www.atarimania.com Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 As the auction is US only, I was wondering whether somebody would be interested in getting this very rare game so it can be archived: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 330665750105 Thanks in advance for any help. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Well I was going to, but now you have told everyone how rare it is a bidding war will break out and it will go for stupid money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 Well, I hope not... Thing is it's pretty difficult to know who is interested in picking up such items and archiving them. There are regular contributors for sure but do the hardcore collectors actually frequent AtariAge? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin_Lunchbox Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Everest-climbing "logistics management" game by "experienced climber," sounds really good, but you never know quite what you're going to get with BASIC simulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 According to the review in the 1984 edition of The Book of Atari Software, the game is all text and pretty much like Kingdom set in another environment. I believe it was given a D+ or something so we certainly didn't lose a masterpiece... Anyway, as the program is probably just a single BASIC file, I'm confident it will at least appear in cracked form from some old pirate compilation disk... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Well, I hope not... Thing is it's pretty difficult to know who is interested in picking up such items and archiving them. There are regular contributors for sure but do the hardcore collectors actually frequent AtariAge? Not the one who won it, although he is a member here. My guess is though that your going to have to keep looking for it. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Yup, once it got over $30 I had to bow out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I've got one in the same condition I'll sell for $40 shipped in the U.S. if anyone is interested :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Your choice of course but why not dump the disk? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 So... any chances for sharing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Here is the PRO image I created. Everest Explorer.zip Edited January 9, 2012 by Farb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Thanks! So the game is copy-protected? Just asking because the two Acorn Software programs that I dumped years ago - Lost Colony and French Teacher #1 - weren't. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Hmmm, it's a basic program... shouldn't be a problem removing any protection if there is any. I'll convert it to an ATR and see how it loads. It has DOS and an autorun.sys, besides Everest... Viewing the Everest file in ATR Tools, I see only one ML routine... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 So the game is copy-protected? Just asking because the two Acorn Software programs that I dumped years ago - Lost Colony and French Teacher #1 - weren't. Not necessarily. I image all of my original disks as PRO images so I know they came from originals (vs. a found ATR for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Here's a working ATR, no protection on the original Jay Everest.atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Thanks! <snip> Thanks, too! The more discoveries like this, the bigger number of "lost programs" saved. Edited January 10, 2012 by miker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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