Homebrew Cart Boxes

[Magic Knight]

Hi y'all

 

After ordering and getting a copy of Xenophobe from Lance, i decided it needed a decent box to house it in. As there are no official releases of this game, i had a spare cart box (Eastern Front 1941).

 

 

So i (painstakenly) photoshopped the graphics up to scratch, and text, laminated and stuck together. The results were pleasing considering this approach.

 

 

 

 

As im looking to add more rare carts to my collection which wont have boxes, i cant obviously scrap real boxes for this.

 

 

Does anyone have a hi-res template for the XE box series they can post?

 

 

Note: im dont have any interntion of starting a cottage industry with boots and selling - this is purely for taking extra pride in my cart collection. Its hats off to GR8, Lance, Atari sales/service and the programmers still out there keeping the interest alive!

 

Any photos of similar homebrew boxes would be interesting to see here , has anyone done similar?

 

 

Rich

Edited February 16, 2013 by Magic Knight

[beamer320i]

Hi Rich,

 

Great result! That box looks way cool, I always felt this game (and others) deserved a box such as this, nice one. Good game as well.

 

Cheers,

Dom

[Magic Knight]

Ok,had to come up with this one!

 

 

 

Classic Barbarian with the controversial packaging and Poster and a8 program on tape

 

I made this:

 

*using Spectrum 48k packaging for the basis,

*swopped spools from the tape from a basf tape which was 15 min long.

*Converted from XEX to CAS to wav (using A8 Cass convert program)

*Recorded through the headphone socket to a tape recorder (left channel)

* loads fine.

 

Frustrating when this came out for the 8-bits in '87 and Atari got ignored. Looks good in my collection!

 

more to come!

 

Richard