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Sword Of Kadash (part two)

March 24, 2023 AtariCrypt

Welcome all (who carry a pencil and paper)I honestly didn’t expect to be posting again so soon after the first article but, this is an enthralling adventure alright. Ignore how it looks and the player is rewarded with something rather unexpected and most enjoyable. Hang on, didn’t you read the feature that …

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S7E03 Antic dataBASE

March 19, 2023 Inverse ATASCII

This episode features dataBASE released in 1987 by Antic Publishing. It was programmed by Carl M Evans and Richard M Leonard. Podcast: Download Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway.  It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.   …

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Sword Of Kadash (part one)

March 19, 2023 AtariCrypt

Fortress Of The DragonFor almost a decade (wow, that long?) I have tried to play as much of a game (as possible) before attempting to write a humble review. In light of that revelation, I’m going to do things differently for this next game and shall post here as I …

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A book all about Atari ST demos

March 17, 2023 AtariCrypt

Democyclopedia – The Book!There is a brand new book in the works all about the Atari ST demoscene and it’s written by ST Survivor (aka STS) who I’m sure you will remember being interviewed a few years back? This book is based on his blog which alphabetically documents more ST …

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S7E02 Antic Data Manager XL

February 25, 2023 Inverse ATASCII

This episode features Data Manager XL released in 1985 by Antic Publishing. It was programmed by William Bartlett. Podcast: Download Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway.  It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.   …

ANTIC
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ANTIC Episode 96 – Atari Dreams

February 20, 2023 ANTIC

ANTIC Episode 96 – Atari Dreams In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-modified 800’s, dream about sleeping on an Atari pillow, and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find! READY! …

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Voodoo Nightmare

February 18, 2023 AtariCrypt

It’s a jungle out there!Palace Software released Voodoo Nightmare in 1990 and is an isometric action/puzzler not too dissimilar to the older Ultimate games I used to play as a kid on my ZX Spectrum. We are Boots Barker, a guy with a silly name and little good fortune, who …

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Fire & Brimstone -mapped

February 15, 2023 AtariCrypt

Fancy a holiday in Nilfheim?Are you ready for more ST game maps? I hope so… and this time it’s a Nordic platformer that is so tough I genuinely cannot imagine anyone playing it without cheating. That’s right, it’s the dreaded Fire And Brimstone by Vectordean/Firebird which you may remember was …

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FujiNet Time in C (CC65)

February 11, 2023 Unfinished Bitness

FujiNet is a fantastic device for the Atari 8 bit line of computers which provides WiFi, and SD card storage among other things, all over SIO.  One of the functions provided is APETIME support, a protocol developed by AtariMax as part of their Atari Peripheral Emulator (APE). In the last …