Re: Two different versions of 'Moon Patrol'?

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

sicklittlemonkey schrieb:
> skylarking wrote:
> > So are there in fact two different versions, or did the 'crackers'
> > alter the game when removing the copy protection?
>
> I'd really like to know the answer too ... so much so that I also
> recently bought Moon Patrol. ;-)
>
> There are some weird "cracked" versions out there. Very strange,
> because the protection looks like nothing to speak of. Try playing the
> cracked version that doesn't display the title screen. It'll crash
> after the checkpoint E scoring screen.

I never really played Moon Patrol but I can add this:

The usual Atari and C64 images floating around don't start a base, too.
I don't know from what source (disk, tape or cartridge) they originate
but they are pretty small (less than 16k - good for ROMs or tapes).

There are other conversions but I don't/have them.

In the online magazine Retrogaming Times Monthly, however, old
arcade games get compared pretty meticulously - this is the edition
with Moon Patrol and a base never gets mentioned:
http://my.stratos.net/%7Ehewston95/RTM17/RTM17.html

But that doesn't mean that a bigger official version for the "48K
Apple" cannot exist.

It's also possible that the base was added very late in the product
life to differentiate it from the already floating cracked version.

Anyway, the version with the base is a good case for Mr. Asimov.
;-)

bye
Marcus