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Javatari: A multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java
- gkarness 14y agoAwesome interface! You have to find your own ROM files to play, but its easy... Just drag and drop ROM links from websites directly over the screen and BAM!
- cintiapersona 14y agoPlaying space invaders at the office with friends right now
- carolsales 14y agoWow that IS vintage :-)))
- willhsiung 14y agoThanks - been many years since playing the 2600 and brings back memories!
- nnnnni 14y agoCOMBAT!!
- saddino 14y agoSuch a nice project, but both the name and logo infringe on Atari trademarks. Why risk it?
- eric_bullington 14y agoI would love nothing more than to play Defender or Yar's Revenge, but I can't bring myself to execute arbitrary binaries downloaded off the internet. Any safe place where one can download or buy roms? If whoever owns Atari now were smart, they'd sell them through a legitimate online marketplace so we could safely run them on very nice 2600 emulators like this one. EDIT: Found an answer, waking up half my family in the process (Yar's revenge is not a low-volume game). Atari does, in fact, both sell and offer some of their old 2600 games for free: http://atari.com/arcade/arcade/yars-revenge http://atari.com/arcade/arcade/yars-revenge
- adgar 14y agoUse a virtual machine.
- eric_bullington 14y agoThat's true, I run XP on virtualbox (linux host) almost every day, and could just make a throw-away copy with no network access. I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that. Thanks!
- wavephorm 14y agoThe Java Virtual Machine is a virtual machine.
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- eric_bullington 14y agoSo you feel comfortable executing arbitrary Java off the web?
- charliesome 14y agoConsole emulators are virtual machines. I'm not sure what the GP is concerned about.
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- adgar 14y agoVirtual machines can be insecure if they contain bugs. When it comes to providing a secure execution environment, I trust Virtualbox more than I trust any JVM, most of which I trust more than I trust any console emulator.
- unwind 14y agoSo, uh, you're afraid that someone has introduced malware in Atari 2600 machine code, that can break out of any arbitrary emulator and do Real Damage to a hosting system, and hidden that in what appear to be vintage game ROMs on the Internet? That would be quite the malware, indeed.