Opry99er Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 As it says... I have dollars or I have trade items. Need to rebuild our Tronics collection from when I was a kid. Picture Parts is the first one I'm looking for, but any of them would be most welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 These are the ones I know of... there are probably more out there. Accounting Assistant Activity Accountant Attendance Recorder Frog Jump Number Bowling Picture Parts Pyramid Puzzler Salary Planner School Mailer Space Journey Star Maze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 The only Tronics carts I have ever seen in the wild were the six game cartridges. I've never seen any of the five school management carts with a Tronics label--and for that matter, there are no more than five or six of any of the school management cartridges in the wild with a Scott Foresman label either. All of those fit into the mega rare category. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 21 minutes ago, Ksarul said: The only Tronics carts I have ever seen in the wild were the six game cartridges. I've never seen any of the five school management carts with a Tronics label--and for that matter, there are no more than five or six of any of the school management cartridges in the wild with a Scott Foresman label either. All of those fit into the mega rare category. Thanks for the info, Jim! I know we had at least two of the non-game carts back in the day (directly from the Tronics warehouse). What a pity they're all gone now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 I have these two manuals for Tronics games I no longer have. They're great to have, as I've never seen either of these anywhere else other than in my collection... but I need the games to go with them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I don't know if they are the same, but I think I have both titles in my EPROM collection are maybe in my collection of games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I'll have to look further. I have seen them somewhere in my collection. I just have to find them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Don't know if this will help but here they are as GRAMULATOR files. You will have to convert them to a more usable format. OWEN.dsk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I just validated my manual set, Owen. The only Tronics manual I have is for Picture Parts. I also compared it to both varieties if the Scott Foresman manual. All of the changes are in the first and last few pages, mostly to change things to Tronics instead of Scott Foresman. The content is otherwise identical. Note also that there is a secondary way to get the Tronics labelled cartridges: look for the Scott Foresman versions of the six math games with red text labels (as opposed to the normal blue text). Look carefully and you will see that the red labels are applied over a Tronics label. It is possible to carefully remove them without destroying the Tronics label (I did this once BITD to try to figure out what the underlying label was). It is a bit easier to find cartridges like this than it is to find the native Tronics label by itself. Note that the SF version with red print is a lot harder to find than the ones with the blue text labels, but they are a lot more common than the ones wih just a Tronics label. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Wow Owen! them are two fantastic manuals! i also never seen them before and i didn't know that tronics had made custom manuals for their cartridges. instead, about cartridges, I got SF cartridges that if I took off the label there was under the tronics one. maybe the tronics were relabelled and resold as SF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 ah ok! ksarul and me replied at the same time, ok so SF relabelled is a truth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 Very interesting to know on the red SF carts.....:) are the ROMs identical, byte for byte, to their Tronics counterparts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 i never disassembled one to compare to be honest ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 The use the same GROMs. The cartridges were prepared for Tronics but ended up in overstock status. Scott Foresman then relabeled them and sold them with the two-page manuals later on, as the math games series was pretty popular and it didn't make sense to write them off. The physical cartridges were produced by TI and sold to SF in bulk from what I've been able to determine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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