alyeregotist Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi all, First time posting (technically second... another user told me to put this here as he thought this might be a better section for it (originally posted in the Atari 8-Bit Computers section).... apologies if it's seen as spamming) I just joined today and was wondering if ye could help me out? I collect for many many systems but I've always had a shine for prototypes and or test / promo carts. Could anyone give me information on this cart please as unfortunately Atari is not my area of expertise at all. What I've been told is that it would have been supplied by Atari to service centers to verify systems were working. It seems to be the same cart as the RX8031 Donkey Kong cart but I don't actually have a physical system to test it at present. My next question would be is it legit? or would anything point to it being real? I opened it as can be seen in the picture included but genuinely can't figure out how to get the pcb fully out of the plastic cartridge shell. I don't want to risk damaging it. The plastic part that would shroud the screw (has been removed where the pcb is visible) seems to be restricting me removing it even when the plastic tab at the top has been carefully pulled up. Im so sorry for all the innocent clueless questions. As i mentioned before I'm fairly dumb when it comes to Atari but I'm here to learn! Al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Hello, the board inside the cartridge is not a prototype, 2364's are 8K mask ROM's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyeregotist Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Hello, the board inside the cartridge is not a prototype, 2364's are 8K mask ROM's. cool. thank you. Ill get on google and check that out. Someone else suggested it was a loaner.... what exactly does a loaner entail? and or mean? Like a promo or test cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 This is probably a review copy. Prototypes have EPROM's in them, it was and still is very expensive to do a run of mask ROM's, so they were only used after a game was determined to be finished. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter83 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I always thought they were for Atari service center shops for testing systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyy Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 there's mine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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