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We've just launched this
new tool that can take your 128 KiB or 256 KiB LYX ROMs and convert them to equivalent 512 KiB ROMs. This is useful if you are trying to burn a ROM image directly to flash as it needs to be laid out in the correct manner. This as well as other resources are an attempt to make it easier for anyone to get started with Atari Lynx hacking!
There was a massive update to the
Songbird Productions website to give it a more modern look and feel. And also while at it, Songbird has made available new curved lip carts for T-tris, Othello and SIMIS. Go check them out!
RetroHQ announced a competition to win an upcoming Atari Lynx multicart - the Lynx GD (Game Drive). From RetroHQ...
Drive away the isolation blues! Up for grabs is a RetroHQ Lynx GameDrive CLASSIC cartridge for the Lynx Mk II.
To enter...
1. Follow RetroHQ on Twitter
2. Retweet this post
3. Tag a friend
A winner will be announced on 23rd March 2020!
You will need to see this Tweet to enter - https://twitter.com/TheRetroHQ/status/1239587965904531457
We've got another peek at the
Unnamed Demo from its developer. It's getting very very close to actual release. Hopefully we will see something in the next couple of weeks, this will be an amazing game to try out!
We've been following
Project Argon, a new retro emulator with focus on Atari Lynx and Vectrex, for some time now. There's been a new teaser shown with Argon running in an Arcade1Up cabinet with a custom control deck. That's looking really neat!
The
Lynx GD is getting closer and closer to release and now we have a preview of what the final cartridge shell will look like. It's much more slick than the previous Lynx SD!
Back in October Songbird Productions announced the
release of two new games for Atari Lynx. These have been delayed to "Spring 2020" now. We're hoping this date moves forward, but we know all too well the complexities involved in producing games.
Evercade is brining an amazing new portable console to the market soon and one of the cartridges that will be available for it is the newly announced
Atari Lynx cart. It will feature 17 games from both the Lynx's original game library as well as a number of home-brew projects that were created recently. Here's the full lineup of the games: Scrapyard Dog, Basketbrawl, Super Asteroids / Missile Command, Awesome Golf, Crystal Mines II: Buried Treasure, CyberVirus, Dracula the Undead, Gordo 106, Ishido: The Way of Stones, Jimmy Connors Tennis, Loopz, Malibu Bikini Volleyball, Megapak, Power Factor, Remnant, Super Sqweek, Xump. If we manage to get our hands on one of the sample units, a review will soon follow!
From the creator of
Unseen, a text adventure game for Atari Lynx comes a new game called
Unnamed. That is not news in itself because this game was announced some time back, what is new is that development on this game has restarted and soon there will be a playable mini-demo released. Are you ready for it?
We've noted that 4Ttude has a very difficult to play against CPU opponent, well the developer has listened and made the CPU a little easier to go against. Check it out and see how you fare against it...game details, ROM download link and link to play it online are available at the
game information page.
