Category: Atari News
I think you would agree with me that it is not a surprise that retro gaming has become serious business. With the flourishing homebrew scene selling more and more copies, and the many hardware products dedicated exclusively to play old games flooding the market, it is possible to make money based on nostalgia. Another proof of this trend is a…
Pro(c) Atar, a printed magazine dedicated to the Atari 8-bit line of computers has just announced its 15th issue, bringing 104-pages of Atari goods! Content: TIME FOR A QUICKIE (Strip Poker – Lindsay, Time Pilot, Jet Set Willy) BANDITS ENGLISH SOFTWARE’s SMASH HITS II + III (Stranded, Robin Hood, Citadel Warrior, Diamonds, Air Strike II, Batty Builders, Breath Of The…
For those outside the Atari XL/XE World to understand, #FujiNet is a modern peripheral for Atari 8 Bit computers. Conceived as a network adapter, the device quickly expanded its capabilities to become an SIO peripheral emulator. With it, you can access BBSes, retrieve Atari disk images from remote servers, create and/or play network-enabled games, store disk, cassette or cartridge images…
Sebastian ‘Candle`o`Sin’ Bartkowicz has, many years ago, developed the Ultimage1MB, one of the best modern upgrades you can buy for your Atari XL/XE. It offers, as you can guess, 1MB of RAM for the Atari 8-bits but it doesn’t stop there. You can have in it multiple operating systems and BASICs available, a real time clock and multiple modes of…
Once again, ZeroPage Homebrew, AtariAge, Mark/Space | Argon and The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion are organizing the Annual Atari Homebrew Awards. The 3rd edition is waiting for your vote for your favourite homebrew games of 2020. As listed in this previous post, the homebrew production for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Atari 8bit/5200 is huge, showing that the game…
Just a couple of weeks after the release of version 5.5.0, Atari800MacX 6.0.0 is out with not many functional changes, but with an important update that will ensure the emulator will stay work on macOS for many years to come. The emulator app bundle now includes both binaries for Intel and Apple ARM CPU. The OS will choose the right…
ZeroPage Homebrew is seriously dedicated to following the Atari 2600 homebrew scene. Thanks to his hard work, we have a complete list of all the Atari 2600 homebrew games that have either been completed in 2020 or have released an updated WIP in 2020 (good to track down games in development that are not staled/abandoned). The list below was originally…
Atari800MacX gets another important update, this time adding support to another host system, but the main feature, in my opinion, is the enhanced copy and paste feature. In this new version, you can copy/paste regular text and ATASCII graphics characters as well as any key combination you can perform on a real Atari. In addition to that, you can add…
Biscuits in Hell was released back in June 2020 by Playsoft/Paul Lay as an exclusive game for ABBUC members, as part of issue #141 of the ABBUC Magazine. Now the game is freely available to everybody via ABBUC public downloads (link at the end). The game was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum in 2017 and the premise is fairly…
River Raid was, alongside Missile Command and Enduro, one of the games I played the most on my Atari 2600. The thrill of trying to go just a little ahead and get that another bridge and the frustration of dying when going through some of the narrower paths just kept me going back and replay the game many, many times….
