May 2015
•Serving the Twin Cities Atari Community for Over Three Decades•
May2015 Newsletter
The President's Corner
And now a word from a special fan of SPACE…
ByMichael Current
Another month has gone by already!
You can contact me by e-mail at my address: artisan213574@gmail.com. I will gladly respond in kind to your requests. I am even open to requests as to what can be added to the Newsletter to make it more aesthetically pleasing. So, fellow Atarians, I am all ears to your input.
This past month saw the release of Delta Space Arena from our favorite Captain Irata says: Atari dealer, Video 61. Weren't we lucky in SPACE to have had a chance for a hands-on preview before the "President Current has release of this great-looking and issued an Executive Order playing game?? You never know what you might miss if you miss one If you have any critiques on the use that Atari to the max! of our meetings! Are you going to Newsletter, please feel free to let me Or, you can drop and give buy the cartridge yourself? I hope to!! know about that, too. me fifty! Hoo-rah!" Thanks, keep using that Atari, and I will see you at the next SPACE come to your next SPACE meeting, meeting. Be cool, folks! (:D Friday, May 8, 2015. Steve Peck, A Special Request… SPACE Secretary and Acting Newsletter Editor
Table of Contents: P.S. I am thinking of starting a cartoon page. I am debating if that will be too much work or not. I will see what I have in store for that. Thanks again.
I am eager to see your writing talent. I will gladly maintain the Newsletter. It is my temporary job, of course, until Nolan does something with the Newsletter again. However, if you want to contribute, by all means, please, feel free to do so and I will be happy to publish it in a future Newsletter. I am at your disposal.
President's Corner: A Special Request: Treasurer's Report: Secretary's Report: 8-bit DOM Report: Latest Atari News:
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Treasurer's Report ByGregory Leitner With only three members present at the April SPACE meeting we still had a great time, and it turned to be a good meeting at least for me anyway. We talked about adding a member to our bank account for protection in case something happened to me and i was unable to access our funds at TCF. This works out perfect for SPACE. The only expense is a $19.95 opening charge for new checks which is the same amount we would have had for the re-ordering of checks on our old account More to talk about at the May SPACE meeting.
expenses again since Nolan hasn't been at a SPACE meeting since December 2014. We had a balance of $223.49 to begin the month of April, and with the $12.00 added we now have $235.49.
Thanks to a very nice associate at TCF Bank, we got our bank fees back and got us set up with a new business account. Now, we have to figure out who we want added to the account, and that person would have to be with me to be added to the account. We could tyake care of it at one of our meetings as I am sure there must be a TCF location It was fun talking about games on close by the Falcon Heights center. the iPad and iPhone. If you have Something to talk about next ever played one of these it is very month. See you in May. aggravating when a pop-up overshadows your game in $$$ progress to let you know there is another game you may be interested in downloading when, in fact, you only want to play the game you just waited to load. Isn't it great to play an Atari game and BySteven not be interrupted just because you Peck finished a new level? I'll tell you one thing: if you ever have a grandchild use your iPad or phone make sure you watch very carefully H E L L O W O RL D ! : D what they do you may find charges on your credit card that you will I was not around for the meeting in not be able to identify. The best April. But, with kudos to Greg for thing to do is to put a lock on so taking notes for me, here is my that you have to answer a question Secretary's Report. So, here we go! and okay a charge to your account. This brings up another problem as The meeting commenced at 7:30 the question you need to answer PM. I am glad for the DOM sales may only ask you to enter the three from April. I think that the ST numbers on the screen and answer DOMs are the pinnacle for our okay afterwards My three-and-asuccess as a club at the moment. half year-old grandson can do that Every little bit helps. on his own and okay the charge. There was talk of new games from We had a great DOM for April, and V61, but it is still in the with only three members we still development phase, of course. had sales of $12.00 with no There are bugs to work out. The
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new batch of 1010 Evolved drives is in progress. Lance will have more info soon. There is a new SPACE bank account. Greg will say more about it in May as he suggested we have two people on the account. Also, the remains of Atari, Inc. is going digital. Well, I do not know what to say about that. It was such a great American company, until… Anyway, the dungeon game President Current showed us is going to cartridge format! I like this idea, as it will be more durable than a disk. Lance has said that there is a new memory upgrade coming from Europe (from Lotharek in Poland, I assume). More info will come on this soon. The membership count is at nine members with two needing to renew. Well, that concludes the Secretary's Report. I will now close with my favorite salutation from Stan Lee:
E X C E L S I O R!
Atari 8-bit DOM Report BySteven Peck
My fellow Atarians! Here is the next installment of the Atari 8-bit DOM Report. I know that I am still backlogged with the older Newsletters and I am working on them as we speak. So, sorry for the inconvenience. The previous DOM Reports will be doubled up in the older Newsletters .
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I am going to concentrate on the So, this concludes the 8-bit DOM or call me at (651) 462-2500 April 2015 DOM in this May issue. Review for this month. Have fun awith any questions. gaming! See you next month. So, here we go with my Reports: Thanks, L a t e s t A t a ri N e w s May 2015 DOM, Side A: For May 2015 Lance RANSACK!: Beautifully executed Tuesday, April 7, 2015 http://atariage.com/forums/topic game! You hop around the screen /237580-new-a8-game-releasedshooting targets in a side-scrolling From: video61atarisales@gmail.com curse-of-the-lost-miner/ environment. Mind your speed and ............................................ be careful because you only have Newsgroups: limited energy Love it! comp.sys.atari.8bit Curse of the Lost Miner is a simple platformer with features of a logic Graphics: 7 "We have a new game for Atari 8game for Atari 800XL and Animation: 9 bit computers at Video 61! 'DELTA compatible computers. Gameplay 10 SPACE ARENA' was programmed Sound: 9 by Peter J. Meyer, who worked on Your goal is to guide the cursed Tempest Xtreme and Venture for miner through dangerous caves and Total score: 35 out of 40 the Atari 8-bit computer: collect all diamonds in each cave. RGB: This game shows a robot-that has to avoid enemy robots to get out of each level within a time limit maneuvers. It looks impressive and plays well. But, I really could not make it through the game. Liked it anyway. Graphics: 8 out of 10 Animation: 8 out of 10 Gameplay: 10 out of 10 Sound: 9 out of 10 Total score: 35 out of 40 Nemezyro: This is a puzzle game with a PAL problem. I could not really understand it. I need instructions on how to play the game. Sound: 10 Graphics: 7 Animation: 1 Gameplay:: 5 Total score: 23 out of 40 Side B:
"When we started working on the game we wanted something that would be really reflective of the early Atari 8-bit era on 16K cartridges. We wanted to make a game that really reflected that '1981 Atari' look and feel of a great game on a very limited amount of memory. I used to love to play 'Asteroids'! I wanted something that felt a lot like 'Asteroids' and brought you back to that era, especiallywith the sound effects. So, that's what we came up with: a very good looking game, lots of sound effects and lots of playability. One of the testers played it up past level 70! It's always one of those great games that keeps you coming back." Game description: nearly 300 years into the future, you are selected to undergo space fighter training against robot ships. There will be many types of ships to destroy. You can obtain some power-ups for the ship, but avoid the "K" power-up. It will destroy your ship!
The game is a sequel to "Caverns of the lost miner" released in 2007. Improvements 13 New caves (more difficult) More responsive controls Updated sounds and music 4 "Looks and Feels" of the caves Training cave Both source code (C and ASM) and game data are freely available. The game is NTSC-aware, the game speed is the same on both PAL/NTSC systems. Download from home page: http://www.baktra.wz.cz/ software/culomin.html
The next SPACE meeting is on Friday, May 8, 2015. We hope to see you there!
Dimo's Quest in ABBUC Land: In More on "Delta Space Arena": this game, since I did not have the http://members.tcq.net/video61/d level disk, I could not play it. Nice sa.html splash screen, though. Great music. The game is $39.95 and includes the Sound: 10 cartridge in a clamshell packaging. Graphics: 10 Please visit my website Total score: Incomplete http://www.atarisales.com/, Issue 1
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