Category: Atari News
[youtube 8biJKMm3NEk nolink] This is just a reminder for those who will be able to attend. The 10th edition of the Vintage Computer Festival will be next weekend, April 17-19 in Wall, New Jersey. The sessions for this Friday will include everything from chiptunes to retr0bright to emulating vintage computers on FPGAs, and Saturday and Sunday will feature an incredible…
After 30 years trying to get 20,000 on Atari 2600 Pitfall game, Mikey Shake finally did it, and he has photos to prove it. Now he is seeking Activision to give him his deserved prize, as one of the members of Pitfall Harry’s Explorers’ Club. As he states in his post, the Club’s offer didn’t have any expiration date, so…
You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…
This episode features Atari Memo Pad, originally released in 1979 by Atari. This program for the Atari 8 bit line of computers was the first multi function productivity software suite for the Atari. As usual, the companion website brings lots of screen shots, and the Memo Pad Operating System one is particularly interesting to check! Link: Inverse ATASCII
It was announced today on the Retro Video Gamer forum, that a massive 400+ page book based on the Atari VCS games library will be published soon. It will come completely packed with VCS artifacts and cover over 105 games in its first volume. It was explained that everything has been remastered to the highest standard, including box art, cartridge…
It is out the episode #33 of FloppyDays. This month, Randy Kindig is covering the Atari 400/800. Here is some of the subjects covered during the podcast: New Acquisitions: Raspberry Pi – http://www.raspberrypi.org/ A2CLOUD – http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER – http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ News: Electric Dreams BBS Podcast – http://www.edbbspodcast.com/ – Mike Whalen and Jeff Salzman Link: FloppyDays
[youtube SIr94TbOZys nolink] Over on Laird’s Lair YouTube channel, a review has been published about the Atari magazine pro(c) Atari. He goes through some of the articles, showing the magazine format and some of the contents, including an article written by himself, The Making of Panther. Link: YouTube
So you woke up this morning and decided to do a inventory of the stuff you have in your place? How convenient! Inverse ATASCII podcast has just been released, talking about ‘Home Inventory’, originally released in 1983 by APX. It was developed by RLM Micro Systems, and programmed by Ronald and Lynn Marcuse, Atari Star Award of Merit winners of…
The version 2.60 of the Atari emulator Altirra has been released. These are the main feaures/changes since 2.50 (from the Atariage forum thread): UI: New full-screen UI (double click on the left side), new device tree UI, new firmware image UI, and improved high DPI support. Support for rotating disk images between drives and quick-cycling input maps from the keyboard. Display:…
Atariage user Apemaster has announced a new memory card game called RETRORY, based on officially released Atari VCS 2600 games. He highlights on his post that the game is a physical game, not a video-game! Differently of traditional memory card games, Retrory doesn’t have “pairs”. Instead, a “pair” consists of two different images from the same game, which is a…
