Evercade has announced a second Atari Lynx cartridge with 8 more of the original game titles...

The ‘Atari Lynx Collection 2’ cartridge for Evercade includes 8 classic games including: California Games, Chips Challenge, Checkered Flag, Todd’s Adventures in Slimeworld, Electro Cop, Gates of Zendocon, Zarlor Mercenary and Blue Lightning!

The first cartridge was announced some time back and included 11 games, mostly original Atari releases but some home-brews also managed to sneak in.

While we wait patiently for Songbird Productions to release the handful or so of new games for Atari Lynx, we've got news of the cartridges that will be used...

Here is a photo of the final shell samples which I have approved for production. They are confirmed to work in both Lynx I and Lynx II. All Songbird Lynx carts going forward will include the 128-byte EEPROM for games which use saved data.

Those carts look seriously good! They are in the style of the official Atari "curved lip" carts, sans the Fuji logo of course. The carts are injection moulded in the same colour as the official carts. They are obviously based on the Atari Gamer curved lip cart shell design which is available to download from Thingiverse for free.

Cyberpunk Experiment 2037 is a new Atari Lynx game in development for the currently running Lynx 2020 Programming Competition. It looks like a very promising start to the game, of course it is still in heavy development, but there is a ROM available to try out.

From the game's itch.io page...

The game held in 2037, in a Cyberpunk like environment. You wake up as an amnesic, your brain has been swapped by someone else so you have to discover who and why. You can get for cheap a techbrain module that gives you a kind of Humphrey Bogart personnality (at least a detective appearance), and you go outside to explore New Casablanca (even if it is in Morocco as far as I know).

Unnamed has been in development for two years and Marcin Siwek keeps on releasing bits and pieces about that game to keep us all interested. His latest teaser is of the game's cover art and cartridge design. It's still not confirmed if the game will be released in physical form or if it will be a digital ROM download.

Atari Gamer has also been working with Marcin to get the English language story text finalised. We've got most of the text done and are now play-testing the game. This is going to be a very cool release!

So if this becomes a digital release, how much would you expect to pay?

Last year BennVenn started making mods for Atari Lynx and his LCD Replacement Kit quickly gained popularity due to its cost (much cheaper than the McWill kit). This year BV is introducing the ElCheapoSD Cart for Atari Lynx, which lets you play Lynx ROMs from an SD card.

Atari Gamer has been working together with BV to help get the firmware developed. There's a rudimentary menu loader in place now, but we'll be making a more feature rich loader once the prototype hardware is finalised. You can see the cart in operation below...

This cart is much faster than the original Lynx SD, with 512Kib ROMs loading in under 2 seconds. It also has an onboard EEPROM, which means that games that have a save feature (mostly the recent homebrews) will work on this cart.

The best part is of course the price - at $45USD for the pre-order this is a steal! You can pre-order it here.

Songbird Productions is at it again, announcing another two games to their line up of games to be released this year...Quadromania Redux and Sky Raider Redux. Both of these games are incarnations of their previous releases. They will come on new curved lip carts and will have EEPROM (save) support as well as many new features and updates.

The games are due for physical release in fall 2020. You can read more about this from the Songbird Productions blog - The growing family of Songbird IP.