Category: Atari News
Back in the day, Atari has a division called Atari Program Exchange (APX) that distributed user-written software for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers through a quarterly mail-order catalog until was shutdown in 1984. Some time late last year Atarimania’s users Allan and ballyalley decided to make a big purchase of over 40 original APX titles in order to…
Atari Podcast #17 has a holiday special section where the hosts have given suggestions for Atari-related Christmas gifts. They were nice enough to organize the ideas in price ranges, for all budgets. We are already on Christmas Eve, but it is never late to give (even to yourself) a last minute present! Under $25 Atari Logo Folio Style Protective Case…
On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: Our Atari Holiday Gift Picks – which is apparently now a tradition on our show Randy’s definitive roundup of virtual drive options Bill plays three new, award-winning games and lots of listener feedback about the Atari 850 interface Link: Antic
RAPTOR is a high performance RISC-based API designed to leverage the performance of the Jaguar’s custom RISC chips in an easy and flexible manner, allowing the software developer to spend more time following their vision instead of wrestling with the hardware. Last week, a new version was released (2014.11.29), and the developers are asking for help to test and expand…
The original Mario Bros that hit the Atari 2600 was less than stellar, to be honest. It was a serviceable version but it was lacking in many ways due to the capabilities of the hardware. Homebrew fans are working on fixing this, near, travesty, with a new and better Mario Bros for the Atari 2600. Right now, it is in…
We know the game is not over just yet, but as we reported before, the movie ‘Atari: Game Over’ is right now available for free on Xbox Video. ‘Atari: Game Over’ is the Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video…
[youtube oxiNzGCWWeU nolink] The Atari 2600 was the first successful home video game console. It also has a well-deserved reputation as being devilishly difficult to program. In this talk, Jack explains some of the system’s features and limitations, and talks about some patterns used in developing a game for this ancient console. The video is short (only 16min), but Jack…
This episode features Atari Calculator, originally released in 1981. This calculator for the Atari 8 bit line of computers was intended or release on cartridge in 1979 but was released on disk nearly 2 years later in 1981. The Inverse ATASCII blog was created to support the podcast of the same name. The podcast discusses productivity software, hardware that supports…
Dungeon Hunt a single player game, styled after dungeon crawl type game such as Dungeon Master and Stonekeep. Dungeon Hunt uses a first person perspective display engine to navigate a large detailed 3D maze. Game play is fast and intense with dynamic action and many surprises! Consisting of 12 different dungeons, 15 unique monsters, multiple weapons, power ups and traps,…
During the last podcast episode, Kevin Savetz mentioned that he received a nice package from Gray Chang, author of Dog Daze, Dog Daze Deluxe, Bumpomov’s Dogs, and Claim Jumper for the Atari 400/800 computers. The disks contain source code for some of his games, and seem to include several versions of some programs as he progressed in creating the games….
