The prepayment for the SuperVidel is drawing near.
All manufacturing documents have been sent to the manufacturer and we're currently awaiting their quote. This should take 2-3 weeks from now.
Immediately when we get the quote we can set the final prices for the SuperVidel, Svethlana and Extender boards, and the prepayment period will then start.
We hope to stay within the lower price region and we hope to let the payment period be as short as one month, but we can't proceed until we have 90% of all payments (but we will still make 100% of all registered boards).

Registering and paying for more boards will be ok until the prepayment period ends.

Completely new registrations are also welcome.

So start saving now! :)

/Nature
Henrik and Torbjörn

It took a bit longer but it's finally here:


ASMA 3.5, the largest archive of Atari XL/XE music, contains 4317 tunes, 460 of which are new!


Besides the usual new additions, there are quite a few bugfixes, mostly for better compatibility with the real hardware and recent players.




Download the latest release at http://asma.atari.org/

Just in time to celebrate the new year 2012, the latest version of Hatari has been released ; you can get it on http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ or directly in http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/
Sources are of course available, as well as prebuilt binaries for Windows (if someone can supply an OS X version, it will be added too).
Please note that Hatari is no longer hosted on berlios.de, but on tuxfamily.org.
Small changelog :

- More accurate FDC emulation (correct status bits and command timings, DMA transfer by blocks of 16 bytes, floppy change detection). This should fix a lot of non working games, as well as a few demos.
- More accurate microwire clock emulation
- SCSI class 1 (ICD) command support for drives > 1 GB
- Improve shifter (add another method to do 4 pixel hardware scrolling,
better emulation for 0 byte blank line)
- Some fixes to the IKBD emulation
- Better filters and model for sound emulation
- Correct VBL timings in TT monochrome (double clicking works now)
- More cycle accurate Falcon DSP <-> CPU emulation. All the demos that
needed 32Mhz CPU with the old CPU core in Hatari v1.5, work now at
correct 16Mhz with the WinUAE CPU core
- 030 MMU emulation with the WinUAE CPU core
- Debugger improvements : "history" command to list instructions executed before entering debugger.
- Fixed behavior of the Caps Lock key

Fixed Demos :
Overscan Demos and Shforstv.exe by Paulo Simoes (black line at top),
ACF - Just Bugging (FDC), Delirious Demo IV (FDC, shifter),
Overdrive Demos - Snirkel Screen (IKBD), Oxygene - Stniccc2000 (FDC),
Cream - Madness (FDC)

Fixed Games :
Superior 65 - Super Monaco GP, DBug 24 - Knightmare, Pompey Pirates
27 - X-Out, Fuzion 32 - Pang, Fuzion 108 - The Simpson, Fuzion 40 -
Super Grand Prix, Fuzion 46 - Warlock, Fuzion 51 - Navy Seals, Fuzion
61 - Gods, Fuzion 78 - Carmen Sandiego, Fuzion 82 - Flight Of The
Intruder, Fuzion 83 - RBI Baseball 2, Fuzion 102 - Exile, PP46 -
Yolanda, Medway Boys 15 - Murders In Venice, Medway Boys 83 - Yogi
Bear, BBC 2 - Platoon, BBC 39 - The Deep, Superior 71 - The Running
Man, Adrenaline 24 - Demon Blue, Superior 93 - Alien Storm

Fixed Misc Programs :
Procopy 1.50, Terminators Copy 1.68, maxYMizer (caps lock key)

For best results in STF mode, please use TOS 1.04 (TOS 1.02 is sometimes causing crashes). For STE, use TOS 1.62 or 2.06.

See release-notes.txt for the full changelog.

Thanks to all the people who worked on this version by submitting code,
ideas and bug reports !

Nicolas

Yet another release from Reboot. This time it's Kobayashi Maru for
the Jaguar. The game is a remake of Time Pilot, and can be played
with a rotary controller, or a normal Jaguar controller.

In the game you fly around in a ship, shooting bad guys and level
bosses, while dodging their fire.

Downloads are available in all the normal Jaguar formats,
BJL, ROM, and CDI.

Reboot have released a new game for the Falcon, called Downfall.
The name might sound familiar, and that's because this is a port of
the game by the same name released earlier this year for the Jaguar,
also by Reboot.

The Falcon version features new music and enhanced background animations.

Freeway was a famous game in 1980s. Now This fantastic game has been faithfully recreated as a Universal release for the iPhone and iPad and is currently available in the App Store for all retro lovers out there.

And it's totally FREE!

Yet another batch of Skunkboards is being made, this time it\\\\\\\'s really final, although that\\\\\\\'s what they said the last time. Order yours for USD 115.90 at goatstore. http://www.goatstore.com/Products/Atari/Jaguar/152925/Skunkboard_Rev_3_Ghost/

The Skunkboard is a development board for the Atari Jaguar, programmable using USB.

http://www.goatstore.com/News/45/GOAT_Store_and_HarmlessLion_Confirms_Final_Batch_of_Skunkboards/

MiKro has made a new build of zView available.

It\'s mainly a bugfix release (after 6 years!), and now you should
be able to run zView under FreeMiNT with memory protection.

Another piece of good news is that as soon as FireBee is released, the
build for this CPU will not be a problem since the source code has
been cleaned up a lot.

More info in readme file in the archive.

zView is an image viewer for the Atari Falcon. It can also display
PDFs, and is licensed under the LGPL. More information on zView at
Zorro\'s zView page: http://the.zorro.free.fr/zview.html

Atari User Issue 12 is here.

In Issue 12 we have an exclusive interview with Stephen Goss who helped
produce 8-bit games for Atari UK and was involved in UK company Harlequin
that signed up several big titles for the Atari XL/XE. Find out what
happened in this issue. In Robots, Pizzas & Videotape we take a look at
what happened to Nolan Bushnell after he left Atari - from the success
that was Axlon to the disaster that was Androbot.

Also this issue we look at the Atari Cosmos - a 3D gaming handheld with
its origins in the late seventies, plus we have a feature on arcade smash
Xenophobe and look at Namco arcade hits converted to the Atari ST.

Plus we look at the best and worst football games for the Atari ST, our
Game Over! series looks at unreleased Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 games, we
review George the Computer Robot, plus lots of great reviews for the Atari
ST, Falcon, 2600, 7800, Lynx, 8-bit & Atari Jaguar.

Hatari release 1.5.0 has just been released.

You can get it from http://hatari.berlios.de/ or directly in https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10436

Sources and windows binaries are available (an OS X binary should be available soon too)

Small changelog :

- On STE, correctly shift display 8 pixels to the left when using 224 bytes overscan (e.g. recent demos by DHS)

- Add support for spec512 mode in med res (fixes "Best Part Of The Creation" in "Punish Your Machine", "HighRes Mode" demo by Paradox)

- Precisely emulate the number of frames per sec (eg 50.053 fps in PAL instead of the usual 50 Hz), required for correct video/audio sync under STE (e.g. More Or Less Zero by DHS)

- Sound improvements for STE, major rewrite of the DMA audio, precision should be really close to a real STE (e.g. HexTracker by Paulo Simoes)

- Improved precision in sound emulation, with nearly no rounding errors over successive VBL during many hours.

- By default mix 3 YM voices using a lookup table of values measured on real STF to improve digisound (e.g. Flashback demo by TCB)

- Alternative CPU core based on WinUAE for more accurate Falcon emulation, including 68030 timings, MMU, ...

- Improvements in DSP emulation.

- Various changes in the SDL GUI

- Many more functions in the built in debugger

- Atari program given as argument to Hatari will be automatically started after TOS boots

- Many more small fixes related to video, audio, ikbd, ...

See release-notes.txt for the full changelog.

Thanks to all the people who worked on this version by submitting code, ideas and bug reports !

Nicolas

A enhanced version of AtariTool ST-DEXL by my friend DearHorse was out, a windows tool for the ATARI ST/E to manage PI1-PI2-PI3 pictures, now clipboard with conversion options and animation module go on !



can find a free link at http://www.ataritools.fr.gd in ST-DEXL folder.

Latest build of graphics program/pixel painter GRAFX2 v. 2.4 wip for Atari Falcon (040/060 processor recommended) is ready and can be downloaded from official GRAFX 2 site (http://code.google.com/p/grafx2).

ENDURO was an racing game on Atari 2600.

Now you can Play it on iPhone/iPad:



http://itunes.apple.com/app/enduro/id432311941

http://itunes.apple.com/app/enduro-lite/id432737894

Remember how much fun you used to have

playing Atari, Nintendo and all kinds of games on your computer? Well,

you will have the rare opportunity to play these great games again at

the Video Game Summit, Chicago \'s premier video game trade show. In

fact, dealers in retro games will be on hand offering games,

controllers,systems and memorabilia and will be prepared to buy or trade

for the games you have held onto since you were a kid. Who knows, you

might just have an Atari cartridge worth $1000 or more collecting dust

in your attic.



\"Retrogaming,\" the playing and collecting of classic video and computer

games, is more popular than ever.

In fact, a dedicated group of programmers still issues new games for

game systems,such as the Atari 2600, last seen in retail stores over

fifteen years ago. The Video Game Summit, now in its eighth year,

brings together classic and modern generation gamers from all over the

country to swap stories, games and to compete in sanctioned tournaments

and raffles.

The event is open to the public and people of all ages with an interest in

video games or computers are encouraged to attend. According to the

event\'s organizer, Dan Iacovelli, \"we plan to have many retro and modern

game consoles for play*.



The date of the show will be July 16th, 2011 from 11am to 6pm at The

Heron Point Convention Center,665 West North Avenue , Lombard,IL

(adjacent from the Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel)

Admission is $3.00 per person (children 12 and under with an Adult

are Free) and booths are $25.00 (a booth consist of three

2 x 5 tables 2 side tables and one front table) booth price includes

admission for two and a choice of ad size full page (8.5 by 10)

or half page(8.5 by 5),(Registration begins on Novemeber 6th,2010 at 5am)

We will once again have free Wi-Fi access.



For more information on how to register visit our registration page at:

http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/VGS_files/register.html .



Interested in helping out with the show? Then join the Part time Staffer

program.if you can bring extra tv\'s,power cords or systems,let us know by

using the Form on the contact page and select \"part time staffer\" along

with the information on what you can bring and we will get back to you

(if you can\'t bring anything but still want to help let us know that as well).



Join the Video Game Summit mailing list for updates on the event

(VideoGameSummit-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com)



Dan Iacovelli is available to answer any questions at (708) 688-4561 or

VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com

River Raid was an action game on Atari 2600.

Now you can Play it on iPhone/iPad:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/airfox-hd/id366286238

http://itunes.apple.com/app/airfox-lite-hd/id365505303

http://www.TangoGames.co

Sorry for the late announcement...

As usual,as every June,this time 24.-26.6.2011 from 18:00, PLATARIADA in Ceske Budejovice,Czech Republic will take place.

I think it needs no more info,nothing changes in those past years,and all is at http://platariada.atari.org ,sorry for some year mistakes there.

Also visitors list is available here http://atariada.prostejov.cz/platariada2011/vypis.asp ,don\'t worry,more people will come,as usual. :)

More info at lieblp@centrum.cz .

There is also FB page for this event.

Atari User Issue 9 is out now.



This issue we review the Atari 1200XL, KJMann\'s S-Video Mod, plus take a look at the new IDE 2.0 interface. Tons of reviews, our regular features continue, including a look at unreleased gems for the Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800, and this issue the Atari Lynx goes head to head against the Sega Game Gear

ROBINSON'S REQUIEM NOW AVALABLE FOR THE ATARI JAGUAR

May 30, 2011

For immediate release:

ROCHESTER, MN - Songbird Productions is proud to announce the immediate availability of Robinson\'s Requiem for the Atari Jaguar. In this enthralling 3D adventure, you play the part of a Robinson. The action unfolds in the middle of the twenty-second century, at a time when the Earth and some of its colonized planets are already over-populated. Robinson is the nickname given to members of AWE - Alien World Exploration - a military body whose task it is to explore totally unknown planets. Your last mission takes you to an uncharted planet where something goes horribly wrong. Now you must survive the harsh environment and somehow make your way... home.


Robinson's Requiem features a fully explorable 3D environment encompassing three square miles of landscape, rendered and live-action video sequences, and Memory Track support for saved games. There are dozens of items to collect, use, and build as you ward off predators, illness, and adversaries. Your Sesame mini-computer tracks your health vitals and maps the area around you while you struggle to survive.

The end of a journey is just the beginning in Robinson's Requiem! The professionally glass-mastered disc comes in a poly-wrapped Amaray case and includes a glossy 16-page manual. Order your copy today at http://songbird-productions.com.

Songbird Productions is a premier game developer and publisher for the Atari Lynx and Jaguar. To keep up to date with the latest news at Songbird Productions, be sure to visit the company web site at http://songbird-productions.com. This message may be reprinted in its entirety.



Order your copy today at http://songbird-productions.com! Special discounted price of $49.95 is only available through June 3rd, 2011, so help spread the word to other Jaguar fans! Post on Twitter, Facebook, VideoGameGeek.com, Atari.net, or other video game sites and share your support on the official thread at http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/182663-robinsons-requiem-now-available-for-the-jaguar-cd.

The Atari Jaguar developer Reboot of Jagware has announced the release of DOWNFALL,
a freely available game for the Atari Jaguar game console.
The game was released at the AC2011 party in France this weekend.
Downfall is inspired by the games \"Spike Goes Down\" (Vectrex) and
\"Man Goes Down\" (Atari 2600), both created by Alex Herbert.

The object of Downfall is to guide your character through a never-ending chasm on a series of
platforms, carefully avoiding rising above or dropping below the viewable area of the screen.
Reboot has released the game free for download in ROM, BJL, and CDI format.
The source code to the game is also freely available for download on the Downfall website.

Atari's greatest hits has 100 classic arcade and 2600 titles, reworked for Apple devices.
You get a single game for free, pong, the rest come either in packs of four for roughly one USD, or 15 USD for all 99 games.



Check out the following articles about the game:



http://toucharcade.com/2011/04/07/ataris-greatest-hits-review-my-god-its-full-of-pixels/



http://www.maclife.com/article/news/atari_launches_massively_epic_retro_gaming_app