I've been working on the next release of Pantheon for the last few weeks. I've added more than one hundred games for Atari 8-bit computers and made some small improvements in emulator. From time to time, I focus on the development of Mattel Intellivision emulator, which is not 100% accurate at the moment, but a lot of games are working fine. I hope you will be able to play some Mattel Intellivision games soon.
I am already working on the new release of Pantheon. I recently implemented support for multi-disk games and BASIC files and my plan is to add hundreds of Atari 400/800/XL games to Pantheon game library. This will take more time than usual, so the next release of Pantheon will be available in April 2015.
New release of Pantheon is available for download. Visit my website and download it and you will be able to enjoy some of the finest Atari 2600 homebrew games: 1775, 21 Blue, Aborigines Revenge, Adventure 1K, Ants, Arctic Landtran, Atomic Meltdown, Ball-Crip, Because It's There, Bifröst, Blinky Goes Up, Bombs Away, Brik, Candy Catcher, Catch a Coin, Cave In, Cave Ropes, ChipOff, Copter Commander, Dancer, Deimos Lander, Delta Force Sniper, Denderes Violence, Doris, Dungeon, Eat Dem Bananaz, Eliminator, Flip Out, Galactopus, GoSub II, Hunchy, Incoming, Insane Painter, JetMan, Jex, Joy Ride, Jungle Monkey, Juno First, Kraken Attack, Lead, Library of Doom!, Lunar Excursion Module, Magic Run, Mega Man, Ms Snake!, Muncher, Nitebear on Sleepystreet, Omicron, Pac-Man 4K, Paint the Town Red, Pig, Pitch'n Catch, Point Zero, RoadBlaster, Robot City, Rocket Pod, Sdioretsa, Sewer Cleaner, Smiley, Solar Nexus, Squared Away, Star Hawk, Stranglehand, Strip-Off, SuperPong, Terminator, Terrance & Phillip: Asses of Fire, Terrance & Phillip: Not Without my Anus, The Tin Man, Tint, Top Gun, Tower Zone, Underwater Predator, Zeta
The next release of Pantheon will be all about Atari 2600 games. Again? Yes, but this time I will try to bring you the best from Atari 2600 homebrew scene. Pantheon already has several home-made games (Elevators Amiss, Hunchy 2...) in his library, but there are a lot more available. During this new years holiday I added almost 30 homebrew games to Atari 2600 game library, and I can only say: not bad. Not bad at all!
New Pantheon is available for download. 72 Atari 2600 games will keep you busy during this new years holiday: Asterix, Bee-Ball, BMX Air Master, Boing!, Brain Games, Bridge, BurgerTime, Commando, Cookie Monster Munch, Cosmic Commuter, Cosmic Swarm, Crack'ed, Crazy Balloon, Crazy Valet, Crypts of Chaos, Dolphin, Double Dragon, Double Dunk, Dragonfire, Dukes of Hazzard, Espial, Euchre, Fatal Run, Frogs and Flie, Funky Fish, Gangster Alley, Gauntlet, Gingerbread Man, Go Fish!, Great Escape, Grover's Music Maker, Marble Craze, Mental Kombat, Mondo Pong, Motocross Racer, My Golf, Oscar's Trash Race, Pick & Pile, Pigs in Space, Polo, Porky's, Power Off!, Roc 'n Rope, Room of Doom, Sea Battle, Skeet Shoot, Skeleton, Sky Patrol, Solar Plexus, Space Robot, Spacechase, Spitfire Attack, Springer, Sssnake, Star Ship, Star Voyager, Stargunner, Steeple Chase, Stellar Track, Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups, Stuntman, Sub Scan, Submarine Commander, Summer Games, Surf's Up, Surround, Sword of Saros, Tempest, The Music Machine, Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator, Tunnel Runner, Video Jogger
Genesis/Mega Drive was one of the most popular video game console of all time, with a lot of great games, like Sonic the Hedgehog, Shining Force and Phantasy Star. Genesis/Mega Driveis is 16-bit console that also provides backwards compatibility with the Master System. The system produces sound by way of a Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesizer, has 64KB of RAM and can display up to 64 colors at once from a palette of 512.
I have been developing Genesis/Mega Drive emulator for quite some time and even that it's still far from perfect, it is capable to run a few games. There is still a lot of work to do and things to improve, but I hope that several Genesis/Mega Drive games will be available in Pantheon, next year.
Emulator of Atari 2600 video gaming console was the first emulator that I've made and it has been almost four years since the first Pantheon, which included 48 Atari 2600 games, was released. Pantheon now has more than 400 Atari 2600 games in its library, and I plan to add more games for the next release.
Atari 2600 was very popular for years and has hundreds of games available. Despite the fact, that its hardware capabilities were quite poor (128 bytes of RAM), programmers soon learned how to push its hardware's capabilities and made some incredible and unique games. Activision released Dolphin in 1983, and the game was not very successful. It is fast-paced action game, where you control a dolphin, haunted by a giant squid. There are barriers in the sea and if you hit a barrier, you will slow down for a moment. There is a gap in each barrier, and you must swim through it, but the game is fast and you will not have a time to react, once the barrier comes on screen. So you must focus on the tone, that is played a few seconds before the barrier comes on screen: the higher the frequency of the tone, the higher the gap in the barrier will be.
