Category: Atari XL/XE
The Antic magazine started offering the disk/magazine option only from issue #10. The disks featured all the current issue listings, saving the readers many hours in front of the computer typing and debugging the programs. With the newsstands price of $9.95, it was an expensive option but worthwhile for those lucky people that could afford to buy them. Luckily for…
Early this week we talked about the 2nd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, including Atari 2600 categories but now also Atari 7800 and Atari 8-Bit/5200. As of today and through Jan 28th, you can cast your votes for your favourite game of 2019 on Atariage, following the link below. In the same thread, you can find links to download the games….
Organized by ZeroPage Homebrew, The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, Mark/Space | Project Argon and AtariAge, the 2019 Atari Homebrew Awards nomination phase is complete and now the voting will start soon. The award is given to homebrew games created by all Atari 8-bit platforms in 2019, including VCS 2600, 5200/8-bit in the same category, and 7800. The categories are: Atari…
The amazing work by the Atariage user rensoup (and many others) continues and he has released the second playable level of the classic Prince of Persia. The update includes: one playable level (L2) PMG overlays with repositioning for the player (not for the enemy yet) preliminary music by Vinscool a lot more animation frames redone by TIX fix: random button…
One of the games available in the New Year Disc 2020 released by Ralf “PPs” Patschke is Runner Bear, an infinite runner game for the Atari XL/XE with at least 48K of RAM. Developed by Paul “Playsoft” Lay, Darryl Guenther y Rob Schlort, Runner Bear presents colourful Mario-like graphics with a very well designed parallax scrolling effect, giving depth to…
The already traditional New Year Disc compilation just released its 14th edition, containing a plethora of good for the Atari 8-bit enthusiast. In the 6-disk compilation made by Ralf “PPs” Patschke you will find two games and several graphics and intros. The compilation contains works by Filippo “Philsan” Santellocco, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski, Mario “eMKay” Krix, Pawel “Sikor” Sikorski, Steve ”…
If you have in your New Year’s resolution list to finally learn assembler for the Atari but you have no idea from where to start, you are lucky! Atari Projects website has published a new quick tutorial where it teaches how to compile and run a small program written in 6502 Assembly for the Atari 8-bit computers. Written by Jason…
As we announced last October, Monty on the Run is now available for the Atari XL/XE. The game was officially released at the Silly Venture 2019 Party that happened last weekend. As promised the game is now available for free and can be downloaded from pouet.net. The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
Prince of Persia is probably one of my favourite games, and one of the most frustrating as well, mainly when you fall on those spikes after not getting the perfect timing for the jump. Although it was initially developed for the Apple ][, which shares the same CPU, the 6502, the game was never released for the Atari 8-bits. With…
