Stella Version 2.4 Released
Version 2.4 of the popular and cross-platform Atari 2600 emulator Stella is now available. Many improvements (such as automatic support for widescreen displays) and bug fixes (every non-TIA related bug) are included with this new version, the details of which you can view here. Visi the Stella home page to download the latest version for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Link: http://stella.sourceforge.net/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
Atari800MacX 3.7 Released
A new version of the Atari800MacX Atari 8-bit / 5200 emulator for Mac OS X has been released. Atari800MacX is a native Mac OS X port of the popular Atari800 emulator, which forms the basis for many 8-bit emulators on various platforms. Version 3.7 of Atari800MacX contains several new features and many bug fixes. One thing users may note is the long standing joystick calibrarion problem in the Mac version of libSDL (which the emulator uses) has been fixed, and it is no longer necessary to move the joysticks in all directions to get them to work correctly. Please visit the Atari800MacX home page for complete details about what's new and to download the latest version (source code is also available).
Link: http://www.atarimac.com/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
ASMA Version 3.2 Available
Version 3.2 of the Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) has been released. The Atari SAP music archive contains over 2,500 of the best tunes from Atari 8-bit computers in a format that can be reproduced perfectly by various SAP players. The latest archive contains 360 new songs, 119 credits fixes, 20 better rips, 12 duplicates removed, and a TIME tag has been added to all songs. This update brings the ASMA collection up to a whopping 2,540 songs in total! You can get the latest collection of music as well as players for a variety of platforms at the Atari SAP Music Archive.
Link: http://asma.atari.org/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
New Video Game Misconceptions Series
Join Retro Rogue as he launches a new series, Video Game Misconceptions. With each installment he'll discuss and try and set the record straight on some of the biggest and most often repeated misconceptions in video game industry history. We kick off at the very beginning of things of course, and explore misconception number 1: The Magnavox Odyssey is analog and not digital.
Link: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=396
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Stella 2.4.1 Released
Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator. It allows you to play all of your favorite Atari 2600 games again! Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, it has been ported to a number of other platforms. This is the 2.4.1 release of Stella for Linux, Mac OSX, Windows and GP2X. Distributions for other operating systems will appear as they become available.
Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=535297
Space Giraffe Review
For those of us who've been playing computer and console games since the eighties, Jeff Minter is a legend. Anyone who cut their gaming teeth on a Commodore 64 will have put in serious hours on the likes of Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, and even those of us of the Spectrum persuasion will have come across one or more Llamasoft games. Throughout the years, right up until Tempest 2000 on the ill-fated Atari Jaguar, Minter has stuck to certain themes: fast-paced arcade gameplay in the style of the pioneering shoot-em-ups of Williams and Atari dressed liberally with quirky humour and characterised by a peculiar obsession with llamas, sheep and other hairy mammals. Since working on his early light-synthesizer, Trip-A-Tron, his games have also been known for their psychedelic visuals. This in turn led to Minter's work on the trippy visualizations built into the Xbox 360 media player.
Link: http://www.trustedreviews.com/gaming/review/2007/08/29/Space-Giraff...
ColecoNation #11 Published
A new issue of ColecoNation has now been published, with a wealth of articles catering to the ColecoVision enthusiast. Inside issue #11 you'll find:
* An interview with Dan'l Thompson - Coleco programmer who was part of
the ADAM Family Computer development team
* An article about the development of the latest CV homebrew, Squares!
* A review of Squares!
* Plus all the latest CV news
You can find the latest issue over at ColecoNation, where you can also browse previous issues you may have missed.
Link: http://www.coleconation.com/
From: http://www.atariage.com/
Smurf 1.06 - first release after going GPL
Gerhard Stoll has published a new binary release of the graphics application Smurf on his webpage. The new version is labelled 1.06 and is the first release of this program after it was distributed under the GPL.
Link: http://home.ewr-online.de/~gstoll/09.htm (German)
From: http://www.atari-users.net/
Taskbar 4 beta release
Jo Even Skartstein reports on usenet:
I've done a lot of work on Taskbar lately, mostly because I switched from N.AES to XaAES last year and had to fix Taskbar accordingly. Now large parts of the code has been completely rewritten, and many bugs eliminated. There was a particularly nasty bug that would cause a bus error under certain circumstances, so hopefully the problems many has had with poor stability should be gone now.
Link: http://atari.nvg.org/Taskbar/
From: http://www.atari-users.net/
EasyMiNT 1.71
Marc-Anton Kehr reports on usenet:
A new EasyMiNT version is online, it fixes problems with the network dialog under some circumstances and some other bugs. Please substitute the EASYMINT.PRG and the corresponding LANGUAGE.LNG with your current version.
Link: http://atari.st-katharina-apotheke.de/home.php?view=&seite=0&lang=e... From: http://www.atari-users.net/
