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  • Jeff Minter's Turboflex (1982)

    From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 5 16:39:16 2025
    Hello there!

    I just bought Jeff Minter's Turboflex (1982) tape
    for 8-bit Atari. This game is actually pretty bad,
    but it holds some historical significance by being
    one of the earliest Llamasoft games. Thinking of
    Atari, I guess this could be the very first Llamasoft
    game for that platform.

    Ataramania website lists two tape releases: one
    by Llamasoft and another by Aackosoft, a Dutch
    company.

    My question: How do I find out which version I have?

    I do not have a working Atari setup to load this
    game and see.

    On the outside, my version looks exactly like the
    Llamasoft release pictured on Atarimania, but there
    is no photo of the Aackosoft release so I do not
    know whether they look the same or not.

    I bought mine from the Netherlands so this could
    indeed be the Aackosoft version.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Sat Apr 5 17:46:06 2025
    Kalevi Kolttonen <[email protected]> wrote:
    It seems to me that Llamasoft and Aackosoft releases
    have identical front and back covers. So the only way
    to find out which version you have is to load the
    game and see - unless the tape itself looks different!

    Thanks to the image editing software GIMP, I was able to
    highlight the texts on the tape label. The original photo
    is quite unclear, but after some contrast tweaking, I was
    able to see the text "laadinstructies". It means "loading
    instructions" in Dutch language.

    So the Turboflex mystery has finally been solved: My
    version is indeed the Dutch Aackosoft release.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Sat Apr 5 17:35:11 2025
    Kalevi Kolttonen <[email protected]> wrote:
    Atarimania website lists two tape releases: one
    by Llamasoft and another by Aackosoft, a Dutch
    company.

    My question: How do I find out which version I have?

    Okay, I did some more web searching and found a nice
    Atari Museum site:

    atarimuseum.nl

    They have scans of all the software they have collected.

    It seems to me that Llamasoft and Aackosoft releases
    have identical front and back covers. So the only way
    to find out which version you have is to load the
    game and see - unless the tape itself looks different!

    br,
    KK

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  • From phigan@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 18 07:08:03 2025
    So the Turboflex mystery has finally been solved: My
    version is indeed the Dutch Aackosoft release.

    You could always record the tape to a file on your PC and load it up in
    an emulator ;).

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