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Does anyone have a boxed copy of A-Train?
Posted by: olePigeon on 2018-06-20 16:13:29
I bought a copy of A-Train on eBay, and my disks are funky.  I'm not asking for a copy of the game, I just want to compare my disks to someone else's.  I compared it to the copy on Macintosh Garden, and it appears identical.  But I don't know if my disks were copied from that.

My labels are wrong.  The "B&W" disk has the color resources, and my "Color" disk has the B&W resources.  I guess it's possible the game came that way, but it seems unlikely.

Also, one disk is labeled "A-train" and the other is "Atrain" (no hyphen) just like the copy on Macintosh Garden ... except the contents are the opposite.

Posted by: Iesca on 2018-06-28 17:47:43
I do. Here are some photos. Disk 1 is damaged and actually causes my powerbook to freeze? But not too long ago I was able to get images of all the disks before that started happening.

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As you can see, the naming discrepancy is consistent. However, the disks themselves are not labeled one way or the other (apart from the Disk numbers and the Construction Set).

Hope that helps!

Posted by: olePigeon on 2018-06-28 19:04:33
Oh, OK.  They were just sloppy when making the game disks.  That's a relief and also amusing.  Couldn't even get the labels right. :lol:

Mine is missing the Construction Set disk, though.  Shucks.

Posted by: Iesca on 2018-06-28 20:14:36
It may be that yours didn't come with it. Does your box have a FREE INSIDE! banner in the upper left?

Posted by: Iesca on 2018-06-28 20:15:27
I'm curious what your disk labels look like!

Posted by: olePigeon on 2018-06-29 23:05:04
@Iesca Mine look different from yours.  Also, nothing about a construction set either inside or outside my box.  So maybe I have an earlier version than you.

atrain.JPG

Posted by: Iesca on 2018-06-30 01:17:46
That's what it sounds like. That's really interesting! I wonder if it was just yours that got mislabeled or what. But you did say the disk images at the garden were the same?

Posted by: olePigeon on 2018-06-30 11:58:09
They appeared to be the same, but I don't recall if I checked the version number.

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