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My recently renewed passion for all-things Atari, as well as more general retro-computing, gaming, and development, has me itching to play, explore, discuss, and build such things. What better place than here to cover various Atari/retro-computing related projects, small and large, both hardware and software in a build-log/series and/or how/to format? And I’m sure other history/commentary will creep in as well ...

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Tools: Image2Fnt Converter (Atari 8-bit)

IMAGE2FNT - Converts Bit-Mapped Files to Atari 8-bit .FNT Files This tool was born out of a need, or at least desire, for a quick and easy way to create character sets/fonts for some Atari 8-bit projects I'm working on - most notably my Oregon Trail homage "The Woebegone Trail". As I talked about in this post, I tried a variety of such tools, some free, some commercial, some Atari 8-bit native, some for modern systems. None quite worked the way I wanted them too (even though most a

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May 25

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Tools: Fnt2Data Font Converter (Atari 8-bit)

FNT2DATA - Converts Atari 8-bit .FNT files to data blocks for various Assemblers As I started my thinking around how I would build "The Woebegone Trail" (my homebrew homage to "The Oregon Trail"), it quickly became apparent that I would be doing a lot of work with custom character sets (both as actual readable character sets, and as "tiles" for ANTIC MODE 4 displays). Creating those is one thing, which I'll come back to below, but using them is another matter entirely. And I wasn't

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May 15

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Tools: Gamestation Pro & THE400 Mini

It would be fair to say that it was the combination of acquiring the Atari Gamestation Pro and then THE400 Mini that re-ignited my Atari retro-focus. I have computer-based ways to do everything they do, but these dedicated units were very appealing for use on the big-screens and group-play without needing a dedicated computer in the living room. Credit where it is due; it was @jonreddick's videos on both units, on his GenXGrownUp channel, that got me interested initially. Things sn

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May 11