Category: Atari News
Stephen Jones is developing an advanced R-Type game, and he’s trying to use all the good stuff the extended Atari STe has to offer. He mentions that the development is going well, and it supplied to AtariCrypt a nice set o brand new screenshots. Even sucking at it badly, R-Type is one of my favourite games, and I try to…
This episode features Letter Wizard, originally released in 1984 by DataSoft, and developed by Special Systems Software. As usual, the podcast website (link below) offers a wide variety of scans and screenshots for you to get a better picture of this software. Link: Inverse ATASCII
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
Another bit of Atari productivity tools history has been released. The Inverse ATASCII episode 18 covers the APX Diskette Librarian, published by Atari Exchange Program. As usual, Inverse ATASCII website provides more screenshots and instructions to download/run the program. Link: Inverse ATASCII
FloppyDays has been released with the third part covering the Atari 400/800. This episode will tackle Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more. The episode counts with co-hosts from other Atari/Retro Computing podcasts: Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, and Kevin and Brad from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ). Link: FloppyDays
This episode of Inverse ATASCII, the podcast that talks about Atari 8-bit productivity tools, features Typo Attack, originally released in 1982 by APX. It was programmed by David Buehler, a seventeen year old high school junior. This productivity tool is relevant for winning one of the APX Star Award, giving the author a prize of $25,000 in cash. Link: Inverse…
Howard Scott Warshaw, the veteran programmer, best known in the game industry for his pioneering work at Atari on titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, spoke at the last GDC about his work designing and coding Yars’ Revenge, widely believed to be one of the best Atari 2600 games ever made. Recently his name was…
Paulo Peccin has announced at AtariAge forum that his Atari 2600 emulator has been completely rewritten, and is now 100% Javascript/HTML5, make it suitable to run directly in your web-browser without the need to install Java plugin, etc. He also tells us that the emulator is very easy to integrate into websites, and even offers help if one needs it….
Curse of the Lost Miner is a platformer with features of a logic game for Atari 800XL and compatible computers. The game is a sequel to “Caverns of the lost miner” released in 2007, and your goal is to guide the cursed miner through dangerous caves and collect all diamonds in each cave. Source: AtariAge Forum Download: BAKTRA Software
VCF East is now part of the history that it tries to tell. The last event took place last weekend, and it seems whoever was able to attend had a blast! If you, like myself, couldn’t be there, you can have a glimpse of the event visiting the link below, containing some nice photos of the event. Link: VCF East…
