Tanman Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Where there programs that only came out on the cassette drive? Or did everything find it's way to cart/floppy? Someone just gave me a cassette drive and didn't know if there was anything to collect. Thanks! Tanman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobus Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Educational titles like Atari Speed Reading, Conversational French/German/Spanish - anything that had a voice sound track was pretty much cassette only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanman Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Any collectors market for any of that stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Any collectors market for any of that stuff? Not really - they're readily available for around $10 each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 (edited) Loads of games available thing is they are mostly of UK/Euro origin so i am not sure if they will work in the US Look for tape games from mastertronic, us gold/Americana software, ocean (only a few), gremlin (only a few), atlantis, hi tech, byte back, zeppelin/cognito/tynesoft, codemasters, Atari UK, Activision (mainly tape version of US games, only real uk releases was spindizzy and rampage/ghostbusters), Harlequin (can't remember how many, wasn't much), Microprose (like activison, mainly tape versions of US games) Electronic arts (quiet a few) alternative, English software, CRL (only 2 and one of then was distrib. by EA), Domark (only a couple), System 3, CDS/Blue Ribbon, RedRat, Mandarin/Rainbird, Firebird, Beyond (i think only the one), Melbourne House,Digital Integration, Thorn EMI/Creative Sparks, Level 9, Novagen (published in US by Synapse i think), Databyte, Mirrorsoft, Addictive, bubble bus, First star, Ariolasoft (distrib. for EA) Futureware, Adventure Int. and A & F Edited April 21, 2010 by carmel_andrews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 (edited) Most UK/Euro tape games runs just fine on the NTSC A8's I have 15 or more games, off the top of my head the BBSB tape won't boot I have no idea why. You can try out *.cas files using APE to see what does works and what don't. Edited April 21, 2010 by walter_J64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizWor Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 My cassette library consisted of zaxxon, energy czar, midway, war of the worlds, and nukewar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 My cassette library consisted of zaxxon, energy czar, midway, war of the worlds, and nukewar. I had Energy Czar and States & Capitals (US). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I have a bunch of tapes but I don't know if they were available on disk. Joystick sketchpad Sound editor Intro to sound Intro to graphics Writing programs Peek and Poke Graph it Touch typing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipj Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I got a 1200XL with a tape player, but I don't have the conection cord to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariksi Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Educational titles like Atari Speed Reading, Conversational French/German/Spanish - anything that had a voice sound track was pretty much cassette only. And pretty hard to convert to disk without adding some sort of speech synthesizer as the digitize voice would hog up too much memory/disk space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 the BBSB tape won't boot I have no idea why. We concluded here that it is 'region' locked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 the BBSB tape won't boot I have no idea why. We concluded here that it is 'region' locked. Is the cartridge version of that banked like Atari 5200 cart? Too expensive to get that game working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 the BBSB tape won't boot I have no idea why. We concluded here that it is 'region' locked. Oh, I see 'region' locked too bad, the only way to get BBSB to boot on a NTSC A8 is to have a ANTIC PAL mod then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Is the cartridge version of that banked like Atari 5200 cart? Too expensive to get that game working. Not only did it use its own banking model but the cleverness is that the speed between bank calls and returns (to the original calling bank) are critical and so trying to do this on other banking models doesn't work. Read here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 In the UK (and probably most of Europe) a lot of stuff was tape only because people were too backward/poor to buy an expensive disk drive. The 1050 was around £150 at one point IIRC. In the UK, parents had been spoiled by cheap little machines like the Spectrum so to fork out £250+ for a computer AND a disk drive was way too much for most parents to swallow. In today's money, that's more like £500 - £600. Most parents wouldn't pay that for a PC for their kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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