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 Snipercade and Twin Galaxies have announced an Atari 2600 Time-Based Decathlon. This event will not be based on scores, but instead time of completion for the ten games involved in the decathlon. The featured games are Skiing, Barnstorming, Grand Prix, Sky Jinks, Dragster, Boxing, Superman, Adventure, Private Eye, and Breakout. Prizes in the form of Atari 2600 carts will be awarded for First, Second and Third. In addition, the winners will have their results published in the Twin Galaxies Book of World Records. For complete rules and information on how to enter, please visit Snipercade. Good luck!
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 Adam Lewis is at it again! Having recently created maps for Activision's H.E.R.O., Adam has now created a set of maps for the popular Atari 2600 game Haunted House. Adam has mapped all four floors of the game in levels 1 - 8. He challenges someone to put together a complete map of Level 9! You can find the maps in our Atari 2600 Archives here. Enjoy!
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 Ronen Habot (aka "OldGuru") is currently in production of his Atari 5200 homebrew game Castle Blast and has updated his Castle Blast Development Page. Ronen has posted more gameplay details, development notes, and several pictures of the game in production. Ronen will have copies of Castle Blast (complete with box, manual and custom label) available for sale at this year's Classic Gaming Expo. You can discuss the game with Ronen and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 5200 Forum.
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 Jeffry Johnston has announced version 1.70 of his 5200Basic Compiler. Jeffry's 5200Basic Compiler will allow you to write programs for the 5200 using a BASIC-like syntax that is then compiled into 6502 assembly. Improvements in this new version include:
Added DASM assembler output support
Fix: Checks any given numbers to make sure they are in range
Added ++ and -- operators for add with carry/subtract with carry
Added y2k compliant title screen and AUTHOR command
Note: Moved default display list location from $BFC7 to $BFB4
Visit the 5200Basic Compiler page to download the latest version, documentation and example programs. Please stop by our 5200 Forum to discuss 5200Basic with Jeffry Johnston (aka Calamari) and other AtariAge visitors.
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 Simon Quernhorst, author of the Atari 2600 homebrew game Mental Kombat (which is very near to shipping), has revealed his next 2600 project: A-VCS-tec Challenge. This will be a conversion of Aztec Challenge on the Commodore 64. The Atari 2600 version of the game will comprise of the original games's arcade-like first level, called "The Gauntlet". Simon also plans on incorporating the memorable soundtrack from the Commodore 64 version into his Atari 2600 port. Thus far Simon has programmed the title screen, which you can see here.
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 Paul Slocum has been hard at work on his latest Atari 2600 venture, Marble Craze, a split-screen, two player game where you roll a marble along a path across multiple screens to a finish line. Each player uses two paddle controllers, one to control the vertical movement and one to control the horizontal. Paul plans on releasing Marble Craze at this year's Classic Gaming Expo. We've posted the latest screenshots here, and you can discuss Marble Craze with Paul and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Retrodesign, the same folks who brought you Combat II for the Atari 2600 at last year's Classic Gaming Expo, have announced two new 2600 titles they will be releasing at this year's show. The first is Snow White, which is a presently unreleased prototype based on the Disney license. The second is a nearly complete version of RealSports Basketball. You can see screenshots of Snow White here and of RealSports Basketball here. Both games will come complete with professionally printed boxes and instructions. Please visit the CGE New Products page for more information about these and other upcoming releases.
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 Version 0.90 of the Lynx emulator Handy has been released. This latest version sports a good number of changes, with the highlights below:
ZIP File support is added
Rendering subsystem re-written
LSS Snapshots no longer contain Boot or Cartridge ROM
Backwards compatibility to old LSS2 Format added
Fixed bug whereby Window could be restored to off screen position
Please visit the Handy Homepage for more information and to download the latest version.
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 Halcyon Days, a collection of interviews with classic gaming programmers, has now been put online. Formally a commercial work first published in 1997, James Hague has now made it available free in its entirely. Many of those interviewed have direct ties to Atari's past, including Steve DeFrisco, John Harris, Eugene Jarvis, Jeff Minter, Doug Neubauer, Warren Robinett, and many more. You can find the complete collection here, including an introduction by John Romero. If you have any interest in the history of classic games and computers, this is a must read!
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 Chris Federico of Orphaned Computers & Game Systems has posted an interview with Bill Kunkel. Bill Kunkel was one of the founders of Electronic Games magazine back in the early 80's and was also one of its most prolific writers. Here Bill talks about leaving the comic book industry to writing about video games full time:
Honestly, if the comic companies had paid a little better, I might never have gotten into game journalism. But we really loved these games, and it was such an opportunity -- I could never believe that there weren't all kinds of game magazines out there, given that Atari had busted things open in '78, and here it was the summer of '81! We were still the only ones who seemed to get it. Even the game companies wondered why we were writing about them!
You can find the complete interview here.
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 If you've ever searched the net for fonts that match the ones Atari used on their 2600 and 5200 cartridges, search no longer. Thanks to Robert DeCrescenzo, we've put three fonts online that match the fonts used in the original Atari text, picture, and silver cartridge labels. Now if you want to make your own Atari-style labels, you'll have a slightly easier time of it. The fonts can be downloaded here, and if you need to find these fonts later, they can be found in our Atari 2600 Archives.
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 If you're a fan of Atari coin-op games, you owe it to yourself to check out Owen R. Rubin's website. Owen worked for Atari as a coin-op game programmer, and helped develop many games there including Major Havoc and Space Duel. His site is chock full of great information and insight into the game creation process. You'll find stories, pictures and information on the games Owen worked on (including prototypes), Owen's resume, a mailbag, links to other relevant sites, and more. Be sure to check out the Java Space Duel while you're there!
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 Thanks to the generosity of Mark De Smet, we've added high-resolution schematics of the Atari 2600 TIA (Television Interface Adapter), a custom chip designed by Atari for the 2600. The TIA chip is the heart of the 2600 and responsible for the generation of graphics and sound. The original schematics were scanned using a three foot wide scanner, and the high-resolution images we've put on AtariAge are 14400 x 9820 resolution. We've also put lower-resolution images online if you're on a slower connection or don't need all the detail the higher-resolution scans provide. You can find all the images here.
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 If you're a frequent visitor of our forums, then you already know we made the switch to new software a few days ago. But if you haven't visited the forums recently (or ever!) then you should check them out! The new forum software has many improvements over the old software, and will scale well as the number of messages (nearly 95,000!) continues to rise. We will be tweaking and making improvements to the new forums for the next several weeks and welcome everyone's feedback. If you're interested in discussing everything Atari, as well as some non-Atari topics for good measure, have a look today!
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 If you have an Atari Jaguar and would like to protect it from dust, Chris Smith has created a Jaguar Dust Cover that you should check out. The dust cover is made of high quality material, fits very well on the Jaguar, has openings for the various Jaguar ports so you can leave everything plugged in, and it's emblazoned with the yellow Jaguar eyes. For more information, please visit Chris' Jaguar Dust Cover page, which includes several pictures of the dust cover and review from Doug Engel.
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 Ben Valdes (aka "Pitfall Harry") has announced that Jeff Arensmeyer is the winner of his "Mystery of the Map" Video Game Contest. This mysterious contest was full of difficult to decipher clues and Jeff walks away with a copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There are still two prizes to be given away, including a rare Crazy Climber cartridge for the 2600. Full details of the contest, which runs through July 11, 2002, can be found on Pitfall Harry's "Mystery of the Map" Video Game Contest page. You can also participate in a discussion about this ongoing contest in our Atari 2600 Forum. Good luck!
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 Atari 2600 programmer and musician Paul Slocum has created a hack of Atari's Berzerk called Mr. Roboto. This version of Berzerk has an accompanying music track of the popular Styx tune Mr. Roboto, added by Paul Slocum in a similar manner to his Combat Rock hack. In addition, this version has a flashy Midwest Classic 2002 splash screen, as Paul introduced Mr. Roboto at the show. You can listen to a sample of the music in Mr. Roboto here (the full tune is over four minutes!) and you can download the binary image here.
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 Mike Stulier sends us word that Back in Time has posted an article about the Funspot/Twin Galaxies Classic Video Game World Championships that took place last week in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. The tournament features competitive play on 200 classic coin-op videogames and pinball machines. Back in Time has posted photos from the tournament along with some of the scores and world records that were broken. Records were broken on many games, including Burgertime, Wheels, Joust 2, Jr. Pac-Man, Make Trax, Monaco GP, and more.
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 A new version of the Atari 2600 emulator z26 has been released, and this new version (1.54) includes Kid Vid audio support. This means that you can now play the Coleco games Smurfs Save the Day and Berenstain Bears with full audio, as the original games included cassette tapes that were used with the Kid Vid Voice Module. You can download the latest version of z26 here, and view the complete list of changes here. For more information about the Kid Vid audio support and to download the audio files required for use with the latest version of z26, please visit our Kid Vid Audio Page. You can discuss the latest version of z26 and the Kid Vid audio support in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Kevin Savetz has informed us that a new Software Library section has been added to AtariArchives.org. This section contains 8-bit software that AtariArchives.org has been given permission to make available and presently includes the titles Simax Video Signmaker, SCREENS, Slime, Fort Apocalypse, Dimension X, and Shark. We expect this new area will be further expanded as AtariArchives.org gains permission to share additional software in the future. Enjoy!
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