• Atari 2600 VCS emulator for System 7

    From Sebastian P.@info@cornica.org to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sat Feb 17 13:05:41 2024
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    I could swear I had this Atari 2600 emulator on my Power Mac 6100/66
    back in the day. But I cannot locate it or even remember the name. It's
    like it perished from the surface of earth. It's not "Stella", which was released later. It ran it on System 7.5 (I think!) and it was rather bare-bones but played the games. I think I found it through a mention in
    a print magazine, but no luck finding that article either.

    Does someone remember the name or knows where to find it?

    Any help appreciated!
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sat Feb 17 18:53:03 2024
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    Sebastian P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:
    I could swear I had this Atari 2600 emulator on my Power Mac 6100/66
    back in the day. But I cannot locate it or even remember the name. It's
    like it perished from the surface of earth. It's not "Stella", which was released later. It ran it on System 7.5 (I think!) and it was rather bare-bones but played the games. I think I found it through a mention in
    a print magazine, but no luck finding that article either.

    Does someone remember the name or knows where to find it?

    Any help appreciated!

    Try asking in http://reddit.com/r/atari2600.
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sun Feb 18 10:15:39 2024
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    On 2024-02-17 12:05:41 +0000, Sebastian P. said:

    I could swear I had this Atari 2600 emulator on my Power Mac 6100/66
    back in the day. But I cannot locate it or even remember the name. It's
    like it perished from the surface of earth. It's not "Stella", which was released later. It ran it on System 7.5 (I think!) and it was rather bare-bones but played the games. I think I found it through a mention in
    a print magazine, but no luck finding that article either.

    Does someone remember the name or knows where to find it?

    Any help appreciated!

    Are you sure it was an actual emulator? There are some Atari 2600 game
    packs which ran on System 7+, such as:

    - Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack
    <https://macintoshgarden.org/games/activisions-atari-2600-action-pack>

    - Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 2
    <https://macintoshgarden.org/games/activisions-atari-2600-action-pack-2>

    According to the blog page below, these game packs can also be altered
    to run any Atari 2600 ROM: <https://metalbabble.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/atari-2600-emulation-for-classic-68k-macs/>


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