by Steve Fulton | Mar 31, 2023 | 1980s, AtariST
What does it mean to finish a computer game? Why are people sometimes compelled to get to the end state of a game decades after they first played it?What if that game is so obscure, almost no one alive even remembers it even exists. What if the developers never made...
by Steve Fulton | Dec 13, 2022 | AtariST
It’s nearing the holidays, so we won’t have anything brand-new to post until 2023. So instead, please enjoy an episode of our podcast from a couple years back where we explore The Atari ST Midi support, and how the ST was used by just about every band...
by Steve Fulton | Nov 30, 2022 | 1980s, AtariST
Tech blogger Josh Renaud has rescued some of the earliest entertainment software for the Atari ST, snatched directly out of the jaws of the bit-bucket. Back in 1985, Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen’s released “Murray and Me” and “Mom and Me”...
by Steve Fulton | Nov 14, 2022 | 1980s, AtariST
When the 520 Atari ST was released in the summer of 1985, it wowed computer journalists with its high-resolution Mac-alike monochrome display, and its 16-color (from a palette of 512) 320 x 200 graphics mode aimed squarely at the games market while “The 520 ST...