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The Atari History Timeline: 1971-1972
1971: Spring : Bushnell Creates Computer Space Nolan Bushnell created the first coin-op video game in his daughter’s bedroom in 1971…
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Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Using Actionscript to loop mp3 files. Plus free music for your games!
While I am in the process of completing the next lesson for my Advanced Flash Game Programming set of tutorials, I…
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Yet Another forum .NET: A Very Easy To Install And Use .NET Forum Application
We just added new Forums to 8bitrocket.com and it took 3 hours. That’s 3 hours from downloading the source, to skinning…
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Is Silverlight A Flash Killer? Hardly…Unless You Want Built-In 3D Support
Microsoft recently announced the beta of Silverlight, their obvious stab at taking market-share from the Adobe Flash Platform. As a die…
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Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Pixel level collision detection Part III (or let’s start a real game)
In Part 1 – Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Pixel level collision detection I discussed the very basics of doing…
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Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Pixel level collision detection Part II (or let’s add Bitmap animation caching)
In Part 1 – Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Pixel level collision detection I discussed the very basics of doing…
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Wii Opera Browser: A Storm In A Tea Cup?
I’ve been creating a few demos of Flash games designed for the Nintendo Wii Opera browser, and writing a few blog…
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Advanced Flash 8 Game Programming : Pixel level collision detection
I had to take a little break after finishing Retroblaster to unwind before I started making games again. I plan to…
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Final Wii Browser: Thoughts Redux
Last week I complained that the final version of the Wii Opera Browser did not support anything greater than Flash 7.0 …
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Final Wii Browser: Thoughts
The “final” Opera browser was released for the Wii yesterday, and after using it I have mixed feelings. They added and…
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PC Games are Dead!
That seems a little sensational doesn’t it? Well it is exactly how I feel right now. Even if you don’t take…
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Dear John (err, I mean Final Fantasy)
Dear Final Fantasy , Final Fantasy , do you believe in love? I hope you do, because I think then you…
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Ode To An Unreleased Game: Atari 5200 Asteroids
Ode To An Unreleased Game: Atari 5200 Asteroids Prototype lifestyleSitting on a shelf somewhereWaiting to have life They programmed me toLaunch…
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Retro Blaster High Score King, Contra, Super Mario, and Burnout 3, etc
A very cool dude named Jason has submitted the current high score (other than mine) for Retro Blaster. It stands at…
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Web Round-Up. Cool Retro Gaming stuff on the web.
If you are new to emulation, or just want to replace some old roms or emulators you have lost, Digital Press…
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Retro Blaster Update, Buffalo Love machine, Pixel War II
I have Have been busy fixing bugs and tweaking settings in retro Blaster. The most significant change I have made was…
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Home Computer Wars Alpha Mission
Description The first in a series of classic style shooter games in which you attempt to change history to make the…
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Retro Blaster High Scores
I have finally had a chance to play my own game all the way through and beat IRATA without cheating. My…
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Retro Blaster RC1 is complete!
Retro Blaster release candidate 1.0 is ready to play. All of my changes in the last few hours have had to do…
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Retro Blaster Beta 1.0 is up!
Thanks to everyone who helped me beta test .90. It has taken me a full year to get to this point.…
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Retro Blaster Beta Release!
Jeff sent me a beta release of Retro Blaster and I have posted it. You can play it right now and start blasting…
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Wiicade Releases Wiimote/Flash API!
The fine people at wiicade have created an API for Flash that will allow programmers to test for ANY button press on…
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Carded!
OK, so I was at Target on Friday looking for cheap games in the marked-down section (red price-tags!) and I found…
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The Asteroids Evolution to Retro Blaster
My first video game true love was Asteroids. I think the game must have satisfied some internal, mental need to keep…
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My First Breakout-Style Game
Creating Brickbasher (just added a few days ago, but programmed in 2004) was one of my first eye-opening experiences programming small…
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Balloon Pop!
So, if you have looked at our Work In Progress page you will notice that we have a lot of half-finished…
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Nintendo Wii Flash Development
So we are just starting to experiment with Flash games designed specifically for the nintendo Wii. I started this process on…
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Haiku: Breakout 2600
Breakout 2600 Hypnotic death notes Each block wails an 8-bit tone Blinks out then silence Burrow A Hole Through…
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A different approach to path finding.
I spent the last week working on jStar. After researching and working with a* for the last few days, I came…
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Path finding…sucks!
Ok, so I can count all of my previous experience programming path finding algorithms on two fingers. The first was in…
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Pixel Art, Game Design, Legos, and more
Even before we owned a computer or game console, Steve and I were designing games. All the way back in 1978…
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Garage Launched Games!
Garage Launched Games! If you haven’t read Steve’s first blog entry, you should take it in. It describes how we started…
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Retro Gone Berserk. Christmas is over time to start again.
Over that last few days working on the game has been a learning experience and an exercise in frustration. I finally…
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Retro Gone Berserk Day Two – When you can’t draw, you improvise
Today I had time to work on the very very basic Flash version of the demo game. I have decided to…
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Retro Gone Berserk Day One
I was able to squeeze in a little work on the new game between trips to various shopping centers for Christmas…
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I’m itching to start a new game.
With Retro Blaster nearly complete, I have decided to start on a new game. This one will be very simple. I…
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Retro Blaster is coming
Right now, Steve is putting the final touches on the technical design for our 8bitrocket.com site. It won’t be spectacular looking,…
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Zamboozal Poker Dice PC-DOS (1995)
The 1995 Version of Zamboozal Poker Dice Written in Borland C++ for DOS.
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Zamboozal Poker Dice – Atari ST (1990)
This is the Original Atari ST color version of Zamboozal Poker Dice written in STOS.
