Lord-Chaos Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 We had several magazines in the 80s which had ATARI 8 Bit listings. Magazines like "Computronic" - which had only listings for several 8 Bit systems (ATARI , C64,Apple II,VC20,C16,Spectrum,Amstrad,TI 99/4A). They had a great Boulder Dash clone for ATARI , a game similar to H.E.R.O. (called Into Deep) and many more games.Although the games in the first issues were BASIC with maybe some Assembler , the games became more and more professional , in the last issues (1987) most games were written in Assembler and some better than "full price" games. They also had a "Smurf" Clone , a good Jump n Run called "Butterflies" , some space - action - games and some platform games. Another magazine was the "ATARI Magazine" , they had some good games and programs like "S.A.M." + utilities (S.A.M. is some sort of GUI , similar to ST Desktop). Good games were for example "Mad Marble Maze" (Marble Madness clone) or Ataroid (Arkanoid Clone). There also was the "Computer Kontakt" , which had listings for ATARI,C64,Spectrum and TI 99/4A. And the "Happy Computer" , they published the "Turbo BASIC" and had some games for the ATARI sometimes , but this magazine was more "pro-Commodore".But they made 2 special ATARI magazines (Happy Computer Sonderheft). There were some other magazines , but I don´t remember the names. But some of the programs and games in the magazines mentioned were quite good.Most of the programs should be found on emulator sites , but I still have most of them (I have typed in all the listings for ATARI only). BTW : although these magazines are German , most games and programs are in English . Thimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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