FROGS - C64 4 player homebrew classic gets an Atari ST demo tease

In 2017 we announced the release of the C64 4 player game ' Frogs ' which was developed by Christian Gleinser of Dr. Wuro Industries as a great game in which you play as a little frog that has to jump across from rock to lily pad, while trying not to fall in as the lily pads vanish or not being knocked off by your opponent. Well if you loved the game and have an Atari STe, you'll be pleased to know we have been contacted by ANARCHO Ride Laboratories that their upcoming Atari STe port of the game has been teased with a brand new demo for you to try!

Defender of the Crown - All time classic game by Cinemaware is coming to the Atari Jaguar (Pre-order!)

One game I remember so fondly is Cinemaware's fantastic medieval game ' Defender of the Crown ' from 1986. It was released for multiple systems including the Amiga, DOS, NES, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, C64, Macintosh and the Apple IIGS in 1988 with a CD-i version much later on. A grand game for its time and loved by all, is going to make an appearance on another retro system, as we've just learnt Defender of the Crown will be coming to the Atari Jaguar!

FROGS - C64 4 player homebrew classic is coming to the Atari STe!

In 2017 we announced the release of the C64 4 player game ' Frogs ' which was developed by Christian Gleinser of Dr. Wuro Industries as a great game in which you play as a little frog that has to jump across from rock to lily pad, while trying not to fall in as the lily pads vanish or not being knocked off by your opponent. Well if you loved the game and have an Atari STe, you'll be pleased to know it's coming to the Atari St through ANARCHO Ride Laboratories.

DAAD Adventure Writer - Text based adventure game creator, fully recovered after 30 years!

A great piece of news has just hit our inbox, as we've recently been contacted by Stefan Vogt, the same creator behind the recently updated brilliant science fiction game Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. That he has recently announced the DAAD Adventure Writer has been fully recovered, extended and released after being lost for 30 years. This incredible piece of software allows you to create text based adventure games, for systems such as the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, IBM PC (DOS)!

Micro Gotek - Move over chunky Gotek Floppy Emulator it's time to go Micro

At the beginning of this year we did a big feature packed review of the Gotek Floppy Emulator; a hardware device that allowed you to use USB memory sticks to load floppy files, on not just an Amiga, but an Atari, Amstrad and many others! Now it seems the original Gotek might be about to go the way of the DODO bird, as today we've come across the Micro Gotek, a Gotek Floppy Emulator that's so small it's only 47x46 mm!

Hibernated 1 - This Place is Death - Text based adventure for multiple retro systems inc Amiga/Atari ST

Text Adventures were many of our first forays into video gaming. Similar to the Adventure stories we would get as books each adventure was usually a unique, and fulfilling story combined with puzzles, traps, loot, and enemies. The latest release by Stefan Vogt is one such classic text based adventure game and although it is a sci-fi adventure known as Hibernated 1: This Place is Death, it will still feel right at home for anyone who likes entering text based commands such as EXAMINE BODY, CHECK CORPSE, INSPECT DEAD!

Starquake - Amiga port gets the first packaging mock up

In 2016 we were the first to announce another of Chris Wilkins Kickstarters regarding The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels, which as always was a resounding success hitting a very respectable £60,890 goal. However this article isn't so much about the book, but one of the perks as at the time it was the first proper hints that the Atari ST version of Starquake was going to be ported over to the Amiga.

Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH - Ball bouncing classic is coming to the Atari Jaguar

If you remember Arkanoid; an arcade game first developed by Taito in 1986 or Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh released in 1987 , with the bat like device scrolling from side to side at the bottom of the screen, bouncing an orb back and forth and smashing blocks for a high score. Then you might be interested to know CyranoJ has released a new video showing an updated Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH from the Atari ST working on the Atari Jaguar

Super Cars - A fantastic retro top down racer you've got to play!

"Super Cars" was developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Graphics in the early 90's for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, NES and even the ZX Spectrum. The core of the gameplay was to race around tough tracks, earning money, then purchasing better weapons and power-ups to beat the competition in one of the best top down Amiga racing games as the prequel to the even better Super Cars II. Thankfully memories live on with this game as GamesNostalgia has made available a portable Amiga to MAC/PC edition of this game for all to enjoy.

Pole Position - Arcade conversion to the Atari ST is looking pretty damn sweet

During the late 80's Namco released a brilliant arcade racing game called Pole Position, which was designed by Tōru Iwatani, designer of Pac-Man, ending up as one of the most popular arcade racing games of 1982-3. A game which also appeared on multiple systems including the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64/128, Commodore VIC-20, Intellivision, Vectrex, MS-DOS, TI-99/4A and Sinclair ZX Spectrum is about to be shown off as a very high grade conversion and on the Atari ST!

Daimakaimura - Ghouls 'N Ghosts Arcade port on the Atari STE? It's possible!

In 1988 Capcom released one of the finest Arcade games ever to grace the gaming scene, and that game was the incredible and most frustrating platformers Ghouls 'n Ghosts, which appeared on pretty much every system you could think of...Even the Atari ST. In fact today's mention is in regards to the Atari STE, as currently Anima is working on a more faithful Atari STE port of that classic game, which is being shown off in this very early work in progress glitchy video.

The Atari ST and the Creative People Vol 1 - An awesome Atari ST book is now available

Way back in 2016 we mentioned a great Kickstarter that gave the Atari ST priority over other systems we have spoken about countless times before, such as the C64, Spectrum and even the Amiga. This Kickstarter was a crowd funding campaign for 'The Atari ST and the Creative People: Anthology'; A Marco A. Breddin book that according to the creator is a captivating Demoscene story of a European swarm intelligence, which fought against a truly limited 16-bit machine to create an exceptional style of digital art. Well you'll be pleased to know that Vol 1 is now available to buy and will be shipped within 5 - 10 days!

Deuteros - One of the best Amiga/Atari ST Space Strategy games, you've got to play!

It's time to share one of the greatest Space Strategy games ever created on the Amiga and the ST which has been updated via TheCompany.PL as an easily PC launchable file and inclusive graphical filters (F12). The game is none other than DEUTEROS, which was designed by Ian Bird and released in 1991 and is set some 800 years after Millennium, in a time when mankind has won the struggle to make the Earth habitable again but lost its spacefaring capabilities, which it is seeking to regain.

TFV#46 - Atari ST vs Amiga 500.... Duelling Banjos!!! - This is awesome beyond words!

It doesn't matter which retrogaming group you join, at some point someone will cause a flame war between the two rivals the Amiga and Atari ST. When I grew up I didn't care what system was being played I enjoyed them both, which can't be said for some peoples viewpoints. However we are about to show you a video, where two classic computers team up in almost perfect harmony... Welcome to TFV#46 - Atari ST vs Amiga 500.... Duelling Banjos!!!

Dragon's Breath - The best Dragon game ever? Amiga playable on PC and MAC!

When I was but a we'lad I played in my opinion one of the best ever games ever to grace a computer; a game whereby you could not only control Dragons, but you could breed them AND use Alchemy to either improve or if failure, make them sick before the battle ahead. It just had to be the ultimate Dragon game, Dragon's Breath AKA Dragon Lord by Palace Software, LTD and Spotlight Software in 1990. Which has also been unofficially made available via GamesNostalgia as a freely launchable exe file for PC and Mac.

Prince Of Persia - Hit classic is audio and performance enhanced on the Atari STe

From 1989 onwards Brøderbund released the hit classic action platformer game 'Prince of Persia' on a multitude of systems such as the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and MS-DOS. A true brilliance for its time and still worth playing today, featured many platforming levels and high danger which was usually met with falling floors, sword wielding enemies, crashing grates and at worst deadly spikes. This incredible game however has again appeared in our news feeds, but this time thanks to a heads up by AtariCrypt has been audio-enhanced by Peter Putnik for the Atari STe.

Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back both receive Atari STe audio upgrades!

Throughout all these years, right from the very beginning of Indie Retro New's birth, I have always tried to feature as many Dungeon Crawlers as possible, whether it be clones, remakes or even ports. But today's news is a bit of an eye opener, as thanks to a heads up by AtariCrypt one of the most amazing Dungeon Crawlers of all time ' Dungeon Master ' and yes even the sequel ' Chaos Strikes Back ', has received an audio upgrade for the Atari STe!

Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017 - Blasting away those classic Outrun tunes on the Atari ST

I thought it time to mention a bit of Atari news for tonight, much to the delight of AtariCrypt. As in celebration of a new year, Peter Jørgensen (bionic nerd) has made available an exceedingly good music demo on the Atari ST called 'Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017'. Yes you guessed it, that classic racing game known as Outrun which was a huge hit in the 1980's in the Arcades and ported over to other systems and designed by Yu Suzuki, is going to blast away your retro speakers as many of the tracks from Outrun are ready for your listening pleasure on the Atari ST.

Custodian - Amiga/Atari ST game coming to the Atari Jaguar

It's time for the Atari Jaguar to come out of the cold as pre-orders are now available for the platformer shooter ' Custodian ', which is Piko Interactive's very first Atari Jaguar release. Now some of you may remember this game from the late 1980's that's because it was released on both the Amiga and Atari ST by Hewson, and featured a number of levels, many different weapons and power ups and a great soundtrack by David Whittaker. However Piko Interactive have ported the game from the Atari ST version over to the Atari Jaguar, while keeping the Amiga version music intact.

Return to Genesis - Atari ST/Amiga scroller teased for the Sega Megadrive

Classed as a rare game on the Amiga, Return to Genesis started its life in 1987 as an Atari ST demo, intending to illustrate the performance of an Atari with high speed, horizontal, parallax scrolling using all of 16 colours. It was later turned into a commercial scrolling shooter in 1988 and released on the Amiga as well as the Atari ST and published by Firebird with music by none other than David Whittaker. Yet today we've just been told via @_Z_TEAM that they are remaking the game for the Sega Megadrive and completely from scratch.