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 While there's been some talk about the Flashback 2.0 in our forums, Atari has now formally announced the successor to their popular Flashback dedicated game console. The new Flashback 2.0 is styled after an original Atari 2600 console, features 40 built-in games, is packaged with two Atari 2600 CX-40 style joysticks, and will carry a retail price of less than $30. While most of the games included are classic hits from the original Atari 2600, some original games as well as homebrews also make an appearance. The new Flashback unit is based on genuine 2600 hardware, meaning the games running on it are actual 2600 binaries as opposed to simulations of existing 2600 games, as was the case with the original Flashback. To learn more about the Flashback 2.0, you can read the official Atari press release here, and discuss this new console in our online forums.
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 Issue #12 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the May 2005 issue include:- Many Faces of "Demon Attack" Revisited
- Retrogaming Commercial Vault - Beam me up a Vic 20
- Syntax Era - "Nintendo Fun Club News"
- Tengen Titles - "Pac-Man"
- High Scores
- Old School is New Again
- Thrill of Defeat: Recycling the 'Trash-80' Model 1
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly--92 months in a row, making it the longest-running online free retro-gaming newsletter ever!
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 Go Fish! is an original game loosely based on the Intellivision game Shark! Shark! - you are a wee fish and, to survive, you must eat other, smaller fish to grow. But watch out for the shark, as he's also on the hunt for food and you could be his next meal! AtariAge and programmer Bob Montgomery have teamed up to sponsor a contest to create original artwork for Go Fish! This label artwork will appear on all copies of Go Fish!, which will make its debut at the upcoming Oklahoma Video Game Expo, after which it will be available in the AtariAge Store. To learn how to enter the contest, please visit the Go Fish! Label Contest page.
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 Chris Walton (cd-w in our forums), has announced development of a new Atari 2600 homebrew game titled Hunchy. Hunchy is loosely based on the classic arcade game Hunch Back (1982), which in-turn is loosely based on the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1831) by Victor Hugo. You play the role of the hunchbacked bell-ringer Quasimodo in his quest to rescue the gypsy girl Esmeralda from the cathedral of Notre Dame. To succeed in the rescue, you must jump across the roof of the Notre Dame, avoiding the guards and an assortment of missiles. The rescue attempt starts off easily, but gets rapidly more difficult. You can follow the game's development in our Homebrew Discussion Forum, as well as download the latest version that you can try in your favorite Atari 2600 emulator.
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 The full text of the classic book Compute!'s Second Book of Atari is now available online at AtariArchives.org. Published in 1985, Compute!'s Second Book of Atari offers BASIC and assembly language programming techniques for Atari 8-bit computers, with an emphasis on high-resolution graphics. In addition, a chapter from Atari In Action!, an unfinished, unpublished book about the Action! programming language, has also been made available recently. Finally, a new mailing list that will send you e-mail alerts when new resources are added to AtariArchives.org and AtariMagzaines.com has been created, which you can subscribe to here.
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 Karl Morris of Atari Explorer sends us word that his informative website chock full of great Atari-related articles is now back online. With Atari Explorer's return come some new and updated articles, including:- Mega ST - Bigger is Beautiful
- TOS 4.04 Source Code
- VideoMusic - What were they Smoking?
- Atari Transputer Workstation
If you've never visited Atari Explorer, you're missing out on one of the most well-designed and informative Atari sites on the web. We're glad to see its return!
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 The PhillyClassic organizers have previously revealed their plans for a show this year, but new information has now come to light. They are organizing not one, but TWO shows this year, one to take place in Philadelphia (as expected) on November 12 and 13, and an earlier show in Dallas, Texas, to be held on August 20 and 21. The PhillyClassic crew have teamed up with NBC to create two events sharing a common name, America's VideoGame Expo, where they expect to attract over 50,000 attendees between the two shows. The newly renamed show, like previous PhillyClassics, caters to both classic and modern gamers, features free admission, and both shows will see a substantial increase in floor space from earlier PhillyClassic events. AtariAge will be present at both shows, and we look forward to seeing many of you there as well! More information about the shows will be posted soon, but you can get a head start by heading over to the America's VideoGame Expo website.
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 It was a long time coming, but we've finally migrated the AtariAge Forums to new and much improved software! The forums have a wealth of new features (some of which are detailed here), and they should be notably faster than before. We also moved AtariAge to a new, shiny server that should eliminate any slowdown that may have been noticeable before. These changes pave the way for additional new features to be added to the forums and the site in general down the road! You can visit the new forums here, and If you notice anything not working the way it should (either in the forums or the site in general), please contact us. Enjoy!
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 Atari2600.com has announced plans to release Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Revenge by First Star Software in cartridge form for the Atari 5200. Boulder Dash II is a sequel to the award-winning Boulder Dash, which saw release on many classic gaming systems, but not the 5200. Boulder Dash II for the 5200 features 16 caves to explore, and one or two players can take part in the action. Boulder Dash II will include a professionally printed box, label and manual, and is being produced in four different box colors. Only 100 copies are being produced, 25 in each of the four available box colors. You can learn more about Boulder Dash II and other upcoming 5200 releases on Atari2600.com's news page and also discuss the game in our Atari 5200 Forum.
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 A new version of the Atari ST emulator for the Dreamcast, DCaSTaway, has been released. This version has been labeled a Release Candidate, and features a large number of improvements over the previous release, including:- Support for MSA & ST disks images
- Dreamcast Mouse & Keyboard Support
- Various Mouse, Keyboard and Joystick improvements
- ZIP support
- Filemanager with subdirectory access
- Complete menu with 'Start' button: load, frameskip, reset, etc.
- Crystalline Sound
To learn more and download the latest version, please visit the DCaSTaway Homepage.
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 Ken Siders, fresh from his development of Atari 5200, 8-bit, and 7800 versions of Beef Drop (a Burgertime port), has embarked on his next project: A port of the popular arcade game Q*bert. Originally revealed two days ago as an April Fool's joke, Ken has already made significant progress on the game. Gameplay-wise, Ken's rendition of Q*bert plays pretty much as you would expect Q*bert to. The most noticeable missing elements are all the enemies beyond the red balls, although this version is still somewhat challenging due to the speed and frequency with which those balls do bounce down towards you. The game already features a title screen as well as the "Level" screen that appears before each wave of levels. Q*bert for the 7800 shows great potential and is following in the footsteps of some other wonderful 7800 arcade ports, such as Food Fight. You can view the original April Fool's thread here and follow current development of Q*bert for the 7800 in our Atari 7800 Forum.
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 ThinkGeek, well known for selling a wide variety of merchandise that appeals to geeks of all kinds, has introduced a new product sure to win over the hearts of Atari fans the world over: Executive PONG. Paying homage to the first PONG systems that shipped in the 70s, ThinkGeek has faithfully recreated PONG while bringing to it modern aesthetics and technology. The Executive PONG unit features a high-contrast, internal DLP projector so you can project your game of PONG onto any flat surface and two brushed metal, as well as a pair of wireless bluetooth paddles, so you'll be enjoying PONG in style and comfort. To learn more, please visit the Executive PONG site at ThinkGeek, where you can order yours today!
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Issue #11 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Some of the highlights from the April 2005 issue include:- Many Faces of "Battlezone"
- TI-99/4A Arcade Clones - part II
- Syntax Era - "Atari Force"
- Tengen Titles - Tetris
- Vic 20 New Games Released
- Thrill of Defeat: 1st Home Computers
Please visit Retrogaming Times Monthly to read these articles and more!
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 If you enjoy playing enthusiast-created modifications of existing Atari 2600 games, we've just added another 33 hacks to our Atari 2600 Hacks section. This brings the total number of hacks to just under 300! There are some great hacks in this update, including the long-awaited release of the Indy 500 XE binary that features tracks submitted in a track design contest last year. You can browse through all 297 hacks here, and discuss them with other AtariAge visitors in our Hacks Forum. Thanks to go Stan Jr. for doing the legwork to make this (and previous) Atari 2600 Hack updates possible!
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 After a long hiatus, the Macintosh version of MESS (the Multi Emulator Super System) has finally been updated, bringing it up date with the Windows and Linux versions. This is great news for fans of the Atari 7800, as this brings notable improvements to the 7800 emulation available to OS X users. We tried Ken Sider's work-in-progress Beef Drop for the 7800 and it ran perfectly! Please visit the MESS home page to download the latest version (and source, if you're so inclined). You can also discuss this version of MESS in our Atari 7800 Forum.
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 Richard Bannister, who has written a large number of system emulators for OS X, has released a new version of his video game music player Audio Overload. Audio Overload can play a total of fifteen different music formats (including Atari 8-bit SAP and Atari ST SNDH/YM files), with plans to support more formats in future releases. For some great Atari 8-bit SAP files, please drop by the ASMA Archive as well as the Grayscale Project. Versions of Audio Overload are available for OS X, Linux, and Windows, and can be downloaded by visiting the Audio Overload home page.
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 If you're a fan of the popular board game Reversi and also follow the Jaguar scene, you'll be glad to learn that Matthias Domin is creating a version for the Jaguar. Reversi for the Jaguar will be released on an encrypted CD and features graphics by Duranik and music and sound effects by Nils Feske. In Reversi two players try to dominate an 8x8 playfield. Each player moves in succession, trying to capture pieces of his opponent by surrounding them with his own stones. The following features have been announced thus far:- Four game modes: Human vs. Computer, Human vs. Human, Computer vs. Human, and Computer vs. Computer
- Multi-lingual
- MemoryTrack support for saving game settings
- Includes a BJL-loader for uploading RAM-based programs from your PC to the Jaguar.
For more information and to follow the game's development, please visit the Jaguar Reversi Development Page. You can also discuss the game in our Atari Jaguar forum.
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 Eduardo Mello of Opcode Games, who has previously published Sky Jaguar and Space Invaders Collection for the ColecoVision, has announced that his latest title, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, will be shipping shortly. Yie Ar Kung-Fu is a fighting game based on the MSX title of the same name, but with the Famicom (NES) graphics. This 32K ColecoVision game is complete with box, manual, and cartridge, with all the materials professionally printed. You can learn more about Yie Ar Kung-Fu here, where you can view a more detailed description of the game, screenshots, and a picture of the finished box and cartridge.
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 The fourth beta of Atari800Win PLus Version 4.0 is now available for downloading. Atari800Win PLus is an excellent Atari 8-bit/5200 emulator for Windows, based on the latest Atari800 kernel. It's been a while since we've posted news about this emulator, so if you're looking for a good Atari 8-bit emulator and you're using Windows, you should try out this latest version. You can learn more about Atari800Win PLus here, where you can also download the latest Windows executable and source code.
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Version 0.94 of MESS (the Multi Emulator Super System) is now available for Windows. This latest version adds new keyboard mappings for the Atari 2600 and 7800 emulation, adds a new Apple IIgs system driver, fixes several problems in other system drivers, and contains some user-interface changes as well. The MESS core is now based on MAME 0.94. To download the latest binaries and source please visit the MESS Homepage.
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