#atari2600 — Public Fediverse posts

You can now try the demo of Tony - Montezuma's Gold for #Atari2600 console https://monochrome-productions.itch.io/tony-montezumas-gold-atari2600 #atari

Now available Tonytracker, a music editor built for the #Atari2600 sound chip TIA. You can compose original chiptune music and export it for use in real Atari 2600 games. https://monochrome-productions.itch.io/tony-tracker #atari #chiptune

💸 Carlotta by Marc Vittorini for Atari 2600. Carlotta the Jack Russell tests her speed and agility in a frantic ball-retrieval game at the Dog World carnival. @marcvittorini.bsky.social

Check: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/carlotta

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #carlotta

Check: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/carlotta

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #carlotta

Now available #Atari2600 console's version of Tony - Montezuma's Gold. I've been playing it over the past few weeks and it's a great game. https://monochrome-productions.itch.io/tony-montezumas-gold-atari2600 #atari

RUN51, work in progress endless runner for #Atari2600 console https://forums.atariage.com/topic/390156-run51-endless-runner-for-atari-2600/ #atari

Antes del VHS, el LaserDisc y el DVD, El Imperio Contraataca en la Atari 2600 nos llevaba a la batalla de Hoth.
Era como tener la película en casa. ❄️🕹️🌌 #Atari2600 #StarWars

Now available #Atari2600 console's version of Tony - Montezuma's Gold. I've been playing it over the past few weeks and it's a great game. https://monochrome-productions.itch.io/tony-montezumas-gold-atari2600 #atari

@outline 2026 approaching ! First entry sent !!!

And do not forget Buxton Bytes 2026 next week-end ! 3 entries sent too 🙂

#demoscene #demoparty #outline2026 #buxtonbytes #atari #atariST #atariSTe #atarifalcon #atarilynx #atarijaguar #atari2600 #atari8b

You can play games from various platforms, including Atari ones, right in your browser https://gam.onl/ #atari #Atari2600 #Atari5200 #Atari7800 #AtariLynx #AtariJaguar

Megastyle vuelve a demostrar por qué es uno de los grupos más queridos de la escena homebrew del #commodore64
En 2022 nos trajeron una versión fan del mítico The Empire Strikes Back de Parker Brothers, aquel juego lanzado en 1982 para #Atari2600 e #Intellivision 👉 https://pulsayjuega.blog/2026/05/04/el-imperio-contraataca-version-para-fans-del-c64/ 🕹️ #StarWars #StarWarsDay

En 1982 Parker Brothers lanzaba El Imperio Contraataca para la #Atari2600
Megastyle nos trae esta versión para fans de #Commodore64 añadiendo un par de extras y tendrás que sobrevivir a 8 niveles y enfrentarte a nuevos enemigos. Descárgalo en https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle 😊🕹️👍 #retrogaming

Have you played Atari today?
#Atari2600 #NinjishGuy 🥷

In the live stream on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel, John Champeau just revealed Zaxxon Arcade, Champ Games' new game for the #Atari2600 console. https://youtu.be/4OxAzUZOrE8?is=DqgWQsi5E1aSuA1n #atari

💸 Bug Geek by Marc Vittorini for Atari 2600. Hunt snakes and insects, not all of them are obvious to discover! @marcvittorini

Check: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/bug-geek

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #buggeek

Plague!, work in progress game for #Atari2600 console https://youtu.be/neGw5ntxlfs #atari

🎁 Bocce by jab for Atari 2600. Get as close as possible to the white line with as many balls as possible without crossing or touching.

Check: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/389758-bocce/

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #bocce

@GamesMissed we've done Fujinet bring ups for a wide variety of machines. Such as #atari8bit #colecoadam #apple2 #trs80coco #msdos #msx and even #atari2600 . More are happening as we speak. Any and all, come join us

Drive a pickup cannon against an enemy vehicle and helicopter.

YT: https://youtu.be/L3a-7LZMdVE
DL: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/double-attack

#atarivcs #atari2600 #game #gameplay #homebrew #doubleattack

💸 Silent Attack by Marc Vittorini for Atari 2600. An alien ship is attacking planet earth and you are the only defender!

Check: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/silent-attack

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #silentattack

Quest for Tikal, new game for #Atari2600 console https://youtu.be/fsyrFNDqazk #atari

Shooting arrows is not easy, especially on the Atari 2600. Patience and precision should be amongst your skills.

YT: https://youtu.be/u3SDdl18mgs
DL: https://marc-vittorini.itch.io/archery

#atarivcs #atari2600 #game #gameplay #homebrew #archery

À 21h je vais enfin prendre le temps de tester cette magnifique Atari 2600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQm_p06clI

https://www.twitch.tv/mmu_man

#Atari2600 #AtariVCS #Atari #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #LiveAtFabrico

Thunder-Tank, work in progress game for #Atari2600 console https://forums.atariage.com/topic/389732-thunder-tank-atari-2600-wip/ #atari

Bocce, new game for #Atari2600 console https://forums.atariage.com/topic/389758-bocce/ #atari

European people can now buy enhanced PAL versions of #Atari2600 games Tower of Rubble and Amoeba Jump on Vinted. https://www.vinted.it/member/52031010 #atari

Abyss Diver, new #Atari2600 game https://youtu.be/JRUkbDweJ_M #atari

Segunda do Sávio: Pato Donald, Atari e pirataria

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/20/segunda-do-savio-pato-donald-atari-e-pirataria/

#MundoRetro #atari #Atari2600 #Cartucho #Disney #PatoDonald #pirataria #Prottipo #SegundaDoSvio

💸 Abyss Diver by artefacto for Atari 2600. Old forgotten treasures are waiting for you, but so do the sharks!

Check: https://artefacto.itch.io/abyss-diver

#homebrew #atari2600 #retro #game #abyssdiver

#LaserGates für das #Atari2600 ist recht teuer. Vor fast 20 Jahren hatte ich mir als PAL Version deshalb lieber #Weltraumtunnel von #Quelle gekauft, das war sehr günstig.
Jetzt mit dem 2600+/7800+ mag ich lieber die schnellen NTSC Versionen, aber Laser Gates NTSC ist noch viel teurer als die PAL Version damals.
Also habe ich mir lieber von #Zellers #LaserVolley als Cartridge zu einem fairen Preis geholt 🕹

Strategy X für das #Atari2600 is teuer geworden. Vor 20 Jahren hatte ich Landungskommando (Quelle "Raubkopie") für sehr kleines Geld gekauft. Es ist eine super PAL Version mit besseren Farben als das PAL Original.
Nach langer Suche habe ich nun eine NTSC Version von #Konami entdeckt, die für einen fairen Preis in einem neuwertigen Zustand angeboten wurde. Eine Anleitung war auch dabei🤗

Clock Signal ─ A latency-hating multi retro system emulator

https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

#emulator #emulation #atari #Atari2600 #AtariST #ColecoVision #sinclair #amstrad #MSX #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Apple #Mac #Macintosh #sega #MasterSystem #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #16bit #commodore #amiga #computing #IT #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

Donkey Kong Jr. llegó a los salones recreativos en 1982 con una idea sencilla y deliciosa: por una vez, Mario no era el héroe. Aquí hacía de carcelero y el jugador se ponía en la piel del hijo de Donkey Kong 👉🏻 https://pulsayjuega.blog/2025/12/30/donkey-kong-junior/ #atari2600 #intellivision #colecovision #retrogaming

#Atari2600 #Quelle 🕹
Mein Ufo sieht aus wie ein 🍔 mit 👀

Tutankham es uno de esos juegos en los que pestañeas y te das cuenta de que te están acorralando sin piedad. Lanzado en 1982 por Parker Brothers, este título de acción y exploración se convirtió en un habitual de #Atari2600 #Intellivision #ColecoVision y #Videopac
👉 https://pulsayjuega.blog/2013/09/14/tutankamon/

Wie immer bei #Quelle... wo ist eigentlich der Flakpanzer in #RaumbasenAttacke?
Sieht auch eher nach einer Monbasenbattacke aus... zum Glück waren Screenshots auf der Rückseite der Verpackung 😂
Großartiges Spiel für das #Atari2600 🕹

🚜 Bury the 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game cartridges in the New Mexico desert! 🏜️🕹️

YT: https://youtu.be/IcUH-vd6pdc
DL: https://florentdeloison.itch.io/burying-et

#atarivcs #atari2600 #game #gameplay #homebrew #buryinget

In this Atari 2600 action game 🕹️, a lone soldier 🎖️ battles extraterrestrial invaders 👽 using high-tech firearms 🔫 and performance-enhancing sweets 🍬 to save humanity.

https://youtu.be/rU26EQshkT8
https://magovinna.itch.io/aliens-plasma-guns-chewing-gum

#atarivcs #atari2600 #game #gameplay #homebrew #aliensplasmagunsandchewinggum

#Battlezone TC is a great hack of the well known #Atari2600 game👍
You have to drive your tank like in WW2 with two joysticks 🕹🕹
More difficult than with one stick but good fun 🥸
Put the hack on my #OtakuPicoFlash to run it on the #Atari7800+😎

Wie komm ich da hin🤔
#Loderunner #Atari2600

Wie komm ich da hin🤔
#Loderunner #Atari2600

Wie komm ich da hin🤔
#Loderunner #Atari2600

Wie komm ich da hin🤔
#Loderunner #Atari2600

Wie komm ich da hin🤔
#Loderunner #Atari2600

C64 Ultimate Paddles: 13 Games That Suddenly Feel Right
#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #Paddles #Atari2600 #FPGA #Homebrew #8Bit #ClassicGames #Commodore64Ultimate
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-paddles-13-games-that-suddenly-feel-right/?fsp_sid=2317

#Atari2600 game, Raiders of the Lost Ark source code completely disassembled and reverse engineered Every line fully commented #retrodev #retrogaming #atari #reverseengineering #assembler #programming #romhacking

From the retrogamedev communit...

It is #Febratari!

Here is the current status of my 2600-cart-collection. 67 of 129 (I think) Atari games, plus some from Activision, Epyx, Quelle, ...
CX2601 - CX2625 is complete.

Slowly running out of shelf-space...

#atari #atari2600 #atarivcs #retrogaming #retrocomputing #videogames #videogamescollection

Dog, one of the protagonists of the animated movie Robot Dreams, likes #Atari2600 console, #Pong and Activision's games Grand Prix and Seaquest #atari

#DRACONIAN is absolutely great 🤗
Since I use my favorite 80s #Joystick my score looks much better 🕹
#Atari2600 #Atari7800+ #Bosconian

Atari 2600 Cartridge Emulation – Part 4

In Part 3 I finished by noting that I’d sent off some OneROM boards to be made. This posts looks at what happened when I got them back.

OneROM is a replacement for 24-pin or 28-pin (EP)ROMs used in much vintage hardware, designed by ‘piers rocks’. There are two versions of each type, one based on an STM32 and one on an RP2350.

There is a lot of documentation available and a suite of tools that is growing in ease of use almost daily.

Key links:

• Main site: https://onerom.org/
• Getting started: https://onerom.org/start/
• Main documentation: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/one-rom
• YouTube channel with much of the development process: https://www.youtube.com/@piers_rocks

Manufacturing

To give you an idea of the speed of development, when I sent off the recommended design for the “Fire” (RP2350) 24-pin variant the recommended version was fire-24-c – i.e. revision C of the PCB. By the time I had the boards back, the recommended version was fire-24-d.

Massive credit to piers.rocks with the fabrication instructions. These boards have been designed for the cheapest, practical default options for manufacturing. The full process is described in full here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/one-rom/tree/main/sdrr-pcb

Everything went pretty smoothly for me. I had to upload the Gerbers, BOM and positioning files from the “fab” area of the PCB revision in question. The one issue was that one of the capacitors wasn’t available, but there was an equivalent that had wide availability and the same properties as far as I could see, so I used that.

The cost was a little more than initially implied by the information I’d read but that is mostly because it doesn’t talk about postage, which naturally will be different for everyone. In the end the “all in” cost (postage and all) was around £8 per device for me.

First Install

Having received these back, there are a few options for getting them up and running:

• Download, install and use the Studio application.
• User the online Web installer.
• Build custom ROM firmware.

There are a number of default ROM configurations that can just be selected and run, but I’m going to try to get an Atari 2600 game ROM onto a OneROM emulating a 2732.

Unfortunately I hit a few issues straight away:

• The web application didn’t support the Fire (RP2350) version, only the Ice (STM32) version. Well, it didn’t when I started. After an issue or two and me asking in the discussion area, by the time I was having a second go – it did! More on that in a moment.
• The Studio application wouldn’t run on Windows for me. It does however run in my Linux Ubuntu VM fine. Studio does not allow me to create a custom ROM firmware however – I need to build it first.
• Building a custom ROM requires a fair bit of stuff to be installed, including rust, so that is parked for the moment.

What I did find, was that my boards started up in the RP2350 BOOT mode, so I got a drive appear ready to accept a UF2 file. But OneROM does not provide UF2 files.

It is apparently possible to install one of the firmware files (the onerom-fire-24-c*.bin files from the Releases area) using picoflash over USB, which I was able to do. But there is no default firmware for a 2732 and no means to get my Atari ROM built.

As I say though, asking on the discussion forums, by the time I got back to seeing if I had any reply, piers.rocks had updated the web tool to support building a custom ROM, which I subsequently went on to do.

Unfortunately I seem to have an issue now with my 4K ROM appearing as a repeating 2K ROM with only the first half present. After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing on the forums, it turns out this was a bug in the 2732 support. Once again, it was diagnosed and fixed withing 24 hours of having the conversation. There is a detailed analysis of the issue and solution in the bug report here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/one-rom/issues/103

Build from Scratch

As part of attempting to get a firmware image containing my ROM, I went through the installation instructions to get a dev environment up and running. I was able to make some notes and sent them off, and again they were all included into some updated documentation within 24 hours.

The main information required is here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/one-rom/blob/main/INSTALL.md

And it now includes full instructions on how to get everything built too.

For my ROM, I copied the ROM file into my build area and then had to create a configuration file for the build:

one-rom/config/a2600.mk

ROM_CONFIGS = \
file=spaceinv.bin,type=2732

Then use the make command detailing my board, revision, configuration to use and location of the toolchain:

~/src/one-rom$ MCU=rp2350 HW_REV=fire-24-c CONFIG=config/a2600.mk TOOLCHAIN=/usr/bin/ make

This leaves me with a firmware file in sdrr/build that I can now use with the Studio tool to load onto the OneROM.

At this point I can check it in an EPROM programmer if required (as per instructions in this video though, there are some caveats – do not use “Detect pins” or “Check ID” or equivalent operations – these often involve using higher voltages on the pins of real devices which will damage OneROM) and I can see the whole ROM is now intact.

At this point I can now put it into the custom cart as described in Part 3 – noting the small white arrow indicating pin 1 (opposite end to the USB socket).

And lo and behold – it works 🙂

My version of Fire has two “bank select” jumpers so I think it would be possible to allow selection between at least two different ROMs. Another option is to use the 28-pin version in place of the 27C512 used in the multi-cart described in Part 3.

Getting this going has been a really positive experience:

• The instructions for manufacturing are excellent, allowing me to get my first ordered PCB assembly done.
• The tools provided are first class and even though still under development are already very user friendly once you get to know what needs to be done.
• The documentation is comprehensive, and again still be optimised.
• The development videos are really useful and a great insight into what is required for something of this complexity.

Now I just have to work out what it is about Studio that my Windows installation doesn’t like, but as the web tool is constantly developed, the need for Studio is decreasing anyway and when I need the more complete tool, I’m probably already in my Linux VM anyway.

A massive thank you to piers.rocks for creating this, documenting it so well, releasing it as open source, and responding so quickly and positively to my questions. If this fits a use you have, I can recommend giving it a go.

Kevin

#atari2600 #OneROM #rp2350