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- ATARI <link=g47.scr>LYNX</l>
- sweet portable animal
- wriitten by Grey / Mystic Bytes
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- School. Exercise - books placed far in the corner, he has no idea about the
- lesson which is lead by an exceptionally boring teacher. He looks tired after
- a sleepness night. His head goes down, eyes are directed to the colourful
- screen the size of an audio-tape, headphones which draft stereo tunes only
- directly to his ears... Suddenly he makes unexpected short moves of his body,
- like having hemoroids... But only his friends know the truth... He plays new a
- game on the Lynx, fighting with enemies to survive...
-
- Sounds like a sciencefiction story? Nope, it's something REAL. Do you remember
- coin-up machines which flooded the whole world? Who could imagine that few
- years later we would witness the release of a hand held video-console?
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- In 1989, Atari Corp finally managed to do one of it's first intelligent moves.
- It purchased a portable video game system from a financially strapped game
- company called Epyx. Epyx which had primarily focused in the past on making
- video games for several computer and video game platforms had formed a new
- hardware division and with a team of Ex-Amiga engineers went to work on
- creating an all new powerful and feature rich portable video game system.
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- What they had created was the Portable Color Entertainment System which became
- known as the Atari LYNX. The Lynx was impressive, a 16Mhz 6502 system with
- built in hardware scrolling and zooming, excellent sound and more importantly
- an easy to program networking language called com-lynx for up to 8 Lynxs to
- be networked together for multi-user games. It had been mentioned and hoped
- that the Atari Jaguar 64 would use the Atari Lynx as a high-end interactive
- video game controller with such high hopes as being the motion tracker for
- Alien Vs. Predator or even a Tricorder for a hoped for Star Trek game.
- Unfortunately this never came to be. Video61 is now selling Othello, an all
- new Harry Dodgson game for the Lynx. Several other developers, especially
- Carl Forhan of Songbird Productions has been the hot ticket developer as of
- late with several new releases for the Lynx as well as titles for the Atari
- Jaguar. The Lynx is far from dead, in many ways people sometimes feel the
- Lynx has more life left to it then the Atari Jaguar 64.
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- CHOSNECK team contact us:
- people faithful 2 da roots! atarimsb@wp.pl
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