starraider Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Games were often released both on disk and tape. Sometimes the tape had less features than the diskversion, e.g. I believe that Zorro had fewer rooms on tape. Does anybody know other games with different versions on tape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Games were often released both on disk and tape. Sometimes the tape had less features than the diskversion, e.g. I believe that Zorro had fewer rooms on tape. Does anybody know other games with different versions on tape? I'm getting Zorro soon on tape Ive the disk version I'll let you know, but I've got Gauntlet on tape and on disk the only differece with the two is the load time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I remember I use to play MULE in tape version, I could play only with leggite with different colors, the rest mantains the same. devweb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I remember The Goonies on tape and this version had different music on title screen that the disk version. What's more - of course the texts like "Press Play and Return" and so on. Now I have somewhere the 130XE version of it - made straightly from tape version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Games were often released both on disk and tape. Sometimes the tape had less features than the diskversion, e.g. I believe that Zorro had fewer rooms on tape. Does anybody know other games with different versions on tape? I'm getting Zorro soon on tape Ive the disk version I'll let you know, but I've got Gauntlet on tape and on disk the only differece with the two is the load time. In Gauntlet you could jump to the next Level or you could try to jump to a higher level though... So the Gamepay is not linear. While on Disc the program simply can load different Levels by reading different sectors and different tracks, on tape the datablocks are straight one after the other. So my questions are: Is it possible to jump over several levels on the Tape version? If it is so.... How is it realized in the Tape version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I have Hawkquest on cassette and that doesn't have the underground levels just the shoot-em-up parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Yes you can skip leves in Gauntlet's tape version it use side 1 of the tape to load the game and side 2 of the tape is for the leves it loads about 7 levels in to the 8-bit memory and if you die you have to back up side 2. I have not made it to the end of the tape, Yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Trying to recall the differences but I know the two versions of Jumpman were different. Seems there were more lvl's, a save feature, and you could skip around/randomize lvl's on the disk version. But my memory could be faulty in regards to it. Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 International Karate only gave you two locations in the cassette version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Hmm... Was there the tape version of Jumpman? Maybe Jumpman Junior... - a kind of rip of Jumpman :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Hmm... Was there the tape version of Jumpman? Maybe Jumpman Junior... - a kind of rip of Jumpman :] Yep, there was a cassette version of Jumpman. I had it because I couldn't afford $500 for a disk drive at the time so I was limited to a 1010. How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 International Karate only gave you two locations in the cassette version hmm... not three??? in IK the scenery was selected by some function key - don't remember which now... Maybe you think about World Karate Championships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 No, there are just two locations on the tape version of International Karate: side A is Sydney, side B Mount Fuji. Serpentine and Choplifter! have enhanced disk versions. Zaxxon, Astro Chase, Frogger... are different as well. -- Atarimania http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Hmm... Was there the tape version of Jumpman? Maybe Jumpman Junior... - a kind of rip of Jumpman :] Yep, there was a cassette version of Jumpman. I had it because I couldn't afford $500 for a disk drive at the time so I was limited to a 1010. How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading Mendon B&C have the Jump-Man tape version and I've just put on order I want to see this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 international karate... wasn'T it "SELECT" where you can switch between the backgounds ingame wise? but i guess that this was made by a cracker and not the original... (what kind of sense?) hmmm... i have goonies on tape & disc. i haven't them here but if i remember it right the version was 99% the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 I don't want to make I new post this tape related! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEBBI:IT Now I can put the tape files to disk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmutzpuppe Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 international karate... wasn'T it "SELECT" where you can switch between the backgounds ingame wise? but i guess that this was made by a cracker and not the original... (what kind of sense?) This was a beta version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 I don't want to make I new post this tape related! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEBBI:IT Now I can put the tape files to disk! 18 quid?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 I don't want to make I new post this tape related! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEBBI:IT Now I can put the tape files to disk! 18 quid?? I don't want any one to have it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 How well I remember watching Jumpman sloooooooooooooowly climb a ladder as the game loaded. When he got to the top, either the game started or you got a "Tape Load Error" and had to sit thru reloading Yep I remember that. Lordy did that game take forever to load. The tape version didn't have the Randomizer option where the disk version did. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Regarding Gauntlet - is there an ATR image of this title without the 'cracked by the Fox' loading screen? Looking at the loader code it appears that there may have been an actual loading screen there? BTW: I like the 'Remove Cartridge' animation Regards, Mark PS1: Gauntlet looks simple enough to make a cart from. PS2: Can someone send me a CAS version of a Channel 8 adventure. This had a cute (but lame) intro where the 2 halves of the '8' flew together. None of the disk versions appear to have this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Regarding Gauntlet - is there an ATR image of this title without the 'cracked by the Fox' loading screen? Looking at the loader code it appears that there may have been an actual loading screen there? Gauntlet was released by Mindscape in the US so there may have been a company logo there. Trailblazer is another European game published by Mindscape and it has that logo... -- Atarimania http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Frogger... Cassette version did not have any music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 It wouldn't have had the saved high score table either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I don't want to make I new post this tape related! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEBBI:IT Now I can put the tape files to disk! 18 quid?? I don't want any one to have it! Sounds like Alpha Systems' C.O.S. software. Does the same thing, and should be easy to find here in the states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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