Fred_M
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Prikjesoft, hahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic name, I will not translate it to English 🤣
Welcome at AtariAge Wietze 👍
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6 minutes ago, Draxxon said:Oh, man! It takes soooo long to research a single game AND create a "box" image. This helps more than you know. I instantly thought... "Where was this a week ago!" LOLOLOL.
Thank You! I will get your site name added to an about screen in the NEXUS. I try to add anyone who has contributed to the project to a banner in an about screen. (each section/folder of the nexus has someone different.)
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
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1 hour ago, Draxxon said:Yes, Acrobata was the only "cover" I could find, so I tweaked it. I didn't know it was a generic cover. I will make a proper one. Thank you for letting me know!! It really helps. Ill turn this official image into a "Compute!" cover. Thanks again.
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.
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@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
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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.
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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
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And in The Netherlands too 🙂
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2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:Scram from tape normally required no disk drive be turned on at boot, possibly early OS and and early basic....
An 800XL may need to run an OS fix or Translator and have not disk drive device etc to occupy memory on at boot/load/execution
I could be wrong, but It's the way I remember 400/800 use of the cassette.
Scram runs fine under XL/XE OS 2 and Basic rev. C. So no translator is needed.
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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.
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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.
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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__
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🤣 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.
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Sorry, I thought they were included as the magazine states this.
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You can find the issue disks, which include these programs, on page6.org: https://page6.org/pd_lib/pd_lib.php
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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.
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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.
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16 minutes ago, gnusto said:Ah that one does have no watermark, thank you.
A bit of a subjective call on my part I admit, but I think it may be rare in comparison to many other titles, because reportedly the only way it was sold was via mail, from the US (I haven't found any reports of a european distributor). But in any case thanks again for the clean case scan.
Ofcourse it is rare 🙂 I was lucky that I was able to bought it when it came out.
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2 hours ago, gnusto said:I'm aware - but you do call it "atarimuseum", seems fairly natural to me to say "Atari Museum". I don't think anyone is confused that you are the only Atari collection in the world!
Maybe, maybe not. I call it atarimuseum.nl because atarimuseum.com (excellent site!) is the site most associated with "Atari Museum".
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2 hours ago, ivop said:Oh, you took this pitcure on carpeting, too!!
it is a nice carpet, you have walked all over it 🤣
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3 hours ago, gnusto said:That's fantastic! Do you happen to have access to a flatbed scanner (or a good light + camera mount) to get a detailed straight edge scan? I'm sure the community would appreciate it if you would, and we'll get it up on Atarimania pronto.
Regardless congratulations on the rare find from your personal archives 😃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 😆
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19 minutes ago, Gunstar said:So let me make sure I understand what I am seeing here; the front side of the disk is black with a large or possibly full-doverage black label and the backside of the floppy has a full-cover art label design?
Yes, correct
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On 2/21/2021 at 11:01 AM, gnusto said:Ideally I'd like something I could use as a cover for a front end - looks like the box itself might have been plain black or blue based on this listing. So maybe the front of that disk envelope? Normally I'd think about buying it and donating the scans to Atarimania, but sheesh people, $600? I'm not that crazy.
Look at this topic for pictures and more.
On 2/21/2021 at 11:01 AM, gnusto said:Ideally I'd like something I could use as a cover for a front end - looks like the box itself might have been plain black or blue based on this listing.
The box is plain black, it is some kind of black fabric.
On 2/21/2021 at 11:01 AM, gnusto said:Does anybody have any scans of the packaging other than this one from the Atari Museum? Check out that custom disk envelope!
LOL, that is my site. Not "the Atari Museum" but atarimuseum.nl
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On 12/14/2020 at 9:23 PM, DjayBee said:When analyzing @Fred_M's Mega Magazine disks, I stumbled over a timing challenge for your disk emulation code.
The attached image has three sectors 1039. Track 39 contains 33 sectors, two of them have bad CRCs.
For protection the sector is read twice and both times the code jumps into the loaded sector.
The two needed instances contain "STX $8000, RTS" and "STY $8001, RTS". The third instance is zero-filled.
Full disk emulation of a standard 1050 catches the correct instances.
The standard 1050 emulation alway hits the zero-filled instance once and crashes.
It works with standard 810 emulation.
Tried on Altirra 3.90 and 4.00-test23 emulating a standard PAL 800XL.
Note:
I suspect the triple sector to be a duplication error because the other protected Mega Magazines (#3 to #6) only have two instances of the protection sector.
The other disks have on their tracks 39 either 33 sectors and only one with bad CRC or 34 sectors and two with bad CRC.
@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.
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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.
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Posted · Edited by 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 🙂