Midnight Synergy

Hi all, we're running a little (unofficial) 30th Anniversary Atari 2600 Competition in our newsletter. I figured enough people here might be interested in it... plus you can win free games! Link: http://www.midnightsynergy.com/newsletter/issue012/page8.htm Entries are due this Saturday, so better hurry. (BTW, the reason we do this is that our own games have a very heavy retro feel to them - many of our players are in their 30s and beyond, and so we run a regular Retro Game Spotlight as part of the newsletters. It's nothing too serious, all for fun.)

Ah, thanks!

Sorry if this has already been answered elsewhere... Are the Indy 500 controllers functionally the same as the regular paddles, except the "Stopper" has been removed? (for 360 turning) If so (or if not), can one play Paddle Games (Kaboom, Casino, Warlords (with fewer players) etc...) with driving controllers? I assume playing Indy 500 with regular paddles is not possible.

Ah, thanks. So now I'm curious - I assumed the AtariAge database would be pretty complete by now. Are there a lot of prototypes out there not yet listed in it?

I just picked up an old Starlog magazine at a garage sale. The back cover is a Parker Brothers ad for Astro Chase (for the 5200) - at the bottom there's a line "coming soon for the Atari 2600". No Atari 2600 version is listed on AtariAge - does that mean it didn't even make it to a prototype?

It's really pretty hard to play Tron with ANYTHING but the original setup. Before WinXP, the best option was the Logitech Wingman Warrior, but Logitech refuses to continue support for serial joystick in XP. Nowadays, when I play, I find I can get by with using my trackball for the spinner, but it's not really the same. Thanks for the reply - I take it then that none of the X-Arcade Joysticks have spinners, correct?

I'm thinking about getting the X-Arcade Joystick for Mame emulation. I noticed that their official literature lists Tron as one of the games to play with the stick, but none of the versions seem to have a dial control. Does anyone have any experience with this? Do you just end up using two buttons to rotate e.g. the tank turret, or does the actual joystick twist?

Oh my - I can't believe what I'm reading. Pitfall 2, Berzerk, River Raid, Kaboom, Demon Attack as overrated??? That's half my Top 10 Best Ever list! Pitfall 1 on the other hand - bleh.

(I posted this in the international section in German as well, but just in case:) I'm looking for an old Atari disk-magazin called "ST de Luxe". It only appeared for a few issues around 1991/92 - it contained two disks in each issue. I had programmed a game for them ("Colony" - we later moved to PC development, see http://www.midnightsynergy.com), and would love to have an old issue with that game on it for my collection. Anyone have a copy (or know about this mag?) Cheers!

Hallole, Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem altem Atari Magazin (deutsch). Ich bin Hauptprogrammierer bei Midnight Synergy (http://www.midnightsynergy.com). Bevor wir auf PC Spiele umgestiegen sind hatten wir Spiele fuer den C-64 und den Atari ST programmiert. Eines der Atari Spiele war ein Stategiespiel namens "Colony" das von dem Disketten-Magazin "ST deLuxe" aufgekauft wurde. Ich weiss allerdings leider nicht, ob die Ausgabe je erschienen ist, da ich zu dem Zeitpunkt nicht mehr in Europa war. Hat jemand noch alte Ausgaben dieses Magazines? Ich wuerde liebend gerne eine Ausgabe fuer meine Privatsammulung finden, kann aber nirgens Informationen ueber das Magazin finden. Danke im Voraus! Patrick