Saving Archer Maclean's Atari 8-bit Arcade Experiments

Games That Weren't takes a detailed look at some more findings and recoveries from the late Archer Maclean's work disks for the Atari 400/800. Including an abandoned conversion of Robotron and concepts for Donkey Kong, Tempest, Breakout and much more.
Details and link to downloads can be found at www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/...
With huge thanks to Chris Wilkins (Fusion Retro Books) -fusionretrobooks.com/
Alan Hammerton for hardware help
Mat Allen for the flippy PC drive loan
Bertrand / Atari Frog for guidance and help with tools and formats.
In memory of Archer Maclean - 28 January 1962 - 17 December 2022.
www.gamesthatwerent.com

[@StooCambridgeArtist]

Brilliant work in preserving these files. It's so easy for old data to be lost and forgotten, I should know! While it saddens me that Archer is no longer with us, his body of work will live on for future generations to enjoy. Properly documenting and archiving these magical moments of game development history is crucial! Well done all! Awesome work! 🙏😎

[@b.o.4492]

So happy to see this being done. Liked and subscribed. That time has come and gone and it’s vital to preserve what was created in that moment in time. Yes people can make retro games now but it’s Al colored through decades since that was what was present day gaming.

[@GamesThatWerent]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments and glad you enjoyed it. Will have a few more findings very soon Atari wise.

[@gubbins1622]

Bloody Good work, such a loss.

[@dolomiah7357]

Awesome digital preservation of the work of a legend of the industry. Subscribed!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗

[@adamv242]

Archer was a legend. Thank you for saving and sharing this look into his thought processes.

[@c6jones720]

It's funny to think that he must have used basic as a rapid prototyping language. I remember some full games at the time used a hybrid of basic and machine code (like electric starfish)

[@Mrshoujo]

Presentation & editing is excellent. Kudos to everyone for preserving this man's Behind The Scenes work. Always interesting to see what an author was fiddling with. Cool demos he got going.

[@GamesThatWerent]

Thanks very much for the kind words and glad you enjoyed it!

[@Barcrest]

Looks great. Interesting to see he did a lot of little tests which is exaclty what i did with my Atari ST. Seems like my discs are all lost.

[@philsan69]

Thank you very much!

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Outstanding work I preserving these.

[@AtariPamMaria]

Fantastic! Great work.

[@RaposaCadela]

awesome