They received an important piece of game dev history from [Richard Costello], who coded ports of Gauntlet 2, Mortal Kombat, and Primal Rage for Atari ST and Amiga home computers.

Atari decided to try its hand at a PC clone in 1987, releasing the Atari PC, an 8MHz 8088 machine with 512KB of RAM and a 360KB 5.25-inch floppy drive in a Mega ST-style case.

Certain models were given the MEGA moniker (MEGA ST, MEGA STE). STacy and ST BOOK were portable versions. Atari STs supported 640x480 monochrome and 640x200 color displays.

No, we hadn’t either, but transputer superfan [Axel Muhr] has created the ATW800/2, an Atari Transputer card, the way it was meant to be. The transputer was a neat idea when it was conceived in ...

If Mega Man 9 isn't retro enough for you, you might enjoy the enormous, jagged pixels found in the Atari 2600 demo version of Mega Man created for 2007's I Am 8-Bit show. David Galloway has ...