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Why is this happening? First - the Atari Gamer branding is changing to K-Retro Gaming to allow us to expand to providing games, replacement parts, and mod services to other game consoles. And second - The content management system running Atari Gamer is out of date and Google AppEngine (where the website runs) will no longer allow it to run after the 30th January 2024, so in order to preserve all content we switched to a new and modern content management system and chose a website domain that better suits the subject matter. Since we are operating this website in our spare time, on top of full time family and job committments, some features had to be dropped.
The new Lynx GD (GameDrive) is in stock at various online outlets in a limited quantity. You can get it from AtariAge Store or DragonBox Shop. This version is much faster than the Lynx SD it replaces so it's very much worth a purchase!
Read our review of the current SD carts - RetroHQ Lynx GameDrive and BennVenn's ElCheapoSD Cartridge Review for Atari Lynx
Odynexus: Journey to Ithaca (SV2k19 Version) has been released last year as a demo version and since then work has continue on this excellent game. There's great news from the development team about the game being almost complete for a physical release...
Greetings Space Warriors!
Development is progressing at a good pace, and the game is now 80% done. We have entered discussions to get the game published, so expect a quality physical release!
To celebrate that, here is a teaser of the third level where you will fight Hades almighty and his maleficent legions!
Here's a bit of great news straight from BennVenn...
'Drop In' Lynx LCD kit - V5 in production!
Whats new?
A few changes to the solder pads, they're now in line with the solder pads on the Lynx motherboard making it easier to find the right connection.The option for SOLDERLESS install! Using the optional ribbon, there is no soldering required to install this LCD kit (LynxII only). Just remove the old LCD, Install the new LCD, insert the ribbon and you're done!. Brightness will be fixed at 100% without the brightness pad soldered and you'll loose the scanline option. Soldering a single wire will give access to brightness/scanline control.
Crowbar protection - Lynx power supply circuits fail taking out the entire lynx and causing irreparable damage. While not 100% guaranteed to save your lynx, we've added protection circuitry to effectively short out your 5v rail and shut down your system if it climbs to a dangerous level. There is no other protection built into your lynx to help combat a power supply failure so we're hoping this small addition can possibly save your motherboard should the worst happen.
Pre-Orders will go live once we have shipping confirmation from our factory.
If you've been waiting to get a hold of the BennVenn's ElCheapo SD, the good news is they are back in stock. The bad news is that the injection moulded shell still only works with the Lynx Model 2.
You can buy the cart with or without an SD cart, but for the extra $3, a 2Gb cart that is guaranteed to work with the cartridge is worth it.
The Lynx 2020 Programming Competition has come to a close and there are 6 new games for you all to try out! You can download them all for free and either play them in an emulator or use an SD flash cart. Don't forget to submit your ratings for each of the entries!
If you don't have an emulator installed, you can use the Online Lynx Emulator.
BennVenn's ElCheapo SD was promised to come with an injection molded cartridge shell, there were some difficulties in realising this but BV is working to sort it out and the Lynx 2 version of the shells is working out and looking good. A Lynx 1 and Lynx 2 compatible version will be in the works shortly.
There is quite a bit of flooding here right now, we've been cut off from town so we'll resume shipping once the roads are open.Edit: preheating seemed to do the trick! These are a little thick for the lynx1 but a perfect fit for the lynx2. If you're using your cart in a lynx2, please email and we'll get your order shipped as soon as the weather eases up! Lynx1 compatible molds will be cut tomorrow if/when we have enough solar to run the CNC mill.
We've covered 8bit-Unity previously, well now this project has released an update on its hardware component - the 8bit-Hub. What is it? Well it's an device that lets you add functionality to supported consoles (like the Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, etc) to enable them to use WiFi, additional joysticks, etc. Watch the video below for a great run down by the creator..
Atari Gamer will be working together with 8bit-Unity to test both the device and the SDK and we'll have updates as they come up!
Unnamed, an upcoming Atari Lynx graphical adventure game has finished being coded. Marcin, the developer is now negotiating the best way to release the game on physical cart. Hopefully these negotiations don't take too long and we'll see this game released in the next few months. We've already play tested it and can say it's great! Atari Gamer has also been responsible for doing the English language storyline corrections, so we're especially excited for this game to get a physical release!
Note: The screenshot shows an older version of the game before text corrections have been applied.
You've probably read our previous article - RetroHQ Lynx GameDrive and BennVenn's ElCheapoSD Cartridge Review for Atari Lynx where we've talked about the BennVenn's ElCheapo SD cartridge for Atari Lynx and the fact that it will have an injection moulded shell. Well, after much hard work, BennVenn still had some issues with the injection moulding machine so decided to go a different route for now...
A couple more last minute changes. Our injection molding machine needs upgrades to reliably press the plastic into the thinner cavities of the molds. This could take a little while with slow shipping so we just went out and invested in a 3d resin printer.
The 3D printed resin shells look good in photos but having used one of these printers in the past we know that there are many challenges to overcome with them too. Once a sample shell arrives, we'll have more to say! Though the new design looks quite slick and the addition of the 3D "BennVenn" logo is really cool.
The home brew game scene for Atari Lynx is producing some very impressive games as of late and recently there was one amazing game demo release and a very interesting looking upcoming game announcement. These are for Odynexus: Journey to Ithaca (Demo) and Dead Mall respectively.
Both games will have arcade style action, with Odynexus going for a classic space shooter feel and Dead Mall bringing back the 90s dithered style graphics to the Lynx in a mall shooting style game.
Odynexus has a playable 2-level demo released on itch.io so be sure to check it out. A physical cart release should be available later on in 2020.
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