Category: Atari ST
In part 5 of our interview series with computer media pioneer Christian Spanik, we talk about how it was to work for Data Becker. A lot of stories to be heard of how it was to work for one of the biggest publishers in Germany and the first for computer books. We also talk about the expansion of Data Becker…
Anarcho Ride Laboratories is very proud to announce that their Atari ST port of the Commodore 64 multi-player game, Frogs, is now available in physical boxed editions. Frogs was initially released for the Commodore 64 in 2017 by Dr Wuro Industries and was lauded for being a fun multiplayer game that took advantage of 4 player adapter technology to produce…
Author of the well-received The Secret History of Mac Gaming, Richard Moss is now working on a new book called Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet (working title) where he is writing about shareware games released from the late-1980s through the 90s. To fund the production costs, the author is running a crowdfunding campaign at https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/. Looks to me an…
Using computers since the late 80’s until today, and never ever used or touched an Atari ST before to some might sound like a joke, but it is true in my case and I am also wondering how comes it happened to me to play my very first computer games on a less popular micro like the Sinclair QL, but…
PLATO is the great, great, great granddaddy of the online computer network. Developing forums, email, multiplayer networked games, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is responsible for many of the things we take for granted today. AJ and Joerg take a deep dive with IRATA.ONLINE’s Thomas Cherryhomes into why PLATO is as awesome as it is, and how it still…
How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
SNDH archive 4.7 released. 323 SNDH-files added or updated! Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music. But in the mid 90’s, BDC…
JustinFrancoeur, besides helping with Vintage is The New Old content, he maintains the website www.dcinthe80s.com which as the name suggests, is a webzine for DC comics fans from the 80s. A byproduct of his website is the fanzine, Baxter Stock which is released in print with no specific periodicity. Back in November or so he told me that he was…
