Re: [steem] ATARI-ST ROM-Disk
- From: "Lance J Armstrong" <larmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:28:46 -0600
Ed,
I read you comment about no stupid kids on this site. That would
probably be A-firmative.
I'm 50, a design engineer for DOD, and still have a room full of ST's,
Mega's. Why you ask !!!!!
Well, I'm also a musician, and Atari made the smartest decision in the
world to put MIDI jacks
on their ST's, not an option, but a standard feature. They were
also the best deal at
the time, much cheaper and better I thought than the 1st Macs out.
I wrote several little MIDI programs on the ST back in the 80's that I
still use today.
I was using one of ST's development software packages then, Lazer I think,
and I still have
the original developers kit. Of course i haven't looked at it in years.
In the 80's I played in a
computer band with a couple of ST's on stage performing different tasks.
They controlled our
lights as well as played the extra instruments our band didn't cover. I
programmed about
60 songs including Nights in White Satin. That puppy took about a month
to do. One
little pgm I wrote would read the notes I was playing and play back extra
notes based on those
notes, like say for instance a bass note, or a copy of all the notes I
played an octave or 2 above,
and only the notes played say above middle C. Pretty neat. And that
sure made a DX7 sound
much bigger than it really was. Try playing 16 notes at once without
using the sustain pedal.
It was like having 3 to 4 more hands.
Well, also an ST with the internal floppy doesn't take up much space at
all. You can stack several
of them up in a small place. I use some without even a monitor. These
work kind of like a
dedicated piece of hardware, running only program all the time.
Now you might ask why I don't just use steem and run several
applications at once from Windows,
therefore not needing all the ST's ? Well, ST's are really really cheap
now, and now one
would probably steel one. They wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.
And then you might
ask, would I rather play a brand new Fender Statocaster, or a priceless
classic vintage one from
the past, worth thousands. Ok, that wasn't a good comparison. I
guess the real answer is I'm just
a stubborn old Atari fan. And to the guy who made the comments about the
flight simulator, right
on !
But, when my ST's finally die, the pgms will still live on thanks to
steem.
Edouard Lombard tapped away on the keyboard on Monday, February 16, 2004
9:14 PM: and came up with the following:
> Hi Atari friends,
>
> I just wanted to say : I love my Ataris!
> I bet that there is no stupid kid on this mailing list (such as the
> ones you can find on IRC) that will try to mock me.
>
> Why not tell us about your own Atari story?
> How many do you have?
Four.
Edouard Lombard tapped away on the keyboard on Monday, February 16, 2004
9:14 PM: and came up with the following:
> Hi Atari friends,
>
> I just wanted to say : I love my Ataris!
> I bet that there is no stupid kid on this mailing list (such as the
> ones you can find on IRC) that will try to mock me.
>
> Why not tell us about your own Atari story?
> How many do you have?
Four.
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