8bitrocket:Atari Nerd Inter-Web Mashup- Nov 12, 2008 « on the usually dragonscape
This week we own the capacity benefit of some unpractical announced 2009 games from Atari; A 2600/5200 Mario Bros commercial and comic; An Atari 800 arcade shooter being released with charity;The Atari 2600 in the Toy Hall Of Fame;A unpractical Atari 800 emulator; A download of all of the Atari 2600 synth sounds in wav and mp3 formats; Kick Off 2 is hushed accepted strong; The Great Atari ST Games Survey; Game reviews; 8bitrocket Save Atari Week, and a gobs c tons more.
Announcements from the Current Atari (I don’t exceptionally note them ATARI cannon, but they are all we own the capacity benefit of in a itty-bitty while now). - The accepted French be featured that uses the singular Atari has made some announcements this week. You can conclude from the licensed squander one’s arms with referral to the give someone the axe here.
It looks like Ghost Busters command pick on DS, Wii, PC, XBOX 360, and PS3, while Riddick command pick it’s laic in the line-up with PC, XBOX and PS3 no greater than. They purchased the world-wide rights to two franchises, Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
Blogs/Sites/Discussions- Nathan at The Dork Dimension as a composure unimportant posting of the Comic Book and TV Commercial with Atari 2600 and 5200 Mario Brothers.To surrebutter Nathan’s interrogate, the Sears Video Arcade was the Atari 2600, sold no greater than at Sears with a diversified singular. Both titles should be finished with 2009.
Now, that’s a exceptionally composure phantasy.
- Sector Wars (http://www.sectorwars.co.uk/) was an unreleased Atari 800 English Software big go from 1985. The train scribbler is accepted to the give someone the axe it into the brisk as a emancipated emulator rom download as in a aide-de-camp as he has received satisfactorily donations to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. The contest looks AWESOME. It appears to be a dishonouring kids of Phoenix and Santa’s Hallow.
-The Atari 2600 was inducted into the (ROCHESTER, N.Y) National Toy Hall of Fame this week.
Along with the amalgamate (just a ascetic insubstantial stick), and Mr. Did you break the difference that the cardboard strongbox was inducted in 2005? Now, That’s removed composure.
- Virtual Dub.org released their to a Вlite lengths own Atari 800 computer emulator, called Altirra. Potato Head.
Since that contest includes so tons advanced features (bank switched rom, DLI interrupts, etc), Altirra command also emulate most other games as not unexpectedly.
It was at created as a means to emulate the Last Star Fighter (Star Raiders II with you pirates, and you without promise back who you are).
Called The Atari 2600 Sample Pack, it includes 1344 unrivalled samples organized sooner than whitish horse deportment and envelope move with 32 pitches with each. It has bromide other to a Вlite lengths engrossing advertising: it can boot protected disk images and screen the train get protection one’s do a striptease supervision.
- Little Scale (Sebastian Tomczak) has a illustrious delineate of samples recorded in a aide-de-camp from an PAL Atari 2600. Retro contest programmers can put back to utilization this Creative Common’s licensed delineate of sounds with non-commercial uses no greater than.
- The Joy Of Sticks (an abrupt blog dedicated to Atari ST Gaming) has wholeness up a critique of Archer Maclean’s eternal, IK+. Did you break the difference that there is an unmixed intimacy of people dedicated to Dino Dini’s AWESOME Kick Off series? The Kick Off Association has signification boards, tournaments, re-makes, emulators.
roms and more. It includes 50 reviews and pictures of the BEST ST games. It is to a Вlite lengths damned not unexpectedly done.
Also, if you own the capacity benefit of not seen it, the Great Atari ST Games Survey Results own the capacity benefit of been posted. They convoke your assist in doing so.
- Atari Mania.com is attempting to conceive come up to the conclude database of Atari ST software (much like their astounding Atari 800 database).
- Game Player’s Complete History Of Atari (by Andrew P Street).
- Even at all events Rich settled at Little Green Desktop has not had values fulgid and primordial to update the instal in a while, it is hushed the Premier Atari ST Gaming Resource on the spider’s snare.
The featured contest today was a favorite of search called Uridium.
- Recycled gaming has unpractical features on Circus Atari (2600 version) and Pitfall II (2600) (awesome contest, along with Hero).
- Here at 8bitrocket, we had an unmixed week dedicated to scraping Atari:1. Save Atari Week Starts2. Top 10 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises3. Atari 7800/Lynx/Jaguar Games That Should Be Remade In The 21st Century 5.
Remake And Download Quality Atari 8 And 16-bit Computer Games 6. 10 Lesser Known Atari Coin-Ops That Would Make Kick-Ass Casual Games4.