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atarimuseum.com - 7/4/2009
The Atari 7800 Pro System - The Atari Museum
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7800 Games & Development New homebrew developed games were very sparse for the Atari 7800 until the last 2-3 years due in part to efforts by Kenfused and Pacmanplus of Atariage.com It now seems that more programmers are taking an interest in this wonderfully powerful videogaming system and ...
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
— hollywoodreporter.com — Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. In "Asteroids," ... (more) 'Asteroids' lands at Universal

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'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
— hollywoodreporter.com — Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. In "Asteroids," ... (more) 'Asteroids' lands at Universal

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CrunchGear:  Atari 7800 goes open source

Download Squad:  Enthusiast posts source code for 13 Atari classics...legally?

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Atari 7800 goes open source
CrunchGear — ... In a somewhat belated move calculated to “give potential developers insight into the Atari’s gaming platform so they may possibly build upon the 7800 series,” Atari has released the source code to several awesome but rarely-played Atari 7800 games, including Dig Dug, Centipede, Joust, and Pac-Man. I’m not sure the 7800 is really competing these days, Atari, but we appreciate your contribution nonetheless. ...

Enthusiast posts source code for 13 Atari classics...legally?
Download Squad — ... Rather, it's a result of the trashcan rescue efforts of an Atari enthusiast. As he points out beneath the download links, "these wouldn't exist if I hadn't of climbed into a filthy dumpster at 3am in the morning behind the old Atari building in Sunnyvale and salvaged them and restored them from their diskettes." ...

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