Category: Atari News
Atari800MacX 5.4.0 is out adding new features and with many bug fixes. Emulating now the Atari 1200XL and XEGS, this is one of the versions that changed the most in recent years. In he peripheral side, the emulator can now “talk” to the SIDE2 and the Ultimate1MB. New Features/Bug Fixes (in version 5.4.0): Added emulation of Ultimate1mb upgrade Added emulation…
The Vintage Computer Center store, one provider of the also excellent SDrive-MAX has announced the immediate availability of #FujiNet. #FujiNet is a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system to a WiFi network. Although networking was the initial objective of this device, it has become a jack-of-all-trades SIO peripheral emulator. The project is…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Yes, no sugarcoating! In this third part we will be talking about pointers! Hello?….. Hello? Usually, when people start to learn…
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. Besides many improvements over the original, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. Suitable for most retro computers that use either internal or external floppy disk drives as a direct replacement or additional drive so you can load games/software from a USB flash…
Kay Savetz, one of the Antic Atari Podcast hosts and die-hard Atari fan has announced a new and cool project: @Atari8BitBot. The project was inspired on the BBC Micro version which was limited to BASIC, and the Atari8BitBot was created by Kay Savetz and Bill Kendrick. With this tweet bot, you can send any code in Atari BASIC, Turbo-BASIC XL,…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program If you are following this series of articles, you could be thinking right now: “What a jump! From a Hello World…
The macOS emulator for Atari 8-bit computers has been updated to version 5.3.0. Among the many changes and improvements, the most notable one is the update of the emulator core, using Atari800 4.2. The last core update happened more than eight years ago. The UI has also new features that the users were longing for so much time, like continuous…
My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…
A new version of the Atari 8-bit emulator for macOS, Atari800MacX has been released. Version 5.2.0 brings support for a printer that is capable to print ATASCII graphics characters, which is paramount for printing BASIC program listings. The 80 column emulation is a bit rough in this release, in that it uses a separate window with a different aspect ration…
A new version of Atari800MacX, the Atari XL/XE/5200 emulator for MacOS is available now. This new version contains an important internal change, replacing the deprecated OpenGL with Metal, which will ensure Atari800MacX will be ready for the future versions of MacOS. Besides replacing OpenGL, the Atari emulator also had hundreds of functions reviewed and any deprecated API was updated as…
