Tag: Atari
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
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…
The guys over at C64.com have recently interviewed David Crane. David worked at Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1977, and co-founded Activision in 1979. David is best known for developing Pitfall, but has also published hundreds of games on the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 400, Atari 800 and other platforms. You can read the in depth interview…
Version 2.90 of the Atari 8-bit system emulator Altirra has been released. Altirra is a high-quality, cycle-exact emulator for the Atari 400/800, 1200XL, 600/800XL, 130XE, XEGS, and 5200 systems. Altirra runs on Windows XP-SP3 or higher and also runs quite well under Wine on Linux. New features include: 65C816 CPU speed can now be changed on the fly without a…
In 1979, Atari released their 400 home computer. Despite its miserable keyboard, compared to its larger sibling (the Atari 800), it’s only real limitation was it’s 16k RAM limit. Luckily, Atari made available part CO61553 – a 48k RAM upgrade card – which could be installed with limited modifications to the board. This board continued to be available at BEST…
John W. Linville has announced the final judging results for RetroChallenge 2017/04. Judging was originally supposed to be done by both Linville and Michael Mulhern, but Mulhern had to drop out due to personal issues. So, without further ado, here is the results list: Richard Loxley won the “Bounty Box” (donated by Mike Spooner) for his “RetroMatic” universal retrocomputer video…
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…
Good afternoon Retro Gamers, today we have a special Homebrew treat for you all, Dave Hughes has released a new Shoot ’em up for your Speccy! Dave decided to set himself a goal and see what could be achieved using an old game engine, his choice was Games Designer from Quicksilva Ltd released in 1983! This program is well known…
Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation. So, it’s another visit to the vault of classics on the Atari 2600. Activision, still strong to this day, released many hits for the Atari, and indeed spanning across other platforms back in the 80’s, however its not the collection or the mediums under scrutiny here, it’s the utterly amazing… H.E.R.O. The all important story. Well…
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…
