The GTIA Report

November 6, 2007

Pac-Man meets Zork

Filed under:Sites — Gozar @ 12:07 pm

Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork:

You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

And so starts your online text adventure as Pac-Man.

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September 17, 2007

Metroid fan art compiled by Racketboy

Filed under:Sites — Gozar @ 7:30 am

The Most Stunning Metroid-Inspired Artwork - racketboy.com

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August 23, 2007

A portable 2600 and NES? Sign me up!

Filed under:New Uses, Sites — Gozar @ 7:40 pm

From The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn:

What happens when you take 2 great tastes and mix ‘em together? Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for one, and my new NEStari for another.

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August 21, 2007

New version of Stella, the Atari 2600 VCS emulator available

Filed under:New Uses, Sites — Gozar @ 9:02 pm

Stella: “A multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator”

Notable changes:

  • Widescreen video modes are now supported; Stella will simply center the image with surrounding black borders.
  • Many UI-related changes, including resizable ROM launcher and debugger windows, and a new UI palette (the previous ‘classic’ palette is still available). This is still a work in progress.
  • The locations of all major config files (statedir, palette file, cheat file, properties file, etc) are now configurable from the commandline and within the UI.
  • Added more complete cartridge auto-detection for Commavid (CV), 3E, 3F and Activision (FE) formats.
  • Added support for gzipped ROMs.
  • Re-added pause support.
  • Re-added support for Windows 98.
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August 18, 2007

Photos: Computers of yesteryear from News.com

Filed under:Sites — Gozar @ 4:08 pm

Photos: Computers of yesteryear

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August 2, 2007

Arkanoid Breaks Its Way to the DS news from 1UP.com

Filed under:New Uses — Gozar @ 5:12 pm

Yes, YEs, YES!

Arkanoid Breaks Its Way to the DS news from 1UP.com

A special controller resembling the arcade controller (complete with the knob) will be sold separately. This can be plugged onto the GBA port of the DS unit. The controller come in white, black, silver and pink colors.

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July 12, 2007

New Commodore computers

Filed under:New Uses — Gozar @ 6:53 pm

E3: Commodore unveils its U.S. desktop lineup | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

I guess Commodore is back… If you want to call it that. :-)

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July 1, 2007

Atari Flashback PORTABLE prototype

Filed under:New Uses — Gozar @ 8:33 am

A peek at the Atari Flashback Portable prototype - Joystiq:

Curt Vendel, designer of the all-in-one Atari Flashback — also known as the perfect holiday gift for that difficult person on your list — let the readers of the AtariAge forums in on the design of the upcoming (and no longer rumored) Atari Flashback Portable.

Although I’ve already got a bunch of Atari games in portable form on my GBA, I would still be interested in one of these. I’m curious how games will be loaded onto the machine though.

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June 7, 2007

Cold War Russian arcade games

Filed under:Sites — Gozar @ 11:05 am

Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves:

From the late ’70s to the early ’90s, Soviet military factories produced some 70 different video game models. Based largely (and crudely) on early Japanese designs, the games were distributed — in the words of one military manual — for the purposes of “entertainment and active leisure, as well as the development of visual-estimation abilities.”

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April 24, 2007

New Amiga desktops announced

Filed under:New Uses — Gozar @ 8:30 am

Amiga News:

After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users.

[...]

Initially, two systems will be produced that address two different market needs. The first is a consumer entry design that will offer a complete product with a target price point of $500.00, while the second will be of a power design that would have a target price point of $ 1,500.00. The PowerPC architecture will continue to be the architecture of choice for these new systems.

Amiga fans rejoice! New hardware to run AmigaOS 4.0 on, although I think the Amiga brand would get further along with a port to the x86 architecture.

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