Category: Atari ST
After a long time without new issues, Pro(c) Atari magazine is back. To make up for the time lost, the magazine now has a new format and more pages. The issue #13 brings 104 pages full of Atari goodness, including: Perplexity Sikor’s Atari-Party Achilles DungeonLord Spelunker Rain Of Terror Spare Change Boulderdash – Turn your sceens into a game Diamondz 2…
Joerg and AJ talk to Chris Abbott, “C64Audio.com”, about his currently running Rob Hubbard book Kickstarter called “Project Hubbard”, and whatever else comes up in the retro computing music sphere. https://scene.world/projecthubbard
PC Gamer has a series of articles called “Why I love”, where the writers pick an aspect of PC gaming and talk about why they are awesome. On this article, Joe Donnelly talks about the Atari ST, which according to him, helped to compensate the absence of siblings during his childhood. The article is pure nostalgia, where the author talks…
Back in March 2016 Scott Clifford started work on Raiden (1990) for the Atari Ste. Motivated by the existence of a Falcon version which was only limited to three levels. Unfortunately the development was paused due to personal reasons, that is.. until now! AtariCrypt has recently reported that work has resumed in recent weeks and is progressing rapidly with some new…
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
One of my favorite past times if the browse computer magazines from the 80’s and early 90’s not only looking not only at the articles but also at the adverts just to see what was being offered at the time, and at the end, having a glimpse of the computer history. I was happy to see that Retrocomputaria, a Brazilian retro computer site,…
The wonderful Hackaday has an article detailing The Backoffice’s project to emulate an Atari ST mouse using a Raspberry Pi taking input from a standard USB mouse. He calls it, the RATARI ST! The video link has a shopping list if you want to build your own. He details some issues with powering the RasPi directly from the Atari, so…
Some interesting News from our good friends over at AtariCrypt. Bionic Nerd aka Peter Jørgensen has recently released a new demo titled “Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017”. As you can guess from the title, this release contains music from the game “Outrun” in true Atari ST style. The demo will run happily on any Atari ST/E or Atari ST emulator. You can…
Doodling on retro computers has always fascinated me and I have quite happily been churning out endless (nameless) piccys on my various systems; mainly AMX Art on my Acorn Electron and, more lately in Degas Elite on my Atari ST. It occurred to me, though, that Art appreciation on the ST was a bit underwhelmed outside of demoscene circles, so…
Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…
