Roklan Carts Compatibility color question

[FND]

Not sure if this has been brought up before but did a fast search and did not see it

 

Anyway my question since Roklan seems to have issued the same 8bit carts in different colors

could it have to do with the Atari 800 / 800XL Compatibility

Yellow carts Atari 800

Brown Atari 800 xl

Just curious since I just won this auction for a Yellow Gorf that only works with the 800 and it made

me think about compatibility and the color differences

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 320872388420

Edited March 26, 2012 by FND

[Rybags]

Could be. Not many cartridge games were incompatible with XL but most/all were due to illegal OS calls which were easily fixed (although tough luck for owners of the first version)

 

Naturally, an "XL fixed" version would work on the older machines too.

[MrFish]

I have a brown Gorf cart and it definitely doesn't work in an XL/XE machine. I've never heard of or seen a Gorf dump (sounds funny) that's XL/XE compatible.

[FND]

I have a brown Gorf cart and it definitely doesn't work in an XL/XE machine. I've never heard of or seen a Gorf dump (sounds funny) that's XL/XE compatible.

 

Ah that helps I just assumed that there was a GORF XL/XE compatible version and the cart color differences jumped to mind, mystery solved.

So there is no XL/XE Gorf cart, Seems like there would be a market for one

[Atari8bitCarts]

Can you post some pictures. I thought all legit (from mfg) carts were yellow.

[MrFish]

 

There was also a picture of one posted in the "bit o' booty" thread, a little ways down the list here.

[Defender II]

The cartridge cases and their colors were just what Roklan ordered from their suppliers.

There's no connection with which system they work on.

Edited March 26, 2012 by Defender II

[Atari8bitCarts]

Well, maybe the colors of the case show time period produced. It almost appears that later ones were made yellow? I would think since LifeSpan was one of the last titles.

Or maybe the color shell was decided based on PCB? I think Da'Fuzzzz was white which is even weirder

[_The Doctor__]

The colors did correlate to the circuitry inside and did effect what they ran on due to a timing issue... certain yellow star maze cartridges will run on and 800 no problem and not so properly on and xl xe, while others will work just fine.... it also could indicate weather you got an actual chip or a blob on a card type cartridge.... The grey and brown seem to work just fine no matter what so long as proper os is running

Edited October 18, 2014 by _The Doctor__