Tag: Atari 8-bit
PauLowRes (Paulo Garcia) recently released a new Atari 8-bit Tetris clone. The game was written in OSS Action. Gameplay is complete, a little rough around the edges, but this is an ongoing project so expect improvements in the near future. Head over to github to download the Source.
Montezuma’s Revenge is a 1984 platform game for the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). Back in the day Zdenda ZZubr always dreamt of programming his own version of Montezuma. Many years later, now in his 50’s, Zdenda has finally made his own dreams come true….
After a very long time in the dark, we can finally enjoy a new edition of Pro(c) Atari magazine. The Edition 2019 of the magazine is available as a Softcover-Book with nothing less than 104 pages, featuring many reviews and interesting articles about your favourite Atari computer! Time for a quickie English Software’s Smash Hits I NEW Games from Jon…
Jason Moore is the maintainer of the well-received website “Atari Projects“, where he presents many projects for you to do with your Atari computer. Today, he has announced on Facebook the availability of his new book, Atari Projects: 50 Fun Projects for Your 8-Bit Home Computer. “The goal of this book is to provide a series of fun projects to…
Our second Atari 8-bit release this week is Train, a new title developed and released by Czech software outfit BAHA Software Group, which in turn is a conversion of Vlak, a game released originally for MS-DOS PCs by Miroslav Němeček in 1993. Heavily influenced by the classic Snake arcade game, players are tasked with driving a small freight train around the screen,…
HeliCommander is a new Arcade Action game for Atari XL/XE and is due for release on cartridge very soon. Borrowing similar gameplay as Chopper Command and Choplifter, the game uses parallax scrolling to create a 3D effect, and has colourful graphics and lot’s of detail. Enemies include Tanks, trucks, bombers and choppers. The game will require at least 16K of…
Mariusz Wojcieszek and Terrence Derby have ported the ZX Spectrum cult classic ‘Jack the Nipper’ (1986, Gremlin Graphics) over to the Atari 8-bit. For the few of you that have never played this game, Jack the Nipper is loosely based on the British comic strip character Sweeny Toddler. ..and so the story goes, Jack was tired of all the wimps…
The site Nostalgiamatica is offering a calendar for the next year that will please the Antic podcast hosts and the rest of the Atari enthusiasts around the world. The 2018 Atari 800XL calendar is ready to show off many Atari games in a 21×28 cm 200mg glossy paper. Each month will feature a screenshot of one of the favorite games,…
User Bryan at AtariAge has announced there will be another run of his Utimate Atari Video board for the Atari 8-bit systems. This board generates superb composite and s-video (separate) signals from all 8-bit computer systems as well as the XEGS, 2600 / VCS, 5200, and 7800 consoles. It incorporates many features designed to clean up the often terrible video…
Back in 2014 Fred Meijer, a collector that runs the website AtariMuseum, shared a video of a game on the Atari 8-Bit called “I Beatles e il Papiro della Pace”. This “loosely” translates to “The Beatles and the Papyrus of Peace”. The game was published by Lindasoft (Italy) in 1987. As you can see from the video below, the game shows…
