Author: Paulo Garcia
This exciting news came directly from the forum on CSDb: Donkey Kong Junior for the Commodore 64 is almost ready to be released to the public, as a free download, this Saturday, November 8th. The game is an accurate port of the Atari 7800 version, one of the best conversions of the arcade original. Based on the screenshot above, and…
This exciting news came directly from the forum on CSDb: Donkey Kong Junior for the Commodore 64 is almost ready to be released to the public, as a free download, this Saturday, November 8th. The game is an accurate port of the Atari 7800 version, one of the best conversions of the arcade original. Based on the screenshot above, and…
The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade. Although the technology behind it is…
During the last podcast episode, Kevin Savetz mentioned that he received a nice package from Gray Chang, author of Dog Daze, Dog Daze Deluxe, Bumpomov’s Dogs, and Claim Jumper for the Atari 400/800 computers. The disks contain source code for some of his games, and seem to include several versions of some programs as he progressed in creating the games….
On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit PODCAST the friendly hosts talks about the Atari 850 interface, the SIO2SD device, and much more. There is also a great segment by Bill Kendrick about games converted from the Atari 2600 to the computers, and a special segment by Chris Olson about Atari 8-bit emulation on IOS. Link: Antic Podcast
Another post from Wiebo de Wit where he teaches all about copying floppy contents to you UII, so you can digitalize all those type-in BASIC programs that you spent hours entering on your Commodore! Link: DevDef Blog
[youtube lnyoyWpqKJI nolink] After teasing retro gamers with a trailer of Atari: Game Over, the film’s director has stated that the documentary looking into the gaming giant’s collapse and their infamous landfill site is due to hit Xbox Video later this month with no release date set as of yet for other digital distribution platforms. Source: Retro Collect
Did you lose the last Apple I auction and don’t know what to do with that million in your wallet ? Fear no more, Reuters is reporting that another fully operational Apple I computer is going for auction next December at Christie’s. The computer is being sold by Robert Luther, a Virginia collector who bought it in 2004 at a…
The website Apple II Scans has scanned and posted the Volume III binder of the Apple Service Level I Technical Procedures manual set, dated July 1, 1984, and contains various updates from October 1984 and later. Volume III contains take-apart and basic troubleshooting and repair procedures for the Apple Modems 300 and 1200 and Apple Personal Modem, the Apple Graphics…
New 2600 homebrew games are now available in AtariAge store, including a Flappy Birds “homage”. Like its iOS brethren, Flappy is a fairly simple game. Pressing the joystick button causes your avian friend to flap, and the more you flap, the higher you climb. Your primary goal (and, really, your only goal) is to line up your bird so it…
