Hatari version 1.1.0 released
Version 1.1.0 of the Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator Hatari has been released.
Improvements to the emulation: - Falcon DSP emulation good enough to improve some few games/demos, e.g. Virtual City. (most still work better with emulation disabled, though) - New sound engine that fixes all problems with the old one - 16-bit stereo sound (instead of 8-bit mono) - Improved blitter emulation (blitter cycles emulation, blitter interrupt) - Improved STE support for some video registers (hscroll, linewidth, ...) - Improved printer emulation - Improved STE microwire emulation - Improved support for games & demos which are accessing IKBD directly (including a fake 6301 emulation for the known IKBD programs) - ACSI emulation fix to get HDDriver working - Some other minor bugfixes to ST/STe emulation (FDC, MFP, PSG, RS-232) - Improved MFP emulation - Improved 68k emulation (move.b Ax,(Ay) and extb.l) - Fixed bugs in the GEMDOS HD emulation (Pexec() etc.)
Improvements to the program in general: - Statusbar and overlay led features - Screenshots work also in VDI/TT/Falcon mode and are saved as PNGs - Support for automatic frameskip and pausing emulation - Support for embedding Hatari window (on X11) and control socket - Improved memory snapshot function - Improved the \"trace\" debug function
Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28326
From: http://www.atari.org/
Retrogaming Times Monthly #54 Published
Issue #54 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the November 2008 issue include:
* Doom - Old School Gamer Review
* Apple ][ Incider - Nightmare Gallery / Centipede
* Gametap Worth the Price?
You can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 134 months in a row! As always, you can browse through all the back issues of Retrogaming Times Monthly via their archives to get up to date.
Link: http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM/RTM_Home.htm
From: http://www.atariage.com/
Adventure Released for iPhone/iPod Touch
Peter Hirschberg, who previously created an open source port of the Atari 2600 game Adventure for Windows and Mac OS X titled Adventure: Revisited, has recently released Adventure for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Your goal in Adventure is to locate the Enchanted Chalice and return it to the Golden Castle, all while avoiding the three evil dragons determined to stop your progress! This version of Adventure is faithful to the original 2600 version, complete with sound. However, instead of using a joystick to move your character around, you tilt the screen appropriately (as done in several other iPhone games). To download Adventure for your iPhone or iPod Touch, please follow this link, which will bring you to game's page in the iTunes Store.
Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=2...
From: http://www.atariage.com/
My Month With Christmas Lemmings
It’s December. People are wrapping gifts, Florida is a frosty 78 degrees, and shops are using up their surplus apostrophes to wish us happy holiday’s. Tis the season, alright, and nothing says Christmas like a good, long game of Christmas Lemmings.
Christmas (or Holiday, or Xmas depending upon the version) Lemmings was, for a short while, a yuletide tradition for Psygnosis Games. In 1991 and 1992 they gifted us special packages of new Lemmings levels…with Santa-hat-wearing critters, and snowmen and candy canes for the little bastards to burrow through.
In 1993 and 1994 they kicked Ebenezer Scrooge off the development team and we got a much more generous 32 levels apiece (broken up into 16-level difficulty brackets).
I remember playing these Christmas installments in school (it was a treat even to be allowed to use the computer in the early 90s, when computers were the size of several dinosaurs and ran on the steam of oppressed masses) but I never finished them. In fact, I don’t believe I’ve ever finished any Lemmings game.
See, I have kind of a love-hate relationship with Lemmings. On the one hand, I think the games are brilliant, and they represent some of the most innovative and resourceful puzzle titles ever made. On the other hand, the difficulty spike you encounter at some point in every game is staggering. The challenge isn’t ramped up gradually…it explodes all over you in one big burst and you’ll never get any further. Lemmings was downright cruel.
So I’ve decided to play through Christmas Lemmings ‘93 this month, in honor of Christmas, and Lemmings, and Christmas Lemmings, and Christ, who died so that I might play Christmas Lemmings instead of volunteering at a soup kitchen. My goal is to complete the entire game (my first complete Lemmings game) between Dec. 1 and Christmas Day. No hints or walkthrus, obviously. It’ll be kind of like National Novel Writing Month, only instead of Novel it’s Christmas Lemmings, and instead of Write it’s Play. Also it’s not something anyone would want to brag about completing. Let’s begin…
Link: http://noisetosignal.org/2008/12/my-month-with-christmas-lemmings
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
New Old Footage!
Spiny of Torment writes:
Thanks to MugUK by way of atari-forum and Evil from DHS :) , there is now an easy way to get hold of the video footage filmed at The Great British International ST Party from 1992. Quality is as you would expect from a hand held video camera from the early nineties, but if you were there you should be able to spot yourself, probably looking a lot younger and with longer hair :)
Download the movie (MPEG-1) http://movies.dhs.nu/misc/The_Great_British___International_ST_Part...).mpg
At Pouet.net http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=52222
From: http://www.dhs.nu/
Hatari version 1.1.0 released
Version 1.1.0 of the Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator Hatari has been released.
Improvements to the emulation:
- Falcon DSP emulation good enough to improve some few games/demos, e.g.
Virtual City. (most still work better with emulation disabled, though)
- New sound engine that fixes all problems with the old one
- 16-bit stereo sound (instead of 8-bit mono)
- Improved blitter emulation (blitter cycles emulation, blitter interrupt)
- Improved STE support for some video registers (hscroll, linewidth, ...)
- Improved printer emulation
- Improved STE microwire emulation
- Improved support for games & demos which are accessing IKBD directly
(including a fake 6301 emulation for the known IKBD programs)
- ACSI emulation fix to get HDDriver working
- Some other minor bugfixes to ST/STe emulation (FDC, MFP, PSG, RS-232)
- Improved MFP emulation
- Improved 68k emulation (move.b Ax,(Ay) and extb.l)
- Fixed bugs in the GEMDOS HD emulation (Pexec() etc.)
Improvements to the program in general:
- Statusbar and overlay led features
- Screenshots work also in VDI/TT/Falcon mode and are saved as PNGs
- Support for automatic frameskip and pausing emulation
- Support for embedding Hatari window (on X11) and control socket
- Improved memory snapshot function
- Improved the \"trace\" debug function
Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28326
From: http://www.atari.org/
