R4ngerM4n Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Anyone know how many matterhorn's exist? I heard a rumor of 10 in exist? There are more than 10 known to exist, though no boxed one. During my collectors life I came across three carts. Also, Matterhorn was definitively sold outside of the US. What is history behind this cartridge and Espial and does anyone have one boxed? There exist at least two boxed Espials. No story yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeun Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Just got these last night: Another thread labeled the Six Pack cart "extremely rare". Oh, and I also got about a half-dozen Basic carts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qix_maniac Posted March 4, 2011 Author Share Posted March 4, 2011 Just got these last night: Another thread labeled the Six Pack cart "extremely rare". Oh, and I also got about a half-dozen Basic carts nice! what dos six pack do? still no one has claimed an Espial cartridge! bummer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeun Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 nice! what dos six pack do? still no one has claimed an Espial cartridge! bummer! According to the manual, you can put several different types of eproms into it, and access up to 48K of bank-switched data. Er...what that actually does for you is beyond me at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krslam Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Not even sure what this Hyper drive cart does. Some sort of battery-backed RAMdisk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Nothing quite as elaborate as the folks here, but these are my more obscure ones. What is Jurrasic park? Where did you get that one? Thanx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I finally found the, what I call ultra, rare Chalkboard bear jam! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qix_maniac Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 holy batman! BearJam cartridge! not only cartridge but boxed as well? what a score. I think that would probably bring $500+ on ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHA Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 well i got salt version 2.07, but i think synapse series number 19 of 50 is my rarest sorry no pictures (havent sussed out how to do it properly yet!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 well i got salt version 2.07, but i think synapse series number 19 of 50 is my rarest sorry no pictures (havent sussed out how to do it properly yet!!) Yea, Salt 2.07 is around, I think Salt 2.05 and 2.04 are the rare ones. I'd love to find a Synapse Series cart by Sunmark (yea, those are just ROM's slapped onto a Multi-cart, but it is collectable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Anyone know how many matterhorn's exist? I heard a rumor of 10 in exist?What is history behind this cartridge and Espial and does anyone have one boxed? Hi there. I've been out of Atari circulation for a while, but, when I was last around, there were 12 Matterhorn carts known, but no box. One of them is mine, and two of the others were, at some point. The boxed Espial pictured on Atarimania is mine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Anyone know how many matterhorn's exist? I heard a rumor of 10 in exist?What is history behind this cartridge and Espial and does anyone have one boxed? Hi there. I've been out of Atari circulation for a while, but, when I was last around, there were 12 Matterhorn carts known, but no box. One of them is mine, and two of the others were, at some point. The boxed Espial pictured on Atarimania is mine. ouch, do you have any duplicates in that collection that you "need" to find a good home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qix_maniac Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Anyone know how many matterhorn's exist? I heard a rumor of 10 in exist?What is history behind this cartridge and Espial and does anyone have one boxed? Hi there. I've been out of Atari circulation for a while, but, when I was last around, there were 12 Matterhorn carts known, but no box. One of them is mine, and two of the others were, at some point. The boxed Espial pictured on Atarimania is mine. Sealed Espial in the picture? If not sealed can you take picture of cart & manual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Sealed Espial in the picture? If not sealed can you take picture of cart & manual? It's not sealed. There are scans of the cart and the manual on Atarimania already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) I'm not sure I'd call anything I have "rare". The rarest commercially released cart I have is BASIC XL. I don't even own one of those rare Atari BASIC carts. Other than that the rarest would probably be STARGATE, BERSERK, and KANGAROO which were not actually released by Atari. (found and released as homebrews) Edited February 17, 2012 by JamesD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 (edited) I only have the carts, but HERO, but Bounty Bob Strikes Back, River Raid, Atlantis, In-Store Demo are probably the rarest I've got... do all the non-BASIC programming language cartridges count? Edited November 15, 2019 by CommodoreDecker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo/ng Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 know this doesnt count 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 5 hours ago, solo/ng said: know this doesnt count Sweet! Is this available now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 On 2/7/2011 at 1:29 PM, sloopy said: and we few... we fortunate few, have the luxury of owning one... or two... or ten... think of all those poor souls who dont have one... Yeah. Poor me. I don't have an Atari 8 bit. I don't have a BASIC cart. Poor me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, CommodoreDecker said: do all the non-BASIC programming language cartridges count? Only if they are from OSS. Regardless of rarity. Edited November 16, 2019 by Gunstar 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Posted this in another thread, but just saw this one. This used to be Computer Chess, now butchered into 4K extra RAM for 800. Definately the only one of these. and the last photo is what happened to the Chess ROM ? probably the only one that looks like that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 On 2/4/2011 at 6:00 AM, mimo said: not many rares left in my collection, Fast Eddy is probably the rarest, along with kindercomp,story machine,fraction fever,alf in the color caves,journey to the planets. so just a bunch of 7's oh, actually an 8, Rally Speedway by Adventure International I just checked a couple online sellers. "Fast Eddie" really rakes in the $$$. So do some others, wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 8 hours ago, Gunstar said: Only if they are from OSS. Regardless of rarity. OSS... Open Source Software?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 9 hours ago, bluejay said: Yeah. Poor me. I don't have an Atari 8 bit. I don't have a BASIC cart. Poor me. From Wikipedia: "The blue jay is a noisy, bold, and aggressive passerine." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 On 11/16/2019 at 6:07 AM, TGB1718 said: This used to be Computer Chess, now butchered into 4K extra RAM for 800. Definately the only one of these. Heh, that's nifty. Same 6116 2K SRAM chips as found in the Happy 810 and earlier version Happy 1050 enhancements. If they had taken it up to 8K, it could have stood in for an 8K memory card in a 32K 400 or 800, to bring it up to the maximum 40K usable with BASIC also present. So... does the RAM map to the upper or lower half of the 8K right cartridge area in the memory map? Or maybe it repeats like the original 4K computer chess ROM would have. Curious about the output of ?FRE(0) from BASIC with this present? And then take one 16KB RAM card out of the 800 and test again. Might be still report the same. A quick test to see if the 4K of RAM is repeated would be to poke a value into memory location 32768, and then see if a peek of 36864 (4096 bytes higher) returns the same value. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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