Fred_M

Sadly no. I found this article in Antic: https://archive.org/details/1987-09-anticmagazine/page/n37/mode/2up It shows only a screenshot of the game. Maybe a screenshot could do the trick? On the other hand, the box art you made for it looks good! My compliments for the Acrobat cover art! Looks much better than the Lindasoft generic cover 🙂

Prikjesoft, hahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fantastic name, I will not translate it to English 🤣 Welcome at AtariAge Wietze 👍

Man, you are spending so much time on this Do know that the scans on my website have a watermark, so please send me a pm when you need an image. I will send you the images without watermark. And I would be happy to help you to look for info or an image, when I don't have it. I have helped the Atari 8-bit Preservation Initiative for many years so I have some experience with researching software

Looks good 👍 If you need covers for specific games you are welcome to check the covers of my collection. https://atarimuseum.nl/atari-cover-database/ I would be happy to send you scans without watermarks.

@DraxxonThe acrobat cover you made is taken from the Italian pirated series published by Lindasoft and is part of a generic cover series. There are over a dozen Lindasoft games with the same cover. Maybe you can use the official graphic made by Compute Magazine? You can find it here: https://archive.org/details/1985-02-compute-magazine/page/n57/mode/2up By the way, my compliments for the Nexus Project! I bought a Flashback X a few days ago just to use your software 🙂 I will try to flash it this weekend

The prices on Ebay are ridiculous. Plus you have a game store and you will need to find a customer who wants to spend that kind of money on a sealed copy of Thunderfox.... I would say a value of 30 to 40 dollars is fair. And what @CharlieChaplin says is more than true. Over here in Europe we had a big stock of sealed Thunderfox cartridges, in the nineties we sold them (sealed) for around 10 dollars each.

I have Action Biker by Mastertronic on disk and has both versions on 1 side too. Mastertronic marketed these as "Double Play". This is what @Farb found out: "It appears there were two different Mastertronic release of this title - yours is a flippy version with Atari on side B and Fred’s is a (I assume newer) “Double Play” version with both C64 and Atari on the same side. The actual program data is identical between the two but your dump is blank starting at track 16 and Fred’s has missing sectors starting at track 16. So I assume that the “Double Play” release used that area of the disk for the C64 data. Pretty cool" Double Play version, both systems on one side: Disk version, on different sides: Flippy disk, different sides: Double Play, on same side

And in The Netherlands too 🙂

Scram runs fine under XL/XE OS 2 and Basic rev. C. So no translator is needed.

As "xeggs" is almost impossible to pronounce in Dutch I (and a lot of other Dutch 8-bit users) say X-E-G-S. I don't use the English pronounciation, so I (we) say the 4 letters in Dutch.

Probably a damaged tape. You can try fast-forwarding and rewinding it multiple times, you might get lucky. And ofcourse what others say, clean the tape head and try to align the tape head with a screwdriver. You can hear the sound of the tape without loading it with POKE 54018,52 to align the tape head. When all these tips don't work, try another cassette. If the scram tape is damaged you can not repair it. What you can do is downloading a CAS-file, convert it back to a WAV-file and record it on a new tape. You can place the new tape in the case of the old cassette.

The XC11 power led turns on when the computer is turned on. You don't have to load a tape. You are probably talking about an other data recorder @_The Doctor__

🤣 Nice fetish 🤣 I am afraid that those listings will be very hard to find..... But I will hope with you Have you ever seen a paper copy of a listing? It would be nice to see if Page 6/NAU made a lay-out for them or that they are just simply printouts.

Sorry, I thought they were included as the magazine states this.

You can find the issue disks, which include these programs, on page6.org: https://page6.org/pd_lib/pd_lib.php

Just to be clear. I think the valuation people give this game on Ebay is ridiculous too. The people who know me, know that I would never spend that kind of money on Atari items. I try to dump/scan everything I have collected and give the files to the preservation projects out there.

I agree with you for a big part, but this game was published in 1989 in the US only. I suspect that not many copies were sold.

Ofcourse it is rare 🙂 I was lucky that I was able to bought it when it came out.

Maybe, maybe not. I call it atarimuseum.nl because atarimuseum.com (excellent site!) is the site most associated with "Atari Museum".

it is a nice carpet, you have walked all over it 🤣

You have probably not seen this page: https://atarimuseum.nl/atari-cover-database/ A scan of the front and the back of the booklet is there You can have it without watermark This was not a rare find back in the day As a kid I saw the advert in Page 6. I put some dollars in an envelope and it was delivered in The Netherlands 😆

Yes, correct

Look at this topic for pictures and more. The box is plain black, it is some kind of black fabric. LOL, that is my site. Not "the Atari Museum" but atarimuseum.nl

@DjayBee I dumped several different disks of Mega Magazine 2, but most of them did not work at all. Probably bad quality disks and most of them I got from the private stack of John of ANG Software who kept this for years in a moisty shed. One dump does work in Altirra (3.10) so hopefully you can use it. Sadly only side A, because I don't have the courage to do the flippy mod 😕 In the attachment my atx-file and the raw-files. mega2.zip

I received the magazine on December 31st. Maybe it is possible to combine Mathy's recommendation with normal postal services. In my (Dutch) experience with the largest Dutch postal service (PostNL) is, that sending tracked enveloped post overseas is quite reliable but the tracking information is not. In my "webshop"-days 9 out of 10 envelopes were delivered overseas but the tracking information did not show delivery. Sending parcels overseas was more reliable for me. So my suggestion is, send a parcel (tracked/insured) with all magazines for American subscribers to one American contact. That American contact can send all magazines to the American subscribers with domestic mail.