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 The Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) is holding their annual arcade expo on November 6th and 7th at the Crowne Plaza Houston Reliant Park hotel. Admission is $25 for a weekend pass or $15 for a single day, which gets you access to over 150 arcade games and pinball machines all set to free play! You can also participate in arcade and pinball tournaments, win door prizes, try your luck at a game raffle, and partake in the full bar. There aren't many opportunities to enjoy large collections of classic arcade games, so if you are in the Houston area (or can get there!), you should be at this expo!
AtariAge will be at the show, and we'll have a slew of classic gaming systems setup for play! For more information, please visit ArcadeCenter.com.
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 AtariAge will be attending the Portland Retro Gaming Expo taking place on Sunday, September 20th in Portland, Oregon. We will be introducing several new homebrew games for the Atari 2600 (including Juno First and Dungeon), and we'll have some surprises in store for attendees as well! If you're in the area and into classic gaming, you won't want to miss this event! Please be sure to stop by our booth and say hello if you're there! If you're not able to attend the show, information on how to pre-order these new games and have them shipped to you after the show is available here. We look forward to seeing many AtariAge visitors at the show!
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 A new issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the September 2009 issue (#64) include:- Movies with a Byte: "Joystick"
- The Legend Of Trash Truck
- All Eyes On Power Rangers: The Movie
- RTM Idiocy: The Pot Of Lead At The End Of The Rainbow
- Apple II Incider - Spy Hunter
- Modern Retro - Worms
- Videological Dig - The Ratings War
- Laughing Pixels
- Gaming Advertisements
You can read these articles and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 144 months in a row! You can also browse their archives to catch up on past issues.
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 Steven Tucker of AtariMax has released a new USB cartridge programmer and Maxflash Studio Software for easy creation of menu-based Atari 8-bit multi-carts. The new USB Cartridge Programmer allows you program your multi-cart creations to a real cartridge in just seconds. No more messing with in-system programming via SIO2PC, just plug, program and go! The Maxflash Studio Software includes a built-in recognition database of over 1200 of the most popular games, letting you drag and drop nearly any game program file into your cartridge workbook and have it work the first time, every time, without fussing with advanced configuration settings. You can learn more about these new AtariMax products at AtariMax.com and follow the discussion over in our Atari 8-bit Computers Forum.
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 The Vintage Computer Festival East returns on September 12-13 at the
InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey. This year's special events include an 8-bit music concert, a by-the-pound book sale, a build-your-own PockeTerm workshop, and the BASIC Programming Challenge. The keynote speaker is Ted Hurewitz who worked on RCA computers in the 1950s. Creative Computing magazine's founder David Ahl will
also be speaking on Sunday. Curt Vendel of the Atari History Museum will be giving a 30 year tribute to the Atari 800. You can view videos of last year's Vintage Computer Festival on YouTube. For complete details including speaker schedule, exhibit roster and special event information, please visit the Vintage Computer Festival East web site.
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 Stride Gum has created a website, Save the Arcades, where visitors will help choose which of four arcades will be awarded a $25,000 reward to help them stay in business. To vote for your favorite arcade, you must play the Flash-based game Zapataur and then donate your points to the arcade of your choice. The arcade with the most points at the end of the promotion will win $25,000. One of the arcades in this competition, Game Galaxy Arcade, is run by longtime AtariAge member DreamTR, who'd very much like you to donate points for his arcade! The arcades in the running to win $25,000 are:Please visit Save the Arcades to play Zapataur and donate your points to one of the above arcades! Please be aware that you must first register and sign in before playing if you want to donate points.
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 New versions of Atari800MacX and Sio2OSX have been released. Atari800MacX is a native Mac OS X port of the popular Atari800 emulator, which forms the basis for many 8-bit emulators on various platforms. Sio2OSX is a peripheral emulator for the Atari 8-bit computers that allows the Atari computer to use an OSX based Macintosh as a disk drive, a cassette drive, and a printer. Atari800MacX 4.0.1 now supports VAPI and PRO images, Copy and Paste from the emulator, Configuration files, a new Hard Disk emulation scheme, as well as other enhancements and bug fixes. Sio2OSX version 2.1.1 adds preliminary VAPI and PRO image support.
Please visit the AtariMac home page for complete details about what's new and to download the latest versions (source code is also available). You can discuss Atari800MacX with the developer and other AtariAge users in our Emulation Forum, and Sio2OSX in our Atari 8-bit Computers Forum.
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 Pre-orders are open for Classic Video Gamer Magazine (ClassicVGM) Issue #2. ClassicVGM is a full-color, professionally printed magazine about classic video games. ClassicVGM and Stone Age Gamer are working together to offer gamers a discount on Hyperkin's new portable, the GenMobile, when they pre-order the system from Stone Age Gamer. Features in the September issue of ClassicVGM include:- Cover Feature: Beggar Prince for Sega Genesis
- Remembering the Sega Dreamcast -- 10 Years of Dreams
- First Look: Hyperkin's Gen Mobile, The Genesis Portable
- Hardware Reviews: Mattel Hyperscan & Retro Duo
- Developer Interviews
- Reviews: Ninja Spirits (TG-16), Blackthorne (32X), Mad Bodies (Jaguar), etc.
- Returning Columns: What’s on Tap, etc.
You can learn more about ClassicVGM by visiting their website at www.classicvgm.com.
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A new issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. The August 2009 issue (#63) is another jam-packed retrogaming newsletter with the following features:- Show Report: California Extreme 2009
- High Score Monthly Profile
- All Eyes On Blaster Master 2
- RTM Idiocy: Blissful Ignorance And Dangerous Knowledge (Act 3)
- Apple II Incider - Marble Madness
- The Thrill Of Defeat: The Ugly Duckling
- Modern Retro - Bionic Commando: Rearmed
- Old Wine In New Bottles: Capcom Classic Collection Volume 2
- Videological Dig - The Vid Kid
- Laughing Pixels
- Gaming Advertisements
You can read these articles and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 143 months in a row! You can also browse their archives to catch up on past issues.
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 The July episode of the RetroGaming RoundUp Podcast is now online for your listening pleasure. The RetroGaming RoundUp is a relatively new gaming podcast that focuses on classic gaming news, views, and opinions from around the world. This month's podcast runs over five hours, and some of the highlights include:- Your own Jukebox Part 1
- HWFB (Pinball Mods)
- Review of Moonwalker
- Interview From Funspot
- The British Hour
- Top Ten Sports Games
- It Came From MAME
- We Gamin'
- Tech Questions
- Asteroids Read Along
You can download the current podcast here and listen to past episodes here.
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November 7, 2009
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