Category: Atari News
Custodian is the very first release for the Atari Jaguar by Piko Interactive. The game is an Arcade shooter in which you have to protect energy bases from parasites that are trying to drain it dry! Featuring 4 area levels, many weapons and power ups, and awesome chiptune music! Pre-orders will be available 2-3 months before shipping starts. The game will be manufactured with…
The “to-go” Atari emulator for Mac, Atari800MacX emulator has problems when used with MacOS Sierra, where the sound won’t work at all. If you really depend on it to run your favorite Atari software on Mac, you have another option. Altirra, an excellent Atari emulator for Windows was re-packaged to run on MacOS, using a standalone Wine bundle. Wine (originally an acronym…
Day by day the evenings are getting longer, so it is time to put Atari more to focus again. Also time for a new issue of the worlds greatest Atari Magazine, ‘PRO© ATARI Magazine’. Issue 11 is now available, you can order the magazine in either German or English language. Including a massive 13 Page Lightgun-Special! with more than 23…
Neon Run is a racing game in the style of an endless runner. You drive past other cars, and try to blast them for points, the cars gets faster and after a while you begin to encounter giant holes, it’s fiendishly hard, but lot’s of fun. Not much to the sound, just the engine hum and the sound of your…
Atari Age member Alp is currently working on a new homebrew title for the Atari 2600 that truly looks amazing. The game is called Cat Quest. The game is, essentially, a port of this very game Alp had been working on for the NES. Alp is using the “venetian blinds” interlacing technique to potentially minimize sprite flickering. This is still…
Quote from Atarimania Facebook Page; ‘Atarimania ST presents another unreleased game rescued and preserved. It was originally to be released in 1991 but lost it. Thanks to the original author Emiliano Gusmini of Magnetica Development for letting us to preserve this lost piece of unreleased Atari ST gaming history!’ Facebook Page: Atarimania Website: atarimania.com
The TransKey II is an adapter for 8-bit Atari computers that allows use of an external PS/2 keyboard. AtariAge user mytekcontrols has just released a new firmware version with significant improvements, including: A much improved PS/2 handler kernel with more solid timing Improvements to keyboard hot-plugging support A switchable US/DE key map (Ctrl+Alt+F4) Faster cursor movement As a bonus, the…
Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…
The printed magazine Pro(c) Atari issue 10 is available now. There are 500 copies in English and 500 in German. This issue featuring a very cool add-on: ANTIC PICROSS II – a game especially coded for the MagazineAlso you can read about the following: you will also read about: TIME FOR A QUICKIE (Match Racer, Melt-Down, Crix) PRO(C) BLOG featuring…
Almost one year ago, we posted about the Xenon 2: Megablast port for the Atari Jaguar. Time enough to almost forget about it, but we didn’t! You will be pleased to know that the game is now available for you to order, directly from the developer Cyrano Jones. We are talking about a boxed cartridge The Bitmap Brothers classic game port…
