Tag: atari st
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Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”
Allow me introduce you to the “Thieves Guild Emulator,” a graphical front-end client for the Atari ST BBS game “Thieves Guild.” (Update: I have replaced the original video I posted with a new version that includes the game’s sound effects, as well as some gory combat) It took me a long time to reach the…
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Mother’s Day: “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST
As Mother’s Day approached, I suddenly remembered two very old programs for the Atari ST which I had fooled around with as a kid. “Murray and Me” and “Mom and Me” were written by Yakov Kirschen, who called his creations “biotoons.”
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Hearing from my software heroes
I spent much of my teenage life inside the confines of the Atari ST terminal program “ANSITerm” by Timothy Miller of Two World Software. I have mentioned the program before on the blog, and I even described it briefly when I was a guest on the Bobby Blackwolf Show podcast. But I’ve never really given…
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Kevin MacFarland, creator of “Assassin”
From writing tic-tac-toe in BASIC as kid to creating the classic BBS door game “Assassin,” computer engineer Kevin MacFarland remembers his past life as the “C Monster.”
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Assassin memories
A man cloaked in black approaches thee … “I see thou art new in these parts. Have ye come to join?” he asks. “Yes,” I answer. I watch as the man chants. Slowly the individual words flash on my screen: “Creare” … “an” … “vita” … “Irata!” And so another assassin is born.
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More VT-52 demos
Ever since I was made aware of the “Beat Nick Part 2” demo, I’ve been eager to find other Atari ST demos and animations that make use of the Atari’s VT52 text mode. This week I found three more. I made some video captures of these demos as they appeared in the Atari ST emulator…
