Xenon on Atari ST (1988)
Along with Goldrunner, this was one of the first shoot'em-ups to impress me on Atari ST. Both for its graphics and its mesmerizing music
"Sector One"
Zarch vs. Virus - David Braben classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a6bkgElas
þorN gamet Saint Dragon on a Hatari emulator on Manjaro Linux. Played during the ST Offline Tournament (STOT) Season 07 Round 06. This is the complete 1st Level.
Atari Falcon 030 custom chips decapping project https://mikrosk.github.io/decap/ #atari #AtariFalcon #AtariST #retrocomputing
And you shouldn't think this is a plain text editor with a compiler. It's a structured BASIC editor that only beeps and doesn't let you leave a line that's invalid. Then it reindents it and sets uppercase keywords.
If you don't know what you're doing in it, it's reset-your-ST time.
Kids Today™ whine that they can't figure out :wq in vi, they need to use GFA BASIC and understand that you read the fucking manual before operating a program.
#retrocomputing #atari #atarist #basic
GFA keyboard controls are nuts. Top bar shows shift-F-keys, then F-keys. ESC flips to the graphics window/command line.
You might say "well it was early times", but no, GEM programs have alt-XCV clipboard, shift-arrow select, etc. VERY like Lisa/Mac not at all legally dubious. Mark Williams C has a standard microemacs and sh, with vi or emacs modes. I could install SteVIe and have a very nice vi. No, this program is just *weird*.
And then because I was annoyed with modern coding, but I'm still too caffeinated, I got back to dinking around with the Atari ST. Hisoft BASIC crashes too often for my fun, so GFA 3.5 it is.
But PRINT goes thru the VT-52 emulator, so you can't draw control chars. Gotta hit the AES(?) routines, which draw weirdly.
Program in alt text.
I could build something interesting on this stuff…
#retrocomputing #atari #atarist #basic
Joust on Atari ST
(1986)
So much fun Especially with 2 players!
It was sometimes tempting to let yourself fall on top of your partner
The sprite sheet for the #AtariST version of Rogue is a thing of beauty.
So, out of the blue, my wife @eugenialoli asked me to teach her some assembly. Maybe she's tired of hearing me rant about those different processors and machines and all their unabstracted defects.
I'm thinking, as a starter, #Motorola68000 on #AtariST (because I'm familiar with that and it's reasonably straightforward), interrupts disabled, monochrome framebuffer at a fixed address.
Released version 2.6.0 of Hatari, #AtariST, TT, Falcon computers emulator https://framagit.org/hatari/hatari/-/releases #atari #retrocomputing
Steinberg's Cubase was the standard for music production software on the Atari ST in the late 80s/early 90s for professional and hobby musicians alike (if they could afford the software...).
However, it seems to be hard to find files with actual music created with Cubase nowadays (.all/.arr file formats). Is there an archive of Cubase-created songs somewhere? Ideally some 1980s synthpop/new wave style music to run a demo in our retrocomputing lab next week.
Rana Rama (1987)
One of my very first games on Atari ST! It felt very strange to play it again. Especially hearing the sounds.
I'd forgotten about the music (very catchy)
#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:
https://fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNkVAhS6DH
- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.
- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.
- If you're watching embedded, click or
to see next or previous videos in the playlist.
cc @atarist
Currently at #WoodChipFest for the (early starting) weekend.
Will be playing a set there at 20h (CEST) today.
It will be streamed on twitch, normally: https://twitch.tv/wood_chip_fest/
#chiptune #festival #music #AtariST #YM2149
Discovered in the floppy disks of the late Jerome Domurat (graphic designer of various games for #Atari2600 and #Atari5200, e.g. Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Taz, Soccer, Jungle Hunt, creator of #AtariST computers busy bee - later he also worked for Apple and Sega) a set of graphics files of an unknown game for 2600, perhaps named Earthquake https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382364-unknown-earthquake-game/ #atari #retrogames
My husband's @jbqueru #RaspberryPi 5 setup, with the new monitor I got for him recently for his name day. He's writing a game for the AtariST currently. Let the coding commence.