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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 ...
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 ...
If you grew up with a beige Atari ST on your desk and a faint feeling of being left out once Doom dropped in 1993, brace yourself — the ST strikes back. Thanks to [indyjonas]’s incredible hack ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
and sought to build on that with the 1985 launch of the Atari ST, a 16-bit PC with 32-bit internals touted as a competitor to the Apple Mac and Commodore Amiga. Although technologically inferior ...
Starting in 1984, Tramiel tried to revive the Atari brand with hardware like the Atari ST computer, the Atari Lynx portable game player, and the Atari Jaguar home console. When all of these ...
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 ...