Tickled_Pink Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I didn't realise there was any freezer device for the ST. It'd probably have been a relatively simple job, much less complex hardware than Amiga so somewhat easier to create/resume from a state file. I'm surprised you didn't know. I had a Romantic Robot Multiface ST. Oh ... someone's mentioned it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 There was also a company called Alpha Systems that sold battery backed up ram disks that connected to the cartdridge port. I think there was two models, a 1meg and 2meg version. Wanted one, but never could affort it back in the day. I don't anyone bought one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 A "Deskcart" just sold on Ebay...... (click to enlarge) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lp060 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) There was also a company called Alpha Systems that sold battery backed up ram disks that connected to the cartdridge port. I think there was two models, a 1meg and 2meg version. Wanted one, but never could affort it back in the day. I don't anyone bought one. Someone did. There was a revised driver from, I think it was the CodeHeads. Edited June 28, 2012 by lp060 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I think I have a Deskcart. Battery is probably dead. Isn't that the thing that provided more instant apps to your desktop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I had a Backpack cartridge back in the day. Offered some simple apps like calculator, address book, notepad, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) I have a Deskcart too, but paid $40 for it and the manual. Other ST carts I have are the Spectre GCR (2) and Fast Basic and Computer Eyes (2) (bought 1 new when they came out)... Jay Edited June 28, 2012 by AtariGeezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake.depression Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Wasn't there some radio controlled helicopter sim that used the cart port? R.C. Aerochopper was a cart with a connection for a modified Futaba controller. IIRC, the game loads off of just the cart. I ripped it out and it can be found here (if someone want made some modifications)... http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=23495 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark willow Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 I don't think any *games* came out on cart, though I remember reading somewhere there were some commercial games which used a basic dongle for copyright protection (you needed the dongle in order to run the game, even though the game was on disk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I don't think any *games* came out on cart, though I remember reading somewhere there were some commercial games which used a basic dongle for copyright protection (you needed the dongle in order to run the game, even though the game was on disk) Right. Like Leaderboard Golf - don't know what type of dongle was it. Bat II used dongle for serial port, what was likely very primitive and cheap. But removing dongle check was really easy. Btw. many games have check for cartridge presence, and if detect it, then usually delete whole RAM and similar - to prevent cracking, saving snapshot of RAM after all loadings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serblander Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 The only game based cartridge peripheral that i know of is the sound module cart (that served as copy protection as well) for the game B.A.T. (Bureau of Astral Troubleshooters): a point and click sci fi adventure that reminded me heavily of Total Recall Here's some info on the cart from good ole wiki: The Atari ST version was notable in the fact that it shipped with a dongle purporting to be a 16-channel sound card. This was required to play the game, but resulted in no sound being transmitted to the attached monitor or television, and to get any sound at all the user was forced to either play the game wearing headphones plugged into the dongle, or purchase external speakers. It is also dubious whether the dongle produced higher quality sound, since the music did not feature any more channels than regular sound-chip music. The card actually contained a 12-bit DAC, giving the dynamic range for 16 simultaneous 8-bits samples at the expense of the CPU given the lack of DMA. The game audio itself only used up to 4 simultaneous samples. I liked this game quite a bit. Still have it CIB, looking to get the sequel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 BAT 2 has some protection dongle on serial port too. Maybe they wanted to prevent owners of BAT to play simply copy of BAT 2 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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