Category: Atari News
Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH is coming to the Atari Jaguar! CyranoJ over on AtariAge Forums recently shared a new update video, which you can watch below. Thanks to Dr Clu, we now have the ST, Amiga, Arcade and NES audio. Effects and music can be selected individually, so you could have, eg, Arcade music with Amiga sound effects! Jagpad, Rotary,…
Back in January we shared some interesting News about a new wip Atari XL/XE game port called “Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge”. You can now download the fourth preview version, which I have linked at the bottom of this post. Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge was originally released on the Megadrive, NES and the Nintendo Game Boy. Saberman has also shared a…
The BASIC 10-Liner contest is one of the “retro-related” highlights every year for the amazing creativity and technique presented by the contestants. This year is no exception, with nothing less than 65 entries, targeting several different platforms. Although the vast majority of the entries are targeting Atari and Commodore computers, there are some programs made for the MSX, Amstrad CPC,…
Stunt Car Racer is a racing game released in 1989. Designed by Geoff Crammond, the game was available for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. We recently announced News about a new Atari 8-Bit Port, and now it looks like a new Atari Jaguar version is on the way too! Check out the early…
I love magazines that talk about retro computing and/or retro gaming, from Retro Gamer to Juiced.GS, from Reset 64 to CommodoreFree to mention only a few. Now, there is a new kid on the block – Paleotronic Magazine! The first issue takes a look at the history of the Consumer Electronics Show including interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and…
Navigating through Atariage forum is a never-ending task but more than often, brings some good news to us all. This one will make the racing game enthusiasts very happy: Stunt Car Racer for the Atari 8-bit! Stunt Car Racer is a racing game released in 1989. Designed by Geoff Crammond, the game was available for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore…
HeliCommander is a new Arcade Action game for Atari XL/XE and is due for release on cartridge very soon. Borrowing similar gameplay as Chopper Command and Choplifter, the game uses parallax scrolling to create a 3D effect, and has colourful graphics and lot’s of detail. Enemies include Tanks, trucks, bombers and choppers. The game will require at least 16K of…
Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge was originally a game on the Megadrive, NES and Game Boy, today we learn of a new port coming soon for the Atari XL/XE. We found the source to this News over at atarionline.pl. My Polish is non existent, but if you want more information, my best advice would be to paste it into Google Chrome…
The BASIC 10Liners contest is, for me, one of the highlights of the retro scene and I am happy to announce that the 7th edition of the competition is already online, accepting new entries. This year, the organizers have changed a few rules after receiving some feedback from the previous edition. The most important change is that for the PUR-80…
SNDH archive 4.7 released. 323 SNDH-files added or updated! Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music. But in the mid 90’s, BDC…
