Tempest 4000 - YES! YES! YES!

[Portland]

IPS screen awaits...

[Markie]

Thrilled and just about have enough THRILL to stop hating Atari for how they attacked Jeff on the earlier TxK issue ... Very excited to be able to play on the BIG screen :-) :-)

[Markie]

Thrilled and just about have enough THRILL to stop hating Atari for how they attacked Jeff on the earlier TxK issue ... Very excited to be able to play on the BIG screen :-) :-)

Followed by Defender and Stargate just sayin' ...

[Jamesac]

Thrilled and just about have enough THRILL to stop hating Atari for how they attacked Jeff on the earlier TxK issue ... Very excited to be able to play on the BIG screen :-) :-)

Just about, but not quite. It's still the company responsible for a lot of really terrible cash-ins on the library it owns the rights to. I'm hoping having a single game in its library with great reviews at long last helps them suck less, but I'm not holding out hope.

I was polite about Atari in my Tempest 4000 article, but the RockPaperShotgun piece entertained me no end.

[Markie]

Thrilled and just about have enough THRILL to stop hating Atari for how they attacked Jeff on the earlier TxK issue ... Very excited to be able to play on the BIG screen :-) :-)

Just about, but not quite. It's still the company responsible for a lot of really terrible cash-ins on the library it owns the rights to. I'm hoping having a single game in its library with great reviews at long last helps them suck less, but I'm not holding out hope.

I was polite about Atari in my Tempest 4000 article, but the RockPaperShotgun piece entertained me no end.

Indeed, they opened well and it just got better with "

Jeff Minter is revisiting Tempest later this year in Tempest 4000, the creature wearing the skin of Atari announced today

"

[Junosix]

Amazing news! So glad Atari have come to their senses, can't wait to see this.

(Giles - assuming the TxK tunes are going to be used can you drop into the musicians forum on llamasoft.co.uk when you're ready, we've started a thread there with a couple of questions and a link to the most up-to-date versions of the music. We'll be happy to tweak and do the -24 LUFS stuff if required, etc. Cheers!)

[Deckard]

Thrilled and just about have enough THRILL to stop hating Atari for how they attacked Jeff on the earlier TxK issue ... Very excited to be able to play on the BIG screen :-) :-)

Followed by Defender and Stargate just sayin' ...

Tempest was always a game that needed improving in my opinion but much though i absolutely adore Stargate - Defender is a perfect game (along with Robotron)

[gilesgoat]

Amazing news! So glad Atari have come to their senses, can't wait to see this.

(Giles - assuming the TxK tunes are going to be used can you drop into the musicians forum on llamasoft.co.uk when you're ready, we've started a thread there with a couple of questions and a link to the most up-to-date versions of the music. We'll be happy to tweak and do the -24 LUFS stuff if required, etc. Cheers!)

OK ok ok ok .. just been back from the dentist .. give me time to go that forum and post something !

[gilesgoat]

Amazing news! So glad Atari have come to their senses, can't wait to see this.

(Giles - assuming the TxK tunes are going to be used can you drop into the musicians forum on llamasoft.co.uk when you're ready, we've started a thread there with a couple of questions and a link to the most up-to-date versions of the music. We'll be happy to tweak and do the -24 LUFS stuff if required, etc. Cheers!)

OK ok ok ok .. just been back from the dentist .. give me time to go that forum and post something !

Go in that forum and look at what I wrote

[NorthWay]

"Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger"

And all that kept bouncing through my head was "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat". Some things seems to fire up a musical connection subconsciously.
Very happy to hear this.

[Jamesac]

I'm assuming this bumps Polybuis PC back a bit? I'm excited for Tempest 4000 so it's not a complaint if it does.

[gilesgoat]

I'm assuming this bumps Polybuis PC back a bit? I'm excited for Tempest 4000 so it's not a complaint if it does.

Yes AND No !

The "difference" is with Tempest 4000 we DO HAVE a contract and a precise DEADLINE ...

With Polybius PC it's just me and Jeff and no one else doing it and "we set the deadline as we like".

But the reality is I am working "kinda the same time" on Polybius PC as well so hopefully "all will get out around the same times".

"Polybius PC without online score tables, without proper switching of VR ( but there is/could be 'one version VR only and one version NON VR only easy - it's just changing a compile flag ) and without proper fully testing " already exists and runs but you see "misses bits and pieces"

Polybius "anything else" we'll see how it goes, again "we don't have a dealine/contract/etc. there it's only me and Jeff" ..

About the "anything else" there's a little bit of "a question mark" there, we were/are SUPPOSED to get some stuff/info from "some people" but so far "nothing happened yet" so when/if/how "don't know yet NO IDEA".

I could say "I was assuming something would have been already on my desk a couple of months ago AT LEAST and I'd be already been playing with it" but "all went into a limbo" it seems .. so .. so .. "I don't know" ..

[rowan]

Glad this is all going somewhere guys and has become less nasty with the legal shite.

Plus we get to use the T2K soundtrack as well as some TxK tunes. Which sounds awesome

It's nice on the flip side though, that you get legit access to historic assets. Can you pick from any of Atari's back catalogue of IP - sprites, sounds or whatever now?

[Darkflame]

Awesome.
I hope someone comes up with a way to play with a wheel.

[Baggypants]

I just hope the thing we're calling Atari don't fuck it up.