RockfordDash Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Hi, I was wondering if someone knows this Boulder Dash version. Is this the official release or hacked BD? What's Mapa Soft? I couldn't find any references. It looks to me like some enthusiast's work. Thanks, RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Perhaps designed by http://atariage.com/forums/user/3960-mapa/ ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Haven't seen that, but it's almost certainly one of the 50,000 or so edited levels floating around out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaPa Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Perhaps designed by http://atariage.com/forums/user/3960-mapa/ ? Surely not 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Hi, I was wondering if someone knows this Boulder Dash version. Is this the official release or hacked BD? What's Mapa Soft? I couldn't find any references. It looks to me like some enthusiast's work. bd2a.png Thanks, RD In Cracow (Poland) in the 80-ties there was a company "Mapasoft". They offered games for ATARI on tapes, since the most of ATARI owners in Poland had XC12 devices. Later they also introduced "Turbo" modifications for XC12 with TOS (Tape Operating System), so I assume they had knowledge to hack Boulder Dash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordDash Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 Thanks for sharing. It seems likely that it was done by them. Whoever did it, did a great job. With Poland being a Wild West (East?) in the 80-ties as far as copyright is concerned, they could get away with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) Yes, game piracy was legal in Poland until 1994. Anyway Mapasoft didn't officialy sell games, but they had a "game copying service", so you could come to Mapasoft with your own tape and they would copy games to it for you https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&tab=wT&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fretrospekcja.net.pl%2F2015%2F11%2F05%2Fsklep-z-pirackimi-grami%2F Edited June 3, 2019 by TheMontezuma 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordDash Posted June 4, 2019 Author Share Posted June 4, 2019 OK, I found more references to Mapasoft: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fc64power.com%2Fforumng%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D6335.0 And this is what their offer looked like: Games came in packs. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Yes, game piracy was legal in Poland until 1994. Anyway Mapasoft didn't officialy sell games, but they had a "game copying service", so you could come to Mapasoft with your own tape and they would copy games to it for you Interesting. How did they make money? Would they still charge you for the copy even though you had to bring your own tape? (And wait around for them to record it? Or was it a drop off/pickup type arrangement?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZuluGula Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 They were selling sets, like you can see in the post above, with a few good games and rest not so good. This way they could sell more tapes. You could also make your own set. In this case they charged you per title. It was more expensive than buying a set, but you got what you wanted. You choose your titles from the list and you could pick up your tape later. They could sell you a new tape, but back then even tapes and floppies were expensive, so many people reuse their own old media when they get bored with the games. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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