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 If you haven't yet sent in a postcard for the Combat II Advanced Contest, you only have a few days left! AtariAge and Mean Hamster Software are giving away two copies of Combat II Advanced for the Atari 5200, which will be on sale shortly in the AtariAge Store. We will be accepting postcards that are postmarked through Saturday, November 9th, as long as we receive them within a week of that date. Thus far we have received 20 postcards--where's yours? More info about the contest and where to send your postcard can be found here. Good luck!
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 Homebrew author Ben Larson has released a playable demo of his Atari 2600 game Incoming! that is current in development. Incoming! is a Sabotage style game in which two opponents shell each other with cannons over a variety of terrain. This is the first playable demo Ben has released, and it includes computer AI so it can be played in single player mode as well as between two people. Please visit the Incoming! Development Page for more information, and you can discuss Incoming! with other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Gunfight author Manuel Polik has released a tech-demo of his upcoming Atari 2600 game Star Fire, a 2600 port of the 1979 arcade game of the same name released by Exidy. With this demo Manuel has completed most of the visual and technical challenges and will now concentrate on finishing up the gameplay, music, and sound effects. For screenshots and a binary that you can try for yourself, please visit our Star Fire In Development Page. You can discuss Star Fire with other AtariAge visitors and give Manuel Polik feedback in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 The first non-beta version of Atari800MacX, version 1.0.1, has been released. Atari800MacX is a native OS X Cocoa port of the Atari 800 emulator. This new version features many improvements and bug fixes, such as greatly improved sound support, emulation of the Atari P: (printer) and R: (serial) devices, full 5200 controller support, better paddle support, and more! Please visit the Atari800MacX page for more details and to download the latest version.
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 Brian Green has announced that he is developing an Atari 5200 port called Xatta of the arcade puzzle game Ataxx from a company called Leland. Your goal is to secure a greater number of tiles (on a 7x7 grid) than your opponent by moving your pieces in a manner not unlike checkers. There's still plenty of work to be done, but it's nice to see a version of Ataxx being developed for the 5200 and we look forward to its eventual release. You can read more about Xatta's development in our Programming Forum.
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 Dennis Debro has released a playable demo of his upcoming Atari 2600 game Climber 5. Your goal in Climber 5 is to ascend to the upper rafters of a building under construction to retrieve a baseball that has been hit up there. For more information, including new screenshots, a binary you can download and try, and information about the original 8-bit version, please check out our Climber 5 In Development Page. You can also discuss this work in progress with Dennis Debro and other AtariAge members in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Support has finally been added to MAME (the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) for the Atari CoJag arcade games. The CoJag was an arcade board developed by Atari Games and derived from the Atari Jaguar. It was used for the arcade games Area 51, Maximum Force, and Area 51: Site 4, as well as some unreleased prototypes like Freeze, Fishing Frenzy, and Vicious Circle. You can visit the MAME Status Page for more information and screenshots.
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 Rapid development continues on the new Atari Jaguar emulator Project Tempest, which has been updated to version 0.3. Changes from the previous version include:
Alien vs. Predator is now playable
Fixed some OP bugs
Lots of other fixes
Please visit the Project Tempest page to download the latest version and to keep abreast of developments. You can also discuss Project Tempest in our Atari Jaguar Forum.
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 Ron Lloyd has announced that he has completed coding on his Atari 5200 game Koffi: Yellow Kopter and is now accepting orders. The first 100 Koffi: Yellow Kopters will be a "Premier First Edition" and will include a unique box, cart and manual. Ron has put together a demo based on the final version of Koffi that allows you to play all four stages up to the end of Level 3. You can download the demo and order Koffi here, and discuss the latest version of Koffi: Yellow Kopter with Ron Lloyd and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 5200 Forum.
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 The New England Classic Gaming Headquarters recently held its fall get together, and they've posted photos of the event (some of which are quite amusing) so you can see what they're all about. If you're in the New England area, you should learn more about these guys and make an effort to attend their next gathering. Looks like a fair amount of trading takes place and fun is had by all! Details about their winter meet will be coming in January. While you're there, be sure to check out Christian Scott's Collecting Tips.
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 We have many visitors from Germany, and if you happen to be near Berlin, you need to check out a new exhibit, Attack of the Killer Memorabilia. The exhibit, which opened today and runs through November 26th at Musterfirma Headquarters, is being put on by the Ancient Technologies Art Research Institute. Celebrating Atari's 30th Anniversary, the exhibit features an extensive Atari museum with hundreds of unique items including one-of-a-kind prototypes, signed items, rare promo displays and much more. Also featured are several videogame tournaments to take place over the next month, special guests, lectures, performances, and more! For additional information, please visit the Ancient Technologies Art Research Institute at www.a-t-a-r-i.com.
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A new version of the Atari ST emulator SainT has been released, bringing the version number up to 1.20. Changes in this latest version include:
 SID-Sound quality improvements
TimerA event mode fixed
More prefetch fixed
High border sync scroll fix
Screen rendering optimized
1024*768 fullscreen mode support
Memory snapshot bug fixed when changing ROM
You can download SainT as well as view the online documentation here.
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 For fans of Atari 8-bit computer music, there are new SAP players for the Amiga and MS-DOS at the Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA). The current SAP archive contains 1480 songs taken from various Atari 8-bit games and demos, as well as tunes written by Atari 8-bit enthusiasts. You can download the latest archive and players at the Atari SAP Music Archive homepage.
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 Just in time for Halloween, Eric Ball has released the final version of his new Atari 2600 game, Skeleton. Your objective in Skeleton is to escape a labyrinth infested with 80 skeletons you must hunt down and destroy before they kill you! There are eight mazes, with each maze containing 10 skeletons. Complete all eight mazes and you'll gain your freedom! You can download the latest version of Skeleton here (both NTSC and PAL versions are available), and you can order Skeleton in cartridge form for $20, complete with an eight page manual, in our AtariAge Store.
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 Mean Hamster Software and AtariAge are sponsoring a contest for the upcoming Combat II Advanced now in development for the Atari 5200. This contest will be accessible to everyone--all you need to do is send us a postcard, and two winners will be chosen at random to win autographed copies of the limited release of Combat II Advanced in November. These limited edition carts will have a unique reflective gold label to make them stand out from the later, general release of the game. You can learn more about the contest and how to enter by visiting the Combat II Advanced Contest page.
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A new version of the upcoming and very promising Jaguar emulator Project Tempest has been released. Version 0.20 features the following improvements from the previous version:
Fixed graphics in Tempest 2000
Fixed the joystick glitches
Doom is playable with almost perfect graphics
Sensible Soccer is playable
Implemented new, faster blitter code
Please visit the Project Tempest page to download the latest version and to keep abreast of developments. You can also discuss Project Tempest in our Atari Jaguar Forum.
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 The Windows version of M.E.S.S. (Multiple Emulator Super System) emulator has been updated to version 0.61.1. Atari-related changes in this version include a fix that prevented the 5200 keypad from working in version 0.61 and renaming the 7800 driver to mark it as NTSC and making a PAL version as a lone of the NTSC version. You can download the latest version from the M.E.S.S. Homepage.
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 AtariAge and AtariProtos.com have teamed up to give you a glimpse at four presently unreleased Activision prototypes. These prototypes are for the Venetian Blinds Demo, Bloody Human Freeway, Unknown Prototype #1, and Unknown Prototype #2. Most of these prototypes are of games that were in development, while Venitian Blinds is just technical demo showing off the 2600's capabilities. Matt Reichert has played each of these prototypes extensively, taken screenshots, and written up what he's discovered about them. You can find all this and more at his website, AtariProtos.com. You can also discuss these protos in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 For all you aspiring Atari Jaguar programmers, Lars Hannig has created the Starcat Developments Jaguar Library to make it easier for new Jaguar coders to get up to speed. This library includes such features as startup and object handling code, routines to handle animation, text display, number display, compression and more. Knowledge of Motorola 68000 programming is still needed, but this library should be a great boost to anyone looking to delve into Jaguar programming. You can find the library and documentation at the Starcat Developments Jaguar Library homepage.
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 Erik Eid has announced that his Atari 2600 card game Euchre is now complete and may be purchased in cartridge form at Hozer Video Games. The price is $16 and includes the game and manual, and you may purchase the game in either PAL or NTSC format. In addition, the first 100 NTSC cartridges are a special edition that Erik has signed and numbered. You can learn more about Euchre (including downloading the game to try in your favorite emulator, as well as reading the manual) by visiting the Euchre Development Page. To discuss Euchre with Erik and other AtariAge visitors please visit our Atari 2600 Forum.
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