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 Fans of classic arcade games are all too familiar with the roar, "Beware I Live!" A long, lost prototype of the beloved (and difficult) arcade game Sinistar has been uncovered for Atari 8-bit computers. Thanks to the hard work of Atari Archivist Ken Van Mersbergen, this unreleased arcade to home conversion has finally been found. Sinistar combines fast action, mind numbing speed, and evil sounding voice synthesis into one explosive package. Your goal is to destroy Sinistar, a giant metal creature bent on destroying the universe and whatever else that gets in its way. However, to destroy Sinistar you must make Sinibombs out of Sinisite crystals harvested from floating plantetiods.
The Atari 8-bit version is a wonderful port, capturing all the action and excitement of the arcade game. The graphics are amazingly accurate, the controls are sharp and precise, and the digitized voice rings out loud and clear. Sinistar was just about finished, but there are a few minor issues and bugs that needed to be addressed before the game saw a commercial release. The biggest issue is the computer AI, which isn't quite polished. Sinistar will be displayed in public at this weekend's Dallas vgXpo show, and plans are to release the Sinistar binary in the near future so everyone can enjoy it. You can read a thorough review of Sinistar over at AtariProtos.com, and discuss this exciting find in our Prototypes Forum.
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 AtariAge will be attending the 2005 Dallas vgXpo, taking place August 20th and 21st in Dallas, Texas, and we'll have several new homebrew titles for sale at the show. In addition, we'll be demoing several titles that are nearing completion. You can pre-order many of these titles in our store and we'll ship them to you as soon as they're available! Titles available for pre-ordering include:For a complete list of all the games we'll have for sale at the show as well as those we'll be demonstrating, please stop by our AtariAge @ Dallas vgXpo pages. If you're at the show, please stop by and try your hand at some new Atari 2600, 5200, ColecoVision and Commodore 64 homebrews!
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 The second issue of ColecoNation is now online, chock full of articles for the beloved ColecoVision video game system. This second installment of ColecoNation includes the following features:- Interview with programmer Scott Huggins
- Review of Astro Invader for the ColecoVision
- Review of Video Game Collector magazine
- A whole lot of Coleco-craziness!
To view these columns and more, please visit ColecoNation.com.
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 Adventure II is a new Atari 5200 game that picks up where the classic Atari 2600 game Adventure leaves off. Adventure II features larger mazes, snazzier graphics, and more to do than in the original game, promising to be one of the best Atari 5200 homebrew releases to date! As the game nears completion, AtariAge and Square Trio have teamed up to sponsor a two-prong contest to allow the classic gaming community to contribute to the game. The first part of the contest is to create alternate player icon graphics. The second part of the contest is to dream up player rankings that are displayed to the player upon completion of the game (in a manner similar to Star Raiders). The contest runs through the end of August, with a grand prize being awarded as well as two runner-up prizes. You can learn more about the contest and how to enter here. Good luck!
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 If you follow the news we post on AtariAge or frequent our forums, then you should be aware of the Flashback 2 console that is now hitting retail stores. The Flashback 2 is a new, dedicated 2600 console developed by Atari, featuring 40 built-in games and two joysticks modeled after the original CX-40 joystick controllers. What you may not know is that the Flashback 2 can be modified to add a 2600 cartridge port, allowing you to use standard 2600 cartridges with this new game console. Curt Vendel of AtariMuseum.com, who was involved in the creation of the Flashback 2, has put together a thorough tutorial on how to do just that. You can view Curt's Flashback 2 Hacking Page for more details, and also discuss this hack in our Dedicated Systems forum.
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 Issue #15 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the August 2005 issue include:- Many Faces of "Carnival"
- Retrogaming Commercial Vault - "Donkey Kong Jr."
- Syntax Era - "Nintendo Power"
- The Titles of Tengen - "Road Runner"
- Thrill of Defeat: "More VZ200"
- ColecoNation
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, the longest-running online free retro-gaming newsletter.
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 Kevin Savetz, curator of AtariArchives.org and the Classic Computer Magazine Archive, has launched a new archive site, FlightSimBooks.com. This new site features the full text of eleven classic flight simulation books. More than 2,200 printed pages have been digitized into 800+ web pages. The titles available are:- Jet Fighter School and Jet Fighter School II by Richard G. Sheffield
- Flying on Instruments with Flight Simulator by Jonathan M. Stern
- Learning to Fly with Flight Simulator and Realistic Commercial Flying with Flight Simulator by John Rafferty
- 40 Great Flight Simulator Adventures, 40 More Great Flight Simulator Adventures, Flight Simulator Co-Pilot, Flying Flight Simulator, Runway USA, and A Flight Simulator Odyssey by Charles Gulick
These books, published from 1985-1989, cover flight simulators for a wide variety of platforms (including the Atari 8-bit and ST), featuring such titles as Microsoft Flight Simulator, Sublogic Flight Simulator software, F-15 Strike Eagle and Sublogic's Jet. Users who prefer more modern flight simulators will find that many of the techniques and situations described in these books, such as aerobatic maneuvers and instrument flying techniques, remain relevant to newer flight simulators.
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 A new issue of MyAtari Magazine is now available for your reading pleasure. Issue #52 features the following articles:- Tip of the Day
- Alternative Party Helsinki 2005
- MyAtari 4th Birthday Party
- Diamond Edge 2.5
To view these articles and more, please visit MyAtari.net.
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 Atari's new Flashback 2 console is set to hit stores soon, but if you want an opportunity to buy one before they hit retail stores, you'll want to tune into QVC Sunday or Monday to order one. The Flashback 2 will be featured on QVC Sunday, July 24th at 9PM EST and Monday July 25th at 11AM and 6PM EST. The price will be $33.00 and includes a bonus Atari Anniversary CD-ROM. If you haven't yet heard of the Flashback 2, it's a new dedicated console from Atari that feature 40 built-in 2600 games (including some original and homebrew games), styled after an Atari 2600 and included with the unit are two Atari CX-40 style joysticks. The Flashback 2 is based on real Atari 2600 hardware, so games run exactly as you'd expect them to. To learn more about the Flashback 2, you can follow many Flashback-related threads in our Dedicated Systems forum.
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 Curt Vendel of The Atari History Museum sends us word that the Atari 1200XL section has received a major update with the addition of six new internal Atari documents. These documents contain a wealth of information detailing the full product specs for the Atari "Sweet-16" project, which would ultimately become the 1200XL. You'll find detailed information on the operating system, self test, handler loader, and more. The Atari IBM/PC Compatibles section has also received a recent facelift, so be sure to check that out as well while you're visiting. You can find all this and much more over at AtariMuseum.com.
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 If you're an arcade fan and will be in (or can get to) San Jose, California the weekend of August 6th and 7th, you'll want to check out the 2005 California Extreme Classic Arcade Games Show. The show, now in its 9th year, is taking place at the Parkside Hall of the San Jose Convention Center. Last year's show featured over 400 arcade games set to free play and you can expect a similar gathering of machines this year (a preliminary list can be viewed here). To learn more about this year's show, please visit the California Extreme website.
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 Organizers for the annual EuroCon have announced the date and location for EuroCon 2005. This year's event will take place from September 30th through October 2nd at the Kolping-Haus hotel in Bochum, Germany. EuroCon is an annual gathering of video game collectors, with a focus on classic games from before the 16-bit era. If you're in Europe and able to attend, you're sure to have a great time playing, discussing, and trading video games, participating in tournaments, bidding in the auction, and participating in other special events. You can learn more by visiting the EuroCon 2005 website.
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 Matt Reichert of AtariProtos.com has been hard at work recently on another round of prototype reviews. This time he's added a collection of Atari 8-bit reviews for the games Decathlon, Pitfall!, Keystone Kapers, Kaboom!, Megamania, River Raid, and Super Cobra. You can find these reviews and more insightful and comprehensive prototype reviews for the 2600, 5200 and Atari 8-bit computers over at AtariProtos.com.
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 Lee Bolton has recently began updating his website Lee's Peek 'n' Poke, which is chock full of classic gaming articles and news. The latest issue, July 2005, features a variety of new articles, including:- Game of the Month: The Bounty Bob Games
- Hacking the Night Away
- Amazing Internet Retro Links
- The Art of Arcade Multiplayer Fun
- Forgotten Games
To read these articles and more from the current issue, as well as dig through previous issues, please visit Lee's Peek 'n' Poke.
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 The July 2005 issue of Armchair Arcade is now available for your classic gaming reading pleasure. The latest issue contains a wide variety of new articles, including:- Hot Topic - Backwards Compatibility: Good or Bad?
- Atari: The Lost Years of the Coin-Op, 1971 - 1975
- A Chat with Chris Crawford
- Retrogaming and Beyond on Mac OS X
- Video Review: Donkey Kong
- System Ranking Matrix 2005 Edition
You can find these features, past issues, and more over at Armchair Arcade.
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 Atari enthusiast Fred Quimby (batari in our forums) has released an Alpha version of a new Atari 2600 BASIC Compiler he is developing. This compiler can be used by budding Atari 2600 programmers to get their feet wet on the 2600, and provides a stepping stone to serious 2600/6502 programming. The compiler generates assembly-language code that can be compiled by the DASM Assembler and then run in the popular Stella 2600 emulator. You can learn more about and download Fred's Atari 2600 BASIC Compiler here, where you can also give him feedback on improvements you'd like to see made.
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Version 1.42 of the Atari++ emulator has been released. The Atari++ emulator allows you to emulate the Atari 8-bit computers and Atari 5200 console and can be compiled for a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Unix, Solaris, Irix, and more. Unix versions are source-only and must be compiled, but the Windows version is available pre-compiled with the SDL libraries. The latest version of Atari++ contains a large number of improvements, and a complete list of changes is included with the packages available for download. Please visit the Atari++ Homepage to learn more about this versatile emulator and download the source and binary packages.
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 The full text of Compute II magazine is now available at The Classic Computer Magazine Archive. Compute II, subtitled "The Single-Board Compute", was a short-lived spin-off from Compute! magazine that only published two issues in 1980. It focused on KIM, AIM, SYM, and OSI single-board computers. Articles in the archive include "Designing an IEEE-488 Receiver with the SYM" and reviews of expansion kits for early single-board computers, including a Speak & Spell interface for the SYM. A complete list of the Compute II articles is available here. Launched in 1996, the Classic Computer Magazine Archive serves up 6,000 articles from early personal computer magazines including Compute, Creative Computing, Antic, STart, Hi-Res, Tandy Whiz Kids comic books, and is hosted by AtariAge.
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 Lars Hannig of Starcat Developments has revealed new information about the game Eerievale he is presently working on. Eerievale is a point-and-click graphic adventure game being developed for the PC and Atari Jaguar CD, using a new game engine being designed with the ability to easily create new adventure games after it is complete. Eerievale is based on a novel written by Lars Hannig and continues the story where the novel ends. To learn more, please visit the Eerievale Homepage, where a wealth of new information is now available.
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Issue #14 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly, is now online for your reading pleasure. Highlights from the July 2005 issue include:- Many Faces of "Targ (actually Crossfire)"
- Syntax Era - "Game On!"
- The Titles of Tengen - "Shinobi"
- TI-99/4A Arcade: "Mix & Match"
- Interview with Vic 20 "Denial" web site creator Jeff Daniels
- Thrill of Defeat: "The Video Technology VZ200"
- Musings of a Spectrum Owner
- Coleco Nation
You can find all these and more inside the latest issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly--at 94 months in a row it's the longest-running online free retro-gaming newsletter ever!
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