Felyx

Yes, according to the author of this game, it has been submitted at the very last moment which explains it will probably be available tomorrow but is not yet online.

The games are available for playing online and download here: https://atarigamer.com/pages/celebrating-atari-lynx-30th-birthday Enjoy this crazy avalanche of new games for our Lynxes ?

Any update for a playable AvP on Lynx??? It sounded very promissing and exciting but then no news for more than 4 years now

I confirm, not even 15 years after 2004 possibly 2105?

Ultravore is coming soon... since 25 years on the Songbird website...

Sadly Ultravore is coming soon... since 25 years on the Songbird site

I confirm. Surprisingly your .mov video are not loaded or displayed on Quick time on my Mac but in .mP4 I could see the both videos ?

Amazing and exciting!

Would be interested for a slim version. I am already listed.

The spreadsheet is on the card in the ATARI folder + the paper list joined with the card.

The roms of each are floating around so from my point of view there is no need to count those 2 in rare games for the Jaguar as almost anyway who want to have simply can: I have not tried to play those roms on a Skunk: I just had a look on them via Virtual Jaguar and decided they offered no interest at least for me and my children were already too old for that.

Can we only consider Speedster and Skycopter being video games? they were intended for young children, offering no challenge at all. Beta Phase games announced several years ago they wanted to distribute them but it never happened. Roms for both are floating on the net which is not the case for some home-brews that deserve to be ranked amongst the rarest game for the Jaguar such as Blackout, Gorf, Mad Bodies... Try to buy the first release of Superfly DX... The list is not stupid because the 10 games listed are rare and hard to find but I won't go for it to pretend it lists the 10 rarest Jaguar game ever... Moreover for some of them, finding the rom on the net is not very difficult and for other reproductions pop up regularly on the net so OK they are not original copy but for the guy who is looking for playing the games and not to collect them on a shelf, it means it is possible to play them...

A Gem Race in reduced size

Now Rafal provides the Agacart with a Micro SD cart already full of 175 LYX files (all Lynx cartridges released by ATARI + almost all the known existing homebrews) ready for use with a real Lynx. There are only few missing roms that were not there such as LynxOps or Robby and both are prototypes of unfinished games. Roms of some commercial games are not there as well as well such as the best version of Raiden (still sold by Telegames) and post ATARI games (Songbird games, Alpine Games, Zaku, HotDog...) To give a complete landscape, there is a third file format for the Lynx which is .O that can be sent to the real Lynx. As far as I understood, .O files are objects files i.e. files a real Lynx can't execute but Matthias Domain developed Lynxer, a DOS app that convert .O files into .LYX files. There are few Lynx roms floating around on the net in .O format such as Para Lemi! for example:

.LYX files = readable by a real Lynx .LNX = file for emulators such as Handy The difference between the both is that LNX = LYX + a header If you try to open a .LNX rom with an emulator, it works: As you can see, on Mac, the LNX files are recognized by Handy and this is visible because they receive an icon in form of Lynx cartridge. On the contrary, .LYX files are not recognized by Handy: their icon stays the general one for a document and if you try to open them with Handy, it fails: Concerning the Agacart, it reads only .LYX and not .LNX which sounds normal: a real Lynx don't need any header and this is why we need to convert .LNX files to .LYX to make them readable by a real Lynx. As described in my small tutorial, you need to to 2 things: - removing the header i.e. the 16 first octets of the .LNX file - adding 00000000 octets so the .LYX file will have a size of 256bk (i.e. 262ko) or 512 kb (i.e. 524 ko) Last thing to do: naming the .LYX file with a number from 1 to 199, this time because the Agacart has 2 buttons to select the file you want to run by its number, this is why in the tutorial I renamed manually my LynxOps.LYx into 177.LYX (because there were already 176 .LYX files on my SD card)

Some Goodies to thank once again Rafal for his cool card: a box "à la Atari Lynx" manner

OK but like said I took the first free hex editor I could find and it was enough to modify a .LNX rom into a .lyx one. Feel free to use the editor you want.

OK guys I am super proud of attaching here the LYX file for Lynx ops, the demo game of what could have been Operation Wolf on our Lynx. I just converted the LNX rom into a LYX file i.e. To do that it is easy and below are some screenshots to illustrate: A LNX rom = a LYX rom for which a header has been added. This header must be removed. I opened the LynxOps.LNX with the first free bit editor I found on the net (for info, it is Hex Fiend for Mac OS X ) The header are the 16 first octets that appear in blue: Select them and delete them: Now the file starts with FF81CA33 and that's cool. The second step consists of giving the file the right weight: After saving the file with .LYX extension, I can see it weight is only of 34Ko: The file goes up to line 34416: I opened a LYX rom that works on the Agacart and found the file must includes 00000000 up to line 262128: I added manually 00000000 to finish the line and I did a copy and paste for all the other 00000000 octets needed from the exiting LYX to the one for Lynx op, i.e. from line 34464 to line 262128: then I saved the file. Now its weight is 262 ko: I copied the file on my Agacart micro SD card: as the last rom on it was 176.LYX, I renamed LynxOps.lYX into 177.LYX Now when turning on my Lynx with the Agacart, I simply chose the game 177 and... Here we are: Now I feel like Dora the Explorer: yeah we did it we did it 177.lyx

The Agacard comes with a micro SD card of 2 Go and this card is populated with 175 roms that we can all find on the net, let say the public domain. Basically the Agacart is a easy way to run on a realLynx what you can find on the net and run under Handy emulator. As far as I understood, the card can be filled in up to 199 .lynx files but of course, you can use any micro SD card you want. Like Fadest said, the roms on the card are the ones anyone can download from the net but nothing more. Don't expect to find roms you can't easily download by yourself. For example, the rom for Raiden is the version floating on the net but not the best version sold by Telegames.

The Agacart is full of roms, including a lot of homebrews, not all of them but let say about 95% of them which is amazing and very helpful because you don't need to remove the header on each .LNX file to get the required .LYX file.

Thank you for your answers. I fond some bit editors for Mac: let see what is the easiest way to edit roms that will remind me when I was typing kilometers of hexadecimal code in my Apple II to get some pixels moving at the screen

Received mine today and I confirm it is a fantastic item for the Lynx! It is good to see many home-brews running on my real Lynx instead of Handy emulator! At the moment, I am exploring its capabilities. As so far I could see only the Agacart running inside the Lynx II, I plugged mine inside a Lynx I and it works perfectly: I selected the game before to close the Lynx door and as the size of the Agacart is the same as a curved lip Lynx cartridge, the door closes without any problem. and voila: It works fine, it is easy to use and it is nicely made: the cartridge itself but also the box: great job! I am wondering if it is possible to display anything else than "Insert game" when turning the Lynx on? I would prefer to see something like this to welcome you when turning on the Lynx with the Agacart inserted in: (drawing adapted from Matthias Domin's Robby game demo) A tool that runs under Mac OS to convert any .LNX into LYX would be great as well (something if possible as easy to use than Jiffi for the Atari Jaguar) I tried to add the demo of Robby on the micro SD card, renaming the file in 176.lyx (of course the file was in LYX format) but it doesn't work (I got the E message that means the file is not recognized)... Will investigate tomorrow to try to understand what's wrong (possibly not the "256ko" format required????)

I would like one too: can you please add me on the list please?

Well done Bob: very good idea and it really looks promising. I noticed your Atlantis is the one from Albator 84 and not the first version of Albator 1978 (yes I call Captain Harlock Albator as like you I am French) I loved the Albator movie made on Apple II by Antoine Vignau in low res: That would really be great if you can complete your game so we can play the space pirate on our Lynx

I was away from Atari for a long period but now I am here it seems Beta Phase Games is down