Super Slope - Identical Archived Files
Richard Degler and Adam Trionfo
December 3, 2010

It has been concluded that all the alternate versions of Super Slope are 
identical except for the size of their headers, footers and the gap between 
them.  Richard Degler pointed this out on the Bally Alley discussion board on 
November 28 and 30, 2010.  I've decided to keep the archive the way that it is, 
with the alternate versions of Super Slope.  Since the alternate versions have 
already been created, it doesn't hurt to keep them around-- as long as it is 
understood that these versions really ARE identical to one another.  -- Adam 
Trionfo


Here is how Richard reached his conclusion (this is a compilation of his 
postings):


All THREE copies in "Super Slope (1982)(Esoterica Ltd.)(2000 baud).zip" 
(displays s title screen, then loads a block of machine code to the screen) seem 
the same except for the length of their leaders.  However, the SUPERSLO binary 
(without the title screen) in BALLY.ZIP seems to be different than just being 
the second block modified to run as a cartridge.  Any idea where this came from?  
It's not a Basic-cart, since it doesn't use any Basic code to run it??

[The source of the Super Slope "cartridge is Mike White, but we're not sure what 
his source for it was.]

I ran both those WAV files through BallyBin (1.4) and got two more BML files 
(BallyXML whatever?) named *.BIN - even though there is more than the binary in 
there, used by AstroWav to create the same WAV again.

Neither of those exactly match the *.BIN included in the *.ZIP file, but all 
three blocks of data inside each are identical - the only differences are in the 
size of their headers, footers and the gap between them.
