Gemstone Warrior - Mystery items

[JagChris]

Who was it that first accomplished the bank switching on the 8bits? Lucasfilm? That is how they are making the cartridges bigger than 16k isnt it?

[Gunstar]

It may have been Lucasfilm/Atari when they made ROF and Ballblazer for the 5200. The Lucasfilm games didn't come out on cartridge for the computers until '87 with the XEGS, before that the games only came on disk for the computers. But there were many others who started making bank-switching carts for the 400/800, IIRC. There are many different banking schemes for 8-bit cartridges, which modern flash cartridges like Atarimax's and others support most or all of them.

Edited June 2, 2020 by Gunstar

[Bill Loguidice]

It's not a bad thought, but if the market wasn't there, it would be difficult to justify the relative cost, expense, and risk of cartridge production releases versus disk-based products. I have never gotten the impression that the XEGS made a significant enough market impact to justify more than what it received in terms of new cartridge support, especially in light of it being in a weird position versus even the other Atari products at the time, not to mention the other cartridge-based consoles (acknowledging that the XEGS tried to toe a weird line).

[_The Doctor__]

Inhouse carts (2600 and 8 bit), then possibly real sports baseball(retail) on the 2600, and or robot tank from third party(retail)... among others.

 

time to get back on target folks

Edited June 2, 2020 by _The Doctor__

[+Allan]

https://archive.org/details/phantasie-i-and-phantasie-ii-rulebook-ssi/mode/2up

 

 

[JagChris]

Sooo... Playing this on the SD Max card. Last week I created a save disk with it on the SD Max. One of the few times one of these programs has allowed that. And even a week later it knows where to find this save game and settings without me having to tell it anything. It just knows where it stuck it on that huge SD card.  Which is good because I have no idea where it went. Kinda blowing my mind

 

[leech]

41 minutes ago, JagChris said:

Sooo... Playing this on the SD Max card. Last week I created a save disk with it on the SD Max. One of the few times one of these programs has allowed that. And even a week later it knows where to find this save game and settings without me having to tell it anything. It just knows where it stuck it on that huge SD card.  Which is good because I have no idea where it went. Kinda blowing my mind

 

Sweet, hiw the hell does that work?  It just created an ATR for you?  I didn't think Gemstone Warrior used a separate save disk, though it has been a while since I played it.

[JagChris]

I dunno. I remember it named it some gobbledygook name when I pointed it at 'new' and then stuck it God knows where. It's all some crazy kinda voodoo to me