Lord-Chaos Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 I think there were a couple of games, mostly made in Europe (UK), that were only released on cassette. Booting from cassette is a pain on the ATARI since these programs did not use speedloaders (there were some speedloaders in the 80s,but they all did not work that good, I think because the ATARI tape uses only 1/4 of the tape to allow playing music while loading.). The companies who made cassette games were Mastertronic, Silverbird, Zeppelin, Players, Bug-Byte and some others I don´t remember. AFAIK Mastertronic also made disk-versions for the US market, at least of their C64 games. But I wonder if anyone made cartridge versions of the Zeppelin, Mastertronic etc. games ? Thimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Well, apart from some multi-load games, it wouldn't be too difficult. Most of the other programs exist as single files already so it's simply a matter of transferring them to cartridge format. You're right, there were several disk-based A8 Mastertronic titles for the US market: Ninja, LA SWAT / Panther, Despatch Rider, Molecule Man, Vegas Jackpot, Last V8... -- Atarimania http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 I think there were a couple of games, mostly made in Europe (UK), that were only released on cassette. Booting from cassette is a pain on the ATARI since these programs did not use speedloaders (there were some speedloaders in the 80s,but they all did not work that good, I think because the ATARI tape uses only 1/4 of the tape to allow playing music while loading.). The companies who made cassette games were Mastertronic, Silverbird, Zeppelin, Players, Bug-Byte and some others I don´t remember. AFAIK Mastertronic also made disk-versions for the US market, at least of their C64 games. But I wonder if anyone made cartridge versions of the Zeppelin, Mastertronic etc. games ? Thimo Nir Dary has made multi-carts of many of the titles in the respective Zeppelin, Red Rat, Sonix, and Mastertronic catalogues. He might be able to help you here. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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