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“Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”. That’s what we guess [Frans Bos] has been thinking for the past few decades, as he kept using his Atari ST to run a booking system for the family campground ...
Last week, we examined a Doom port for the venerable Atari ST. As is so often the way with this thing, one netted another, ...
The Atari 520ST was Atari's first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by ExtremeTech Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both ...
"We quickly came to like each other, so when I got an Atari ST before anyone else, I gave it to Didier to explore the innards of this new beast." Neither had much commercial computer game design ...
Although porting it to a PC released in 1985, eight years before Doom, might seem tame compared to running it on a Lego brick or inside a QR code, the in-development Atari ST conversion shows ...
An early personal computer series from Atari. Introduced in 1985 to compete with Apple's Mac, the ST was the first home computer to include MIDI musical instrument ports. Popular with musicians ...
To celebrate the anniversary of this often overlooked but still influential series of computers, let’s take a peek inside the ST line’s most prominent model, the Atari 1040STf. With 1MB of ...
Today, however, maker and developer Jonas Eschenburg has decided to bring the classic title to the beloved classic console known as the Atari ST. The project's name, STDOOM may be unremarkable ...
In a longish post over at Dadhacker, Landon Dyer tells us the story, in florid language, of the moment that the Atari ST very nearly ran Unix.Not Linux, mind you, but real, AT&T Unix. The license ...
If you were around during the mid-1980s, you’ll have fond memories of Amiga and Atari ST owners kicking each-other’s faces off, the former screaming “Babylon 5!” and the latter yelling “MIDI!” until ...
the 8-bit “Atari 800” line, the 16-bit ST line, the PC compatibles, and the 32-bit series. Although Atari started off strong in the U.S. PC market, the company soon faltered in the face of ...