Category: Atari News
The Atariage RetroGamer128 has announced a new magazine dedicated to the Atari 7800. There are over 50 pages of content, exclusive interviews, info on lost games (including a game nobody knew about!), reviews, tips & cheats, archives, features and more! RetroGamer128 mentions that the first issue is digital as a PDF file, but if there is enough demand we do…
We all know that it is almost certain that video-game adaptations for the big screen will be terrible (Pixel?). Also last year, in a wave of incredibility, it was announced that a live-action ‘epic sci-fi movie’ based on Tetris was being developed, but this time we are talking about another movie, more in the lines of Social Network. The film…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
Atariteca brought to our attention the release of Saboteur! for the Atari, ported from the original Commodore 64 version. The hero is a ninja who must infiltrate a warehouse and retrieve a disk containing the names of rebel leaders. Along the way, you will face enemies heavily armed and dogs. The game is available for free but you can check…
Atariage user Ramses let us know about this video of the Atari programmers panel from the Portland Expo 2015. It includes Bob Smith, Tod Frye, Rob Zdybel, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Anyone interested in retro game development should watch it. Really interesting. [youtube YLoJ5jcccPU nolink] On a side note, the video and sound are perfect, which is very rare in retro…
We that lived the times where we would fistfight our friends in defence of our favourite computer brand/model, know how fierce and endless these ruses can last. How about settle it in a friendly trump card game? If you wonder how, I can tell you that it is going to be possible really soon. There is an already-funded campaign running…
ABBUC 2015 software development contest is over, and now you can download Toy’Swap, a match-gems type of game developed for the Atari 8-bit. The developer explains to Atariteca that even relying on modern cross-compilers and emulators for the development, the game took him about 99 sessions with some of them ranging from 2 to 5 hours of development to be…
Star Raiders is one of the most pleased games released for the Atari 8-bit machines. Created by Doug Neubauer, it was released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was big news last week (yeah, I know, I am late) that Kevin Savetz had received the full source code listing of Star Raiders, and he was about to scan…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
