So as the title states, I'm temporarily suspending my console services for repairs, refurbs, and upgrades until about the fall timeframe. This is to ensure I have plenty of time to work on a large project that has a strict timeline. Anyone that has already sent their systems to me will still receive their service requests and will take priority to get them done quickly. But for others, I'd rather hold off and have them wait because I'm not comfortable with my client's systems sitting at the ITC
After a two year hiatus, the Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE) is back, taking place Friday, October 14th through Sunday, October 16th at the Oregon Convention Center! We're excited to see the show's return, and AtariAge will once again have a large booth filled to the brim with an assortment of new homebrew games for the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar and 8-bit computers, along with demos of many games currently in development. In addition to all the new games we'll be releasing at this year'
Magneto Bugs is a one player, dot munching, maze game. The objective of the game is to get as many of the white dots as possible while avoiding the bugs in the maze. As you move you leave behind red dots that can attract the bugs. This game is played with a joystick controller.
I have spent my weekend trying out this game along with two others I picked up. I kept coming back to this one. While it might look like a Pac-Man clone it is far from that game. The back of the package me
Oh man. Where to start? I reckon I should start at the beginning. Star Raiders, as any Atari gamer would know, is the iconic first-person space action adventure game published by Atari in 1979 on their Atari 8-bit home computers and later porting it over to the 5200 and 2600 game consoles. It is the game that defined that genre which others would follow. Star Raiders II (the published one and the one that did not get released) took the basics and attempted to improve on them. Solaris for t
I believe I have my summer gaming all figured out. I plan to participate heavily in the forum's Pizza Party with what games I do have PLUS it will be nice to revisit Zelda again...a game I have not played in decades.
Just tonight Microsoft, for whatever reason, gave me a $5.00 gift card on my account. I wondered what $5 could do and browse the 360 game store first to see if there was anything of interest there. My nephew informed me of 360 games that were now free including Crackdown 2,
Hello and welcome for my first blog entry. I am going to discuss the rpgs I am currently playing and the progress I am making. Don't expect and complete walkthroughs or detailed step by step descriptions. I want to keep things a little more casual than that, and besides I'm not that good of a chronicler. The last thing I want to do is keep constant notes of every step of the process. I will also do reviews here including games that I have already finished. So, what am I focusing on at the moment
I probably know what you are thinking. Let me try to guess. It's probably the first online multiplayer video game. It's most likely on a computer of some sort. It was either on disc, disk, or placed in an obscure place making it hard for people to find. Am I close? To answer those: no, no, and no. And this game might be closer than you realize.
Long story short my nephew and I decided to play a game together. The problem was that he wanted to play split a screen on XBOX. I wanted t
When it comes to Microprose games I immediately think of those 386 PC days when I spent countless hours on Railroad Tycoon, Covert Action, and Lightspeed. I never knew that Microprose really started with the C64 and Atari computers making tons of WWII based simulation/strategy games that I missed. So I started collecting just Microprose games for my XEGS. Today I write about one of those games called Decision In The Desert.
I'm not familiar with any of Microprose Commander Series games.
I consider my RETRO GAMING CORNER officially complete ! 😎🤟🧐includes 14inch TOSHIBA CRT / ColecoVision w/ AtariMax Flashcart / Retrobit SuperRetroTrio (nes, snes, genesis w/ Everdrives for each) / TG-16 w/Everdrive 😎👍as well, I can hook up the 2600 module to ColecoVision or even play Master System using the Everdrive on the RetroTrio. Happy covering 7 platforms with 3 consoles. Wanted to cover as many platforms with what I already have in the space I am limited to.
Tonight I thought I would research applications in attempts of finding anything to allow writing programs for the Atari ST. I do enjoy writing small programs every now and then. I turned to some magazines to see what turned up before having to turn to Google. Doing a Google searched turned up a recommendation for an app called Tempus. The only one I have on hand is version 1.10 but there are other versions out there.
What grab my interest right off the bat were the file types it support
I thought about making this just a standard forum post but decided instead to make it a blog post. This way I have a document on my findings while learning more about the ST. And now...the rest of the story (I miss Paul Harvey).
I was doing research trying to find out if Konami actually went through with releasing some games on the ST computers. One issue of ST Action mentioned it but the next issue that was to continue the story was missing. My research turned up something more and I l
Bombjack on the ST kind of reminds me of Bomberman Jack on the NES. Whether they are one in the same or just share similar qualities I can't say but the arcade style game play is fun. I was only able to accomplish a few rounds because, for me, the controls were wonky which I will get to in a minute.
The graphics are arcade like as are the controls and sounds however the background music gets repetitive pretty quick. Thankfully the developers were kind enough to give the player an option
This review will be short because this is Vroom's younger brother. If you haven't read it already I would suggest going and reading my review of Vroom, then come back here.
F1 has new tracks and a few new menu items. Missing is the lap timer. It no longer tracks your lap times. Tracks include Monaco, Spain, and many more that are part of the F1 World Championship...in 1993, making this an official FIA licensed game. The animation is still as smooth as Vroom, sounds are the same, cars a
When I saw the name Hot Wheels pop up in the tons of ST images I found I thought, "Cool! Hot Wheels has a racing game on the ST". So I thought I would try it out. Then the title screen appeared.
Not the Hot Wheels I was expecting but looks good at least. I grabbed the controller and tried it out. It's another top down racer and it doesn't look half bad but it is a bit jittery.
And it has tons of settings you can perform. But don't take my word for it...see for yourself
I have tried many games. Some with great success, some with not so great results. Overall I have come to a conclusion on how I see the ST computers. Close to the end of the ST production run I was heavy into the 386 computer scene. Good old' MS-DOS commercial and shareware games kept my time occupied. I never knew nor heard about Atari making ST computers at all. Atari simply didn't exist.
In hindsight that was a good thing. I managed to learn the IBM PC side of computing. Games I h
While going through some ST game images I came across the words "Vroom". No explanation. I have already seen some weird games on the ST so far so why not. Couldn't be any worse than some I've tried so far, right? In goes a blank disk, on it goes Vroom which I assumed was some sort of racing game with motorcycles. Disk done and to the ST I go. Insert disk, power on.
Once I saw the title screen and heard the music my spidey senses started going off. What did I just feed my ST? Where di
Let's cut out the introduction and get right to it. Be advised that most of these picks are based on images I've transferred back to disks when possible.
Bubble Ghost - a game I once played on GameBoy, this game involves guiding a bubble through single screen mazes filled with obstacles that can burst your bubble. Pop the bubble and it's game over. Very colorful and enjoyable.
Buggy Boy - The ST is the only system I've come across that has this simple little driving game. C
AtariAge Day returns for 2022 with all the latest Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar games from AtariAge! This online event via ZeroPage Homebrew will not only have the unveiling of the latest homebrew from AtariAge but will also have your favorite Atari homebrew developers LIVE on the stream talking about their latest games!
Saturday, May 21st 2022
12PM PT/3PM ET/7PM GMT
https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/
Make sure you don't miss this huge event and mark it on your calendars! All the
Long story short, I've had my Atari 1040 STe for a few years now but I've never had the urge to do anything with it. Over the last few days I've attempted to find something to spark my interest in it of which I have found a few things. Most of which are games but at least I found something.
As a music machine it simply can't be beat in my opinion. The native MIDI feature of the Atari ST line is very solid and I use Sweet 16, a program I'm very familiar with from the Windows 98 days. This m
PCBs are designed, created, and already shipped headed my way as are a few components for me to populate the boards. I will go into more details once I have my PCBs and have been able to test and check out if my idea works the way I've planned or not. In the meantime, here is a pic of the PCB. If you are familiar with the UAV layout and install process needed for the 7800, then this should be obvious on what it is.
While what you see here is rather large, in reality it is only about th
A 7800 I worked on over a week ago was sent to me for a 'No Power On' condition. There are many reasons for this and I have found over the years two main issues. First is simply a faulty power supply adapter. Given these things are nearly 40 years old it isn't unreasonable to think that the PSUs are nearing their end of life. In fact I've had another client send back their 7800 when it started to develop power on/off issues and found nothing wrong when they were sent back. Sure enough, it was du
I'm making a blog entry for the Famicom games I own. I'm going to start ranking them based on how much I play the games. I can't go by like because I simply like all of them. Alright, here we go!
Salamander - pure and simple shooter with a unique story behind it and an awesome soundtrack. I also like the distinctive transparent blue cartridge.
Route 16 Turbo - developed by Sun soft of Blaster Master fame this arcade style maze game is simply hard to put down once you start playin
Here is an issue that I've seen before in one form or another and I thought I would talk about it here while working on a earlier era 2600 heavy sixer last night. The system was sent in for refurbishment. In this case that is all the original electrolytic capacitors being replaced out, new DC power jack, new voltage regulator etc. But a problem was reported and confirmed during testing of the console.
What was the issue? In this case it was an issue with the player 2 controls. Specifically,
