Atari Flashback Portable Hack
Most people would recognize E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 by its reputation as one of the worst video games of all time. We’ll have more to say about that in a moment, but E.T. was nevertheless chosen as the inspiration behind [Martin Fitzpatrick]’s re-imagining of the game in ten lines of BASIC code for a contest that encourages and celebrates games written in ten lines of BASIC, or less.
Home of the AtGames Legends Arcade Family. Buy all of the popular AtGames Legends Arcade products. This portable Atari is the result of Mario’s toils. The core system is an Atari Flashback 2, an embedded system released in 2005 with several built-in games. The stock titles weren’t enough.
Ten lines of BASIC is a big limitation, even when getting clever by stacking multiple statements into a single line, so [Martin]’s game has a much narrower scope than the original Atari 2600 version. Still, the core elements are present: E.T. must find and gather all the parts of the phone in order to contact his ship, after which he must meet the ship in time to escape. All the while, FBI agents attempt to interfere. The game was written in SAM BASIC, used by the SAM Coupé, a British Z80-based home computer from the late 80s with an emulator available for download.
Today we Add games and update the Atari Atgames Flashback 9 Gold to support SD card and play all Atari games, even Fan Made!LAST GAME HUNTER LINKS:EMAIL: th. Atari Flashback Portable Hack The Atari Flashback brand is a series of dedicatedhome video game consoles designed, produced, published and marketed by Atari, Inc. From 2004 to 2011. Since 2011, the consoles have been designed, produced, published and marketed by AtGames under license from Atari. Connecting the Atari Flashback Portable to the component input jacks on an HDTV is also very simple. You need a cord with an 1/8' plug at one end with two RCA plugs at the other. Plug the white RCA plug into the white audio input jack on the TV, and plug the red RCA plug into the green video input jack on the TV.
Now, for lovers of “um, actually” topics, do we have a treat for you! Let’s take this opportunity to review a few things about E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. That it was a commercial flop is no doubt, but the game itself is often badly misunderstood. Way back in 2013 we covered an extraordinary effort to patch improvements into the binary for the 2600 game, and in the process there’s a compelling case made that the game was in many ways far ahead of its time, and actually quite significant in terms of game design. You can jump right in on an analysis of the hate the game receives, and while reading that it’s helpful to keep in mind that In 1982, many of its peers were games like Space Invaders, with self-evident gameplay that simply looped endlessly.
Everything gets smaller as technology improves. [Rossum] reduced the space needed for an Atari 810 disk drive by building this tiny replacement. Of course it doesn’t use floppy disks, but takes a microSD card instead. And it doesn’t stand in the place of one floppy drive, but can emulate up to eight different drives. The best part is that [Rossum] went to the trouble of designing an enclosure and having it fabricated via 3D printing in order to look just like a doll house version of the original hardware. It uses an LPC1114 ARM Cortex-M0 microprocessor to translate data transmissions to and from the Atari hardware, storing it on the 8 GB card.
Atari Flashback
As usual, you’ll soon find the schematic, board artwork, and code up on his git repository soon.