Atari Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/atari/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Atari Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/atari/ 32 32 146320098 Introducing The Print Shop Club! http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/#respond Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:20:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17716 We’re working on a new web-based Apple II emulator (a fork of microM8) called CyanIIde, and we realized that you can do nifty things with browser-based emulators, such as generate and download PDF files of [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/feed/ 0 17716 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 Loading… Ready, RUN for your life! http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14492 Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/feed/ 0 14492 Pumpkin’ Playas: More Tricks than Treats http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:00:34 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14481 Pac-Man was the hottest arcade game of 1981 and Atari saw an opportunity to capitalise on it with a VCS version… By the end of that year, people had pumped more money into Pac-Man machines [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/feed/ 0 14481 Kill a Happy Face: The Mayhem of MIDI Maze, the first FPS http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:32:02 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14391 In the previous two issues of Paleotronic I have written about RPG games, their origins, the games credited with being the first of their kinds on home computers in the RPG video gaming category. Midi [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/feed/ 0 14391 The Story of Jack and Jay: An 8-Bit Fairy Tale http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:44:47 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10177 Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as  Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/feed/ 0 10177 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 Christmas Lemmings! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:35:06 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9650 My task, should I accept (and you did – Ed) was to write an article about Christmas Lemmings as a segue into Lemmings in general. The reason behind this, is simply to meet my brief [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/feed/ 0 9650 Top Ten Retro Party Games! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/10/top-ten-retro-party-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/10/top-ten-retro-party-games/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2019 01:55:27 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9589 At the time of writing, the holidays are almost upon us. At this time of year we usually have friends over for some food, talk and games. This is where it gets a bit awkward, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/10/top-ten-retro-party-games/feed/ 0 9589 A Bicycle Named Stella http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/11/a-bicycle-named-stella/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/11/a-bicycle-named-stella/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:33:06 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=7885 The second prong of Bushnell’s two-pronged effort to bring arcade games to more children was a secret project codenamed Stella. In 1975 Atari had successfully converted its smash-hit Pong arcade machine into a home version, [more...]

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