There are a bunch of Flashback BASIC games to try out on the site, they will launch in Javatari the online Atari emulator when you click them or you can download the ROM's if you have a classic Atari 2600 console or the Atari Flashback Portable. NOTE: I REALLY had to search for some of these. The games I found were Adventure 2, Arcade Pong, Asteroids Deluxe, Lunar Lander, Space Duel, and Yars Return. I do believe these roms arent available for download anywhere on AtariAge. The new portable Atari console uses an emulated 6502 and TIA chip so modern game development kits and IDE's cannot be used to write games as they can for similar genre phone games and programming the legacy chipset in Assembly language is difficult because of the Atari 2600's unusual architecture of racing the beam to draw the display with no video RAM.įlashback BASIC compiles a 6502 binary from your BASIC listing when you click Play, and the modern Flashback BASIC IDE is already installed on most Windows computers because it repurposes the Windows PowerShell ISE.įlashback BASIC's 6502 runtime includes a soft blitter chip that surfaces a large virtual world and a camera object to BASIC, allowing for rapid creation of Nintendo style four way scrolling games with off-screen collision detection like KC Munchkin Monochrome Dreams. I just stumbled across these exclusive games found in the Atari Flashback 2 while I was surfing the web.

Atari 2600 Flashback BASIC allows you to write video games in BASIC for the classic 1977 Atari 2600 console or the new Atari Flashback portable.

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