Unanswered questions arising from Cartzilla
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:51 am
Happy New Year Vic 20 fans!!!
I was having a good read through Cartzilla the other day (a brilliant document detailing all known Vic 20 carts - a must read if you haven;t yet done so!!) and it got me thinking about some of the questions Ward Shrake poses throughout it. So I decided to post a few here and see if any have been or could be abswered 10 years after Cartzilla was produced.
1. Commodore's missing cartridges.
Ward points out that there are gaps in Commodores numbering of their Cartridges, with numbers 1903, 1934, 1936 and 1940 missing. Have these ever shown up? Also, have any cartridges after 1941 ever shown up?
2. Ward mentions a few vaporware game carts that were widely advertised and then never released. Have any of these shown up, particularly Joust, Stargate and Wizard of Wor? I definately remember seeing ads for Joust in a couple of British magazines.
Also, has anyone got more information about the game Space Ric-O-Shay?
What about the proposed Vic Rabbit Atari 2600 adapter that was supposed to enable the Vic 20 to play Atari games. Has this ever been discovered?
What other Vaporware has recently shown up?
3. Ward makes the suggestion that Atari's Defender may have been written by HES, and possibly Jeff Minter himself. Ward says that inside the code it says, "COPR.HES,1983 V1.1x" Anyone able to shed more light on this one?
4. Finally, anyone have any idea of the connection between Cosmic Jailbreak and Ape Escape? Did someone blatantly copy or was the game sold to two different publishers?
Well, there is a fair bit there, but hopefully it will get a few Vic fans thinking.
I was having a good read through Cartzilla the other day (a brilliant document detailing all known Vic 20 carts - a must read if you haven;t yet done so!!) and it got me thinking about some of the questions Ward Shrake poses throughout it. So I decided to post a few here and see if any have been or could be abswered 10 years after Cartzilla was produced.
1. Commodore's missing cartridges.
Ward points out that there are gaps in Commodores numbering of their Cartridges, with numbers 1903, 1934, 1936 and 1940 missing. Have these ever shown up? Also, have any cartridges after 1941 ever shown up?
2. Ward mentions a few vaporware game carts that were widely advertised and then never released. Have any of these shown up, particularly Joust, Stargate and Wizard of Wor? I definately remember seeing ads for Joust in a couple of British magazines.
Also, has anyone got more information about the game Space Ric-O-Shay?
What about the proposed Vic Rabbit Atari 2600 adapter that was supposed to enable the Vic 20 to play Atari games. Has this ever been discovered?
What other Vaporware has recently shown up?
3. Ward makes the suggestion that Atari's Defender may have been written by HES, and possibly Jeff Minter himself. Ward says that inside the code it says, "COPR.HES,1983 V1.1x" Anyone able to shed more light on this one?
4. Finally, anyone have any idea of the connection between Cosmic Jailbreak and Ape Escape? Did someone blatantly copy or was the game sold to two different publishers?
Well, there is a fair bit there, but hopefully it will get a few Vic fans thinking.