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Entries from March 2010

Dragon Ball: Origins to grace DS

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Fancy some Dragon Ball lovin’ on your DS/DS Lite, but have yet to see a title from this franchise hit the platform? Fret not, Atari has your best interests at heart with Dragon Ball: Origins that will make its debut in North America this November. Developed by NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., this title will roll [...]

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Man Controls Roomba With Wii Balance Board, Atari-Era Surfin’ USA Soundtrack [Wii Roomba]

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Ron Tajima has some time on his hands. And a Roomba. And a Wii Balance Board. See where we’re going with this? Anyway, he put them all together, combined it with a Surfin’ USA track that sounds like it was ripped from the 1980’s, and now he can control the previously autonomous Roomba with his [...]

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Week in Review for 8/24/2008

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Quick News Links Running out of IP4 addresses Will the increasing use of NAT firewalls slow down the consumption of IP4? Even if it does not, it would at least limit the scope of concern, perhaps, to individuals’ and organizations’ upstream link, assuming such devices can bridge between public IP6 and IP4. I [...]

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300 baud - where it all began - Atari XM-301

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Tracing back to what would be a defining moment in my life is the Atari XM-301 300 baud modem for the old Atari 8-bit systems. Of course I didn’t know it at the time, but there was no turning back once I had called my first BBS and chatted with the SysOp. I would eventually [...]

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GameSetNetwork: Atari, Atari, Atari - And More!

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Aha, may be time to pick the best posts of the week from big sister site Gamasutra and elsewhere on our Think Services sites/blogs - and probably the most obvious post of the week is the 23,000+ word Atari retrospective from Steve Fulton. Decided to pick my favorite three quotes from the magnum [...]

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The 8Bit Philosophy

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Heute Vormittag bin ich bei F!XMBR über den Beitrag “The 8Bit Philosophy” gestolpert. Den Film sollte sich jeder einmal angesehen haben (da werden Erinnerungen wach). Neben der “schlechten” Qualität des Google-Videos im Blog, gibt es den Beitrag in 1A-Videoqualität in der ZDF-Mediathek! Das der C64 dem Schneider CPC (im Bezug auf den Sound) [...]

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ELITE BARBARIAN - It’s Only When You Get To The End That It All Makes Sense (CD, Front And Follow)

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the strongest electronic beep records you will ever hear, the new record from Elite Barbarian achieves a certain kind of ambience ordinarily/usually harboured by the most strung out and sensitive of electronic acts without using such barbed sonics.  Tickling like the insides of a ZX Spectrum and playing out like the soundtrack [...]

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UK Game-Sharers Being Sued; Peter Moore Says Bad Idea [Piracy]

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

In the United Kingdom, Atari, Codemasters and three other game companies are going to court to demand GBP300 from 25,000 file-sharers, reports The Times of London. Apparently, file-sharing got really obnoxious recently — 691,000 downloads of Operation Flashpoint by Codemasters in one week alone. So the five have asked the court to demand internet service [...]

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Seeing the Signature of God

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A reflection on Exodus 1:8-2:10 and Matthew 16:13-20, Proper 16A A colleague tells this story about one of the first computer games his family ever got. He says: “Atari became all the rage. As I recall Atari initially had four different games. My favorite was called Adventure. It was your basic dungeons and [...]

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[GC 2008] Alone in the Dark - Provato

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Atari ammette i propri errori, e riscrive da zero gran parte di codice del gioco: Alone in the Dark ora è un potenziale capolavoro. Clicca qui per leggere tutto l’articolo
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