mrp@polari.UUCP (Mad Rabbit Productions) (05/13/91)
Someone said (a while back): >...any information about official 8bit hardware manuals... I have before me the following: Atari Technical Reference Notes (includes OS User's Manual, OS Source Listing, and Hardware Manual) Atari DOS Reference Manual Atari DOS II Reference Manual Atari 850 Reference Manual Atari 800 Operators Manual SAMS Programmer's Reference Guide for Atari 400/800 Computers The Technical Reference Notes were definately worth the $20 I paid for them; pick up a copy if you can find them anywhere (unlikely). They were published in 1982. Raymond Alexander Dixon says: >I am looking for some information on the following games: The Return of >Heracles, Excalibur and M.U.L.E. I realize that these games came out a >long time ago, however I am hoping that someone out there may be able >to tell me if its still possible to get them and/or if they know who >made them, any help would be greatly appreciated. I can only help with MULE. It was produced/marketed by Electronic Arts corporation. Although EA is still around and producing software for a number of platforms, they no longer produce MULE. If you have questions about the game, I'd be happy to answer them; if you want to buy a copy, try advertising here and in misc.wanted. Charles Hobbs says: >Someone mentioned a process for translating Atari 5200 software into >a form which could be run by the Atari 400, 800, etc. computers >Does anyone here know the details of this process? I'm not familiar with that process; there is, however, software available to "crack" 400/800 cartridges and save them as binary files to disk, where they may be run without the cartridge. >(By the way, I'm looking for a Tempest 5200 game cartridge, as that >game was never released for any other Atari game/computer, to my >knowledge.) There was an official 400/800 cartridge version of Tempest released by Atari; where you could find it now is anyone's guess. ----------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Rimple | mrp@seattle.online.com Owner, Mad Rabbit Productions | "One bad sector can ruin (206) 783-2584 (voice) | your whole day." -----------------------------------------------------------