Tag: Atari XL/XE
Zauberball is a reinterpretation of the game Wizball, a well known game on the Commodore 64, with new gameplay, graphical and acoustic elements, such as new background graphics, additional parallax effects, many extra colours of the Atari palette, countless moving objects and enemy sprites. Filters and alternative POKEY clock rates were used for the sound effects, which makes the sound…
Tenebra is an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas. Move torches around, push lights on rails, find keys to doors, light up cold braziers, pass through archways that collapse behind you, find oil barrels to make your torches brighter, squeeze…
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…
Downloadable preview of the C64 classic shines on the Atari 8-bit lineup!
Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has created and released a selection of reproduction game cartridges for the Atari XE Video Game System (XEGS) console and other Atari XL/XE computers. What makes these reproduction cartridges interesting is the fact that they do not require a machine with expanded memory capabilities to run. This includes a selection of games that were available for the…
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,…
Atari fans are in for a treat this week following the release of not one, but three new titles for a range of classic 8-bit computers and consoles! First on our release radar is HeliCommander, an arcade game that blends elements of Chopper Command and Choplifter into a new and exciting package for the Atari XL/XE series, with the promise…
Back in January we shared some interesting News about a new wip Atari XL/XE game port called “Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge”. You can now download the fourth preview version, which I have linked at the bottom of this post. Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge was originally released on the Megadrive, NES and the Nintendo Game Boy. Saberman has also shared a…
Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge was originally a game on the Megadrive, NES and Game Boy, today we learn of a new port coming soon for the Atari XL/XE. We found the source to this News over at atarionline.pl. My Polish is non existent, but if you want more information, my best advice would be to paste it into Google Chrome…
‘E-Type’ was first released for the BBC Micro in 1989. The game is a version of the Arcade driving game Out Run (Sega) where you basically have to drive as much as you can avoiding incoming traffic and obstacles. Fast-forward to 2015, Fandal and Irgendwer decided to make a port of the game for the Atari 130XE and the result is…
