Atari Alumni

The Atari 2600 is commonly hailed as the ultimate classic gaming console. Its mere mention warms even the coldest soul. People just seem to love what, today, looks so primitive. But in its heyday, the Atari 2600 provided many a person with hours of 8-bit entertainment.
The 2600 had the longest lifespan of [...]

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If you’re looking for a way to get your retro gaming fix, you might want to check out the Clear Classic USB Joystick which features a Stella Atari 2600 emulator with 80 games built-in. The funny part about this joystick is, if you think that your lovely TV’s picture isn’t quite the same as those [...]

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Ben Heckendorn, master of stuffing old gaming consoles into portable packaging created what is arguably his most intricate project yet, a homemade laptop filled with Atari 800 guts. This throwback to the early days of video games sports an 8-inch TFT screen, dual speakers, full QWERTY keyboard, 2-player controls, cursor control knob, CompactFlash “disk drive,” [...]

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Calling old-school techies: A new iPhone/iPod Touch app lets you see how the Atari 2600 actually worked. 2600 Magic shows all the major schematics for the classic system as well as detailed instructions on how games were made. Here’s a hint: It was hard.
Check out this synopsis of 2600 Magic and pick it up now [...]

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Got a special place in your heart for Atari computing? Now you can quench that need using new hardware. The Suska project has achieved complete hardware emulation of the Atari ST using an FPGA. The project’s progress tracker shows implementation of the major chips at 100%. They are running EmuTOS, an Atari emulator, as [...]

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