Category: Atari News
On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit PODCAST the friendly hosts talks about the Atari 850 interface, the SIO2SD device, and much more. There is also a great segment by Bill Kendrick about games converted from the Atari 2600 to the computers, and a special segment by Chris Olson about Atari 8-bit emulation on IOS. Link: Antic Podcast
Remember those E.T. game cartridges that were uncovered in a New Mexico desert in April? Now they’re on eBay. Decades of video game speculation was brought to an end earlier this year when a crew unearthed a bunch of Atari 2600 cartridges in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This week, the city’s Tularosa Basin Historical Society decided to sell some online. E.T….
[youtube lnyoyWpqKJI nolink] After teasing retro gamers with a trailer of Atari: Game Over, the film’s director has stated that the documentary looking into the gaming giant’s collapse and their infamous landfill site is due to hit Xbox Video later this month with no release date set as of yet for other digital distribution platforms. Source: Retro Collect
New 2600 homebrew games are now available in AtariAge store, including a Flappy Birds “homage”. Like its iOS brethren, Flappy is a fairly simple game. Pressing the joystick button causes your avian friend to flap, and the more you flap, the higher you climb. Your primary goal (and, really, your only goal) is to line up your bird so it…
Atari 800 – Best Game Pack’ is an All-In-One game pack includes the best Atari 8-bit games, screenshots, adverts, covers, manuals, the spreadsheet of high scores club and easy-to-use front-end. The objectives of the game pack are ‘Preservation of best Atari 8-bit games and their database’ and ‘Providing user friendly front-end for running games and accessing database’. Link: Website Download:…
InverseAtascii is an Atari podcast that covers productivity tools for the Atari 8 bit line of computers, and it has released its second episode talking about the first word processor released for the Atari 8 bit computers. To download the show and check some screenshots of the Letter Perfect software, click the link below. Link: InverseAtascii
If you do not have an actual hardware available to run your vintage games and applications, the emulation is the easiest way to go. Here at VITNO, one of our objectives it to give first-time users a fast track to get their favorites games or apps running with no hassle. Although the internet is full of information about all possible…
I like to say that in the Vintage Computing World the word “too much” doesn’t exist. This rule also applies for podcasts, specifically Atari podcasts. We have Antic and Player/Missile where the first one is dedicated to everything Atari, and the latter to games. Now we also have another podcast, but this one is dedicated to productivity tools: Inverse Atascii…
The new huge episode of Antic is now available for your commuting pleasure! On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit PODCAST: We delve into the SIDE2 compact flash interface, look at arcade games ported to the 8-bits, discuss another new atari podcast, and interviews with Gray Chang — author of Claim Jumper — and Jonathan Halliday, creator of the…
[youtube 0CMAgvkQ7Z4 nolink] The already well-known Atari Gamer Magazine just got a new sister covering the Atari ST line of computers, the Atari ST Gamer. The new magazine promises to bring news, reviews and articles about the Atari ST, and the debut edition is full of good stuff, like an interview with Harry Lefnear, pixel artist for the Microdeal’s Time…
