Starpath Supercharger manual scan

[anny84]

Has someone a scan of this manual?

 

Thanks!

 

Annarella Carano

[Mark Wolfe]

Has someone a scan of this manual?

 

Thanks!

 

Annarella Carano

 

 

I second the motion!! That would be great to get a hold of just for posterity

[mimo]

Arcadia Catalog at Atarimania , cant find an online manual tho

[Mirage]

I bought my Arcadia Supercharger sealed. It didn't have a manual per se, just the Phaser Patrol manual that was bundled with it. If you look on the first two pages of the Phaser Patrol manual (maybe the other games' manuals too? I haven't thought to look at them), you'll see instructions for using the Supercharger itself. So, just look for the Phaser Patrol manual. I'm pretty sure scans of that are out there. If not, I'll try to get a good square photo of the first two pages of PP and post it.

[user42]

Well here is Phaser Patrol if it helps. I don't have a Arcadia Supercharger manual.

Phaser_Patrol__U_.pdf

[shadow460]

I bought my Arcadia Supercharger sealed. It didn't have a manual per se, just the Phaser Patrol manual that was bundled with it. If you look on the first two pages of the Phaser Patrol manual (maybe the other games' manuals too? I haven't thought to look at them), you'll see instructions for using the Supercharger itself. So, just look for the Phaser Patrol manual. I'm pretty sure scans of that are out there. If not, I'll try to get a good square photo of the first two pages of PP and post it.

 

The first two pages are similar in all the Starpath manuals, including Sword of Saros and Survival Island. BTW, my daddy kept all the documentation that came with the Supercharger stuff in this briefcase I have, and a manual for the Arcadia unit itself is not in here.

Edited April 11, 2008 by shadow460

[Mirage]

I bought my Arcadia Supercharger sealed. It didn't have a manual per se, just the Phaser Patrol manual that was bundled with it. If you look on the first two pages of the Phaser Patrol manual (maybe the other games' manuals too? I haven't thought to look at them), you'll see instructions for using the Supercharger itself. So, just look for the Phaser Patrol manual. I'm pretty sure scans of that are out there. If not, I'll try to get a good square photo of the first two pages of PP and post it.

 

The first two pages are similar in all the Starpath manuals, including Sword of Saros and Survival Island. BTW, my daddy kept all the documentation that came with the Supercharger stuff in this briefcase I have, and a manual for the Arcadia unit itself is not in here.

 

I figured they'd all have that same first two pages (or similar). I have all the manuals, but didn't feel like digging them out. I don't have a definitive answer, but I suspect there is no such thing as a separate manual for the Supercharger unit itself, unless they started including them later when it was Starpath. That, I don't know.

[shadow460]

I don't think they did, but I can't be certain, either.

[ovalbugmann]

I have that new book, "Classic 80's Video Games" and it says there is one manual for the SC unit & one for Phaser Patrol included in that first game box - PP. I have't been able to locate that SC unit manual though.

[Mirage]

I have that new book, "Classic 80's Video Games" and it says there is one manual for the SC unit & one for Phaser Patrol included in that first game box - PP. I have't been able to locate that SC unit manual though.

 

Well, I got mine sealed, and there's no separate manual in it. But, it's an Arcadia, which may be why, or maybe it was a fluke. I can make no guarantees.

[Rom Hunter]

Nice avatar mimo.

 

Fooled me for a moment.

 

[ovalbugmann]

Well, one of the authors is a member here on AA, and his book is featured on the AA -Main page with a thread about this new collectors book. So I will have to make a post, reference the page/item and text in question, and see what he means by saying there's two manuals in the SC starter box - one for the unit and one for PP. I haven't seen this SC hardware only manual as a separate document either.

Edited April 11, 2008 by ovalbugmann

[Mark Wolfe]

Great input here, thanks! I've just begun getting in to the Supercharger. It's quite fun. Great to read the old game manuals and catalogs.

 

addendum: Looking through the pages of the catalog on atarimania, it occurs to me that there MUST have been some sort of manual for the Supercharger. Think about it for a second, there would have been at least a rudimentary technical explanation of how to get it all working and how to troubleshoot it since there were so many components... the supercharger itself, the audio cable, the use of an external tape recorder, the volume levels, the tape rewinding, etc... so many variables, they never would have left that up to consumer guessing on how to make it all work correctly.

 

2nd addendum: Was the Phaser Patrol game a pack-in with the Supercharger? Looking at user42's great scan of that manual, it has all the technical directions I would expect to be with the Supercharger. Perhaps there was no actual supercharger manual as some have maintained, if each game came with one and there was an original pack-in game with the unit.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Ruddygore

[Mirage]

Great input here, thanks! I've just begun getting in to the Supercharger. It's quite fun. Great to read the old game manuals and catalogs.

 

addendum: Looking through the pages of the catalog on atarimania, it occurs to me that there MUST have been some sort of manual for the Supercharger. Think about it for a second, there would have been at least a rudimentary technical explanation of how to get it all working and how to troubleshoot it since there were so many components... the supercharger itself, the audio cable, the use of an external tape recorder, the volume levels, the tape rewinding, etc... so many variables, they never would have left that up to consumer guessing on how to make it all work correctly.

 

2nd addendum: Was the Phaser Patrol game a pack-in with the Supercharger? Looking at user42's great scan of that manual, it has all the technical directions I would expect to be with the Supercharger. Perhaps there was no actual supercharger manual as some have maintained, if each game came with one and there was an original pack-in game with the unit.

 

Yes, to everything you said. You're right, they wouldn't have left the consumer guessing... it's in the Phaser Patrol manual, which was a pack-in with the SC unit, and it was in the other manuals as well, presumably in case someone had lost their Phaser Patrol manual, they'd still be able to figure out how to use their new game. It actually makes sense that they'd decide to do it that way.

[Mirage]

sorry, double post, Firefox crashed.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Mirage1972

[Mark Wolfe]

Well that must be it then, Phaser Patrol was a pack-in and the manual was in there all along ...

 

cool

 

thanks user42 for scanning that badboy!

[user42]

I have scanned many manuals but I cannot take credit for that one.....not sure where I grabbed that from now.....Anyways I am always happy to share my collection.

[anny84]

Maybe you everybody are right, an official manual for Supercharger was never released with the unit. Maybe Starpath/Arcadia didn't consider to be useful for final user, since at least one tape was needed for using it and the tape manual installation booklet is enough for explaining how it works.

 

Anyway, I've got manual scans for all Supercharger native games, collected into the Stella Audio CD, except Sweat! The Decathlon Game, but I suppose this game was just a preliminar prototype and never had a manual.

 

Thanks to everyone's interest

Annarella Carano

[anny84]

I have scanned many manuals but I cannot take credit for that one.....not sure where I grabbed that from now.....Anyways I am always happy to share my collection.

 

Did you never think about creating a website with all your scans? You seem to have manuals not present on Atariage... or, send the missing manuals to Atariage? Having full manual database in scanned format instead of HTML text format could be good for Atariage webmasters for improving the Rarity Guide.

 

Annarella Carano

Edited April 12, 2008 by anny84

[shadow460]

Maybe you everybody are right, an official manual for Supercharger was never released with the unit. Maybe Starpath/Arcadia didn't consider to be useful for final user, since at least one tape was needed for using it and the tape manual installation booklet is enough for explaining how it works.

 

Anyway, I've got manual scans for all Supercharger native games, collected into the Stella Audio CD, except Sweat! The Decathlon Game, but I suppose this game was just a preliminar prototype and never had a manual.

 

Thanks to everyone's interest

Annarella Carano

 

I believe there are instructions for Sweat on Atariprotos.com. There isn't a whole lot of the game in the proto, but instructions do exist for what there is. It's actually a decent track and field style partial-game.

[anny84]

I believe there are instructions for Sweat on Atariprotos.com. There isn't a whole lot of the game in the proto, but instructions do exist for what there is. It's actually a decent track and field style partial-game.

 

If I'm not wrong, Atariprotos seems to have some history notes only, not an instruction booklet. My purpose is to collect all scanned manuals.

 

Thanks anyway

 

Annarella Carano

[shadow460]

You're right, but the instructions are there for those who need them to play the game.