Category: Atari XL/XE

Time Wizard Atari XL/XE

Robots from the future are trying to change history to rule the world.The only salvation for humanity is you, Time Wizard. You must go to the future, to the world of robots, to prevent a disaster. Your task is to collect all the energy stored in the hourglasses so that the robots cannot go back in time. The mission is…

Firefighter, Atari XL/XE

Fires are breaking out at an industrial building. It’s your job to find and save the workers trapped inside, and put out fires along the way. You control a firefighter with an unlimited amount of fire extinguishing agent. Spray the fire to quench it, but beware because it spreads quickly! Find the workers trapped in the room, and help them…

Commando, Atari XL/XE

Shanti77 over at AtariAge forums has started porting the C64 version of Commando to the Atari XL/XE. While it’s far from complete, what we have seen so far is impressive. You can download a couple of wip files from the link below. Follow the thread here: Commando C64 with Atari Plus VBXE Sources.Download: xex, atr

PunyInform: Installing the tools and compiling a game

PunyInform

I’ve given a brief introduction to PunyInform, a new library for writing text adventures for 8-bit (and other) computers. Now, let’s have a look at what you need to download and install to start writing a game using PunyInform. For this article, I will be using Windows, but you can also use PunyInform on Mac or Linux. Step 1: Install…

Tenebra, Atari XL/XE

Tenebra is an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas. Move torches around, push lights on rails, find keys to doors, light up cold braziers, pass through archways that collapse behind you, find oil barrels to make your torches brighter, squeeze…

Flimbo’s Quest, Work in Progress. Atari XL/XE

Flimbo’s Quest is a 2D platform game published by British publishing house System 3 (later renamed to Studio 3 Interactive) for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC. A ZX Spectrum version was produced but never released. The game itself was developed by Laurens van der Donk in the Netherlands who was involved in the DemoScene being in…

Space Taxi – Atari 8-bit conversion from the Commodore 64 game

Atari fans are in luck, as Andrea Cucchetto (Italy) has managed to convert the popular Commodore 64 game “Space Taxi” for Atari 8-bit computers, with lovely graphics, challenging gameplay and even digitized voices. Cucchetto, known for his contributions to the Atari scene with titles such as “Circo Bianco” (1987), “Hypnotic Land” (1992) and “Conquest of the Crown” (1994), decided to…

RM 800XL – It looks like someone is trying to recreated the Atari 800XL in 2023!

Let’s face it. The Atari community has been jealous of their usual enemies for years. The Speccy enthusiasts have the ZX Spectrum Next, and the Commodore fans have the Mega65 and the Commander X16. Meanwhile, the Atari people could only dream about a modern Atari machine. Hold your breath, this is still the case, but there is a new hope…

Scene World Podcast Episode #157 – Robert Neal’s RetroRGB

RetroRGB is THE portal to learn all about how to get the picture the best way out of such retro consoles to your modern TVs! Robert Neal is the master behind behind this portal which is the go-to address for console info of all kind as well, thanks to its extensive Wiki which is a whole database, YouTube videos, podcast…

This Week In FujiNet – November 23rd 2022

This Week In FujiNet – 46 and Holiday Week 47 Posted on November 27, 2022 by Atari Orbit This Week In FujiNet is being released the weekend after Thanksgiving. It’s covering Week 46 and Week 47. With Thanksgiving taking up a big chunk of 47 you would think things would have slowed down, ha, apparently the holidays have motivated quite a few people…