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 Matt Reichert has added several new Atari 8-bit prototype reviews to his extensive website AtariProtos.com. The newly reviewed games include: Frogger II, Tutankham, Up 'n Down, Star Trux, Saucer, Pac-Mac, Football, and Letter Tutor. Please visit AtariProtos.com to read these new reviews as well as the wealth of prototype reviews for the 2600, 5200 and 7800. You can discuss these updates with Matt Reichert (Tempest) and other AtariAge members in our Atari 8-bit Computers Forum.
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 Issue #48 of Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Articles in the May 2008 issue include:- Apple ][ Incider - Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
- Many Faces of Sir Lancelot
- NES'cade - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Game Archeologist
- Tomy Tutor - Jungler
You can find all these and more inside this month's Retrogaming Times Monthly, which has now been running for 128 months in a row. If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.
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 A new release of the DASM Macro Assembler, an important tool in developing Atari 2600 homebrews, has been released. DASM is a versatile macro assembler that supports several 8-bit microprocessors, including the Atari 2600's 6507 CPU. Andrew Davie has maintained DASM for the past several years, but has now handed over the reigns to Peter Froehlich, who's already setup a new DASM homepage and project page at SourceForge. This new version of DASM fixes several issues with the previous release (from 2004) and paves the way for more active development of the assembler. Please join the [dasm-discuss] mailing list if you'd like to discuss DASM with its new maintainer and other developers.
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 Another long-lost unreleased prototype has now seen the light of day, thanks to a discovery by Alex Handy at a flea market in California. Alex located a cache of old EPROMs, later realizing he had come across a copy of Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park for the Atari 2600, a title released for the ColecoVision but which never saw the light of day on the 2600. With the help of long-time Atari enthusiast Joe Grand, all of Alex's finds were dumped. The bulk of the dumps were ColecoVision related, but the Cabbage Patch game for the 2600 turned out to be the find of a lifetime for Atari fans. Alex quickly posted all of the dumped binaries on his blog, including 10 different versions of the Cabbage Patch game.
As luck would have it, Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is an impressive game, comparable in quality to many modern homebrew games. Cabbage Patch Kids is a side-scrolling game, similar to Pitfall! in this regard. The game consists of various screens that have different obstacles that must be overcome in order to proceed to the next screen. These include water-filled pits, bouncing balls, floating platforms, bees, and fires. You must complete ten screens on each level before a timer runs out. While traversing the screens you can also use trampolines to collect objects hidden in the trees for additional points.
Our thanks go out to Alex Handy for graciously sharing all of his impressive flea market haul with the classic gaming community. For more details about Alex's flea market finds, please visit his blog.
You can grab the "Final" version of the game and view some screenshots in our database here. For detailed reviews of each of the 10 versions of Cabbage Patch Kids that were dumped, please visit AtariProtos.com. You can discuss Cabbage Patch Kids and Alex's other discoveries with Alex (whose alias is VonGuard") and other AtariAge members in our Prototypes Forum.
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 Launched a month ago, ChaseTheChuckwagon.com is a brand new auction alternative for buying and selling classic video games, arcade games, pinball machines, vintage computers and electronic handheld games. It differs from larger auction sites in that there are no insertion fees, lower selling percentages, and lower cost listing enhancements. There are no charges for adding photos and you can choose your auction start and ending date and time at no charge. It was created by a collector for collectors. If you are looking for an alternative to eBay, then jump on The Chuckwagon bandwagon.
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 A new issue of the 2600 Connection newsletter is now available. Articles in the May/June 2008 Issue (#93) include:- Interview with Bruce de Graaf
- Toyshop Trouble Easter Egg
- Spotlight on Homebrews – Gingerbread Man, Stella's Stocking
- Rare Ware – Hot Shot Multicart
- Blue Print Prototype Review
- Letters
- News & Notes
- Classified Ads
The 2600 Connection is a printed newsletter published bimonthly. To learn how to purchase this issue or buy a subscription, please visit the 2600 Connection website.
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The April 2008 issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from Issue #47 include:- Apple ][ Incider - Space the Final Frontier
- Many Faces of Robin Hood
- Mastering Sega - Emulators
- Game Archeologist
You can find all these and more inside this month's Retrogaming Times Monthly, which has now been running for 127 months in a row. If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get all caught up.
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 Thanks to a discovery by Curt Vendel of AtariMuseum.com and the hard work of 7800 enthusiasts Robert DeCrescenzo, Mitchell Orman, and Eckhard Stolberg, three long-lost Atari 7800 prototypes have been released today! These games are Sirius, Plutos, and Rampart. Plutos and Sirius are shooters both developed by Tynesoft--Plutos is a vertically oriented shooter and Sirius a horizontally oriented shooter. Both of these games appear to be just about complete, with the only obvious omission being an ending when you complete the games. Rampart is a port of the popular Atari arcade game of the same name. Unfortunately Rampart is an early work in progress, but still interesting nonetheless.
It's a shame that these three games were never released as they would have made great additions to the 7800 library. This is especially true of Plutos and Sirius, which were obviously close to completion! You can read detailed reviews of each of these games over at Matt Reichert's AtariProtos.com:You can download the binaries for these games by following these links: Sirius, Plutos, and Rampart. To discuss these prototypes with other AtariAge members, please visit our Atari 7800 Forum.
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 Blizzard Entertainment today announced its return to console gaming with the introduction of World of Warcraft: The Molten Core for the Atari 2600, a spinoff of the 40-person raid dungeon from the excessively popular World of Warcraft MMORPG. World of Warcraft: The Molten Core will include single and multiplayer versions, support nine character classes, a full-featured voice-chat system, and a fully-customizable user interface. Available first for the Atari 2600, plans for additional console systems will be announced in the near future. You can read Blizzard's complete press release, as well as a trailer video, concept art and screenshots at the Molten Core web site. You can discuss this breakthrough release for the 2600 in our Atari 2600 Forum.
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 Version 2.5 of the popular and cross-platform Atari 2600 emulator Stella has been released. This new update of Stella contains many enhancements and bug fixes, and is a must download if you're using your computer to play Atari 2600 games (or would like to!) Visit the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. For a complete (and lengthy!) list of what's changed in this new version, as well as to discuss this update and interact directly with the developers, please visit our Emulation Forum.
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