Had some fun playing Pac-Man on the #Atari 800XL with my son last night.

Join us at for Round 2 of this year's AtariAge Atari 8-bit Computer High Score Club Season. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388151-hsc23-2026-round-02-pac-man

Round 1 was for Galaxian.
Voting for Round 3 game selection is ongoing.

#atari8bit #atari800xl #retrogaming #retrocomputing #atariage #pacman

Break Free for the TI-99/4A

https://youtu.be/1WlvBC8Qrik?si=MfyMU5EPaHAj19KH

#BreakFree #TI994A #Action #BreakoutClone #Breakoutvariant #ArkanoidClone #ArkanoidVariant #Homebrew #HomebrewGame #DavidVella #TI99ItalianUserClub #VintageComputerClubMalta #AtariAgeForum #AtariAge

I think there's a book to be written on the afterlife of #Atari based on the goldmine that is the #AtariAge forum.

The world will be a poorer place if the database underlying that forum is irretrievably lost. It's such a hodgepodge of nuggets of tribal knowledge. Several entire "Missing Manual"s-worth of valuable information on hardware, emulators, programming languages old and new and much more.

Try the discussion thread on the release of the Action! programming language source code, as just one example of the rich lore shared by the Atari retrocomputing community: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/217770-action-source-code/

#Atari8bit #retrocomputing

Posted an utterly minimal flashcard-style hex-to-binary conversion trainer to #AtariAge, as my first effort in #FastBasic.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349675-fastbasic-help/page/3/#findComment-5720208

#atari8bit #retrocomputing

I'm really enjoying #FastBasic on #atari8bit! It feels much more modern* than other languages on the platform, and the native IDE booting from BW-DOS has just enough utility to make it viable to write code on an Atari 800 or equivalent. (I miss vi's 'join' and a search and replace utility, but the edit/save/run cycle feels very natural.)

FastBasic's author is active on #AtariAge, and has also contributed to the recent 1.5 release of BW-DOS, in conjunction with Jiří Bernášek, the original author of BW-DOS.

It's extraordinary; the #retrocomputing scene is more lively and robust than ever, between new hardware add-ons and new programming languages.

• Well, 1970s structured programming modern; in FastBasic, there's no scoping of variables, nor functions that return values, nor hand-holding error messages. Lots of great utility in the several looping constructs and 16-bit DPOKE and DPEEK, and the recent addition of #FujiNet commands is intriguing, on top of the existing #XIO support.

#structuredProgramming #BWDOS

Hello all Atari 2600 gamers, have you ever imagined playing one of the NES games, the famous Duck Hunt, on your Atari? A port to the console? Olioni Games decided to take a chance on this concept, and we bring you a first-hand beta of this game.

#atari #atari2600 #atarivcs #atari2600jr #homebrews #homebrews2025 #foryou #retrogames #atariage

Game Beta 1.1 Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/o1ugqi7v8gclds8/duck_beta_1.1.bin/file