More recent mdv discoveries
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 9:48 pm
Some recent purchases/discoveries:
Tank Buster - in original box, fully working - Actually a pretty good 3D wireframe game.
War in the East - the +3 version it would seem, which includes all 3 of the scenarios. There is a cart labelled 'Master+3' and another called 'Scen 1,2,3', which I have discovered needs to be present in mdv2_. Original box but no instructions (great if someone could post a copy of those, RWAP, Simone?). The master cart is fine and has dumped perfectly. The scen 1,2,3 has a damaged file called map4_scen2, but that doesn't actually matter I don't think, because when it loads it checks the ver$... If it's JSL (it is after all a USA made game) it will load files/fonts for the right US screen config. If the ver$ is not JSL then it loads different files with 'JM' in their names. The damaged file is actually one of the files for JSL as far as I can tell. I know there is a newer version of this by RWAP.
Filebound (orig. loose cart) - Listed as MIA on the wiki, but it looks like that isn't the case as Simone has it on his list. It's some kind of add-on for Spellbound, not exactly sure what it does yet!
QL Hopper (orig. loose cart) - Cart has one bad sector, which is fortunately only part of the loading splash screen, called 'pic', which has a black bar through it instead of the image. Works fine apart from that. Not a bad rendition of Frogger.
QPlus+ (orig. loose cart) - All fine. This is a toolkit/utility by Sandy (UK). Might be if interest to Dave. Can't find any mention on the wiki. There is a review in QL World, May '87 starting p.27.
Gigachrome (orig. loose cart) - drawing package by ABC Elektronic of Germany (by Jochen Merz & Rainer Bieniek).
Qcode Terminal v4.0 (orig. loose cart) - Apparently a very popular terminal prog for accessing BB's and the like.
Not checked yet: I also have backup copies of 'Qimp', 'QL Pientre', 'Spellbound' and I'm particularly looking forward to 'Screen Snatch'.
Tank Buster - in original box, fully working - Actually a pretty good 3D wireframe game.
War in the East - the +3 version it would seem, which includes all 3 of the scenarios. There is a cart labelled 'Master+3' and another called 'Scen 1,2,3', which I have discovered needs to be present in mdv2_. Original box but no instructions (great if someone could post a copy of those, RWAP, Simone?). The master cart is fine and has dumped perfectly. The scen 1,2,3 has a damaged file called map4_scen2, but that doesn't actually matter I don't think, because when it loads it checks the ver$... If it's JSL (it is after all a USA made game) it will load files/fonts for the right US screen config. If the ver$ is not JSL then it loads different files with 'JM' in their names. The damaged file is actually one of the files for JSL as far as I can tell. I know there is a newer version of this by RWAP.
Filebound (orig. loose cart) - Listed as MIA on the wiki, but it looks like that isn't the case as Simone has it on his list. It's some kind of add-on for Spellbound, not exactly sure what it does yet!
QL Hopper (orig. loose cart) - Cart has one bad sector, which is fortunately only part of the loading splash screen, called 'pic', which has a black bar through it instead of the image. Works fine apart from that. Not a bad rendition of Frogger.
QPlus+ (orig. loose cart) - All fine. This is a toolkit/utility by Sandy (UK). Might be if interest to Dave. Can't find any mention on the wiki. There is a review in QL World, May '87 starting p.27.
Gigachrome (orig. loose cart) - drawing package by ABC Elektronic of Germany (by Jochen Merz & Rainer Bieniek).
Qcode Terminal v4.0 (orig. loose cart) - Apparently a very popular terminal prog for accessing BB's and the like.
Not checked yet: I also have backup copies of 'Qimp', 'QL Pientre', 'Spellbound' and I'm particularly looking forward to 'Screen Snatch'.