Telesys Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Wow, protos and Romox carts, I am about to fall off my chair again (that is now four times in the past week)..... I'll attach a couple of pictures. One is the BBB cart and the other is the Romox version of RamIt! The Romox has their plastic and label and a hanwritten game name since these are not production Romox. I don't even recall what, if anything, was ever released by them but these were given back to us by Romox. Labels not in great shape. I wish I had one of the combo carts that Amiga licensed from us. They had the booth next to us at Comdex Las Vegas and even had displays of the combo carts. When they went thru the licensing process, we couldn't figure out where they thought they would find a market. Of course, they didn't. Turns out the whole thing was a smoke screen to hide the behind the curtain showing of the computer. Here goes with more of the Romox. Labels are rough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Labels are rough. With something as rare as these, just the fact that they have labels is good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telesys Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Wow, protos and Romox carts, I am about to fall off my chair again (that is now four times in the past week)..... I'll attach a couple of pictures. One is the BBB cart and the other is the Romox version of RamIt! The Romox has their plastic and label and a hanwritten game name since these are not production Romox. I don't even recall what, if anything, was ever released by them but these were given back to us by Romox. Labels not in great shape. I wish I had one of the combo carts that Amiga licensed from us. They had the booth next to us at Comdex Las Vegas and even had displays of the combo carts. When they went thru the licensing process, we couldn't figure out where they thought they would find a market. Of course, they didn't. Turns out the whole thing was a smoke screen to hide the behind the curtain showing of the computer. Here goes with more of the Romox. Labels are rough. Here are a couple of what I believe to be pre-production samples although one has a revision date and I have no idea if that was final or not. Someone would probably have to compare code to tell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 Wow, that´s cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Here are a couple of what I believe to be pre-production samples although one has a revision date and I have no idea if that was final or not. Someone would probably have to compare code to tell. The Stargunner is almost definitely the final version. The Demolition Herby probably is as well based on the date, but with the handwritten revision label, it's questionable. I guess we'll find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telesys Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 The handle carts were molded with the Telesys name in the handle and would have been the original. The generic ones were used to save money as you could buy surplus rather than the cost of running your own. At the end we produced a lot for a single customer in Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 The handle carts were molded with the Telesys name in the handle and would have been the original. The generic ones were used to save money as you could buy surplus rather than the cost of running your own. At the end we produced a lot for a single customer in Mexico. Interesting...thanks for posting that. Any idea who produced those generic shells? They produced cartridge cases for several other companies (Apollo, Sega, Wizard, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 The handle carts were molded with the Telesys name in the handle and would have been the original. The generic ones were used to save money as you could buy surplus rather than the cost of running your own. At the end we produced a lot for a single customer in Mexico. I wonder who the single customer in Mexico is. This person very well could have the info on the Blue Air Raid cart by Menavision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telesys Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 The handle carts were molded with the Telesys name in the handle and would have been the original. The generic ones were used to save money as you could buy surplus rather than the cost of running your own. At the end we produced a lot for a single customer in Mexico. Just to be clear, I meant to say we produced them in San Luis Mexico but for a US customer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Very interesting information........did you ever see any blue carts being manufactured that look something like this.... http://www.atariage.com/cart_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=972 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 The handle carts were molded with the Telesys name in the handle and would have been the original. The generic ones were used to save money as you could buy surplus rather than the cost of running your own. At the end we produced a lot for a single customer in Mexico. I wonder who the single customer in Mexico is. This person very well could have the info on the Blue Air Raid cart by Menavision. I think he is referring to the handles on the long Telesys carts and not the T-Handles you are thinking of, Homer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Thjanks for sharing, Telesys! Well, this sure is a pretty sight: http://atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-2-TYPE...-VISU-SCAN.html Unbelievable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Thjanks for sharing, Telesys! Well, this sure is a pretty sight: http://atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-2-TYPE...-VISU-SCAN.html Unbelievable. what a site!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I wonder what exactly the difference was between ECPC and Reusable carts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 There is another Romox cart here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=1441190 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I wonder what exactly the difference was between ECPC and Reusable carts. Just the labels I imagine. I've got many Romox generic carts here for the C64 and they have a mix of ECPC and "Reusable" type labels on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I wonder what exactly the difference was between ECPC and Reusable carts. The label, consumers were probably confused by "Edge Connector Re-programmable Cartridge", since it wasn't spelled out and Romox changed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) Makes sense. Thanks! Here's the latest VCS Romox list, btw: Romox Atari 2600 list (Catalog Volume 1 - Winter 1984): Air Raiders Alien Armor Ambush Astroblast Bank Heist Boing Cakewalk Coconuts Commando Raid Cosmic Creeps Cosmic Swarm Crash Dive Crypts of Chaos Dark Cavern Deadly Duck Demolition Herby Eggomania Fantastic Voyage Fast Eddie Fast Food Flash Gordon Frogs and Flies Gopher Attack Guardians of Treasure International Soccer Lock 'N Chase M*A*S*H Megaforce Mines of Minos Mogul Maniac Off Your Rocker Porky's Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes Ram It Room of Doom Sneak 'N Peak Space Attack Space Jockey Space Master X-7 Squeeze Box Stargunner Star Strike Stronghold Super Challenge Baseball Super Challenge Football The Earth Dies Screaming Turmoil Word Zapper Worm War I Edited January 13, 2008 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 What game is Guardians of Treasure? Is it one of those D&D games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 My guess is that it's Name This Game from US Games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Makes sense. Thanks! Here's the latest VCS Romox list, btw: Romox Atari 2600 list (Catalog Volume 1 - Winter 1984): Interesting, somehow I missed this post, check this out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntavio Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Makes sense. Thanks! Here's the latest VCS Romox list, btw: Romox Atari 2600 list (Catalog Volume 1 - Winter 1984): Interesting, somehow I missed this post, check this out... Where do you get all this cool stuff????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Makes sense. Thanks! Here's the latest VCS Romox list, btw: Romox Atari 2600 list (Catalog Volume 1 - Winter 1984): Interesting, somehow I missed this post, check this out... Where do you get all this cool stuff????? In his garage. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) Makes sense. Thanks! Here's the latest VCS Romox list, btw: Romox Atari 2600 list (Catalog Volume 1 - Winter 1984): Interesting, somehow I missed this post, check this out... Interesting. Beany Bopper is still on that list. Edited May 11, 2009 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Any chance of slinging me some scans of all the Commodore pages (Vic20 and C64), as there's a couple of games listed I hadn't known about...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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