Hooked on 8-bit carts

[Subby]

Sorry, I was incorrect. I only have a boxed Assembler Editor. I got my boxed Macro Assembler mixed up with Editor Assembler.

Here is a pic of the two carts in question though.

[AtariGeezer]

Here's the Editor Assembler that I have.

 

[Scooter83]

Nice that's the harder of the two to get in my view

[AtariGeezer]

Yep, I've only seen 2 on ebay in the last year or two. I'd love to find the Basic cart in that brown plastic case...

[Scooter83]

That would be a sweet pair. What does the rest of the collection look like

[Atari8bitCarts]

Here's the Editor Assembler that I have.

 

 

This is just that knock off cart from.. was it Best or B&C, I forget.

They come up every once and a while on eBay. I think I've seen it maybe a dozen times.

[Defender II]

It is an original cartridge produced by Atari Inc., it is just a label and case variant.

[Atari8bitCarts]

It is an original cartridge produced by Atari Inc., it is just a label and case variant.

 

Show me some Atari literature and or evidence and I'll believe it then. I remember when they were made and labeled. Atari NEVER used that cart housing in the pic. Nor would create label with font, spacing, and textual issues. Not to mention NO identifier number.

Edited July 3, 2013 by chrislynn5

[AtariGeezer]

This is just that knock off cart from.. was it Best or B&C, I forget.

They come up every once and a while on eBay. I think I've seen it maybe a dozen times.

 

Do you have a link to their page that would verify this?

[Atari8bitCarts]

Do you have a link to their page that would verify this?

Do you have anything Atari related showing it's made by Atari? No box, no instructions.

 

Atari wouldn't have produced these. The shell (brown) isn't Atari. The labels clearly are not Atari made. And if you look closely some have more text then others. No identification number on them.

 

I'll go dig up some research I did on these about 2 years ago, It might have been Bruce that said they were his.

[Scooter83]

All lists I've seen say Atari inc. different brand to the normal Atari. Other Atari protos by b&c come up that way. Not sure why this and basic are list as Atari inc only.

[FULS]

Why would anybody use there eproms and boards and make a Basic Cart?

I must have over 10 Basic carts I need to get rid of one of these days.

[Atari8bitCarts]

Do you have a link to their page that would verify this?

I got an email from Bruce at B&C, he thinks the brown case is a Sirus case. But he did make some, he had a bunch of boards and made some labels but only used the Atari cases.

 

I think that was normal practice by distributors after the crash, they had parts and started making carts out of those parts. We've seen labels made by Al, Best. and B&C. But the BASIC and Assembler labels were not made to be exact, I would think that could get someone in trouble.

 

And real example of this was that Bruce sent me a LOGO cartridge and it was one he created and labeled (they are also floating around). I sent it back and he credited me back, I was looking for an Atari made cart.

Edited July 4, 2013 by chrislynn5

[AtariGeezer]

Ahhhh, cool, thank you for checking into this

Next time I won't pay so much for the brown plastic carts

[Atari8bitCarts]

I think it's on my production cartridge list, so it needs to come off

[AtariGeezer]

Found another ROM from my cart copying days called Plato.

 

plato.xex

This one is different from The Learning Phone...

 

 

I also found the Syn-Assembler on the same floppy.

 

synassmbler.xex

(it appears to be different from the one that was sent to me a year ago.)

Edited August 2, 2013 by AtariGeezer

[k1w1]

Thanks AtariGeezer.

 

The roms don't seem to run on Altira or Atari800Win Plus.

 

k1w1

[voy]

Some carts for Polish Lower-Silesian mutation of Czech Turbo 2000:

 

http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/other/Turbo/Turbo%202000%20%28dolnoslaskie%29/Cartridges/

[AtariGeezer]

Thanks AtariGeezer.

 

The roms don't seem to run on Altira or Atari800Win Plus.

 

k1w1

 

 

I tested plato on Altirra, which tries to boot the modem handler and shows some text on the screen.

I am thinking these need real HW to run? I'll plop them in a Sic! 31-in-one cart to see if that makes a difference...

[AtariGeezer]

Tested on Sic!31-in-1 and Plato works the same, but a no-go for Syn-Assembler.

I'll see what's wrong with the Syn-Assembler image...

[AtariGeezer]

Any see this dumped before?

 

Disk Mfg Test v0.13

 

Edited October 24, 2013 by AtariGeezer

[Caterpiggle]

What it does do ? Testing head of 810 ?

[AtariGeezer]

What it does do ? Testing head of 810 ?

It formats a disk, writes to all sectors, then reads/verifies all sectors. That's all...

[firestorm]

Any dumps of this Atari 810 cartridge?

[BillC]

What it does do ? Testing head of 810 ?

This is the description of the Manufacturing Test Cartridge at Best Electronics

 

Atari 810 Factory Manufacturing Test Cartridge. 810 / 1050 Disk Drive number test (for internal Atari disk drive number slide select switches), Alignment test (requires an Oscilloscope and 5 1/4 Alignment disk), Interchange Test Disk Manufacturing Test (no print out) and 810 Sideboard ROM level check. ©

 

 

It formats a disk, writes to all sectors, then reads/verifies all sectors. That's all...

That description is closer to the Field Exerciser Cartridge except that it doesn't format the floppy. It writes all sectors, reads all sectors, then repeats until stopped(it takes almost 8 minutes to complete a pass). The other test is an alignment test, which just reads track 16 continously until stopped.