FND Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) How many of these have been found DP says two but I think the info is a few years old Recently purchased Edited October 28, 2008 by FND 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 There are very few around, only some pre-production copies. Don't know how many but I know of five at least. Roklan went out of business just before the game was released and 5,000 cartridges were destroyed. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FND Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) There are very few around, only some pre-production copies. Don't know how many but I know of five at least. Roklan went out of business just before the game was released and 5,000 cartridges were destroyed. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Thanks for the Quick reply and info Its much appreciated I guess that would explain these carts marked sample all came from the same source maybe a game reviewer ? BTW I have some proto 8-bit Utility carts not listed on Atarimania would you be interested in scans also have a BIO DEFENSE cart with tymac talkies proto label if interested Edited October 28, 2008 by FND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I have two in my possession. Trying to find out if Lifepsan was ever sold. One of mine might have come from a consumer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 a handful only.... you should do dumps of them and compare against the sample carts... there really shouldn't be much of a difference if any... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Roklan went out of business just before the game was released and 5,000 cartridges were destroyed. Wonderful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) Roklan was forced out of business by Motorola. Bankrupted actually. The damage to the client portfolio hurt the entire market and Motorola itslef on the boomerang that ensued. The setbacks to the parties involved really helped hurt all of the machines being coded or having software ported at the time and hit the Atari platform the hardest. Edited February 20, 2019 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Doc, Do you know how to play Lifespan? This is a freaky weird game. Instructions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Doc, Do you know how to play Lifespan? This is a freaky weird game. Instructions? Read the Antic version manual. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-lifespan_2985.html Docs on the second disk. Allan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-lifespan_2985.html download the zip... boot the second side. That's the info you want. Allen posted a broken link, though I know he meant to post what I have in his stead. Edited February 22, 2019 by _The Doctor__ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Some characters got added to the end. Argg!! Thanks for the correct link. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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