The ALL NEW Atarinvader.com!

[Atarinvader]

As of 12.28am GMT today the new Atarinvader.com went live and gave this statement:

 

"The ALL NEW Atarinvader.com! The Absolute Best in VCS!

 

With all the new systems out today, with who knows how many bits of power they store, do you yearn to go back to a simpler time? A time when a system only had 8-bit games, and they were FUN? A time when a video game controller didn't have 18 buttons and 3 analog joysticks? A time when your video game system had a color/black and white switch? If you, like so many others, have a nostalgia for the trusty Atari 2600, there's a site where you can fill your craving, and help you get back into the game: www.Atarinvader.com !

 

Atarinvader is where 8-bits live again, a place where the past is the present. Here you can relive those simpler times, when all we had to worry about was hopping over pits, and breaking bricks with a ball and bat. Featuring a crack team of knowledgeable Atari players, Atarinvader brings you the latest news in the Atari community. Chronicling not only the classic games you remember so well, but modern efforts at programming, recent discoveries in the prototype field, even Atari related comics! Reviews will tell you what's a winner, and what's not. Articles help you trace the history of the system, as well as give you insight into what's happening today. All served with a genuine dash of humor. It's a site that proves that good games don't always come on a CD! Want to relive those days of your youth? Head to www.Atarinvader.com as soon as possible! Happy gaming!"

[lonesome_pa]

Great site. Joined up today.

[Noble Kale]

I'm Excited!!!!

 

Though, I've got a membership :)

 

What are you reading this for? Go there NOW!

[Warren]

Nice interface, and a good way to consolidate other sites into one easy to find place. Will be popping in from time to time.

[NE146]

It seems your fonts are unreadable on very high resolutions. they look like this: ... .. .. .... ..... .. .. . ... . . . . . . ...... ...... .. ... ..

[King Atari]

DO NOT CRITICIZE ATARINVADER.COM! IT IS TRULY A FINE, FINE SITE WORTHY OF ADMIRATION! I SUGGEST YOU SIGN-UP IMMEDIATELY!

[Atarinvader]

It seems your fonts are unreadable on very high resolutions. they look like this:  ... .. .. .... ..... .. .. . ... . . . . . . ...... ...... .. ... ..

 

What resolution are you using? and what browser?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

What resolution are you using? and what browser?

I'm using 1024x768 and Opera (v6.03) and the fonts look definetely to small for me too.

[ATARIPITBULL]

I just became a member today and your site looks great, keep up the good work.

 

[Atarinvader]

I've just adjusted the font, does it look any better for you guys now?

[NE146]

1280 x 1024.

 

Opera, IE, Nutscrape.

[NE146]

oop yeah. It does look a little better. Still small, but at least I can read it. Maybe you should make the fonts scaleable?

[Atarinvader]

Maybe you should make the fonts scaleable?

 

You can do that in your browser, but if there are a lot people having this problem then I'll look into it.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Better, but IMO still to small.

 

I can scale every page with Opera very easy (120% looks ok), but it would be better, if I don't have to.

[Atarinvader]

It seems like it was a bigger problem than I orginaly thought. I've adjusted the font again, so do you think you could tell me what it's like now?

[Chris++]

No offense to any Opera users, but I had a lot of complaints about people using only that browser when I started up OC&GS. Everyone else could see the text just fine.

 

The problem recurred when I announced the interview with Bill Kunkel, but again, only Opera users were experiencing any difficulties reading the text. So I decided that if Opera users didn't want to fire up a modern browser once in a while, that was their problem. I don't get as many hits as a flashy, colorful site anyway, because OC&GS is full of intelligent articles (or attempts at such, at any rate), and very few pictures. It's intended for READERS who love video games, not people looking for superficialities and dazzle.

 

Anyway, cool site, kiddo, and feel free to pull any articles, hints, etc. from OC&GS (see the link below) if you want more material, as long as you don't snip my name off.

 

 

CF

[NE146]

Actually I got the small fonts using IE. And no you can't adjust the fonts you have by using the browser (view-->text size -- larger/smallest) or (cntrl-mouse scroll button). Neither method would scale those fonts.

 

Opera works just as fine as well. NO problems whatsoever. The fonts were just small.

 

Oh by the way, atarinvader it looks fine now.

[Chris++]

Cool -- I'm glad it was a different problem than mine was. Admittedly, the fonts I used didn't show up at all in Opera against my black backgrounds, rather than it being a resolution problem. I should've said that at first, I guess.

 

CF again

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Opera is a modern browser.

 

It only follows the web standards much more closely than MS "we don't care" IEs. If something works with IE but not in Opera, then you can be 99% sure, that the web designer used non-standard or buggy code.

[Albert]

Opera is a modern browser.  

 

I agree.

 

It only follows the web standards much more closely than MS "we don't care" IEs. If something works with IE but not in Opera, then you can be 99% sure, that the web designer used non-standard or buggy code.

 

The same exact thing can be said for pages that don't render properly in my favorite browser, Mozilla. If a site looks good in IE and looks terrible in Mozilla, I won't visit it (again) unless it's something I absolutely need to for whatever reason. That's about the only reason I fire up Internet Explorer these days.

 

..Al

[brett6400]

should it be atariinvader (with two i's)? or atari-invader?

[StanJr]

Nah, over at atarinvader they be clever folk.

 

 

 

 

[tiggerthehun]

A.I. - Better than fish n' chips, or spotted dick! Good stuff - I enjoyed my visit so much I signed up... But I didn't read the fine print... Hopefully I haven't sold my soul? Or future children?

[Atari 7800.com]

I just want to wish you guys luck with your new site. It's always nice to see people get into Atari and try to lead the masses to a better understanding of what Atari was all about, and help everybody get to enjoy Atari for what it was. Anyways I wish you guys the best.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

I've just compared the page with Opera and IE. The fonts in Opera are still still smaller, especially the height seems to differ a lot.

 

The size in IE is just large enough to be acceptable readable (though a little bit more would be nice for my old eyes ), but in Opera it hurts.

 

One of the reason for the problems seems to be the inverted contrast. AFAIK, the human eye prefers dark letters on bright background, so if you change that, you have to increase the font size to please the eye.