Category: Atari News
The 2nd. ATASCII Compo is in the history books now. The ATASCII-art competition aimed to find who are the real artists out there cable of conveying their imagination through the Atari 8-bit character set. Looking at the 23 entries this year, you cannot see a “bad” one, so in the end, it was really to find the best of the…
In our new episode we welcome Floppy Totaal . These amazing people from the Netherlands are 100% into floppy disks! They are keeping the spirit alive with events and even a book called ‘Floppy Disk Fever’. Enjoy! Interview starts at minute 19:08 Listen or watch the video version at: https://scene.world/floppytotaal
Logiker is again promoting retro computer art, with another edition of the ATASCII Compo, which allows the participants to show off their art skills using only ATASCII characters! The competition runs from October 1st, 2022 through October 15th, and this year you have even another incentive to participate. Thanks to a generous donation, the first place will get 100 Euros!…
Dragon Wood, which Steril707 himself describes as a fantasy version of Exolon (Hewson, 1987), the legendary Amstrad CPC title. Borrmann – who is better known under the name of Tigerskunk – started programming Dragon Wood as a way to distract himself from his current project: Hyperblaster, a sequel to the notable shoot’em up Inviyya (2021) for Amiga computers and the…
Early this month, FastBASIC 4.6 was released, bringing new support to produce Atari 5200 cartridge images, among other bug fixes and improvements. This version uses a new PC compiler, rewritten to support multiple targets with one binary, you can specify the target with the new option allowing the developer to target the 5200 or the Atari computers. About FastBASIC This…
Cave Crusader is a horizontal shoot’em up developed in 1983 by the Italian programmer Michele “Micky” Bina for the Atari 8-bit computers. Developed in Forth and Assembler, the game offers more than 110 screens divided into nine levels. At that time, Cave Crusader was one of the winners of the contest in the first edition of Computer Play, organized by…
ABBUC, the ATARI Bit Byter User Club, runs its traditional yearly software competition, and it is open to all Atari 8-Bit developers (no membership required!). As a general rule, all entries should be able to run on an Atari 8-Bit computers and submitted on a maximum of two unprotected 90KB or 130 KB 5.25“ floppy disk sides or ATR-Images. The authors…
One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is happening again! The 11th of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they are line-oriented dialects. As usual, the PUR-80…
Yandex Retro Games Battle is a game development contest, organized by the Yandex Museum that brought to life amazing games for the ZX Spectrum, like Marsmare: Alienation and White Jaguar. If released in the 80s, these games would have made the developers rich folks and the blockbusters of the time look not so incredible as our memory tells us! This…
Today we received an email from the ABBUC organizers that the Atari Bit Byter User Club website was attacked, and it looks like all usernames and passwords are compromised. To avoid further damage, the club decided to take the server down, and it will be that way until a new and more secure server is up and running. Here is…
