I’m waiting several years for a new IDE interface for my Atari (XE/XL) computer, and finally is arrived, compacts, economical and very promising.
some features:
- Is not much greater than a 2,5-inch IDE disk.
- Does not require an external power-supply.
- Contains an XE (CART+ECI) connector, an XL (PBI) connector, a cartridge port, and a connector for a 2,5-inch IDE disk.
- Contains 96 KB ISP Flash ROM and 32 KB RAM available to the internal PBI BIOS and flashable from the Atari.
- Contains 512 KB or 1024 KB ISP Flash ROM for SpartaDOS X (or any other cartridge of such type), flashable from the Atari. This ROM can be physically disabled using a dedicated switch. The switch is not installed in the device shown on photos below.
- Contains a real time clock circuitry to be used with SpartaDOS X. If someone doesn’t want to use it, the module is anyway fully compatible with an external R-Time 8 or internally mounted ARC.
- A LED flashing during the I/O.
source: atariage.com
FOReVER C the 8bit computers multiscene party opens the door from 18.o3.2o11 to 2o.o3.2o11 in horna suca (trencin / slovakia / europe). you can take your place in the competitions, quizes, talks or just enjoy the atmosphere.
Everybody are welcome. The scenes are still the same (atari, commodore, zx spectrum, amstrad cpc, sam coupe) and the new ones are welcome (pmd? msx?), we fight on the bigscreen, but we are all very friendly in real.
source: forever.zeroteam.sk
The famous Atari demo party “Głuchołazy 2011″ will be held from 29 July 2011.
The Party will be held in the school of Cologne, street Kashubian 2, gymnasium room, Głuchołazy.
source: atariarea.krap.pl
Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.0.9.
This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.
source: g2f.atari8.info
This is a slightly modified version of Dr.Mario for Atari 8 bit. In this version you can find some bugs fixed and works very well on NTSC machine.
In game keys:
- P – Pause.
- N – Change the music in the game.
- M – Mute.
- Q – Exit the game.
- K – Mute the “clicking” sound.
You can download the game here.
source: atarionline.pl
Exomizer is a program that compresses files in a way that tries to be as efficient as possible but still allows them to be decompressed in environments where CPU speed and RAM are limited. For some popular 8-bit computers using 6502 compatible CPUs it can also generate executable files that decompress themselves in memory when run.
- 2011-02-06: Exomizer v2.0.1 released
Changes since the 2.0 release:
- Fix bug in log.c that caused the desfx command to loop if the log level was lower than debug. Bug report by iAN CooG.
A complete changelog is included in the zip file.
source: exomizer
Exomizer is a program that compresses files in a way that tries to be as efficient as possible but still allows them to be decompressed in environments where CPU speed and RAM are limited. For some popular 8-bit computers using 6502 compatible CPUs it can also generate executable files that decompress themselves in memory when run.
- 2011-01-22: Exomizer v2.0 released
Changes since the 2.0 beta 7 release:
- Fixed a bug in sfx decruncher setup where data was copied unnecessary.
- Added the i_line_number symbol to be able to change the default line number of the basic line of the sfx decruncher.
- Added various improvements and documentation of the desfx command.
A complete changelog is included in the zip file.
source: exomizer
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.5.2.0/v1.5.2.1:
- BUG : Floppy dump tool broken. fixed.
- New files Support : Atari ST DIM image (*.DIM) added.
- New files Support : TI99 V9T9 (*.V9T9 / *.PC99) added.
- IPF File format (http://www.softpres.org/) overlap bug corrected.
- Internal : Tracklen is now the number of bit in the track.
- Internal/HFE generator : Track encoding code now set correctly.
- ISO/IBM track generator : ISO FM track data mark value corrected/changed to 0xFB.
Release notes for the SD HxCFloppyEmulator firmware upgrade v1.5.0.0:
- SDcard : Init frequency corrected.
- SDcard : Multi sector read & Write access added.
- SDCard access time improved (Slow sdcard issues corrected)
- Some important parts of the floppy write support fully rewritten : Important codes improvement (speed & size)
- New MFM/DD write support bitrate added.
- FM write support added.
- E-mu write support added (E-mu emulator, E-mu emulator II,…)
- Two floppy drive emulation improvement/bug corrected.
- SDCard HxC Floppy emulator settings (sound/blacklight…) are now stored into the eeprom and used at power up. At power up the last known settings are used.
- … full release notes here
source: hxc2001.free.fr
CTetris4 is a very Nice Tetяis clone for Atari 8 Bit Computers. The game is developed by Hayden Doan.
from Wikipedia:
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.
He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game’s pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov’s favorite sport.
source: atariage.com wikipedia
Tomasz “Tebe” Biela has released an update of the program Graph2Font v3.9.0.5.
This project began many years ago as a simple graphics converter for Atari but over the years the features are significantly increased. The converter runs under Windows.
source: g2f.atari8.info
Contiki is a small, open source, highly portable, multitasking computer operating system developed for use on a number of memory-constrained networked systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded systems on microcontrollers, including sensor network motes.
The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon-Tiki raft.
The Contiki 2.x contains only very little assembler coding and even less target-specific assembler coding. This allowed for easy porting to targets beside the C64 namely the C128 and Apple II. Porting to other cc65 targets wasn’t done due to missing Ethernet hardware.
The major changes are:
- Support of the Atari 8-bit machines with the ethernet cart described on http://www.atari8ethernet.com
- FTP client app (only download although UI suggests upload too)
- Twitter client with OAuth workaround (using SuperTweet.net)
- New high contrast color scheme for Contiki UI apps on the C64.
source: lemon64.com wikipedia cbm8bit.com
Jason “Gwobby” Kendall has released a new Version of his game Gwobby Strikes Back! with a lots of new features and fixes.
What’s New in this Update?
- Over one hundred and thirty thousand different levels.
- Improved animation, sprites.
- Additional sequences assassination.
- Hard platforms are maintained by the first 4 levels.
- The ball can give extra power force.
- The ball under renewed at the early levels.
- Press any key during the boot screen to go intros.
- The game is a little faster, better jumps and many other minor improvements.
source: atarionline.pl
This is the 5th edition of the New Years Disc for Atari. In this issue you can find a lots of interesting things to begin a new year with our beloved Atari.
In this issue you can find:
[Disc one]:
- Kleeblatt and Schneemann done by me.
- Jacfield Badekapp Miel and 3 by JAC!.
- Atallax to map & PG.
- 2011 Intro to Heaven.
- Happy New Year by Sikorski.
[Disc two]:
source: atarionline.pl
“NRV” from Chile has started a new project on Atari 8bit machines called “Project M”.
This is basically a clone of very well popular Wolfenstein 3D PC game. This update of Project M v2 contains improvements and several bugs
source: atariage.com youtube.com
Floppy Emulator (PCB by Lotharek):
The HxC Floppy Emulator is very smart device, designed by Jean-François DEL NERO. It allows you to emulate any 34 pins floppy disk drive. The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator can replace different kind of floppy disk drive and allows you use SDCard media instead of floppy disk.
This emulator is actually used on Amiga, Atari, CPC, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers, CNC machine tool, and scientist instruments. The full list of supported host computer/instruments are on the project website.
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
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