual is one of the best I've ever seen to this day for a computer product. It's so obvious that the guy really loved what he was doing and his enthusiasm was contagious. And I agree - we really need to get those Current Notes issues online somehow I'm afraid I can't be much help there, as most of my copies are missing covers and are falling apart from being read and traded around so often back then. Dave's articles (and Ben Poehland's) were always a highlight of that mag for me...

Yep, I'm not missing out this time - I'm in for one.

I just finished grabbing the torrent myself and will seed the .mp4 files for a few days. Oh, and thanks for sharing the vids, Nathan!