Atari 2600 Lord of the Rings Discovered

TheAlchemist writes "Eighteen years ago a Lord of the Rings game appeared in a Parker Brothers catalog for the Atari 2600. Unfortunately, the game was never released, along with several other titles that appeared alongside it. Just in time for the first Lord of the Rings movie release next week, AtariAge.com has discovered a long lost prototype of this game, probably one of the most sought after 2600 vaporware titles. You can look at screenshots, a picture of the prototype box, the prototype cartridge, and download the binary image that you can then run in one of several Atari 2600 emulators. More information about the game can be gleaned here."

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Re:great (Slightly offtopic, but...)

[gunne]

About serving web pages from an atari, I've been planning to do just that, setting up a webserver on my old Atari 1040 STe.
Does anyone here know of any good places to get a network card for an old atari (preferably with ethernet), and/or any good s/w to get net connectivity in an atari?

Re:A faithful rendition of the book.

[SkepTech]

Not hardly. The source code was ASCII text. The rendering engine is still the most powerful one known.

Of course, with kids these days, the firmware seems to have deteriorated.

Look!

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Re:A faithful rendition of the book.

[andkaha]

But, the book itself was monochrome, and its primary interface was text-- not even color text at that.

Ah, you didn't buy the one with the cognital interface? The version of the books that I read had a very nice interface which enabled me to somehow view the scenes from the book within my head while reading it.

I was quite amazed and I still haven't figured out how they did it...