arcadia/starpath games on cart?

[lucifershalo]

Is it technically possible to put the Arcadia/Starpath tape games on cart?

[Crazy Climber]

There is a proto of Rabbit Transit that was made on cart I believe....

[Kroko]

Yes, check this:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...;showentry=1237

[lucifershalo]

Yes, check this:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...;showentry=1237

 

WELL I was looking for cart versions of the starpath games for my collection, more than a way to play those games

I have a cuttlecart for that

[Shawn]

Yes, check this:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...;showentry=1237

 

 

With the up most respect; Isn't that project more vaporware than hardware though?

[A.J. Franzman]

With the up most respect

"Utmost", perhaps?

[mos6507]

Yes, check this:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...;showentry=1237

 

 

With the up most respect; Isn't that project more vaporware than hardware though?

 

You have every right to call it vaporware right now, as would I if the tables were turned. Nevertheless, the project is still moving forward. I have set a personal deadline of early Summer. Assuming Delicon doesn't drop out again, I don't see any reason why it can't be released well before then. After two years we've already got something good here and we won't keep feature-creeping it to death. I'm really expecting this next board revision to be the last.

Edited November 6, 2007 by mos6507

[+remowilliams]

I have set a personal deadline of early Summer. Assuming Delicon doesn't drop out again, I don't see any reason why it can't be released well before then.

Good to hear.

 

As far as the OP - at the moment, definitely yes if you have a Cuttle Cart 2.

[Shawn]

You have every right to call it vaporware right now, as would I if the tables were turned. Nevertheless, the project is still moving forward. I have set a personal deadline of early Summer. Assuming Delicon doesn't drop out again, I don't see any reason why it can't be released well before then. After two years we've already got something good here and we won't keep feature-creeping it to death. I'm really expecting this next board revision to be the last.

 

Great to hear! I'll be the first one to want SEGA frogger on a cart!

[Shawn]

With the up most respect

"Utmost", perhaps?

 

No I typed what I ment. If you look it up "utmost" is a bastard combination of "up most" from lonnnnnggggg back.

[Delicon]

Assuming Delicon doesn't drop out again

Go easy on me Glenn. Sometimes real life doesnt mesh the way we like it to. I have spent more than a couple thousand dollars (if you count tool costs) and an insane amount of time making this vapor. I have deliberately absorbed all the costs associated with the design stage as a way to shelter others from my real life issues. With no desire to ever see those resources paid back, I think pushing the schedule because I want or need to break, for any reason, seems fair.

 

Vern

[Lord Helmet]

You have every right to call it vaporware right now, as would I if the tables were turned. Nevertheless, the project is still moving forward. I have set a personal deadline of early Summer. Assuming Delicon doesn't drop out again, I don't see any reason why it can't be released well before then. After two years we've already got something good here and we won't keep feature-creeping it to death. I'm really expecting this next board revision to be the last.

 

Great to hear! I'll be the first one to want SEGA frogger on a cart!

 

 

Damn straight!

[Kroko]

I do not think it is fair to call Chimera vaporware. Complicated things need a longer time for development. Is that hard to understand ? It is not encouraging for Vern and Glenn to make deprecative comments about the fact that it is not yet released. Is anybody here who thinks you can develop a device like Chimera in a few weeks ? Yes ? Good luck, you will need it

 

Call it "In Development" and I am happy ...

[Video]

To my understanding, the only difference in Starpath games, vs standard cart games, is the extra ram. Rather than release a bunch of expensive c arts with extra ram, the way say CBS did, they instead made one expensive cart with extra ram, and made it hook to a tape player to store the games on instead.

 

In theory, it was a good Idea, but in reality, like all addons, it was a failure.

 

I guess they didn't see the games as worthwile enough to translate to cart format though, or it would have happened. (a couple of the games were protoed on carts IIRC)

[mos6507]

In theory, it was a good Idea, but in reality, like all addons, it was a failure.

 

It's a little harsh just dismissing it as a blanket 'failure'. At the very least, it was a critical success. Starpath went down with the videogame crash like every other 3rd party. It did arrive on the scene a little late in the lifecycle of the 2600 so it probably wouldn't have been around forever even in the best of circumstances.