Atari 2600 “Myst” Demake How much of MYST can you run on a 4k 16k Atari 2600 cartridge? Details I was doing some Atari programming and thought I’d try out Myst. It’s nowhere near a complete game, for that check … Read more
The RM 800XL guarantees excellent entertainment for everyone. It is perfect for young people who want to get acquainted with the beginnings of computerization, as well as for older but still young at heart people who grew up in the … Read more
Atari Combat, 1977 The Atari 2600 wasn’t the first home video game console with replaceable games, but it was the first to be widely successful. Introduced in 1977 as the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), and later renamed Atari 2600 … Read more
Every December, I try to make a little wintery demo to exercise one of 8bitworkshop’s platforms. This year, I chose the Atari 800 to test out the new native TypeScript emulator in 8bitworkshop. You can see the demo emulated here. … Read more
Atari is reviving Akka Arrh, a 1982 arcade game canceled because test audiences found it too difficult. For the wave shooter’s remake, the publisher is teaming up with developer Jeff Minter, whose psychedelic, synthwave style seems an ideal fit for … Read more
Nolan Bushnell It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari, which brought video games to the mainstream. To celebrate, we asked Bushnell what he learned during the early years—and what we’ve lost sight of since then. Atari in the … Read more
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat’s latest event? Head over to the GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit & GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 On Demand page here. Atari today announced that it is calling upon fans for help … Read more
Atari System V UNIX – Unofficial Website [Documentation] [Disk Images] [Software Ports] Atari System V was a short lived version of Unix System V Release 4.0 (SVR4) for the Atari TT 030 Workstation. Like many other SVR4 ports was … Read more
The Atari 2600, branded as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) until November 1982, is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977, it popularized the use of microprocessor-based hardware and of … Read more
DAVES OLD COMPUTERS – Atari Transputer Workstation In the early 1980s, many people were of the opinion that we had “hit the wall” in terms of the performance that could be obtained from a single cpu. To address this problem, … Read more