Atari 8-Bit & C64 Flip n File Cartridge Holder Review The No Swear Gamer Ep 806
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Today I review the Flip n File for Atari 8-bit & Commodore 64 computer cartridges.
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Wow! I’ve never actually seen a flip and file for cartridge! So awesome!!! 👏
I have several very similar holders filled with C64 disks that belonged to my late father, each able to hold around 50 disks. My dad was a school teacher and had C64s in his classroom in the 1980s. Most of the disks include teaching programs, but many also include a lot of games that were copied. Of all the games, I would guess that only one out of every 100 are the original, commercial disk. Piracy on the C64 was so rampant even a school teacher did it!
I've never seen a version for cartridges, and I guess it would make sense if you had a small collection, but these days I own dozens and dozens of Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision and Atari 8-bit carts. A holder that can only house a small handful of games wouldn't do me any good.
A "Rolodex" style organizer for floppy disks made sense to me... but for cartridges that I could easily just stack in columns next to our gigantic console television on our gigantic entertainment center? Honestly, I never could see the point.
I kinda forgot the C64 had cartridge games. So many of the games I remember for it came on disk and cassette.
The main reason was because the C64 cartridge format was severely limited. Cartridges needed to fit within a 16 KB chunk of RAM, and thus could be no larger than 16 KB. Tape and Diskette games on the other hand could be any size, even utilize the entire 64 KB range. The only difference between tape and disk was the cost of the drive. Tape could use any old tape deck, disks needed the specific C64 Disk Drive. Prices did eventually come down but they were still expensive for a long time and most European C64 games were distributed only on cassette.
This is why the Commodore 64 Game Console was such a failure. Almost everything worth playing on C64 required a disk drive.
@@SatoshiMatrix1Yeah. 16k in the 80s was nothing!
We definitely used them for our c64 disks and later Amiga disks. I remember at least one of ours had a lock on front.
Good video! I just saw one of these cartridge holders on Ebay! I did not bid on it!