Tag: Atari 8-bit
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…
Mariuszw from AtariAge recently released some News about the Atari 8-bit version of Gunfright. This new version features great music from Saul Cross, and colour overlays and loading screen prepared by Jose Pereira. The game requires a 64KB RAM machine to play, and works on both PAL and NTSC systems. It also supports CPU-upgraded Atari’s properly. For those finding the…
Roy Widding (aka, Rotteroy of Megastyle) has kindly given us an ‘exclusive’ heads up via email about a fantastic new retro remake version of ‘Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory’ which was originally released way back in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit, Apple II and Commodore 64. Made for Windows, Mr.Robot contains awesome retro pixel graphics, lovely chip tune sounds,…
The TransKey II is an adapter for 8-bit Atari computers that allows use of an external PS/2 keyboard. AtariAge user mytekcontrols has just released a new firmware version with significant improvements, including: A much improved PS/2 handler kernel with more solid timing Improvements to keyboard hot-plugging support A switchable US/DE key map (Ctrl+Alt+F4) Faster cursor movement As a bonus, the…
The ANTIC podcast folks have released their 30th anniversary edition of the The Atari 8-bit Podcast. Kevin Savetz visits a game exhibit at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, the crew runs down a list of other Atari-related podcasts, and we find out how they keep track of all the people they need to nag to release new material!…
The 2016 BASIC 10-liners contest is a staggering success with 89 games in 4 categories. The number of entries and the quality of the programs shows that BASIC is still a viable language for many usages, and fun to program. Your very own Vintage is The New Old had an entry called “Typing Hero” for the MSX, and it did…
It seems PCMag has gotten the retro bug! Today, the website has published another article/slideshow related to retro computers. The pearl of the day is Atari and its line of home computers, from the gorgeous Atari 400 to the “Fisher-Pricy” looking XE Game System. The short article and the seven slides show a brief overview of the line of computers…
The Atariage user mariuszw has posted his work developing Pentagram, the final game in Sabreman saga, and it is a sequel to well known Knight Lore. He mentions that the game is being ported from the ZX Spectrum (as the images make that clear), and the most impressive thing about that is that he has developed a recompiler that takes the…
Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time, the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
