Rob Fulop's Actionauts Now Available
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.
Link: http://www.robfulop.com/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
Programs for 68K FreeMiNT released
Mint OSBernd Mueller announced on usenet:
Pack-Ice: Time to do some usefull. Pack-Ice! It is a ice compatible compression utility widely used in the demo scene done by the nocrew.
* packice-68000.tar.gz
* packice-68000.rpm
* packice-68030.tar.gz
* packice-68030.rpm
File 4.24: While working with different files, i have discovered that the unix / linux command line tool file is missing in the EasyMint distribution. file determines a format of a file and give some user readable informations about it. For more informations and the sourcecode take a look at its website.
* file-4.24.tar.gz
* file-4.24.rpm
Link: http://ragnars-world.homelinux.org/atari/
From: http://www.atari-users.net/
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Documentary DVD
Earl Green writes in to let us know of a new DVD that's been put together, entitles "Phosphor Dot Fossils" featuring footage of a whole wealth of classic games.
Taken from the press release:
See The Games In Action
Actual video clips of dozens of games in action, from 1971's "Computer Space" through the dawn of the NES era, accompanied by fascinating game-by-game historical notes. A detailed menu system lets you search year-by-year to jump directly to whichever game you want to see. It's a "video book" and a celebration of the sights and sounds of video gaming's history all in one.
Vintage Commercials
Including Apple's famous "1984" Macintosh ad, the "Have You Played Atari Today?"campaign, William Shatner beaming into a VIC-20 commercial, and ultra-rarities such as the "Dig Dug" ad that appeared in theaters, not seen since 1982! This will be the first time you've ever been happy to see advertisements on a DVD.
Rare Hardware, Iconic Controllers
From the Magnavox Odyssey's light gun to the Atari 2600 joystick to Intellivision's keypads to the Famicom D-pad controllers, see how keeping your fingers on the pulse of the game has evolved. Also glimpse rare hardware such as Adventurevision, Puppy Pong and the pre-2600 Atari console that never hit the stores, along with long-lost specimens of video game toys and memorabilia.
Sounds like an interesting piece of memorabilia to me! Check out the official site for full specifications and purchase details.
Link: http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/pdf-dvd/
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Silkcut from The Black Lotus now on Falcon
MiKRO of Mystic Bytes writes: hi guys, it has been some time since i managed to release something. it's time my another (you remember quake, right? :) dream to become reality! many of you have asked what i am working on at outline... people, *this* is it.
oh, you still don't know what i am talking about? some of you complained quake is quite boring and old and wellknown from PC... so this is... real reason for buying ct60? best of the best? some amiga stuff? some tbl stuff? some silkcut? :)
ENJOY!
P.S. Just got message from Kalms -- that first-scene bug is well known thing in Amiga version, too :)
Download Silkcut Falcon version (UPDATED to v1.1!) http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/tbl-silkcut-falcon-101.zip
Silkcut on Pouet.Net http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=12034
Download an MPEG-4 AVC video version http://movies.dhs.nu/avc/tbl-silkcut.atari_falcon.avc.mp4
Capped.TV video version http://capped.tv/playeralt.php?vid=1210601531-1-0
Youtube video version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vW0U5zB4JA
From: http://www.dhs.nu/
George Opperman Atari artworks
These artworks have been made by the man who invented the Atari logo. Opperman created or oversaw all Atari artworks from 1976 to 1985 when he passed away.
Link: http://www.gamesniped.com/2008/05/21/unreleased-playstation-shooter...
atari++ updated to 1.54
A new release of atari++, the Atari 8-bit emulator is available for download at its usual location.
New in this release:
- Fixed the handling of the initial keystroke.
- Added a curses (text-based) front-end.
- GTIA artifacts now support various GTIA models.
- GTIA supports now user-defined color maps.
- The GUI can now be used entirely by the keyboard or the joystick, use
the cursor keys to move the pointer from gadget to gadget and press
RETURN to click on an object.
- Added a RelMouseStick input device that reacts on the relative mouse
movements rather than its abstract position.
- Fixed the POKEY audio muting, it is now able to detect situations in
which a lower mixing frequency is audible even though the channel itself
is not.
- Fixed initial timing/speed setting, could have caused audio-drop outs
or slow play-back.
Note that the terminal output ("CURSES") is only available on *ix operating systems, not for win. For details how to use it, please consider the manual (included in the archive).
Link: http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/atari++/
Cracking open the Atari 2600
CNET.co.uk's sister site TechRepublic runs a regular series called 'Cracking Open' in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets.
Here, we look at the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. Introduced all the way back in October 1977, it is one of the more fondly remembered video game consoles. For its time, the Atari 2600 was a breakthrough in entertainment technology and foreshadowed what would eventually become a multibillion dollar industry. We find out what made the Atari 2600 tick.
Link: http://news.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/0,39029682,49297074,00.htm
Atari Founder Claims Chip Already In PCs Will End Game Piracy
If I told you the answer to PC game piracy involved planting a "stealth encryption chip" in your PC that would really-really-no-kidding-this-time-really slam the door on hackers and dodgy file sharing outlets, what would you say? That's actually more or less what Atari founder Nolan Bushnell told conference attendees at Wedbush Morgan Securities' annual Management Access Conference, reports Gameindustry.biz.
According to Bushnell:
There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now… What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world -- which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords -- which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem.
Link: http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/007012.html
Rob Fulop's Actionauts Now Available
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.
Link: http://www.robfulop.com/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
