Tag: Atari
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Cartridges, CDs, and Crashes: How We Debugged Without the Internet
Back in the 80’s and early ‘90s, game development was a special kind of chaos—an era where your best debugging tool was often a legal pad, a lot of coffee, and the sheer force of will. There was no Stack Overflow to bail you out, no Google search to reveal the solution to a compiler…
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From Floppy Disk Frenzy to Seamless Refresh: My Windows 11 Awakening
Let’s be honest, we’ve all been there. That creeping dread when your PC starts acting up. Maybe it’s a sluggish response, a rogue program refusing to die, or, in my case, a bizarre network gremlin that seemed to selectively hate my FTP server. After endless ping tests and driver updates, I knew what had to…
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Over 500 pages of Jag History!
Clocking in slightly shorter than a Harry Potter Book, Boris Kretzinger’s Clipped Claws: The Atari Jaguar Story gives history of the Atari Jaguar. Featuring quotes from Faran and Purple! Check it out here, it’s free: https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/clipped-claws-the-atari-jaguar-story
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A conservation with Daniel Albu and JPH
James ‘Purple’ Hampton recently had an in-depth conversation with Daniel Albu for his interview series Tech Talk. Daniel digs deep into Retro Gaming history and asks a bunch of fresh questions that explore James’s experience of making videogames in the 90’s at Lucasfilm Games, Atari and more. The episode premiere will be this Sunday, November…