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 Issue #50 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the July 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Breaking Out
- NES'cade - Jackal
- Game Archeologist
- Who'd Win - Star Wars vs Star Trek
- Old Wine in New Bottles: SNK Arcade Classics 1
- Fun Arcade Games That Never Made it to My Arcade
- Real Life Games
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 130 months in a row! If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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 A new issue of the 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Articles in the July/August 2008 Issue (#94) include:- Rob Fulop’s Actionauts - review
- Spotlight on Homebrews – Colony 7, Squish ‘em, Bee-Ball, Melbourne Tatty, Sync
- Just Like The Real Arcade Game – Pengo, Tac/Scan - reviews
- Inside The 2600 – programmimg article
- The 10 Best Atari 2600 Games - opinion
- Letters
- News & Notes
- Classified Ads
The 2600 Connection is a printed newsletter published bimonthly. To learn how to purchase this issue or buy a subscription, please visit the 2600 Connection website.
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 Paramount Pictures has given the green light for a movie centered around Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell. The movie, to be titled "Atari", is set to feature Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan Bushnell. Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972 and the company would become a pioneer in arcade games, home computers, and home video games. Atari became a household name in the late 1970s and early 1980s with their wildly popular Atari 2600 video game console. Nolan Bushnell would later start several other companies after being forced out of Atari, the most successful of which was the Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant chain. "Atari" is being written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, who apparently were able to convince Bushnell that they could "do his unique story justice". No word yet on when this film will reach theaters, but you can bet we'll be keeping a close eye on this one!
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Issue #49 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the June 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Karateka II
- NES'cade - Kung Fu
- Game Archeologist
- Who'd Win - Battlezone vs. Robot Tank
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Retrogaming on Modern Hardware
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 129 months in a row! If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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 If you tried visiting AtariAge between Saturday afternoon and today (Monday) around 2:30pm CST, you may have noticed that you could not reach the site. At 4:55pm CST on Saturday there was an electrical explosion at The Planet's data center in Houston where AtariAge's dedicated server is housed. This explosion and resulting fire damaged a significant portion of the building's electrical infrastructure, and all 9,000 servers hosted at this location went offline. Only last night was The Planet able to start restoring power to servers (fortunately none were damaged, nor was anyone injured), with the AtariAge server getting power and network connectivity restored a bit before 3:00pm today. This is, by far, the longest AtariAge has ever been offline since its launch over seven years ago, and hopefully we'll never have to suffer through such an outage again!
Update: Yep, the site was unavailable again for an extended period of time, between about 2:45am early Tuesday morning until 5:30pm. Turns out the temporary backup generator that The Planet was using to power "Phase 1" of their Houston data center developed a fault and the generator could not be repaired. It then took some time for them to get another generator on site and operating. Hopefully we'll be online now without further interruptions of this nature. Other hosting options are now being explored.
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 The excellent Atari 2600 emulator Stella has seen some significant updates this month, first to version 2.6, which was then quickly followed by version 2.6.1. The jump to version 2.6 brought several new features, which you can read about here. Version 2.6.1 includes several bug fixes as well as additional features and improvements, and you can learn about those here. Visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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 Rob Fulop has announced that a small number of his self-published Atari 2600 game Actionauts are now available for purchase to those who did not previously reserve a copy. After leaving Imagic in early 1984, Rob Fulop set out to independently create a new 2600 game featuring robots, which were a big craze in popular culture at the time. The game, Actionauts, allowed you to program an on-screen robot with a linear series of commands. Your goal as the player was to get the robot to achieve various objectives using these programming commands. Rob was forced to abandon Actionauts in 1984 after the 2600 marked crashed, but recently resurrected the game to make it available to Atari 2600 fans. Only 250 boxed copies were made available for sale, and of those fewer than 40 remain. Please visit RobFulop.com to learn more about the game and purchase a copy.
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 Matt Reichert has added several new Atari 8-bit prototype reviews to his extensive website AtariProtos.com. The newly reviewed games include: Frogger II, Tutankham, Up 'n Down, Star Trux, Saucer, Pac-Mac, Football, and Letter Tutor. Please visit AtariProtos.com to read these new reviews as well as the wealth of prototype reviews for the 2600, 5200 and 7800. You can discuss these updates with Matt Reichert (Tempest) and other AtariAge members in our Atari 8-bit Computers Forum.
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Issue #48 of Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Articles in the May 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
- Many Faces of Sir Lancelot
- NES'cade - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Game Archeologist
- Tomy Tutor - Jungler
You can find all these and more inside this month's Retrogaming Times Monthly, which has now been running for 128 months in a row. If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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 A new release of the DASM Macro Assembler, an important tool in developing Atari 2600 homebrews, has been released. DASM is a versatile macro assembler that supports several 8-bit microprocessors, including the Atari 2600's 6507 CPU. Andrew Davie has maintained DASM for the past several years, but has now handed over the reigns to Peter Froehlich, who's already setup a new DASM homepage and project page at SourceForge. This new version of DASM fixes several issues with the previous release (from 2004) and paves the way for more active development of the assembler. Please join the [dasm-discuss] mailing list if you'd like to discuss DASM with its new maintainer and other developers.
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