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Bandersnatch Development Disks Found

LindaleLindale
edited September 2008 in Games
Found these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on there. Will keep you posted.

Disk 1:

diskvd6.gif

Loading Screen: (there appears to be several versions of this on the disk):

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9234/bandersnatchil3.gif
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  • sparkessparkes
    edited September 2008
    bloody hell
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2008
    Michty! I hope this is for real.
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    But do you have a dongle ;-)
  • GrazGraz
    edited September 2008
    GASP! Please don't joke about these things. I'm a lil excitable.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited September 2008
    Do not toy with our frail hearts!

    (Here's to hoping it's real)
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited September 2008
    That 8-inch floppy disk image looks rather familiar, like the one here :D :-
    http://oldcomputers.net/pics/floppy8.gif


    floppy8.gif
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    That 8-inch floppy disk image looks rather familiar, like the one here :D :-
    http://oldcomputers.net/pics/floppy8.gif


    floppy8.gif

    Ban him/her
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited September 2008
    I give that one a rating of "nice try - but must try harder".

    Since the TRS-80 model II had an 8" disk drive and the original poster mentioned it was a 5.25" disk, right away it didn't seem to add up.

    OK, so some people fitted 5.25"/3.5" to their model-II systems in later years, but all of the officially branded "Radio Shack" model II media would have been 8 inch, not 5.25 inch.

    In any case the model-II is a very obscure member of the TRS-80 family compared to the model-I and model-III from what I can gather.

    Although I haven't myself used a 5.25" disk for about twelve years, the dead giveaway is the position of the smaller hole - it's in the wrong position for a 5.25" disk.
  • GrazGraz
    edited September 2008
    Aww pissin' 'ell!
  • zxspecticlezxspecticle
    edited September 2008
    Looks like a 5.25" to me.

    Any ideas what the writing on the disk says after "Bandersnatch development disk"?
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    I give that one a rating of "nice try - but must try harder".

    Since the TRS-80 model II had an 8" disk drive and the original poster mentioned it was a 5.25" disk, right away it didn't seem to add up.

    OK, so some people fitted 5.25"/3.5" to their model-II systems in later years, but all of the officially branded "Radio Shack" model II media would have been 8 inch, not 5.25 inch.

    In any case the model-II is a very obscure member of the TRS-80 family compared to the model-I and model-III from what I can gather.

    Although I haven't myself used a 5.25" disk for about twelve years, the dead giveaway is the position of the smaller hole - it's in the wrong position for a 5.25" disk.

    There's always someone somewhere who knows
  • mheidemheide
    edited September 2008
    zxspecticle wrote: »
    Any ideas what the writing on the disk says after "Bandersnatch development disk"?

    "Load Dis First!!!", at a guess.
  • zxspecticlezxspecticle
    edited September 2008
    All the interviews with John Gibson etc stated that they used Sage IV's as development systems so this must be a fake.
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited September 2008
    zxspecticle wrote: »
    Looks like a 5.25" to me.

    Indeed, they do look very similar but it is an 8" disk.

    Here's a comparison

    disks-1.jpg

    Left to right - 8", 5.25", 3.5". Note the position of the small round hole next to the large centre hole - compare with disk in original post (also below).

    Of course it's not really the disk size that's the central issue to this thread - rather just the fact that the image of the disk as originally posted is identical to the one on this page on the oldcomputers.net website (blemishes and all):-
    http://oldcomputers.net/floppydisks.html

    (But with the writing added.)

    EDIT: Here's the comparison:-

    8-inch disk from oldcomputers.net website:-
    floppy8.gif

    "Bandersnatch" disk as originally posted:-
    diskvd6.gif

    I leave the reader to draw their own conclusion.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited September 2008
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    I leave the reader to draw their own conclusion.

    User Lindale is a witch!

    (How else could he/she/it have procured Bandersnatch on the floppy?!?!?! Witchcraftery, I tell ye!!!!)
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2008
    I'll reserve judgement until I see further evidence...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited September 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    I'll reserve judgement until I see further evidence...

    oops, I almost forgot my manners - in any case - welcome to the forums Lindale!

    I wouldn't want to give the impression that we aren't polite to newcomers to the forum. :)

    Hope you enjoy it here, Cheers DP
  • mheidemheide
    edited September 2008
    What a bunch of nerds we are for being able to discover this! :-D

    /me feels proud to be surrounded by these fine gentlemen.
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    Bonus point to who ever finds which game the loading screen was adapted from looks Ultimatish to me
    bandersnatchil3.gif
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited September 2008
    chop983 wrote: »
    Bonus point to who ever finds which game the loading screen was adapted from looks Ultimatish to me
    -snip-

    It's definitely not Stonkers!
  • VanamondeVanamonde
    edited September 2008
    Gift of the Gods perhaps.
  • RickardRickard
    edited September 2008
    I must say that it was a quite clever and well-done fraud, and if the loading screen was not ripped directly from some other game a lot of work seems to have been done on the faked one.
    Vanamonde wrote: »
    Gift of the Gods perhaps.

    No, that one looks very different:

    GiftFromTheGods.gif
  • LeeTLeeT
    edited September 2008
    Didn't Retro Gamer buy the Bandersnatch disks some time ago in an eBay auction (in the Live days)?
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    I thought that was the Mega-tree
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited September 2008
    It's based on Mire Mare ... that's how good the fraud is.
  • RickardRickard
    edited September 2008
    chop983 wrote: »
    Bonus point to who ever finds which game the loading screen was adapted from looks Ultimatish to me
    bandersnatchil3.gif

    I wonder if the "Cain" in the lower-right corner is supposed to be Steven Cain, these the loading screens made by him has a similar signature:

    B.C.Bill.gif Pedro.gif

    He worked for Imagine in 1984 so that would "fit" too.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2008
    Based on the 2 loading screens you've fopund it doesn't look like his style.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited September 2008
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    That 8-inch floppy disk image looks rather familiar, like the one here...

    :lol:

    Well done DP!! Somebody give that man a pack of Rolos... NOW!!
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited September 2008
    Lindale wrote: »
    Found these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on there. Will keep you posted.

    Disk 1:

    diskvd6.gif

    Loading Screen: (there appears to be several versions of this on the disk):

    http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9234/bandersnatchil3.gif

    Wouldn't be Radio Shack.
    It's a US brand. Would have been 'Tandy's' back then.

    Nice try though... Probably would have worked better on the Retrogamer forums...

    Andrew
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited September 2008
    Nice try, but two people with the same IP address have posted in this very thread. One was the OP......
    My test signature
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