Count9929A Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Tombstone City is one of the three TI games released on disk, beside module. By chance, I found the (supposedly faithful) image of the Tombstone City disk in the TOSEC. This disk image contains the game in file object format, with file name TOMB. It seems exactly the same file that is present on the EA disk B. However the instruction to load the game given in the manual, assume that the disk contains the game in EA5 format and that the file is called GAME. Namely, exactly the same format/filename used for the other two game releases on disk (Munchman and TI Invader). I checked the TOSEC image for those 2 other disks, and their content is consistent with the manual. So I think that someone created the disk for Tombostone city by simply copying the file from EA Disk B, making it inconsistent with the manual instructions. What I would like to know if the error was made by TI, or by the TOSEC people. Anyone knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 I think I may have a copy of the original disk/manual around here somewhere. If I can track it down, I will verify the contents. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count9929A Posted August 15, 2021 Author Share Posted August 15, 2021 I have also checked the disk dump in the gamebase: it's the same as the one in the TOSEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count9929A Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Bump [inspired by the thread on EA Diskette B]. @Ksarul: any news about the original release in diskette format of Tombstone City? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 23 minutes ago, Count9929A said: Bump [inspired by the thread on EA Diskette B]. @Ksarul: any news about the original release in diskette format of Tombstone City? Here is a copy of Editor/Assembler Disk B with “Tombstone City” on it. Editor-Assembler Part B.dsk ...lee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count9929A Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 @Lee thanks, but I am interested in the official release of "Tombstone City" on disk, as standalone game. See post #1 for the reason. 8 minutes ago, Lee Stewart said: Here is a copy of Editor/Assembler Disk B with “Tombstone City” on it. Editor-Assembler Part B.dsk 90 kB · 1 download ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 7 hours ago, Count9929A said: Bump [inspired by the thread on EA Diskette B]. @Ksarul: any news about the original release in diskette format of Tombstone City? Oddly enough, I was looking at my Tombstone City disk this past weekend. . .and it is the standalone version too. I'll pull it out again and check, now that I know where it is again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 What were the other two games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Just now, Tempest said: What were the other two games? Munchman and TI Invaders were the other two disk releases of games usually only found on cartridge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 13 minutes ago, Ksarul said: Munchman and TI Invaders were the other two disk releases of games usually only found on cartridge. I believe the TI Invaders disk release has also been converted to a ROM cartridge. The zeroes in this release are slashed, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 15 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: I believe the TI Invaders disk release has also been converted to a ROM cartridge. The zeroes in this release are slashed, IIRC. Interesting. Any other differences? Why did they release these on disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Tempest said: Interesting. Any other differences? Why did they release these on disk? The disk releases came after the cartridges and were intended to attract people with disk systems to the games, as the disks were a little less costly than the cartridges. It gave folks an option. None of the disk versions were well-marketed, so sales stayed abysmally low for all of them. TI then quietly dropped them and doubled down on the more profitable cartridge releases. . . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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