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Thomas Cherryhomes<p>FujiNet is an Internet Adapter for many <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> systems, such as <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a>.<br>It has a High Score leaderboard at <a href="https://scores.irata.online/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scores.irata.online/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> .<br>Here are the Current Defender High Scores.</p>
Atari Scene News<p>New version 1.7.3 of Mad Pascal, a 32-bit Turbo Pascal compiler for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> and other MOS 6502 CPU-based computers <a href="https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal</span><span class="invisible"></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/retroprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroprogramming</span></a></p>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>If <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> people can help get clean disassemblies that can produce good binaries for games to be <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HighScoreEnabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighScoreEnabled</span></a> for <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FujiNet</span></a>, that would be great.</p><p>Here's a list of games that we can pull from e.g. HomeSoft and other places to get clean disassemblies:</p><p>* Atlantis<br>* Buck Rogers<br>* Crystal Castles<br>* Deluxe Invaders (Roklan)<br>* Donkey Kong Jr.<br>* Embargo<br>* Food Fight<br>* Galaxian<br>* Joust<br>* Jungle Hunt<br>* Mario Bros.<br>* Millipede<br>* Montezuma's Revenge<br>* Moon Patrol<br>* Mr. Do!<br>* Popeye<br>* Q*Bert<br>* Robotron: 2084<br>* Sinistar<br>* Spy Hunter<br>* Star Wars: Death Star Battle<br>* Star Wars: The Arcade Game<br>* Super Cobra<br>* Super PAC-MAN<br>* Tapper<br>* Tutankham<br>* Up'n Down<br>* Vanguard<br>* Wizard of Wor</p>
Atari Scene News<p>ATASCOIID, 998 bytes only new <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers game with 120 colors for ABBUC Software Contest 2025 <a href="https://youtu.be/g4ffy4TXI-c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/g4ffy4TXI-c</span><span class="invisible"></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> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/breakout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>breakout</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Ses Man, new version of a 1990 adventure game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers programmed with Turbo-Basic XL <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/158786-sesman-is-back/#findComment-5687221" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/1587</span><span class="invisible">86-sesman-is-back/#findComment-5687221</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>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>Let's get some more <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> games <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FujiNet</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HighScoreEnabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighScoreEnabled</span></a>. (thread)</p><p>There are more than 4 dozen High Score enabled games, can some of you help to port some more?</p><p>There is a repo for these games:<br><a href="https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-high-scores" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet</span><span class="invisible">-high-scores</span></a></p><p>One of the games that has been fully disassembled, and builds a working executable, and is ready to have a high score table transplanted into it, is Berzerk.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-high-scores/tree/main/atari-game-ports/berzerk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet</span><span class="invisible">-high-scores/tree/main/atari-game-ports/berzerk</span></a></p><p>It needs a high score table patched in after game over.</p><p>---</p><p>One can be grabbed from any of the other games in atari-game-ports, such as Donkey Kong:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-high-scores/blob/main/atari-game-ports/dkong/hiscore.asm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet</span><span class="invisible">-high-scores/blob/main/atari-game-ports/dkong/hiscore.asm</span></a></p><p>It implements a high score routine that saves to sectors 719 and 720 on the disk, so it can be used and tested locally.</p><p>It uses the display list to cut a hole in the screen, for the mode 6 display of the scores. It then loads the scores in from disk. Checks them looking for an eligible slot, and if one is found, grabs the user input and writes to disk. If one isn't found, it simply jumps right to a pause, before tidying up and exiting.</p><p>The Makefiles in both dkong and berzerk assemble the code, build the bootable ATR disk, build write-high-score and high-score-enable, and use those two tools to both insert the high score sectors, and to alter the first 16 bytes of the ATR file to indicate that it is high score enabled.</p><p>---</p><p>Let's start getting more of these games patched and ported, and we'll host them for High Score Enabled sharing of scores!</p><p>-Thom</p>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>Just placed 2nd on the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FujiNet</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HighScoreEnabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighScoreEnabled</span></a> leader board for Pengo. 160,010.</p><p>Game: apps.irata.online/Atari_8-bit/Games/High Score Enabled/Pengo.atr<br>Leaderboard: <a href="https://scores.irata.online/pengo.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scores.irata.online/pengo.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Feoh<p>So just for yucks I thought I'd Google's Gemma model to plot a sine wave in <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> </p><p>It certainly wasn't perfect. It thought that:</p><ul><li>Comments were started with '</li><li>Comments could be on the same line as code</li><li>It didn't know about the GRAPHICS statement to switch modes</li><li>It chose a wildly wrong graphics mode :) (Mode 2 which doesn't have enough resolution for the x/y coords it was calculating)</li></ul><p>BUT when I fixed those things, I did get a working SINE.BAS:</p><p>--<br>5 REM Set graphics mode 2 (hires)<br>10 GRAPHICS 8<br>15 REM Set foreground color to bright blue, background to dark blue<br>20 COLOR 14, 11<br>25 REM Adjust this value for wave height. Higher values make a taller wave.<br>30 AMPLITUDE = 60<br>35 REM Adjust this value to shift the sine wave vertically<br>40 OFFSET = 100</p><p>50 FOR X = 0 TO 319<br>55 REM Calculate y coordinate, scale x for smoother curve<br>60 Y = AMPLITUDE * SIN(X / 100) + OFFSET<br>70 PLOT X, Y<br>80 NEXT X</p><p>90 END</p>
Atari Scene News<p>New issue 161 of ABBUC magazine <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/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Inverse ATASCII<p>Using <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Atari8Bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Atari8Bit</span></a> based <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SynapseSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SynapseSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SynCalc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SynCalc</span></a> to compare <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GeekBench" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeekBench</span></a> values and decide on Apple <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MacBookPro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacBookPro</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/M1Max" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>M1Max</span></a> 10/32 upgrade path. M4 Max seems to be the only viable path.</p><p>The A8 posed a bit of struggle with limited screen space.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Pixel art for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers presented at Lost Party 2025 <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/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pixelart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Timelapse of 80s gamer.... today, pixel art for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers 4th place at Lost Party 2025 <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/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pixelart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>QB's Quest for Hires, new game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers presented at Lost Party 2025 <a href="https://demozoo.org/productions/374493/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">demozoo.org/productions/374493</span><span class="invisible">/</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>
The VintNerd<p>There are FOUR Different Atari XE Computers 🤯</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari8Bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8Bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AtariXE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtariXE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari65XE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari65XE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari130XE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari130XE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari800</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Atari800XE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari800XE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AtariXEGS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtariXEGS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RetroComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WallOfRetro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WallOfRetro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NerdsOfVintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NerdsOfVintage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HappyNerding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HappyNerding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheVintNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheVintNerd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RetroToKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroToKnow</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Gravity Rush, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers 256 bytes intro released at Lost Party 2025 <a href="https://youtu.be/lcsqwX9-H2M" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/lcsqwX9-H2M</span><span class="invisible"></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/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a></p>
Jan Beta<p><strong>Chat64 Instant Chatroom Cartridge (for C64, Atari &amp; Speccy)</strong></p> <p><a href="https://makertube.net/w/hv8FZE9TzUzW2SS4aRWr6u" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makertube.net/w/hv8FZE9TzUzW2S</span><span class="invisible">S4aRWr6u</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>The Leaky Devil's Arq Is Sinking, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers stereo tune 2nd place at Lost Party 2025 <a href="https://youtu.be/OmD3-0GKKMQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/OmD3-0GKKMQ</span><span class="invisible"></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/chiptune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chiptune</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a></p>
Jan Beta<p>Check out the website <a href="https://www.chat64.nl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">chat64.nl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Chat64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chat64</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>
Jan Beta<p>I had some cool conversations in the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Chat64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chat64</span></a> yesterday. Plug and play chatroom cartridge for the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a>. Really neat project. Video coming soon(ish)! <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Bugi Bugi 3, remastered version of an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers 1999 game <a href="https://youtu.be/QPpkSaJbMZk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/QPpkSaJbMZk</span><span class="invisible"></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>