Tag: Atari
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…
Howard Scott Warshaw, the veteran programmer, best known in the game industry for his pioneering work at Atari on titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, spoke at the last GDC about his work designing and coding Yars’ Revenge, widely believed to be one of the best Atari 2600 games ever made. Recently his name was…
Curse of the Lost Miner is a platformer with features of a logic game for Atari 800XL and compatible computers. The game is a sequel to “Caverns of the lost miner” released in 2007, and your goal is to guide the cursed miner through dangerous caves and collect all diamonds in each cave. Source: AtariAge Forum Download: BAKTRA Software
We reported back in January the BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest, and at that time we thought we would have plenty of time to participate, right? Wrong! The contest has ended last April 11th, and the results are already online. In the PUR category (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed) these are the top 10: 1. Carrera 3D2….
This episode features The Color Accountant, originally released in 1981 by FutureHouse. It was developed by Programmers Institute and written by Andrew A. Hock. Don’t forget to visit the site for screen shots and box scans. Link: Inverse ATASCII
You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…
Released by: Undone Release Date: 28 March 2015 Cracked and released as a cartridge image at Gubbdata 2015. – Titlescreen with fade in/out.– From turning on C64 to playing the first day takes 4.5 seconds.– Fits in 64kb cartridge. Titlescreen compressed using LZWVL, game graphics compressed using Exomizer. Download: paperboy.zip Website: CSDb
It was announced today on the Retro Video Gamer forum, that a massive 400+ page book based on the Atari VCS games library will be published soon. It will come completely packed with VCS artifacts and cover over 105 games in its first volume. It was explained that everything has been remastered to the highest standard, including box art, cartridge…
It is out the episode #33 of FloppyDays. This month, Randy Kindig is covering the Atari 400/800. Here is some of the subjects covered during the podcast: New Acquisitions: Raspberry Pi – http://www.raspberrypi.org/ A2CLOUD – http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER – http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ News: Electric Dreams BBS Podcast – http://www.edbbspodcast.com/ – Mike Whalen and Jeff Salzman Link: FloppyDays
[youtube SIr94TbOZys nolink] Over on Laird’s Lair YouTube channel, a review has been published about the Atari magazine pro(c) Atari. He goes through some of the articles, showing the magazine format and some of the contents, including an article written by himself, The Making of Panther. Link: YouTube
