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Capone was also a light gun shooter on the ST and Amiga published in 1988. I don't know if there's a connection but it makes sense... Crime Buster was coded by James Zalewski who went on to write Planet Smashers and had already done Barnyard Blaster. He also worked for K-Byte in the very early eighties... The Solitare Group developed stuff way earlier than that, I don't recall hearing from them after 1984. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Nope, the JingleDisk is by Hi Tech Expressions. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

From a dealer ad: Great holiday package that brings the classics "to life" with full color graphics and sound, interspersed with animation. Stories are told, plus a selection of Christmas carols, accompanied by screen texts that are asy to follow. Christmas music is the third ingredient - perfect for family gatherings. If this is what you have, please send us a disk image so it can be archived No idea... Maybe it lets you alter some of the settings? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Hello, As you may know, Atarimania's goal is to properly archive ALL A8 gameware before it is too late. We'd like to involve more people in preserving rare games before a big part of Atari history disappears. While all other big platforms have on-going projects of this kind, we believe the Atari community is a bit trailing behind in this respect. Lots of rare games have been unearthed already but we're still missing a lot. What follows is a very big list of the main titles that need to be dumped. Everything is sorted by publisher. If you have some of these programs on your old floppy disks or tapes, please get in touch Acorn Software Everest Explorer Formula 1 (Sid Meier's first commercial game!) Advanced Computing Enterprises Math Master Word Wizard Adventure International (UK) Any Scott Adams text adventure (NOT the same as the US versions) Adventure International (USA) 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe Airline Labyrinth of Crete Propix '81 Treasure Quest War AdVentures Math Tutor AEC Spelling Bee Alpha Systems Deluxe Space Games Dots Amazon Systems Hot Foot ANALOG Software ANALOG Adventure Carnival Sunday Driver Antic Software Omar APX Advanced Fingerspelling Amansarranas Escape to Equatus Gridiron Glory Math Mission Minus Mission Numberland Nightwatch Arcade Plus Arcade Pro Football Night Rally Arma Design Group Any... Artronic Pogotron ArtSci Poker Solitaire Artworx Alpha Fighter Blockade Bridge 3.0 Bridge 4.0 Bridge 5.0 Compubridge Crazitack Forest Fire! Forest Fire! Two Gigatrek Hearts 1.5 Monkeybuilder Monkeynews Nominoes Jigsaw Pilot Poker Tourney Stud Poker Teacher's Pet Vaults of Zurich (The) ASP Software Cells and Serpents Conquering Everest Detective Elephants Graveyard Planetfall White Barrows ATACOMP Buggies Cannon Coupé Frenzy Golden Maze Swarm (The) Atari (US) Atari Sentences Division Drill Graphing Instructional Computing Demonstration Pre-Reading Athena Software Any... Avalon Hill Computer Baseball Strategy Compyter Facts in Five Computer Football Strategy Computer Stocks and Bonds Divex Five Card Draw Poker Road Racer / Bowler Tank Arkade Avatar Software Zogar B-Ware Escaper (The) BCI Software Mind over Matter Bluestone Software Language Lab Drill Kit II Primary Phonics Lab I Blythe Valley Software Briar Rose Hansel and Gretel Boston Educational Computing Any... Bug-Byte Quest for Eternity Buzzword Game Company Buzzword Byte Dual Duel Byte-a-Bit Computing Number Stumper C & C Software Space Pirates Tanks and Squads California Dreamers Global Conquest CalTech Acey Ducey Carousel Software Brain Strainers CE Software Helicopter Battle Horse Racing Keno Leap Frog Lightning Bolts / Reaction Mad Marble (The) Musigame Player Piano Supermaster Tag Tractor Beam War at Sea Cedar Island Software Confrontation at Vega Three Triple Play Channel 8 Software Bomb Hunter Caves of Death I Spy for Kids Clarkston Software Horse Race Sub Hunt Tie Fighter Color Computer Concepts Stack Attack! Color Software 3-D Star Trek Blackjack Compu-Tations, Inc. Multiple Choice Files Compu-Things Attack of the Yeti Disaster at Sealab Roman Conquest Compugraphics Laser Ball Pillbox (NOT the Polish game) Compuquest Adventures Transported Computer Age Software Devil Dwell Dungeon Elbbarcs Computer and Video Games Any type-in... Computer Consultants of Iowa Night Flyer Computer Magic Avoid Horseword Derby It-Is-Balloon Tribomb Computer Seen Software (The) Old Took's Secret (The) Computer's Voice Hangman Mathfaks Word Search Puzzle Maker Continental Adventures Any... Control Data Publishing Any... Counterpoint Software Any... Creative Computing Eliza Haunted House Outdoor Games Star Trek Treasure Island Trivia Unlimited Crystal Microsoft Jewel Thief Crystalware Bermuda Experience Clonus Clonus II Galactic Quest Glamis Castle Haunted Palace House of Usher Land of Sumer Lasar Wars Little Crystal Pioneer Experience (The) Treasure Island CS Software Computer Command Search (The) DACC 747 Flight Simulator Dacus Software Any... Data Faire Any... Data Treasures Any... Datamost Mating Zone Pig Pen Datasoft Crosscheck Data Disk - Adults Crosscheck Data Disk - Children Rosen's Brigade (NOT the Gentry Software release) Davidson Any... Davka Corporation Any... DBM Software Phrazac War Vars Revenge DesignWare Grammar Examiner (The) Math Maze Notable Phantom (The) Spellagraph Spellakazam States and Traits Trap-a-Zoid Discovery Games Flying Tigers Winged Samurai Distro Enterprises Her Majesty's Secret Weapon DKG Any... DLM Any... Dolphin Microware Hexmaster Don't Ask Computer Software Wordrace Dr. Daley's Software Teacher's Aid Dynacomp Acey Ducey Alpha Fighter / Alpha Base Alvin Backgammon 2.0 Blackjack Blackjack Coach Bridge 2.1 Bridge Master Cactus League Baseball Chompelo Craps Crazy eights Escape from Volantium Euchre Final Assembly Forest Fire! Giant Slalom Golf Pro Lil' Men from Mars Management Simulator Middle Earth Moving Maze Nominoes Jigsaw Panzer / Blitzkrieg Player Piano Probability Quintominoes Rollerball Rubik's Cube Solver Shiloh 1862 Space Evacuation! Space Lanes Space Tilt Space Trap Stud Poker Super Sub Chase Switch Teacher's Aide Teacher's Pet Triple Blockade Valdez Valley of the Kings Vaults of Zurich (The) Wumpus Eastern House Software Typing Exercise Educational Activities Any... Educational Activity Any... Educational Software Adventures of Proto Brain Boggler Kid's Programs #1 Kid's Programs #2 Maths for Fun Proto's Favorite Games Proto's Fun Day Proto's Game Space Games Spelling Bee Edupro Any... Edusoft Any... EduWare Rendez-Vous Spelling Bee Games Einstein Corporation Memory Trainer Electronic Arts Word Flyer Emporium Company (The) Any... English Software Escape from Perilous Marathon Time Warp Epyx Jumpman (early version) ESC Kaos II Last Words Esplanade Enterprises Drug Bust Eurydice Anneau d'Osrog (L') Evolving Technology Computer Crossword Fenderware Computing Vandenberg Firebird (USA) MRCA Mach 2 Combat Flight Simulator First Star Software Cosmic Squeeze (if it was ever released...) Romper Room's I Love My Alphabet Futurehouse Any... Games Computing Any type-in... Games Computers Play Any... GDW Battle of Chickamauga Genesis Software Foresite Starfighters Gentry Software Magneto Bugs Target Practice Great Game Products Play Bridge with Sheinwold Hayden Software King Cribbage MicroAddition MicroDivision MicroMultiplication MicroSubtraction Musical Mathematics Reversal Wargle! HEL Laboratories Blackjack HES Coco Coco II Hi Tech Expressions Sesame Street Learning Library High Technology Software Chem Lab Simulations Holdco Any... Horizon Simulations Cloak and Dagger Fathoms 40 Howard W. Sams Atari Trivia Data Base Illusion Software Crazy Cobra Illusions II Games-1 Image Computer Products Any... IMJ Software Any... INET Corporation MemorEase+ SpeedRead+ Inhome Software Alien Number Math Pack Insight Software Letter Invaders IPS Any... ISIS Bugrunner Jay Gee programming Company Attack of the Spelling Bees JMH Software of Minnesota Any... Kalatot Software Blip Putzman Kangaroo Jeepers Creatures My House - My Home Keypunch Software Adventure Pak Alaskan Wilderness Arcade II Arcade Bonanza Dungeons of Despair Taken Alive Koala Technologies Muppet Learning Keys Krell Software Any... Lance Haffner Games 3-in-1 Football Learning Company (The) Bumble Games Magic Spells Moptown Hotel Moptown Parade Reader Rabbit Wordspinner Learning Well Space Math Libraries Unlimited Legacy from Beyond Load'n Go Tube Trooper Looking Glass Software Any... LotsaBytes Original Adventure Stonequest Mad Scientist Software Any... Manhattan Software Any... Martech Games Conflict Galaxy Conflict Maximus Safetyline MECC Any... Med Systems Software Knossos Merlin Enterprises Any... Micro Fun Death in the Caribbean Dino Eggs Heist (The) Micro Magic Software Any... Microdaft Dropzone (full version only) MicroMate Software Asteroid Artist Milwaukee Software Hi-Res Lunar Lander Mind Science Foundation Experiments in ESP and Psychokinesis Mindless Endeavours Schrecken Mindscape Castle Clobber Mirrorsoft First Steps with the Mr. Men MMG Micro Software Asterois Miners Career Counselor Shape Chase Money Disk Depreciation Morgan and Pearce Bugs Mosaic Electronics Artillery Hangword Mosaic Publishing Archers (The) Nexa Corporation Adventures of the Baby Sea Turtle Journey Maze Master Superbowl Football Unterseeboot (Das) Novagen Software (UK) Encounter! (NOT the Synapse Software release) Novin Lance Lucre Nüfekop Krazy Kong Opportunities for Learning Any... Orange Cherry Software Any... PartlySoft Software Rough Day at the Office PCA Computer Exchange Labyrinths PDI Adventures of Oswald (The) Alphabet Arcade Analogies Android (NOT the platformer) Bowling 1 Cash Register Here Comes Violet Kross and Quotes Pumpkin Stand Robin's Halloween Sammy the Sea Serpent Spy vs. Spy (NOT the one we know...) Starship Duel Story Builder Teddy's Magic Balloon Time Bomb Word Master PI Software Bridge Crosser PMI Any... Positive Input Any... PR Software Any... Prickly-Pear Software Any... Prodata Group Lunar Lander Programmers Workshop Any... Prophecy Investments Wheeler Dealers Quality Bowling Car-o-Rama Eggbert Ten Thousand Quality Software Name That Song QS Reversi Tari Trek Queue, Inc. Any... Quicksilva Magic Micro Mission (full version only) QuinTech Systems Down the Garden Path Rampage Computer Products Any... Random House Any... READY Software Saturn Lander Real Software Real Poker I Reston Space Knights Richwood Software Ghost Hunter II Gladiator (The) RLD Mafia Prez Solitrek Roklan Frog Jump Number Bowling Picture Parts Scarborough MasterType Filer Scholastic WizWare Microzine Square Pairs Sears Any... Sebree's Computing Battling Tanks Down the Trench Flight Simulator Submarine Minefield Trip to Jupiter Wumpus Adventure Wumpus Adventure 2 Sensational Software Any... Sentient Software Gold Rush SGP At the Gates of Moscow Sierra Marauder (full disk) Silicon Valley Systems Creepers Laser Racers Nazz Rapid Reader Sim Computer Products Any... Soflow Software Any... Softie Any... Software Factory Any.. Software Tree Corporate Strategy Spectrum Visual Concepts Legend Spinnaker Software Christmas Sampler Delta Drawing (disk version) Kidwriter Math Busters (full disk) Springboard Any... Stan Educational Software Dragon Skyride US Presidents Starbound Software Shuttle Ascent to Orbit Starfire Games Global Thermonuclear War Time Machine I Sterling Swift Any... SubLOGIC Adventure on a Boat Black Forest (The) Ghostly Manor Sky Rescue Sunburst Communications SemCalc Survival Math Sunset Software Cave-In SUPERWare Around the World Surrealistek Software Catacombs of Baruth Survival Software Quest (The) Swifty Software Dots-n-Boxes Fun and Games Jerry White's Music Lessons My First Alphabet Space Chase Time Bomb Trivia Trek Word Games Synapse Software Dimension X (full disk version) Relax (full disk version) Syncro Alien Hell Astron IV Drac Is Back Wordmania Task Force Computer Games Asteroid Zero-Four Starfire TDC Distributors Midway Battles Team 4 Software Rat Trap 3-D Micromaze THESIS Any... Thorn EMI (UK) Compute 4 / Reversi Owari / Bull and Cow Thunder Mountain Batty Builders Titan Programs Caverns Top Ten Hits Commander Total Control Systems Ultima III Construction Set TriData Corporation PASE Tyson Educational Systems Any... Unicorn Software Any... Versa Computing Mind Bogglers I Weekly Reader Family Software Fat City Pic. Builder Stickybear Bop Stickybear Opposites Stickybear Shapes West Coast Software Battle Warp Satan's Satellite Target Blockade White Bag Software Balloon Pop Lazer Feds Windcrest Software Baseball's Best Panzer War Wizard Video Games Movie Trivia Quiz Wizard Ware Zero Zone Wolters Software Code-Woord XLENT Software CAMP Your Computer Any type-in... Zapata Microsystems Any... Zebra Devilator Ziza Presents Any... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Thanks You don't have any of these TELEMATICA tutorials, do you? Even some vague info would be useful. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Hello, Please check the following entry in our database: http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...ERSION_ID=11834 Does anybody know where this one comes from? Spain? Mexico? Chile? Thanks for any response -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Ghostbusters looks OK on the A8 but it's less detailed than the C64 version. Still, the game doesn't exactly push either system very far. The A8 version was ported by Glyn Anderson. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Never heard of those! Was that in Atari Classics, Current Notes or another mag? If you have the name of the programmer, maybe we could track him down... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Would G2F be useful to draw the title screen? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

I really like US Sector Copier 4 by E. Reuss. There's a fairly recent Polish copier which is very good as well (can't remember the name...). -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Should keep you busy for some time Must-haves from Atari Pole Position, Asteroids, Defender, Robotron, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Pengo, Crystal Castles, Mario Bros., Star Raiders, Star Raiders II, Joust, Missile Command, Jungle Hunt, Qix, Centipede, Millipede, Excalibur, Final Legacy, Eastern Front (1941)... Must-haves originally programmed on the A8 Alternate Reality - The City, Alternate Reality - The Dungeon, Alley Cat, Boulder Dash, Boulder Dash II, Bruce Lee, The Great American Cross-Country Road Race, Jumpman, Jumpman Junior, Miner 2049er, Bounty Bob Strikes Back!, Zenji, Oil's Well, Pharaoh's Curse, Necromancer, Archon, Archon II, Fort Apocalypse, Mercenary, Encounter!, Dropzone, Spelunker, Shamus, Shamus II, Montezuma's Revenge, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus!, MULE, Seven Cities of Gold, Murder on the Zinderneuf, Zorro, Bristles, Flip and Flop, Agent USA, Blue Max, Rainbow Walker, Rally Speedway... Blockbusters from the eighties Airball, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Arkanoid, Infocom games, Ultima series, Level 9 adventures, MicroProse programs, Magnetic Scrolls games, Bandits, Beach Head, Beach Head II, Chessmaster 2000, Choplifter!, Conan, Deflektor, Draconus, Drol, Druid, The Eidolon, Feud, Flight Simulator II, Frogger, Frogger II, Gauntlet, Ghostbusters, Gyruss, The Goonies, Gumball, Hacker, HardBall!, Head over Heels, HERO, Hover Bovver, Infiltrator, International Karate, Into the Eagle's Nest, Joe Blade, Kaboom!, Karateka, Kikstart, Koronis Rift, Leader Board, Lode Runner, Lode Runner's Rescue, Mail Order Monsters, Master of the Lamps, MegaMania, Mountain King, Mr. Do!, Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory, Ogre, One Man and His Droid, One-on-One, Pinball Construction Set, Pitfall!, Pitfall! II, Pooyan, Q*bert, Raid over Moscow, River Raid, Saracen, Satan's Hollow, Sea Dragon, Serpentine, Shanghai, Spare Change, Spellbound, Spindizzy, Star Fleet I, Starquake, Summer Games, Tarzan of the Apes, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, Threshold, Tomahawk, Trailblazer, Universe, Warhawk, Wizard of Wor, Zybex... Nice rip-offs, unique titles, new-wave games Abracadabra!, Adax, Assault Force 3-D, Atomia, Bang! Bank!, Blockaboo!, The Brundles, Captain Beeble, Captain Gather, Cavernia, Chop Suey, Clowns and Balloons, Crazy Scooter, Cultivation, The Curse, Czaszki, Dandy, Deimos, Deluxe Invaders, Dredis, Drop It!, Dwie Wieze, Electrician, Enigmatix!, Eureka!, Fred, GemDrop, Ghost Hunter, Hans Kloss, Hawkquest, Herbert I, Herbert II, Imagine, Incydent, Inside, Jawbreaker, Johny's Trouble, Journey to the Planets, Kasiarz, Killa Cycle, Krucjata, LaserMania, LaserMaze, The Last Guardian, Lemmingi, Lemmings, Line-Up, Logistik, Mad Stone, Magia Krysztalu, Magic of Words, Magnetit, Magnex, Master Head, Megablast I, Mental Age, Microx, Miecze Valdgira, Miecze Valdgira II, Miny 2.0, Mirax Force, Misja, Monstrum, Naturix, Numblines, Operation Blood, Operation Blood II - Special Forces, Power Down, Preppie!, Preppie! II, Pungoland, Ra, Robot Battle, Robbo, Saper, Schreckenstein, Smus, Snowball, Space Hawk, Spy Master, Starball, Starblade, T-34, Tactic, The Tail of Beta Lyrae, Tales of Dragons and Cavemen, Tawerna, Tekblast, Thinker, Thunderfox, Tommingi, Tron, Tube Baddies, Tumble Bugs, Universal Hero, Valgus², Warlords, Wloczykij, Zebu-Land... Yeah, I know, I somewhat ruined the thread -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Thanks -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Thanks! Would you allow us to add it to our database? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Well, Terminator is OK and Jurassic Park II is quite fun but Hawkmoon is just terrible IMO. There's just no variety or depth in that game. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

I hate to be a downer but... Are we talking games or demos? For quality arcade games, the C64 wins IMO (better sprites, less memory usage for good use of color...). For pictures, I have to say C64 as well. As for demos, it's another story but it depends what you want to do :wink: A combination of all this I believe... Also laziness, lack of experienced techniques, no motivation or support, deadlines... Maybe but the A8 doesn't have the same strengths so it's difficult to say. Don't expect to see Mayhem in Monsterland on the Atari though... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

True, when it comes to hues, you can't beat the A8 but games were evolving from simple single-screen contests to programs with scrolling and more use of sprites. The A8 can handle that but the C64 is clearly superior and, with a dwindling market share, the Atari didn't have a chance as there were no more developers willing to push the hardware anyway. Ballblazer was to be an Atari exclusive using a lot of the A8's strengths. The C64 game was just a port (programmed by K-Byte) so, clearly, the A8 version is better. Unfortunately, nobody was being innovative on the A8 after the C64 took the #1 spot. That leaves us with few programs which really took advantage of what the A8 could really do. That's why a lot more people coded in assembler on the C64 without using BASIC. You have A LOT of better-looking games on the C64 (not all innovative but that's not necessarily what sells) than on the Atari. Also, while the techniques were gradually improving on the C64, most Atari developers were still developing crappy games, often in BASIC! In the end, games are what count the most. The A8 lasted longer in Europe, though it was always a distant fourth or fifth in the UK arena. Still, for one game on the Atari, you had about 30-40 on the C64 or Spectrum. The A8 line sold great in Germany and the Netherlands but there wasn't a software boom like in the UK (mostly initiated by the Spectrum). User groups were very popular though. What really saved the A8 was the huge success in Poland. Thanks to the growing demand and rising demo scene, there was a huge technological leap in software development! Support is everything! -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

As much as I love the A8 line, it just isn't true to say the C64 has inferior hardware. If you want to compare games, you should choose real arcade-like titles from the 1990-1994 era, not 1984 software with still graphics. Unfortunately, there is nothing like Mayhem in Monsterland, Turrican, Enforcer... on the A8 because of the limitations of the hardware and that's a fact. Of course, when there is no market, you can't push a machine to the limits but I have seen very few killer games on the Atari while they are plentiful on the C64. I also think the powerful BASIC (at time of release) of the A8 line was a problem. It took something like three years to eventually discover what the Atari could do and that coincides with the release of the C64, which got very good games about a year later (ironically, a lot were Atari ports!). From 1979 to 1982, most of what was sold was written in BASIC and pretty bad quality! Maybe it has to do with developers not wanting to take risks or the 400-800 being released TOO early on (1980-1 could have been a wiser choice). -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Actually, most of the graphics in Hawkmoon are ripped from the C64... The game may look nice but, unfortunately, it has zero playability and is boring as hell. There are something like 20-30 screens where NOTHING happens, you just wander around picking up the stuff you need and reach the final screen. The game lasts 10-15 minutes once you've mapped it out and you'll never want to load it again. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Actually, most of the graphics in Hawkmoon are ripped from the C64... The game may look nice but, unfortunately, it has zero playability and is boring as hell. There are something like 20-30 screens where NOTHING happens, you just wander around picking up the stuff you need and reach the final screen. The game lasts 10-15 minutes once you've mapped it out and you'll never want to load it again. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Well, we have the game, it's just we can't scan it at the moment. We'll eventually send it over if nobody can help in the meantime but you'll have to wait a couple more weeks probably (or see what you can do with our watermarked version). -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Captain Hook's Revenge (also known as Peter Pan's Daring Escape IIRC) was to be an educational title. There are many lost games in this genre as well but it seems investigation doesn't go any further because most of these programs are not cartridge-based -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Check this catalog: http://www.atarimania.com/det_catalogue.ph...CATALOGUE_ID=76 Datasoft was also to re-release the game along with Elevator Action which is listed as RX8070. Who knows, maybe both of the games are out there? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Glad he answered so quickly -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

Thanks for everything -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com

This is really weird, they run fine when loaded as executables from DOS but aren't recognized as binaries when extracted -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com