Category: Atari News
Back in 2014 Fred Meijer, a collector that runs the website AtariMuseum, shared a video of a game on the Atari 8-Bit called “I Beatles e il Papiro della Pace”. This “loosely” translates to “The Beatles and the Papyrus of Peace”. The game was published by Lindasoft (Italy) in 1987. As you can see from the video below, the game shows…
Mariuszw from AtariAge recently released some News about the Atari 8-bit version of Gunfright. This new version features great music from Saul Cross, and colour overlays and loading screen prepared by Jose Pereira. The game requires a 64KB RAM machine to play, and works on both PAL and NTSC systems. It also supports CPU-upgraded Atari’s properly. For those finding the…
Vintage Computer Festival East is starting today, March 31 and goes until April 2nd at InfoAge Science Center in New Jersey. The show is targeted for the whole family (but we know we would enjoy it the most!) with conferences, exhibit, vendor stands and more. In terms of presentations, the show will have Bill Herd talking about Surface Mount Technology,…
With his father, Leonard Tramiel helped create the Commodore, one of the first personal computers. He also led Atari after his father bought the company in 1984. In this sit-down interview with TEDxMidAtlantic curator Dave Troy, Leonard shares the story of the Commodore, Atari, and why science education is more important now than ever. Fresh out of graduate school, Leonard…
Back in March 2016 Scott Clifford started work on Raiden (1990) for the Atari Ste. Motivated by the existence of a Falcon version which was only limited to three levels. Unfortunately the development was paused due to personal reasons, that is.. until now! AtariCrypt has recently reported that work has resumed in recent weeks and is progressing rapidly with some new…
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
I’m sure you are all familiar with the game “Worms” which was released on various platforms including MS-DOS, IBM and Amiga. Worms is an artillery strategy video game developed by Team17 and was first released in 1995. It is the first game in the Worms series of video games. Worms is a turn based game where a player controls a team…
“Revenge is best served cold”. Or in this case, a Yar. A Yar? What on earth?! Allow the elaboration of one of the most successful video games released on the Atari. Your character, a flying insectoid being known as a Yar, is set the task of destroying the Quotile entity, protected by a cellular shield which rotates around its presence. This…
Some interesting News from our good friends over at AtariCrypt. Bionic Nerd aka Peter Jørgensen has recently released a new demo titled “Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017”. As you can guess from the title, this release contains music from the game “Outrun” in true Atari ST style. The demo will run happily on any Atari ST/E or Atari ST emulator. You can…
Doodling on retro computers has always fascinated me and I have quite happily been churning out endless (nameless) piccys on my various systems; mainly AMX Art on my Acorn Electron and, more lately in Degas Elite on my Atari ST. It occurred to me, though, that Art appreciation on the ST was a bit underwhelmed outside of demoscene circles, so…
