+kheller2 Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) You know its a good day when you get an email "does your brother still collect Atari stuff? I have a bunch I want to get rid of... for free" Well, I got what I thought was all he had, however, I'm told I just got duplicates.. hmm I must have it all someday!! So what is in this pile.. XEGS in box 800 410 in box, looks mint 410 w/o box 1025 printer 1050 1010 in box 1010 w/o box (but the other type of 1010) Pile of joysticks Many boxed pieces of software I've never seen before 1030 in the box PR connection Keypad The Programmer box (where all the joysticks were stuck, gemini, TAC2, etc) -- I still need a few more boxes to have all of those kits. Now for some software I've never seen before: HAM HELPER by K-TEK Software - Morse code instructor Tink! Tonk! Tuk Goes to Town and Tink's Adventure by Mercer Mayer via Sprout software. Hard shell red cases. Nice. Ohh. Mint in the box Imagic Atlantis for the 8bits.. sweet A neat find, HomePak by Batteries Included. I had forgotten about that, I used to use Hometerm all the time. Alas, no software or manuals but a nice box. Edited January 13, 2009 by kheller2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) You know its a good day when you get an email "does your brother still collect Atari stuff? I have a bunch I want to get rid of... for free" Well, I got what I thought was all he had, however, I'm told I just got duplicates.. hmm I must have it all someday!! So what is in this pile.. HAM HELPER by K-TEK Software - Morse code instructor Tink! Tonk! Tuk Goes to Town and Tink's Adventure by Mercer Mayer via Sprout software. Hard shell red cases. Nice. Ohh. Mint in the box Imagic Atlantis for the 8bits.. sweet A neat find, HomePak by Batteries Included. I had forgotten about that, I used to use Hometerm all the time. Alas, no software or manuals but a nice box. I would check the Mania and Fandal sites to see if the Ham disk archived, and double check the other. I think Tonk is there. My kid played Tink Tonks. Edited January 13, 2009 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 I don't see either at either. hmmmm Something no one has? That can't be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Atarimania has some ones of Tink Tonk series but not the ones you have listed above. Do you plan to dump them to ATR, or they are in box, and you will then keep them untouched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 I'll dump whatever I have. I haven't organized it all yet from a software view. There is probably some other gems in there that aren't uploaded yet. I like having the masters to upload. I'll admit I have probably three or four boxes (big boxes) of floppies filled with "collections" of games etc that have been pirated over the years by various people. I'm guessing 500 floppies minimum and a few archives of games from old BBS systems as well. I try to stockpile and clone masters whenever I get them. If anyone gets an unplayed copy of The Tail of Beta Lyrae let me know. I say unplayed because as you use it, it writes data to the disk to make things harder for you, and its a nice copy protected disk as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Tink! Tonk! - Tink's Adventure is on our to-do list but we don't have Tuk Goes to Town. These are really cute educational programs. The games were also re-released by Thunder Mountain with slightly different titles. Never heard of HAM Helper. K-Tek Software and ALA Video pioneered the budget software industry in the US and they released A LOT of (shitty) titles. Seems unknown programs from the two publishers turn up from time to time. Would be great if you could dump that one. I'll admit I have probably three or four boxes (big boxes) of floppies filled with "collections" of games etc that have been pirated over the years by various people. I'm guessing 500 floppies minimum and a few archives of games from old BBS systems as well. I try to stockpile and clone masters whenever I get them. Most of the programs that are still "missing in action" can only be found on old disk collections of pirated titles. So, as I wrote numerous times, please check these disks carefully, particularly the floppies with "BASIC crap" -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I'll dump whatever I have. I haven't organized it all yet from a software view. There is probably some other gems in there that aren't uploaded yet. I like having the masters to upload. I'll admit I have probably three or four boxes (big boxes) of floppies filled with "collections" of games etc that have been pirated over the years by various people. I'm guessing 500 floppies minimum and a few archives of games from old BBS systems as well. I try to stockpile and clone masters whenever I get them. If anyone gets an unplayed copy of The Tail of Beta Lyrae let me know. I say unplayed because as you use it, it writes data to the disk to make things harder for you, and its a nice copy protected disk as well. I was one of the few that had the Tail of beta lyrae and played it till it entered the city in the title screen, I mentioned it looked different when played on the 1200xl and 800xl. The disk wrote to itself so many times it finally gave out. I did not know how to back the thing up properly back then. Now when I mention it some people have lots to say but only one other person mentioned it looking different or seeing anything different in the game. Some mention it's copy protection ramping the difficulty up or messing with the pallet but I have yet to find a copy that looked as good or played into the city again.... if you find this treasure please before playing it.... back it up several different ways. It would be awsome to have it back in original full form. I for one would love to have it back in full glory! I miss it. What I have seen on the archive sites is not the same as the disk I once owned. It's close but no cigar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I was one of the few that had the Tail of beta lyrae and played it till it entered the city in the title screen, I mentioned it looked different when played on the 1200xl and 800xl. How is that possible? Different artifacting colors? This thread reminds me that I got a stack of old Atari floppies at one of the game shows a few years back that I have not really gone through. Each one had two or three games on it, so lord knows what's on them. Maybe I'll do that this weekend... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) How is that possible? Different artifacting colors? Tempest I think the programmer was pretty darn smart, the copy protection and machine detection worked extremely well, maybe too well. Different publishers also sold the title adding to the confusion. Artifacting might have accounted for some color difference claims, but not the graphic or ending sequences. It was such a memorable event.. I was so excited I took my drive and the game to my friends house (Tom D. may he R.I.P, was a 1200XL fan) and Jeff V.(his next door neighbor and VIC20 fan). It blew us all away. Jeff was in awe of how incredibly fast the Atari loaded software compared to his VIC/Commodore. Such a memorable event! Edited January 13, 2009 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Most of the programs that are still "missing in action" can only be found on old disk collections of pirated titles. So, as I wrote numerous times, please check these disks carefully, particularly the floppies with "BASIC crap" I inherited someone's collection and there is a bunch of that kind of stuff... I haven't looked through it all yet either. I really doubt there is anything useful there... but I guess you never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 You know its a good day when you get an email "does your brother still collect Atari stuff? I have a bunch I want to get rid of... for free" Well, I got what I thought was all he had, however, I'm told I just got duplicates.. hmm I must have it all someday!! So what is in this pile.. XEGS in box 800 410 in box, looks mint 410 w/o box 1025 printer 1050 1010 in box 1010 w/o box (but the other type of 1010) Pile of joysticks Many boxed pieces of software I've never seen before 1030 in the box PR connection Keypad The Programmer box (where all the joysticks were stuck, gemini, TAC2, etc) -- I still need a few more boxes to have all of those kits. Now for some software I've never seen before: HAM HELPER by K-TEK Software - Morse code instructor Tink! Tonk! Tuk Goes to Town and Tink's Adventure by Mercer Mayer via Sprout software. Hard shell red cases. Nice. Ohh. Mint in the box Imagic Atlantis for the 8bits.. sweet A neat find, HomePak by Batteries Included. I had forgotten about that, I used to use Hometerm all the time. Alas, no software or manuals but a nice box. That is a nice haul. I think Homepack was written by Russ Wetmore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Title Manufacturer Format Parts Notes AITP Introduction to Graphics Atari Tape T Tape1 Alf in the color Caves Spinnaker B Box only Antic - Heavy Metal Art PD060 Antic Disc D Antic 1030 Communications Disk Penril? Disc D Assembler Editor Atari Cart C Atlantis Imagic Cart BC No I Bank Street Writer WP Broderbund Disk BID Basic Atari Cart C Big Bird's Special Delivery CBS Cart BIC Dance Fantasy Fisher-Price Cart BIC Delta Drawing Spinnaker Cart BIC E.T. Phone Home Atari Cart BIC Facemaker Spinnaker Cart BIC Gauntle The Deeper Dungeons Mindscape Disc D Gauntlet Mindscape Disc D Ham Helper K-Tek Disk BID Heathcliff Fun With Spelling Datasoft Disk BID Hickory Dicory Dock/ BAA,BAA,Black Sheep Thorn EMI Tape BIT HomePak Batteries Included Disk B Box only Juggles' House Atari Disk BDO No I Juggle's Rainbow Atari Tape BO No TI Jumbo Jet Pilot Thorn EMI Cart BIC Kidwriter Spinnaker Disk BID Kinder Comp Spinnaker Disk BID Lettery-Go-Round CBS Cart BIDO Mickey In the Great Outdoors Walt Disney Disk BID Micro Illustrator Koala Disc D MicroSubtraction Hayden Software Disk BID Movie Maker EA Disc 2D Music Construction Set EA Disk BID My First Alphabet Atari Disk BD No I P: R: Connection ICD Disc D Print Kit Sesame Street Disk B Box only Print Power HI Tech Expressions Disk B Box only Rubber Stamp Xlent Software Disk BID Snooker & Billiards Thorn EMI Tape BIT Snooper Troops Case #2 (Version 1.0) Spinnaker Disk BID Spider Eater Koala Disc DO Overlay Spy vs Spy First Star Software Disk BID Statistics I Atari Tape BIT Story Machine Spinnaker Cart BC No I SynCalc Synapse Disk BID Flippy Telly Turtle Hayden Software Disk BID The Home Filing Manager Atari Disk B Box only Timewise Atari Disk BD No I Tink! Tonk! Tink's Adventure Sprout Disk BID Tink! Tonk! Tuk Goes to Town Sprout Disk BID World Karate Championship Epyx Disc D 1010 Hong Kong Atari HW 7YJFA 38070123 Clean 1010 Japan Atari HW Cmplt 99HFA 54650 143 Yellow, great feel and quality 1025 Japan Atari HW HM 40853 1030 USA Atari HW BIM 976 FE 42093 095 1050 Singapore Atari HW 7VDFF 85940 244 410 Hong Kong 9/82 Atari HW T060727 410 Hong Kong 9/82 Atari HW T142643 White box + colored box, no S# match 800 USA Atari HW 833 AW 20278 183 850 Serial + Parallel Cables Cables Archer flight Joystick JS Atari XL Power Supply "Beauty Queen" Atari HW CO61982 Commodor White Triangle Joystick JS CX85 Numeric Keypad Atari HW Gemstik JS Gemstik JS ICD Product Catalog 1989 - 1990 ICD Book KoalaPad Koala HW Stylus Included P:R: Connection ICD HW Slik Stik Suncom JS TAC-2 Joystick Suncom JS The Programmer Atari BOX Empty WICO BOSS Joystick Wico JS XEGS Atari No Bughunt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Title Manufacturer Format Parts NotesAITP Introduction to Graphics Atari Tape T Tape1 Alf in the color Caves Spinnaker B Box only Antic - Heavy Metal Art PD060 Antic Disc D Antic 1030 Communications Disk Penril? Disc D Assembler Editor Atari Cart C Atlantis Imagic Cart BC No I Bank Street Writer WP Broderbund Disk BID Basic Atari Cart C Big Bird's Special Delivery CBS Cart BIC Dance Fantasy Fisher-Price Cart BIC Delta Drawing Spinnaker Cart BIC E.T. Phone Home Atari Cart BIC Facemaker Spinnaker Cart BIC Gauntle The Deeper Dungeons Mindscape Disc D Gauntlet Mindscape Disc D Ham Helper K-Tek Disk BID Heathcliff Fun With Spelling Datasoft Disk BID Hickory Dicory Dock/ BAA,BAA,Black Sheep Thorn EMI Tape BIT HomePak Batteries Included Disk B Box only Juggles' House Atari Disk BDO No I Juggle's Rainbow Atari Tape BO No TI Jumbo Jet Pilot Thorn EMI Cart BIC Kidwriter Spinnaker Disk BID Kinder Comp Spinnaker Disk BID Lettery-Go-Round CBS Cart BIDO Mickey In the Great Outdoors Walt Disney Disk BID Micro Illustrator Koala Disc D MicroSubtraction Hayden Software Disk BID Movie Maker EA Disc 2D Music Construction Set EA Disk BID My First Alphabet Atari Disk BD No I P: R: Connection ICD Disc D Print Kit Sesame Street Disk B Box only Print Power HI Tech Expressions Disk B Box only Rubber Stamp Xlent Software Disk BID Snooker & Billiards Thorn EMI Tape BIT Snooper Troops Case #2 (Version 1.0) Spinnaker Disk BID Spider Eater Koala Disc DO Overlay Spy vs Spy First Star Software Disk BID Statistics I Atari Tape BIT Story Machine Spinnaker Cart BC No I SynCalc Synapse Disk BID Flippy Telly Turtle Hayden Software Disk BID The Home Filing Manager Atari Disk B Box only Timewise Atari Disk BD No I Tink! Tonk! Tink's Adventure Sprout Disk BID Tink! Tonk! Tuk Goes to Town Sprout Disk BID World Karate Championship Epyx Disc D 1010 Hong Kong Atari HW 7YJFA 38070123 Clean 1010 Japan Atari HW Cmplt 99HFA 54650 143 Yellow, great feel and quality 1025 Japan Atari HW HM 40853 1030 USA Atari HW BIM 976 FE 42093 095 1050 Singapore Atari HW 7VDFF 85940 244 410 Hong Kong 9/82 Atari HW T060727 410 Hong Kong 9/82 Atari HW T142643 White box + colored box, no S# match 800 USA Atari HW 833 AW 20278 183 850 Serial + Parallel Cables Cables Archer flight Joystick JS Atari XL Power Supply "Beauty Queen" Atari HW CO61982 Commodor White Triangle Joystick JS CX85 Numeric Keypad Atari HW Gemstik JS Gemstik JS ICD Product Catalog 1989 - 1990 ICD Book KoalaPad Koala HW Stylus Included P:R: Connection ICD HW Slik Stik Suncom JS TAC-2 Joystick Suncom JS The Programmer Atari BOX Empty WICO BOSS Joystick Wico JS XEGS Atari No Bughunt? Edited January 18, 2009 by kheller2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 It would be great if you could archive the following: - HAM Helper - microSubtraction (the last one in the series that's needed!) - Telly Turtle (not sure whether it's different from the original version but this release is rare). Do you have the catalog numbers on the disks? Do you have any Hayden Software catalog with that? If you have any time to scan the packaging, that would be fantastic as well. Many thanks for the update, Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 It would be great if you could archive the following:- HAM Helper - microSubtraction (the last one in the series that's needed!) - Telly Turtle (not sure whether it's different from the original version but this release is rare). Do you have the catalog numbers on the disks? Do you have any Hayden Software catalog with that? If you have any time to scan the packaging, that would be fantastic as well. Many thanks for the update, Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com What dpi specs do you want for boxes vs discs vs instructions etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 bump!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Do you own a Tardis or Delorean Doc 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 One of each in true Atari fashion... So how about that? The time machines await Kheller2! -Doc Brown! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 One of my brothers owns a DMC12. I can't talk about the time machine specifics or that he works for the US NRC. I do know the DMC is jealous of my 93 MR2 Turbo. At the moment I don't have any 8 bits up and running. But will put this on my todo list right after the 1450 ROM dumps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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