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Ashdude<p>I bought an Atari 7800+ from Amazon Prime Day. It was like half off! I was having a hard time justifying a $130. But $60? Sure, no problemo. </p><p>I wish that I still had all of my old 2600 games. But the only one that I still have is ET. It’s not as horrible as they say, but it is hard as hell. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari7800</span></a></p>
Morgan 👨‍💻<p>Si vous avez une Atari 2600 +, une mise à jour du firmware est disponible (il y en a également une pour l'Atari 7800 +) depuis le 25 juin. Je viens de la faire à l'instant ! ^^<br>Plus d'infos : <a href="https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/updating-atari-firmware" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">atari.com/blogs/newsroom/updat</span><span class="invisible">ing-atari-firmware</span></a></p><p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Upgrade</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Firmware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firmware</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Version 1.0 of Last Stand Halloween, new game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console <a href="https://intotheverticalblank.itch.io/last-stand-halloween" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">intotheverticalblank.itch.io/l</span><span class="invisible">ast-stand-halloween</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@intotheverticalblank" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>intotheverticalblank</span></a></span></p>
divVerent<p>I now actually tried to play the <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/ET" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ET</a> <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/game" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#game</a> for the <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Atari2600" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atari2600</a><span> myself. I did need a "guide" for it (which BTW turned out to be a typed-off copy of the original manual), but when knowing how the game works, I only have few complaints:<br><br>- Not discoverable. One really NEEDS the manual. Unlike like every single other Atari 2600 game.<br>- Leaving a hole is somewhat unintuitive. I don't see why it requires button+up, as button alone does nothing useful while in a hole - either button alone or up alone would be valid options (button alone likely better due to interaction with the map screen).<br>- Slightly broken hitboxes for holes. When one moves out of a hole sideways, E.T. can appear slightly above the hole and the moving-out-of-hole mode ends - however E.T. is then still in the hole's </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/hitbox" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hitbox</a><span> and falls down immediately. The manual says to just try again then - the REAL workaround is to leave the hole only on the bottom half (and one can also use the downwards button).<br>- No real music. Kinda excusable on this P.O.S. of a console that can't even play the standard note frequencies.<br>- On some screen transitions one instantly drops into a hole. Just fix that dumb </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/gamedesign" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedesign</a><span> there, just don't have holes on player spawns.<br>- A bit too much </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/RNG" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNG</a><span> for my taste. Maybe at least mitigate by having the badguys spawn offscreen, and not fully onscreen, so you have at least some time to dodge them when you're near a screen edge. Top/bottom offscreen spawning is trivial on the 2600, left/right not sure, however they're much higher than they're wide, so for left/right it'd be less of a problem anyway - or one could just mask away a border to be able to draw partial sprites.<br><br>So, I wouldn't call it a </span><i>great</i> game, but I guess it actually was at least OK. It simply was way too much for that console, leading to the need for players to actually read the manual. Only one serious bug, which <i>could</i> have been mitigated by describing the better workaround in the manual. If it had been a <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/NES" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NES</a> or <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Famicom" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Famicom</a><span> game, it could easily indicate "zones" already visited instead of the player having to remember that, it could have had actual music, and it could even have useful self explaining sprites for the zones (and could even show the name of the zone in a status bar when in it). And well, occasional text boxes of course (when E.T. is captured, and when taking a phone piece).<br><br>Of course, then it'd be underwhelming for a NES game, given it'd do way less than Legend of </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Zelda" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zelda</a><span> (which has its own nasty game design problems).<br><br>So basically, that game would have needed a console generation between the 2600 and the NES. Maybe the </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Atari7800" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atari7800</a> would have worked for it...</p>
Atari Scene News<p>New version, with POKEY and YM2151 music, of 1942 great port for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/341719-1942-it-needs-a-thread/page/12/#findComment-5681567" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3417</span><span class="invisible">19-1942-it-needs-a-thread/page/12/#findComment-5681567</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
DEANJIMMY<p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Loderunner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Loderunner</span></a> for <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a> running on my <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a>+ with two button pad support.<br>One button digs left, the other right🤗</p>
retrovulcano🕹️<p>A.R.T.I. es una organización especializada en el rescate de aventureros y exploradores descarriados. Asumes el papel de nuevo aprendiz de ARTY. Prepara tu traje «H» y tu equipo de rescate, próxima parada: ¡Sudamérica!<br>Disponible para <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> en <a href="https://store.atariage.com/products/arti-atari-7800-pre-order" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.atariage.com/products/ar</span><span class="invisible">ti-atari-7800-pre-order</span></a> 🕹️ <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/videojuegos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videojuegos</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a></p>
retrovulcano🕹️<p>La reedición de Dark Chambers para la 7800 y 7800+ se retrasa a septiembre. Resérvarlo ya en <a href="https://www.amazon.es/Atari-1159632-Dark-Chambers/dp/B0F3JQKWLY/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=2MOMQAMMJPD3U&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MQYFPMLU_WzdWMCrpJD6eQ.7Fz4hJyw7ySUTh5PgdWWY-sBzcvMKNVlrDQwfTxLXhQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=dark+chambers+7800&amp;qid=1746091329&amp;sprefix=dark+chambers+7800%2Caps%2C149&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.es/Atari-1159632-Dark-C</span><span class="invisible">hambers/dp/B0F3JQKWLY/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=2MOMQAMMJPD3U&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MQYFPMLU_WzdWMCrpJD6eQ.7Fz4hJyw7ySUTh5PgdWWY-sBzcvMKNVlrDQwfTxLXhQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=dark+chambers+7800&amp;qid=1746091329&amp;sprefix=dark+chambers+7800%2Caps%2C149&amp;sr=8-1</span></a> El Mago Oscuro de AaZor ha escondido tesoros inimaginables en las profundidades de las misteriosas catacumbas subterráneas conocidas como las Cámaras Oscuras. <br><a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari7800</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/videojuegos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videojuegos</span></a></p>
retrovulcano🕹️<p>Pues a lo tonto me he pasado la tarde jugando en la <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> a Dungeon Stalker, luchando contra monstruos y recogiendo tesoros mientras me adentraba cada vez más en la mazmorra.<br>Un cartucho indispensable en tu colección disponible en <a href="https://store.atariage.com/products/dungeon-stalker-atari-7800" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.atariage.com/products/du</span><span class="invisible">ngeon-stalker-atari-7800</span></a> 🤓🕹️👍 <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a></p>
retrovulcano🕹️<p>Planazo para esta tarde de martes 😂 <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari2600</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari7800</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Kinetescape, new work in progress game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382397-wanna-test-my-game-mechanics-demo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3823</span><span class="invisible">97-wanna-test-my-game-mechanics-demo/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
retrovulcano🕹️<p>Atari continúa reeditando cartuchos como este Fatal Run compatible con la nueva Atari 7800+ y la 2600+ (con firmware 2.0) y la 7800 original. Una maravilla que engancha desde el primer minuto disponible en GAME y Amazon 😃👍🏻🕹️ <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> <a href="https://tkz.one/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>New demo of Black Forest work in progress game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/377834-black-forest-wip/page/3/#findComment-5674991" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3778</span><span class="invisible">34-black-forest-wip/page/3/#findComment-5674991</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>New version 0.10.6 of Atari Dev Studio, an extension for VS Code and VS Codium that facilitates programming in batariBasic, 7800basic and Assembly for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> consoles. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Update 2.0.1.4.X has just been released for Atari 2600 and 7800+ consoles, making them compatible with 2600 DPC+ and CDFJ games. 2600+ <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/361600-beta-2600-firmware-and-dumper-builds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3616</span><span class="invisible">00-beta-2600-firmware-and-dumper-builds/</span></a> 7800+ <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/377898-beta-7800-updater-builds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3778</span><span class="invisible">98-beta-7800-updater-builds/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari2600</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari7800</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>New version of Alpine Avenger for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console, game inspired by SkiFree for Windows 3.1 <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369201-alpine-avenger/#comment-5668205" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3692</span><span class="invisible">01-alpine-avenger/#comment-5668205</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
RetroWizzard<p>Upper management (my wife) has approved an "urgently needed testing device".😉<br>So I bought this <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> 7800+ that I'll use to test a new release.<br>What a beauty😍 and it's quite close to the original 7800.<br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a>.</p>
Atari Scene News<p>Opcode Games announces 5 new games for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console: K.C. Munchkin, Baby Pac-Man, DK Deluxe, Astro Blaster and Astro Fighter <a href="https://opcodegames.com/digital/7800_order.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opcodegames.com/digital/7800_o</span><span class="invisible">rder.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Stephen Illingworth<p>Pleased to figure out what was wrong with Pole Position 2. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari7800</span></a> </p><p>The way I was dealing with display lists meant I was missing the very first interrupt at the beginning of the screen. Doh!</p><p>There's still an error if you look closely but I reckon I know what that is</p>
DEANJIMMY<p>Since I got my <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a>+ and <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a>+ I started to look out for an <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NTSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NTSC</span></a> version of my favorite <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/PAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PAL</span></a> games, as they usually run faster (60/50 Hz) and have the better original colors🤗<br>Sometimes I even find some in Germany when shipping is cheap, while shipping from the US costs even more than 2-3 games😊<br>For <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Phoenix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phoenix</span></a> speed and colors are better but for <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Vanguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vanguard</span></a> I appreciate the higher speed but like the PAL colors more.<br>The 7800 games usually run at the same speed but the colors are slightly different.<br>Therefore e.g. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Commando" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commando</span></a> PAL looks better...</p>