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Firstly, I wish to thank you both and all the incredible Kickstarter backers they believed in me and the project, It was some journey with great aspirations of trying to fulfil what has been lacking in a video game book for the great Atari 8-bit computer that more or less went under-appreciated for the last couple of year while the c64 and ZxSpectrum got book galore! I needed to address that.

So it has be an amazing experience and learnt so much in the way these things are done and managed and have a remaining surplus stock that is available for those that missed the kick starter and wanted a piece of the Atari: Visual History experience from Greyfox Books,  so if anyone reading this is curious please visit the website @ www.greyfoxbooks.com

And for those of enjoying the book, it would help the book tremendously if you, when you have completed the book lent us your thoughts of the book in the review section of the site. I would highly grateful. Again I can't say thank you enough. It's still sinking in..I'm actually an author and publisher now..😲

Well, while it's falling apart over there, it seems to be coming together over here lol.
https://medium.com/@atarivcs/atari-vcs-q-a-with-coo-michael-arzt-645c1a6d3e0

Is this a 16-bit remake of the original game from Datasoft of 1985? Will it have those puzzle that we're in the original?

Love the illustration of the frog..a real lord snooty vibe from Gluf..love that

I really the astentics behind this title. Very polished and looks to be a awesome release, live the colour of the cassette, totally classic 80's era

awesome stuff..cheers

I don't play Megadrive Games, but had to try this out and it was like "WOW" I couldn't believe this was Homebrew dev title..it's 100% retail quality !..Smashed IT!

Hello Jojo,

Big fan of your work for many years of what you can draw from the awesome Amiga is fantastic. Many thanks for dropping by and saying hello.

Have a good one.

Darren.

Some amazing titles there TrekMD, would love to be able to come over and set up a new display and play area with our BitmapSoft titles as we command more games. As of the moment writing this, there seems to be a massive influx of developers reaching out to us all wanting the BitmapSift label on their games. So it would be great to able to showcase these other than Atari Age robbing the lime light lol..of course their setup is fantastic also.

Looks quite interesting this..

That's good to see...but...this is not good...not good at all? Again Atari have fallen on one bad decisions one after the next here..

On side they are taking flight and on the other they are bombing like a lead balloon 😖

Read on.. https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/10/08/atari_architect_quits/#click=https://t.co/BoVVchqyMw

Wow, looks good zapiy. Can you even buy cassettes these days?
Pete. 😀

Yeah, it's actually a very big scene at the moment, people wanting to expand their vintage with "Old-New" games to enjoy and archive.

Okay..nicely done by Atari..but back catalogue isn't exactly lighting the world on fire here, that can be played on a ton of other devices before this so this is a snooze update. It great that they've announced a partnership with them but what is there coming that sets the machine apart? Where are the exclusive? Even BitmapSoft have those? 😆

Nothing about release, nothing about specs very late in the game now, nothing about upcoming games, nothing about the outlined plans going forward for the future? I get it that they are committed to this been a possible long term entity but I think they and the name can be used to sit tight and operate off the strength of the brand f alone, not really feeling obligated to it's users base with the simple questions I've posted above. And I firmly believe the pricing is far fetched too. I would have purchased one of these if it had been the 120-150 mark, but I guess that should be a reality when people no longer want them anymore and I'll end up getting it for that price longterm. 🥳

The music in this game is simply incredible, coupled with fantastic graphics and gameplay of the old days and well worth checking out. Also to mention that the BitmapSoft release has exclusive enchantments not found in the original release. So a sort of special edition of the game.

Here is a video of what I'm talking about, and this is the original version

The above of what Trek has posted is collateral damage control with liaising the premise for the money investment which diverts from for what the actually specifications of the machine and it UI it will use, if they truly had any real progress of the hardware they would have retroactively promoted across all social media and news portals, the above is simply a diversion while they conduct additional fire control while they progress with development. I know they are working on real hardware it's just it could be a case of Atari thinking that this is still the nineties where R&D and cost of chips etc. are at the same price ranges 😆

When it arrives, I'm sure it's going to be lambasted for not having this or that..and is the way of he general public these days.