Atari Legacy

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This is a WAV format sound file that's from an old analog cassette conversion of an Atari 400 video game by the company Spinnaker called Adventure Creator.

The original WAV file.

And a BIG "Thank You!!" goes to the user "Savetz" and the user "phaeron" (author of Virtual Dub), that actually PULLED IT OFF! He actually GOT the SUCKER converted!

The process of other users trying it, prior to phaeron, is at this particular "Atari Age Forums" URL link!

User "phaeron" also has an ATARI section of his page!

To repeat:

Original guy I contacted at random, based on content of his site: (User name at Atari Forums "Savetz" and his URL www.ataripodcast.com on that user profile page, which links to this URL, ataripodcast.libsyn.com, that I shall link in case he loses the dedicated URL someday!)

The forum is here.

The ROM for the game is HERE, at Atari Mania.

The converted Atari 400 "Adventure Creator" user-created games:

games 1 through 4 ZIPPED

The story is as follows:

I had Spinnaker's "Adventure Creator" on old cartridge (remember THOSE?? LOL...) for my Atari 400, from way back in the 1980s. A fellow computer nerd of mine, who actually GOT me into computer's in the first place, had a Commodore 64, and tons of software, so I sold my Atari 400 to a cousin, a bit after I got my second hand C-64. I KEPT the cassette tape that I made of FOUR games, since they were created by me, and therefore irreplaceable! Beyond that, (and me being a nostalgic pack rat) I forget my exact reasons for doing so.

But years after, when I heard of emulators and such, I thought it would be cool if I ever managed to resurrect those games. The titles were weird like "Quest World" I, II, II and IV, with part IV sub-titled "Negative World", or something...

So, I simply played the cassette tape, from a normal cassette player, with the 3.5mm male/male jack, coming out the headphone jack in the cassette player, into the "line in" jack of the sound card in the computer and made a WAV file, that was about 100 MB, and burned it on CD, then just forgot about it.

YEARS later from even THAT point, like a few months ago, I posted a photo of mine, with me as a kid, using my Atari 400 computer. With the Jay-Z lyric, that he took from Ice-T's 1993 album "Home Invasion":

If you're having girl problems, I feel bad for ya, son. I got 99 problems, and a b---- ain't ONE!

I saw a Star Trek:The Next Generation, spoof meme with Lt. Commander Geordi:

If you're having hull problems, I feel bad for ya son. I got 99 problems, and breach ain't ONE!

...inspired me to put on my OWN graphic:

If you're having tech problems, I feel bad for ya, son. I got 99 problems, and a glitch ain't ONE!

So, then I got sentimental, and thought of googling for pics of a close up Atari 400 computer. It hit me RIGHT when I hit a few nostalgic Atari sites!

MAYBE I CAN POST MY WAV FILE FROM THE 1986 (??) ATARI 400 GAME, AND ONE OF THOSE HARDCORE COMPUTER NERDS CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THE SUCKER TO WORK!!

I emailed Mr. Savetz, who posted to THIS thread:

(Atari Age Forums link)

The dude who created Virtual Dub, phaeron, actually pulled it off!

The pictures tied to the story:

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