Category: Atari News
[youtube K56sadbHJMU nolink] After more than four years of silence, we finally have news about the release of Veronica, an accelerator card for the Atari XL/XE. The project, an expansion card equipped with a 65C86S CPU running at 15Mhz and 64KB of RAM, has started back in 2010 by Marek “DIA” Konopka and Marked “Zenon” Grzbiett. The creators of the…
It was launched on AtariAge forum a new “BASIC Ten-Liners Contest”. If you are not an Atari guy/(gal?), don’t worry. This year the competition is way more open, both in terms of legal systems, as well as with regard to authorized BASIC dialects. You can code your Ten-liner using your beloved Atari 8-Bit, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Schneider CPC….
It was released moments ago a new interview made by the good people at Antic – The Atari 8-bit podcast. This time they interviewed Ihor Wolosenko, co-founder of Synapse software, the company that brought us SynFile and SynCalc, and an amazing list of games including Blue Max, Zeppelin, Fort Apocalypse, Alley Cat and Shamus. And Nautilus, and Rainbow Walker, and…
This episode features Atari Family Finances as released by Atari in 1982. This software was originally released in 1981 through APX as Family Cash Flow and Family Budget. It was written by Jerry Falkenhan. The Inverse ATASCII podcast discusses productivity software, hardware that supports productivity, and modern life with vintage Atari computers. Link: Inverse Atascii
When Kevin Savetz is not hosting the Antic Atari Podcast, he keeps himself busy as the most active Atari archivist, with several contributions that are all uploaded to Internet Archive. Today he posted on AtariAge forum a list of great “probably-never-seen” Atari material, as well as a “silly video created by Atari customer service employees around Christmas 1981. It was…
After one year since the last issue, the PRO(C) Atari magazine #4 in English will be available for purchase sometime next week. Some of the contents of this issue: Tronimal – Intergalactic Nomad (Gameboys-musician) Boxed Game: Caveblaster+ Boxed Games: Thetris / Rolltris Line Runner Jaskiniowiec and more… The magazine can be pre-ordered for Euro 5,00 (World airmail postage included) via…
[youtube lCIIV7Ev-AQ nolink] Few days ago we published the news about the New Year 2014 bundle for the Atari 8bit computers. One of the demos available was the game D.I.T.C.H (Deeper In The Cave, Helipilot). Now, Daniel “Creature XL ” Pralle released the final version of the game set in the cave of Heli in the Caves. Source: Atariteca Download:…
This new episode of Inverse ATASCI features VisiCalc, originally released in 1980 by Personal Software and later in 1982 released by VisiCorp. It was written by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston under Software Arts, Inc. This program for the Atari 8 bit line of computers was the first commercial spreadsheet for the Atari. There is a very interesting relationship with…
It is available for download the New Year Disk 2015, containing games and demos for the Atari XL/XE computers. The selection, create by Ralf “PPs” Patschke contains four games, ten intros/demos and five illustrations. Link: Download New Year Disk 2015 Source: Atariteca
[youtube 7aqvjvpkGe8 nolink] After Ben Heck’s portable ZX Spectrum, and the fancy C64p by The Future was 8 bit, Stefan Niestegge decided to create his own Atari portable. He used parts of an Atari 600XL and 800XL, and came up with this awesome looking laptop, with incredible 576K of memory, CF reader and SIO2PC interface. The author said that it…
