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 If you've ever wanted to browse the web from your favorite classic gaming system or computer, you may soon have that chance! A new internet-enabled operating system called Contiki has been written for the Commodore 64 and is being ported to a wide variety of other classic systems, including the Vic-20, NES, Atari Jaguar, Lynx, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, and more. It features a multi-tasking kernel, windowing system, TCP/IP stack, personal webserver, telnet client, web browser, and more! You can keep up with the latest Contiki developments by visiting the Contiki Home Page.
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 If you haven't been checking the PhillyClassic 4 Homepage recently, you may have missed several updates! The organizers have announced several guests who will make appearances show, including 2600 programmer Bob Polaro, Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs of Firaxis Games, and Film and TV Actress Cindy Morgan from the movie TRON. A PhillyClassic 4 infomercial has also been added to the site to help get you in the mood for the show! Please visit the PhillyClassic 4 site for all the details and more announcements as they are made.
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 Chad Schell, creator of the popular and versatile (but unfortunately Sold Out) Cuttle Cart for the Atari 2600, is hard at work on his latest creation: The 7800 Cuttle Cart. This new Cuttle Cart (not its official name) will have a number of improvements over the existing 2600 version, including an MMC card slot that will allow you to load 2600 and 7800 games from an on-screen menu! For a complete description of the cart, as well as to give feedback to Chad Schell, please visit our Atari 7800 Forum.
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 As most of you know, the east coast's classic gaming event PhillyClassic 4 is fast approaching! AtariAge will have a large presence at the show and we've put together some pages so you'll know what to expect when you visit our booth. We'll have several new Atari 2600 games for sale, exclusive demos of games presently being developed for the 2600 and 5200, various Atari consoles setup for play, Lynx and Jaguar games from Songbird Productions, and a wide variety of items from our store for sale! Please visit our AtariAge at PhillyClassic 4 page for more details!
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 Glenn Bussell has created an Atari 2600 Hangman Editor that allows you to create your own custom Hangman ROM that you can then run through an Atari 2600 emulator or on a real 2600. You can supply a custom wordlist as well as change the victim to one of several choices. You can try the 2600 Hangman Editor here, and discuss it with other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 A new edition of RetroGaming Radio has been posted for your listening pleasure. This latest show features an editorial on Interactive Movies vs. Video Games, an interview with Activision Co_Founder and Atari 2600 programmer Alan Miller, and a Flashback on Prince of Persia for various classic gaming systems. To listen to the complete show, please visit RetroGaming Radio.
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 Atari Jaguar fans can rejoice in the first public release of another Jaguar emulator, Virtual Jaguar. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress and the released version is not optimized, has sound disabled and no CD-ROM support. But development progress has been swift with Virtual Jaguar, so we expect rapid improvements. You can download the Virtual Jaguar emulator at Potato Emulation.
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 Version 0.50 of the Project Tempest Atari Jaguar emulator has been released. This latest version brings the following improvements:
Improved blitter emulation. 3D games work better now
Even more optimizations to the video system
Improved sound emulation
You can download the latest version from the Project Tempest page, as well as keep up with the project's rapid development pace.
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 Thanks go out to CPUWIZ, who sent us the binary to Pete's Test Cartridge, a diagnostic utility cartridge for the Atari 5200. This cart contains several diagnostic screens for diagnosing video and controller problems, and is useful for calibrating 5200 controllers. Only one of these carts is known to exist, and until now the binary hasn't been available out in the wild. You can download the binary and view screenshots here.
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 Gamasutra has posted a SCSIcide Postmortem, written by SCSIcide author Joe Grand. In this postmortem, Joe Grand goes into great detail about the development process of SCSIcide, including detailed analysis of what went right and what went wrong. If you're curious what it takes to develop a new Atari 2600 game from scratch, you'll enjoy reading this article. To read the article you'll need to register at Gamasutra (registration is free and quick).
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 Sean of Sean's Hardware Hacks has built his own Atari 2600 portable, dubbed the Atari-X, inspired by Ben Heckendorn's VCSp. Sean's project demonstrates what someone can put together without access to a million dollar industrial computerized router, and features two joystick ports, two difficulty switches, thumbpad, paddle, A/V output, metallic paint job and a 3" LCD display. For all the details about the project including photos, please visit Sean's Hardware Hacks.
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 NWCGE organizers have announced details for the upcoming 6th Annual Atari 2600 Championship to take place Sunday, March 16th in Seattle, Washington. Registration and practice begin at 1pm, with the competitions starting an hour later at 2pm. The event is part of the Northwest Film Forum's Obsolete Media Weekend. To learn more, please visit the Atari 2600 Championship home page.
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 The latest issue of Retrogaming Times has been published. Highlights in this issue include:
Review of Activision Anthology
Three different Classic Commercials
Many Faces of Dragonfire and Atlantis
More Classic Gaming Fun
You can find this and more at Tomorrow's Heroes.
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 Atari 5200 programmer Ron Lloyd has allowed us to release the binary to his enjoyable and well-received game Koffi: Yellow Kopter. Initially released in a limited run of 100 copies, you can now enjoy Koffi in your favorite 5200 emulator. In addition, AtariAge is now making available the unlimited run of Koffi carts, complete with the colorful, sixteen page manual that accompanied the original release. You can download the Koffi binary here, and find it in our store here. Enjoy!
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 EmuTOS version 0.6 has been released. EmuTOS is a GEMDOS compatible operating system designed from Digital Research's GEMDOS source code, which was made under GPL license in 1999. It is intended as a free, open-source replacement for the TOS images used for Atari ST emulators, and can even be run on real ST hardware. Please visit the EmuTOS Home Page for more information.
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 The February 2003 issue of MyAtari Magazine has been published. You can find the following articles in this month's issue:
Foreword
Tip of the Day
Atari Community Alive and Well
Reservoir Gods Review
M@ilbox and News
For all this and more please visit MyAtari.net.
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 In a tribute to Midway Games West (formerly Atari Games) closing their doors on February 7th, GameSpy has posted a list of their Top Ten Atari Arcade Games. Atari Games was responsible for creating many unique and innovative arcade games, and this list only scratches the surface. The list includes well-known favorites such as Asteroids, Centipede and Tempest, as well as a few of Atari's more obscure titles such as I, Robot. For the complete list and commentary on each game, drop by GameSpy.com.
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 The team at AtariArchives.org is thrilled to announce that the full text of the classic book The Computer Controller Cookbook by Tom & Kelda Riley is now online. Published in 1983 by Creative Computing Press, this hard-to-find book shows how to build your own controllers for Apple // and Atari 8-bit computers. This is the 11th classic computing book available at AtariArchives.org.
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 ScatoLOGIC, the same people who brought BattleSphere to the Jaguar, have announced their latest product, the ScatBox. The ScatBox is a peripheral for the Jaguar that attaches to the Jaguar Expansion Port and provides a full suite of audio/video standard connections as well as providing 100% Catbox compatible networking. Features of the ScatBox include:
ScatNet Multi-Console Network Jack
JUGS/Jag-Link RS-232 Serial Port
Analog RGB Output w/Audio
RCA Stereo Audio Outputs
Composite Video Output
S-Video Output
You can learn more about the ScatBox by visiting the ScatoLOGIC Home Page.
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 Atari 2600 programmer and musician Paul Slocum has released a 2600 Music Programming Guide as well as a new version of his 2600 Music Development Kit. The programming guide covers Paul's extensive knowledge about 2600 sound and music, and the music kit includes Paul's music driver, a player, an example song, and detailed instructions on the format of his music data. You can find all this and more on Paul's Sequencer Kit page at Qotile.net. You can discuss this guide and development kit with Paul Slocum and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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