Wolfgang Kierdorf created Kestrel, a Tetris variant where players build a castle wall from blocks and then defend it against projectiles, using Claude Code to generate all code, graphics and sound within three days. Version 1.4 is available for Amiga, Mac, Windows and Atari Falcon, with the Amiga version requiring an AGA machine with 4 MB of RAM. via amiga-news.de
Developer FOKO Games has released Raid Attack, a name-your-own-price vertical-scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 paying tribute to River Raid. Players fly a rocket through a rock canyon, dodging walls and enemies while managing their energy supply. via itch.io
Developer Oldschool Is Beautiful has released Outrun 2026, a port of Sega's Out Run for the Amstrad CPC 6128, based on the Sega Master System version and fitting on a single floppy disk. The Z80 code was reportedly written entirely with AI assistance rather than by hand. via indieretronews.com
JagOS is a homebrew operating system for the Atari Jaguar that provides a graphical desktop, applications and networking capability, drawing inspiration from the unreleased Atari Painter home computer concept. via console-classics.com
John Hardie discovered original FlexiCAD vector drawings for Atari's unreleased combined Jaguar and Jaguar CD console on an old floppy disk obtained from Atari. The redesigned unit was meant to merge the standard Jaguar and Jaguar CD hardware into a single console rather than the separate CD add-on. via gamesthatwerent.com
Rollerball CPC is a new homebrew port of HAL Laboratory's 1984 MSX pinball title, released for the Amstrad CPC. The port, made by Oldschool is beautiful with AI assistance, recreates the original's multi-screen layout, bumper mechanics, bonus lanes and scoring systems. via indieretronews.com
Realm of Despair is a new survival adventure game for the Atari 2600, developed by artefacto games and released as a 16KB ROM for $3.99. It comes in NTSC, PAL50 and PAL60 versions. via itch.io
FujiGrid is a beta Mac application, released as a signed Universal app, that populates the display with a grid of tiles each running a different randomly chosen piece of Atari 8-bit software in its own emulator. Tiles can be expanded to full screen and played with a keyboard or USB controller, and the software can also act as a screensaver-style multi-display mosaic that changes over time. via savetz.com
Elite, the influential 1984 space trading and combat game, has been ported to Atari 8-bit computers, bringing David Braben and Ian Bell's open-ended design to a platform it did not originally reach. via forums.atariage.com
Homebrewer Clint Thomson has created an operating system running on Atari Jaguar hardware that reimagines the Atari Painter, an unreleased CD-based home computer concept from the early 1990s meant to succeed the ST and Falcon lines. The original design was sketched out by Richard Miller's R&D team decades ago but never reached production. via timeextension.com
RetroRGB has added a website section detailing how to load and configure Lumacode profiles on the OSSC Pro, including pre-made profiles for NES, SMS and Atari 2600. More console profiles are planned as further Lumacode-modded systems are tested, and the original OSSC has also been updated. via retrorgb.com
Mean Hamster Software has released AGI-64 and AGI-ANTIC, new engines that let Sierra's AGI adventure games run on the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers via the free Sierra Game Compiler. Each launches with King's Quest I, with the Atari version requiring at least 64K RAM or an Incognito board upgrade. via meanhamster.com
