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Kevin Freitas<p>Such a great hardware refresh from the original Lynx.</p><p><a href="https://handheldmuseum.org/device/atari-lynx-ii/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">handheldmuseum.org/device/atar</span><span class="invisible">i-lynx-ii/</span></a></p><p>This is my personal device from then. I bought games first to help force my young self to save enough to buy the console. Worked!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandheldMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandheldMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtariLynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariLynx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990s</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Flying Hamburger, work in progress game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AtariLynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariLynx</span></a> <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381423-flying-hamburger/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3814</span><span class="invisible">23-flying-hamburger/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
MrCopilot<p>This is a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/woot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woot</span></a> toot.</p><p>I grabbed something yesterday and was annoyed by the ui prompting to enter a discount code in 4 separate pre-purchase pages but was never presented with the promo code box.</p><p>Emailed the issue, as a heads up.</p><p>They refunded far more than the missing discount.</p><p>So if you are bummed you cannot get that 8bitDo because of tariffs or feeling nostalgic and wanna get smol with a mini <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> retro console, consider woot, won't you.</p><p><a href="https://electronics.woot.com/offers/deep-silver-official-atari-400-mini-joystick-hdmi-out" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electronics.woot.com/offers/de</span><span class="invisible">ep-silver-official-atari-400-mini-joystick-hdmi-out</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Agent Q, new game for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a> console <a href="https://artefacto.itch.io/agent-q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">artefacto.itch.io/agent-q</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>In addition to Kara-T-Rex, 4 more <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computer games were programmed in 36 hours during the Grawitacja 8bit GameJam 2025: Dinodrab, Jurassic Spark, Diver with a Big... Hearth and CreDino. <a href="https://www.grawitacja.eu/wyniki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">grawitacja.eu/wyniki</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Kara-T-Rex, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers game written in 36 hours during Grawitacja Gamejam 2025 <a href="https://gitlab.com/bocianu/kara-t-rex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gitlab.com/bocianu/kara-t-rex</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/hackaton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackaton</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>There are two projects to port Doom on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> computers. First one runs on standard Atari ST but at the moment it needs accelerated Hatari emulator. Second one needs AtariSTE with STE536 board (Motorola 68030 50MHz + TT RAM): <a href="https://youtu.be/RyNfRBr9SKI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/RyNfRBr9SKI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/doom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doom</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>TechSpot: The Atari ST was eight years too early for Doom, but not anymore. “The list of improbable devices running the iconic first-person shooter Doom continues to grow. Although porting it to a PC released in 1985, eight years before Doom, might seem tame compared to running it on a Lego brick or inside a QR code, the in-development Atari ST conversion shows impressive dedication.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/29/techspot-the-atari-st-was-eight-years-too-early-for-doom-but-not-anymore/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/29/techspot-the-atari-st-was-eight-years-too-early-for-doom-but-not-anymore/</a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>New firmware for SysCheck II, must have diagnostic (and memory expansion) card for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> computers <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/251315-sys-check-v22-ready-to-use-batch-available/page/12/#findComment-5653294" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/2513</span><span class="invisible">15-sys-check-v22-ready-to-use-batch-available/page/12/#findComment-5653294</span></a> (scroll for latest update) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrocomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputer</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Developer Jonas Eschenburg has ported Doom to the Atari ST <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-slithers-and-dithers-its-way-with-a-16-color-atari-st-port" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tomshardware.com/video-games/r</span><span class="invisible">etro-gaming/doom-slithers-and-dithers-its-way-with-a-16-color-atari-st-port</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/DOOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOOM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/16Colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>16Colors</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>I found the note I left myself from just waking up:</p><p>Dreamed I was back in the '80s, writing a Gopher/Markdown-like system on the Atari 8-bit, with the line-oriented editor I wrote on TRS-80, not MEDIT. I was explaining heading levels to someone, and drawing ATASCII banner art for h1, inverse for h2, etc.</p><p>This wouldn't be too hard to really do (but really, use MEDIT). Atari DOS is fast enough to load pages on demand.<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/dream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dream</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/hypertext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypertext</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>CASIOpeia, a new album sequenced with Atari 520ST and Cubase <a href="https://bookovsky.bandcamp.com/album/casiopeia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookovsky.bandcamp.com/album/c</span><span class="invisible">asiopeia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atariST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a></p>
xenos 🐧🇵🇭<p>My <a href="https://mas.to/tags/atari800xl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari800xl</span></a> picture of the day</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a></p>
Paul (Goto 10)<p>The 1200XL was intended to fight the Commodore 64, but things didn’t work out as Atari hoped. </p><p><a href="https://www.goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-1200xl-fiasco" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-12</span><span class="invisible">00xl-fiasco</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>Bernie &amp; the Tower of Doom for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console will be available from May 10 <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>New version of Black Forest for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari7800" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari7800</span></a> console <a href="https://forums.atariage.com/topic/377834-black-forest-wip/page/2/#findComment-5653617" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.atariage.com/topic/3778</span><span class="invisible">34-black-forest-wip/page/2/#findComment-5653617</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p>Trying out some games from the MacPack (Internet Archive) and look what I ran across, a Defender clone called MacLanding.</p><p>I wonder if this guy did any more programming for the Mac?</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/macgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macgaming</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogames</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mach</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MacPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacPlus</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSX</span></a></p>
Jan Beta<p>New video! I'm building the Open Source Arcade Stick in the DE-9 version (Commodore, Atari etc) with adjustable auto fire and lit fire buttons.</p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/1HzP0J1iCzU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/1HzP0J1iCzU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>PeerTube: <a href="https://makertube.net/w/jgfwx7jofMpVmychGogFrV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makertube.net/w/jgfwx7jofMpVmy</span><span class="invisible">chGogFrV</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Joystick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joystick</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OSAstick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSAstick</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenHardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenHardware</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arcade</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Build" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Build</span></a></p>
Peter Fletcher<p>I am old. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>This is kind of amazing: Boulder Dash for Atari 2600!<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q5L-wafQNA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=0Q5L-wafQN</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p><p>I played an enormous amount of Boulder Dash on the Atari 8-bit, and a text-based game Wanderer on the ST.<br><a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/8713/wanderer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mobygames.com/game/8713/wander</span><span class="invisible">er/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>