Tag: Atari
Dungeon Stalker, a new game for the Atari 7800 developed by “AtariMaximus”, has reached its “Release Candidate” state. That means all development work is done and if there is no big bugs, the game will be released soon. Your character is a fearless female archer stuck in a dungeon with no exits. Her only option is to fight and try…
mariuszw on AtariAge forum has ported over Ocean’s ‘The Great Escape‘ to the 8bit Atari!The Great Escape was originally released back in the 80’s on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and also DOS. The perspective is an isometric view, much like Batman and Head over Heels on the ZX Spectrum. ScenarioThe player controls an unnamed prisoner of war…
Antic, the podcast about the Atari 8-bit computers has a new episode! Some of the highlights are: Nw atari archive sites. Randy tells us all about BASIC XL Kevin delves into the sordid history of DorsETT Educational Systems Bill Kendrick fills us in on a panoply of stuff, including a brain transplant for your 8-bit. (*) After the release of…
The Video Game Archeologist is a website that contains hundreds of game manuals, most of them for Atari games, but also for Colecovision and others. I’ve checked some of the manuals, and it was really a trip down the memory lane :). Some of the manuals of games published by Atari itself are a pleasure to check, mainly because of…
Stephen Jones is developing an advanced R-Type game, and he’s trying to use all the good stuff the extended Atari STe has to offer. He mentions that the development is going well, and it supplied to AtariCrypt a nice set o brand new screenshots. Even sucking at it badly, R-Type is one of my favourite games, and I try to…
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
Another bit of Atari productivity tools history has been released. The Inverse ATASCII episode 18 covers the APX Diskette Librarian, published by Atari Exchange Program. As usual, Inverse ATASCII website provides more screenshots and instructions to download/run the program. Link: Inverse ATASCII
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
FloppyDays has been released with the third part covering the Atari 400/800. This episode will tackle Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more. The episode counts with co-hosts from other Atari/Retro Computing podcasts: Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, and Kevin and Brad from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ). Link: FloppyDays
This episode of Inverse ATASCII, the podcast that talks about Atari 8-bit productivity tools, features Typo Attack, originally released in 1982 by APX. It was programmed by David Buehler, a seventeen year old high school junior. This productivity tool is relevant for winning one of the APX Star Award, giving the author a prize of $25,000 in cash. Link: Inverse…
