tjlazah Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Hey look what I got! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I find Ataris are easier to use when lying flat. -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Ugh, why did the Tramiels HAVE to put the cart port in the back? That's probably the single most WORST place to put a cart port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Because it eliminated some cost. Gone are the silver door flaps, Gone is the Cartridge guide that snaps onto the PCB. Now there's just an edge connector and a hole in the back of the case. Now.. why doesn't that Joust cart look quite real?!? -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 I see one interesting thing: this cartridge is copyrighted in 1987, my own (old style) is dated in 1983. Maybe is some differentes in code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyranthraxus Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 That rear cart port is brutal, its just like their Commodore 64's port. Putting it on the side might have been better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 OK, I feel like I’m missing something here. IS this the same "Joust" that was released as a standard format cart? Or does it differ slightly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 You damned dirty double posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 That rear cart port is brutal, its just like their Commodore 64's port.Putting it on the side might have been better. No doubt that the rear port is the worst, but I never cared for cartridges sticking up out of the top like a game console either, plus if you add passthrough carts which are plentiful and useful, you start to have a tower growing real quick that is possible to even block your view of the monitor! The best design, IMHO, is the 1200XL's side port which completely hides one cart and is very easy to access for insertion and removal. They had the right idea too again with the ST series and the side cart ports, although these are cheaper ones than the 1200's, like the rear XE slots, just on the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 OK, I feel like I’m missing something here. IS this the same "Joust" that was released as a standard format cart? Or does it differ slightly? If tjlazah isn't fooling us with a homemade label, then it's just the standard release with a new label. Atari re-released "Joust" in 1987 to bolster the XEGS library, and I've seen variants that include silver and grey labels on the entire spectrum of Atari-issue carts. I've never seen an XEGS "Joust" label before, though, and it's extremely unlikely that it would have been "printed in America" (instead of Taiwan). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 If tjlazah isn't fooling us with a homemade label, http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ghlight=#556617 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 If tjlazah isn't fooling us with a homemade label, http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ghlight=#556617 But he had a square case for "Joust" that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazah Posted April 7, 2004 Author Share Posted April 7, 2004 Yes I took a Gray Joust case and made my own label. See below. The square cased one was another Joust I converted from a brown regular Joust game. I used a Bug Hunt case for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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