Joust Movie in the works?
Gamedaily.biz bring the frankly baffling news that 1982 arcade classic Joust is going to be hitting the big screen in the form of a movie adaptation. The mind utterly boggles.
GameDaily, quoting those responsible, says:
"Joust is an arcade game that's as old as Pac-Man and has global awareness," said Cerenzie. "We took one element of the game and the brand itself and built a whole new world around it for the film."
Cerenzie calls the new script by Marc Gottlieb "Gladiator meets Mad Max." The film is set 25 years in the future and includes a Las Vegas suspended in mid-air.
"We've updated the game into a commercial, tent pole movie," said Cerenzie. "Marc has done an amazing job in creating a tantalizing and filmic world based on the original game."
And, just in case you've forgotten the original game, play a flash remake of Joust and try your hardest to imagine a film version of it. Of course, if Joust does well it's only a matter of time until the Pac-Man and Space Invaders movies!
Link: http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17262
Link: http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/joust/joust.shtml
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
4 Ways Personal Success Is Like “Adventure” for The Atari 2600
Remember Adventure on the Atari 2600? That was one of those games in the early 80s that critics called mature and a little too frightening for children. The theme of the game was similar to Dungeons and Dragons where you would enter a “hi-res” dungeon to fight 3 dragons of successive difficulty. The object of the game was to collect the Grail and return it to your castle.
If you want to try play the game, a developer named Scott Pehnke recreated it and made it available on his site. http://www.simmphonic.com/programming/adventure.htm
1. To Succeed You Must Face Dragons
2. Bats Will Get In The Way
3. Creativity Can Be Better Than Fighting
4. Persistence Leads To the Secret Dot
Link: http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/09/4-ways-personal-success...
DTX Manager
DTX Manager is utility for Atari 8-bit hackers and crackers. It allows the user to modify DOS 2 executables. It can import/export add/move/readdress/remove sections (segments) of these files.
Link: http://baktra.wz.cz/software/turgen/download.html
From: http://www.atari.org/
Forgotten Creations
Hi I\'d like to introduce a new site I\'ve created, that may be of interest to Atari users. I used to write games in STOS many years ago, some quite ambitious, most never finished :) So I made a shrine to them, and called it Forgotten Creations. I hope some of you enjoy reading it. If you have any projects that never quite saw the light of day, and would otherwise never be seen, and you can provide screenshots, a description, and maybe a disk image / source code for download, and you are interested in having them hosted on my site - then get in contact.
Link: http://www.xbattlestation.com/forgottencreations/
From: http://www.atari.org/
Diamond Edge v2.55 Released
Diamond Edge v2.55 is now available. Version 2.55 fixes a problem in the "Copy Defrag" function. You may download a patch file to update v2.54 to v2.55 from the following web page.
Link: http://www.anodynesoftware.com/edge/support.htm
From: http://www.atari-users.net/
Major YM Rockerz precense at Main
The Main party in France is getting closer and YM Rockerz are preparing for a blast. Quite a few of the YM Rockerz will perform live at the Party.
* gwEm
* Dubmood
* STU
* Crazy Q
* SCHMX
And more guys from other platforms (see the flyer link below). Don't miss this!
Main party flyer http://dhs.nu/gfx/mainflyer.jpg
Visit the Main party website http://mainparty.net/
Download a 2-song video with Crazy Q live in Paris 2004 http://movies.dhs.nu/avc_misc/crazy_q-live_paris_2004.mp4
From: http://www.dhs.nu/
Unseen version of Pong unearthed!
Pong with a round ball? Preposterous! However, David Winter himself contacts us with the following press release regarding this interesting bit of gaming history:
Video game historian David Winter and video game inventor Ralph Baer made a video which shows the nicest feature a pong game should have had: a round ball. This unreleased project was planned for the 4-player Odyssey in 1973, but never made it into production. David Winter salvaged the documentation shortly before it would have been trashed, and rebuilt the round ball generator within a couple hours. The video is on YouTube.
Truth now officially stranger than fiction.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrYV4Q7l3s
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Pong: in colour!
Last week we brought you news of a previously unseen version of Pong featuring the stuff of science fiction - a round ball.
Well, David Winter contacts us again to inform us that he's added a second video to youtube showing himself and Ralph Baer playing the Brown Box. What's so special about that? Well, in this case it's the original version, with colour, as it was originally in 1968. Colour was later removed from it, so this is a rare opportunity to see this curio in action.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bxfWOsAPM
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Namco Museum DS Traile
Any Nintendo DS owners reading this (come on, there must be some of you) will be pleased to see this trailer for Namco Museum DS. This forthcoming release may well do for Namco's back catalogue what Tetris DS did for Tetris - drag it kicking and screaming into the age of wireless multiplayer and dual-screen action with brilliant results.
The games fetures are Pac-Man, Xevious, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Pac-Man vs., Dig Dug II and Tower of Druaga. Be warned - the page is in French and the video's in Japanese, but you don't have to be tri-lingual to understand it, just hit play and soak up those visuals!
Link: http://wiiz.fr/article.php?a=13409
From: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Atari800PSP v2.0.3.2 - Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for PSP
Uberjack has released a new version of his Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for PlayStation Portable. Heres whats new:
v2.0.3.2 (Saturday, September 08 2007 16:58):
Fixed mislabeled 'Joystick Right' control (thanks Robert)
Updated GUI - menu animations
Fixed various bugs dealing with controller configuration
Improved state saving/loading screen
Link: http://psp.akop.org/atari800/
From: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73490
