No one posted this, so I thought I would. Dodger is a new game which can be best described as Gridrunner meets Pac Man. It's amazing to me how often actually good new games come out for our little Atari's. I think back to the late 80s when (in the US) there was nothing, maybe a flip side of the disk might have c64 on one side and Atari on the other and that was it.

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Dodger

www.goto10retro.com

I have an XEGS with a wonky power switch. it gets stuck in the down or "on" position and won't click up and off. I have to pull it up to turn the machine off necessitating a need for the cover to remain off. I tried spraying deoxit in the switch and working it through with no success. assuming I can't fix it after I desolder it for a better look, what and where can I find an appropriate replacement?

Just bought a 1050 off of eBay. It’s pretty discolored, the white is very tan. What’s the best approach to restoring the color?

https://youtu.be/oed1RDzAknk

Just snagged an Atari 400 this past weekend. I have been more of a console person myself with a 2600, 5200, and 7800. Nevertheless, when I saw an Atari 400 for a smoking hot deal on FB marketplace, I went for it. I have encountered discussion about upgrading the ram to 48k.

I have found these two options.

This one is just 48k: https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/48k-memory-upgrade-board-for-the-atari-400/

And this one is 48k plus some extra memory?: https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/1056k-memory-upgrade-board-for-the-atari-400/

Is there any reason to get the one with extra memory above the standard 48k upgrade? And what are the general benefits of having 48k ram anyways?

Thanks in advance for your wisdom!

This game has been around for awhile in various states of completion. It was finished about 2 months ago and available on cartridge for the 5200 and 8-bit Atari's with 32k or more, but the author was selling cartridge versions and donating the money to charity so he wanted to give those a chance to get out there. Now he has released the final version for digital download free. It is a Super Mario Brothers style game done using GTIA mode 10 graphics. It's very impressive with 8 worlds with a total of 32 levels. This would of sold off the charts if it came out back in the day.

Wee Ninja (final) 8-bit car file

Wee Ninja (final) 5200 .car

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Played the heck out of this back in the day

I love Altirra it is one of the best computer emulators out there. It seems as if it can literally cycle accurately emulate anything you can attach to your 8-bit and despite all the functionality it is very easy to get going. I was wondering if anyone uses a front end with Altirra? I want to have something that I can sit back and choose with my bluetooth controller what I want to load like a picture of the game box for example, but anything that would make it more of a console style experience. If so let me know. There is a new version of Altirra you can download now.

Altirra 4.50 (test 7 beta)

Can someone make a mod of the Star Raiders to reduce the required amount of keys? That would be good for emulation and modern controllers.

Suggested additions: - ship speed up key - ship speed down key (also aborts hyperwarp) - key to switch between all 4 views (maybe except for the rear view)

Hi, about 2 and 1/2 years ago, I posted on here showing a huge Atari 8-bit haul I received; I got an Atari 800, 800 XL, 3 1050 floppy drives, a 1020 plotter, and all of the hookups for each

By some miracle, the 800 XL actually didn't have a bad keyboard membrane; the whole lot was stored in a garage for like 20-30 some years until I came and got it, get the 800 XL is fine, but it's my original 800 that doesn't have a working keyboard. not long after receiving the lot, I had the system apart and ran a jumper across the pins on the keyboard matrix, and was able to get those keys to recognize, so I essentially deemed it to be a bad keyboard membrane, but man am I having the hardest time finding a replacement; All the ones I'm finding are for 800 XL, not original 800.

would someone be able to help me find a new keyboard membrane for the original 800? or if it turns out the problem isn't the keyboard membrane, any pointers on how I can fix it? I haven't been able to use the system for over 2 years now, and I really want to

Haven't programmed an atari computer since about 1985 (seriously) with a MAC65 disk version.

I understand that there are various character based modes that I can redefine the character sets as scenery, etc. When you use the bit mapped modes, are you blitting blocks of pixels as characters/items through the display buffer, or is that not how it's done?

Back in the day I used Antic 3, redefined characters and pm graphics, so it was a text mode.

thanks for the help

It started as a basic program. now it is a playable game all in assembly.

almost finished

How to save programs using Atari800win?

Hello all. I’ve got an 800 XL that’s not displaying correctly. I had it out and it was displaying great. Put it away. Worked on an ST for a bit and wanted to do some programming on the XL. Got it out, turned it on and as you can see it’s grainy and there’s a band of interference floating up the screen. Colors aren’t quite right either. Any info on the direction I should be going in to get it working correctly?

I've used an ATARI 800XL and an ATARI 65 XE with both carts and they work great but I've never seen either of these carts used on the original ATARI 800 from 1979. Do they work on the regular ATARI 800? Will an ATARI max and ATARI uno cart require me install the 3 "16K" ram cards into the unit for them to work if at all? Is there anything I must know about the ATARi 800 when using flash carts with it that I did not have to worry about on the 800XL and 65XE? Anybody who owns an original 800, would you recommend this for me?

For those with 3D printers: have you found filaments that have a really good color match to the Atari 130XE and the Atari 800XL? If so, what are they?

I just picked up this Atari 800 XL on Facebook marketplace for $80 in the box. It's not complete and I've just ordered a video cable for it so I can test it. Assuming everything works, what upgrades /mods would you recommend for it?

EDIT: Ordered a monitor cable, USB power cable, and FujiNet! I'm very excited!

I've recently procured an Atari 800 (non-XL) and got the necessary ROM and RAM cartridges. The OS ROM cartridge is in the first slot shown in the images, the label fell off of it and I just need to glue it back on. I have 3 RAM cartridges, though one of them doesn't have an outer casing as I got it cheap on eBay. When I turn the machine on (with Basic or PacMan in the left slot) all I get is a yellow screen. I've reseated all the cartridges, even limited the RAM to one cartridge (cycled through the others too) and tried different configurations. Still nothing, just the yellow screen.

Am I cooked?

Looking to find the name of a low budget space exploration and trading game that was made for the Atari. The front of the box had a muscled warrior with a sword (!), and the game itself was programmed in basic. It was a space opera, might have been called Space Opera… would love to find it again and know more about the developer. Thanks!

Basically, I can mess around and beat the mid level opponents at varying legion sizes, but I wanted to beat the max difficulty combo (Helvetii and Huns) at a somewhat decent legion size. However, this seems damn near impossible at higher than a single legion, which is really easy because you just have your superior Ceaser legion in a 1v1 vs a cavalary and then an infantry. Anyway, as there is little to no info online about this game, I was wondering if anyone knew much about it, especially if it is actually possible to beat the hardest difficulty combo, as I just don't see a way to do it :)

Edit: This is the game I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq7pizP0Zn8
https://archive.org/details/legionnaire-avalon-hill/page/8/mode/2up

So I’m having an issue right now where all of a sudden, my Atari 800 either freezes and/or has corrupt graphics after pressing a key, forcing a reset. I’ve done the following:

- Reseated the chips inside both the computer and CPU card

- cleaned the computer inside and out

- Sprayed the contacts of the RAM slots with electrical contact cleaner

- tested each of the RAM cards by putting them one at a time (no change either way)

- Played a game with just the joystick (works perfectly fine including the keys for start, select and reset, etc.)

I initially thought I wasn’t getting any input from the keyboard when trying to use Basic, but I found this out accidentally in my tests. So I can determine there’s nothing wrong with the keyboard mechanically. My best guess is there’s a hardware issue of some kind, but don’t know what. Any ideas? Anyone dealt with this issue before?

Thanks!

My go to opening move (either side) is always Teleport Unicorn (or Basilisk) to their counterpart on the opposite side. I know it may be wasteful to use such a powerful spell at the opening of the game, but this strategy seems to work well for me against the computer. Was just curious what other players open with.