Atari 2600

The Blip Festival, a three-day music and arts festival, returns to New York City this year at Brooklyn’s Bell House December 17th, 18th, and 19th.

The festival showcases the use of the former heavyweights of computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to create arresting music and visual art. Read more…

This video demos an Atari 2600 being played by a MIDI keyboard.

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This demo captures the Atari 2600 synthesizer in action.

The Atari 2600 Percussive Sample Pack by Sebastian Tomczak, is a free download, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

This sample pack features 28 short percussive samples recorded from an Atari 260 Jr PAL console.

Download it here.

The construction and installation of the Highly Liquid MIDI2600 MIDI interface board into a fully functional Atari 2600.

Features:

• Translates incoming MIDI notes to joystick or keypad control signals for any Atari 2600 console
• MIDI-controlled Select & Reset outputs
• Powered by game console—separate power supply not required
• User-selected MIDI input channel
• Power and activity LEDs
• Compact size: 83 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25″)

The adapter is about $40. 

The soundtrack is composed and performed on the Atari through the use of a Synthcart cartridge.