holygrailvideogames.com Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) I have been working on cleaning my basement as I have way too much stuff. I went to re-use a box to do some shipping . I thought that all I had in the box was a bunch of newspapers from when the box was shipped to me. Inside of the box is a cartridge that says Crash Dive and has a date of September 83 on it. I have not tested it yet as I currently do not have a working 8 bit set up. Was this cart released? Edited January 31, 2008 by holygrailvideogames.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Nope...sounds like a proto. http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...ERSION_ID=17367 http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=1376 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Was this cart released? Not as far as I know. This is interesting. It was scheduled to be one of the Romox ECPC titles, but AFAIK none has been found before. Could you post pictures, please? Edited January 31, 2008 by deathtrappomegranate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Was this cart released? Not as far as I know. This is interesting. It was scheduled to be one of the Romox ECPC titles, but AFAIK none has been found before. Could you post pictures, please? I was able to find an Atari 800xl. Here is a picture. I haven't followed the 8 bit stuff in many many years. Please let me know if you have seen this game before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Looks interesting! Picture of the cart would be great and help the Atarimania boys verify if it is an official release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Looks interesting!Picture of the cart would be great and help the Atarimania boys verify if it is an official release The cart itself is not an official release. The label is hand written. It says Crash Dive and 9/ 23 or 28 (I can't tell)/83. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Sounds like it might be a genuine prototype, nice find! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 The cart itself is not an official release. The label is hand written. It says Crash Dive and 9/ 23 or 28 (I can't tell)/83. That does sound proto-ish...I don't recognise the screenshot from the A8, although it looks similar to the 2600 release. Is it a Romox ECPC cart? A pic of the cart itself would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I was able to find an Atari 800xl. Here is a picture. I haven't followed the 8 bit stuff in many many years. Please let me know if you have seen this game before. Wow. Okay, so it's Crash Dive by Fox, not the 'Crash Dive!' I linked to. Fox protos usually have handwritten labels. Nice find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 The cart itself is not an official release. The label is hand written. It says Crash Dive and 9/ 23 or 28 (I can't tell)/83. That does sound proto-ish...I don't recognise the screenshot from the A8, although it looks similar to the 2600 release. Is it a Romox ECPC cart? A pic of the cart itself would be great. Here is a picture of the cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Maybe try to dump this cart. Someone has even put simple program that dumps non-banked ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Here is a picture of the cart. Well, that style matches the 2600 Fox protos I've seen, and it isn't a Romox ECPC cart. Congrats, looks like a genuine proto. If you decide to sell, please ask the buyer to consider having the game code dumped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Here is a picture of the cart. Well, that style matches the 2600 Fox protos I've seen, and it isn't a Romox ECPC cart. Congrats, looks like a genuine proto. If you decide to sell, please ask the buyer to consider having the game code dumped! How do you have the game code dumped? I don't want to ship this out but if I could do it myself I would consider it. I haven't decided yet what I am going to do with the game. I might keep it since at least at this point it seems like it might be the only one around. It is nice to have something unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 FWIW I would encourage you to keep it. If you want to dump it, that's best done with a modified OS like Omnimon. If you don't have access to that, you could try a little program that Rybags posted here. I'm sure that there are plenty of others who could help if you don't want to do it yourself. I'm probably too far away for comfort, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 If you do dump and release it, then it might affect it's value. But, if you decide to go ahead - that program should work. You'd need an APE interface if you wanted to upload the file - or you could save it to cassette then use the procedure to create a .CAS image of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasholzer Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 If you do dump and release it, then it might affect it's value. But, if you decide to go ahead - that program should work. You'd need an APE interface if you wanted to upload the file - or you could save it to cassette then use the procedure to create a .CAS image of it. I can never understand this, how can a dump affect the value of his original Crash Dive prototype? In the past I purchased many 'copies' of prototypes from Best Electronics, knowing that they are of no value, as they are not original prototypes. If it's dumped a 1000 times, he still has the only original prototype cartridge. It's like a stamp, a copy of a rare stamp is of no value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I remember playing a game called Crash Dive! and I believe it was an text adventure game and I remember going about have way thru the game and getting stuck and I never finished it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Hello Lynxguy, the Crash Dive you are talking about is a text adventure from Antic magazine or Analog Computing, released there as a type-in listing... But the Crash Dive cart is a completely different game... -Andreas Koch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I can never understand this, how can a dump affect the value of his original Crash Dive prototype? In the past I purchased many 'copies' of prototypes from Best Electronics, knowing that they are of no value, as they are not original prototypes. If it's dumped a 1000 times, he still has the only original prototype cartridge. It's like a stamp, a copy of a rare stamp is of no value. Exactly. The guys that are going to buy a copy or download a ROM, aren't your customers when you are selling a prototype. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hello Lynxguy,the Crash Dive you are talking about is a text adventure from Antic magazine or Analog Computing, released there as a type-in listing... But the Crash Dive cart is a completely different game... -Andreas Koch. Thanks for the info and I was thinking it might have been on an Antic disk but I wan't sure till you mentioned it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 OK, any tries or successes with dumping this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) Nice find. Does it seem like a complete game ? Edited February 7, 2008 by Defender II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Did you dump this game? (bump mode) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I thought the rom for this one was already out there. Supposedly it was released on Romox ECPC cartridges. I'd like to see if this copy is any different though. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 I posted this on eBay tonight. If anyone is interested here is the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...51298%26fvi%3D1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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