Glib ?-??-83

This is an extremely rare prototype for Glib that came from the estate of programmer Rich Montana.  Although the label looks like a production label, it appears to be made of cardboard or heavy cardstock that has been cut out and glued over an old Apollo shell.  The label also differs slightly from the one found on the production cartridges in that the title text is white instead of yellow and the text at the bottom reads 'Program 1983 Selchow & Righter Company' instead of 'Cartridge Content (c) 1983 Qualtronic Devices, Inc.'.  There is also no end label or 'dust door' so the bare circuit board is visible on the bottom of the cart.

The game itself appears to be a late beta.  There are small byte level differences, but it appears to play the same.  This prototype is most likely the version sent to Selchow & Righter for review and playtesting.  A bug must have been discovered and corrected before the final release. 

Interestingly looking through the binary file there are what appears to be several snippets from the development system used to code the game that are not present in the final version so whatever coding change had to be made must have overwritten these snippets.

4K OS
=1 DRPNOS
=2 EVNOS
=3 BADNO

ARFLG BMI OVR

Triple word score!	Is zoso a word?  In Glib it is!
I've got nothing...	Say say say...

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