Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
- From: "joao manatas" <j1979on@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:28:05 +0000
you are the creator of Vivaldi and Ganimed !
i´ve them both installed on my computer , great synths , congratulations for
this great creations :)
... wow , and TcElectronics !!!
:D
atb
joao
>From: Stefan Kuhn <stefanj_mail@xxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:52:14 +0100
>
>Hi Edouard,
>
>the company I work for is tc electronic. If you're into music
>production, you might have heard about our flagship product "Powercore".
>If you're interested in digital audio, and specifically virtual
>synthesizers, also take a look at my website:
>http://www.aerobig.net/index.html
>
>Edouard Lombard wrote:
> > Wow Stefan, you're a real techie! You were one of those legendary Atari
> > programmers when I was still a young boy. I guess I was born a bit too =
> > late
> > to really work in the early days of computers. Tell me, in what audio
> > software company do you work?
> >
> > Edouard
> >
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> >
> > Edouard Lombard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Why not tell us about your own Atari story?
> >
> > Well, I think I'll tell the whole story. It all started when I was 15
> > and finally had some money, because I had my "konfirmation" (christian
> > initiation celebration, don't know the english term)
> > and you usually get alot of money there.
> > This will cause some moans, but actually at that time, my dream-machine
> > was a VIC-64. However, I couldn't afford it, so I bought a VIC-20. :)
> > Where I lived, there were absolutely NO people who also had such a
> > computer, so I coudn't trade games and programs (yes, the problem is as
> > old as software itself... ;) ) like the VIC-64 users could.
> > So I digged out the basic manual and tried to write my own games -
> > that's how I learned to program. ;)
> >
> > The next computer I switched to was an Atari 800-XL and since it was
> > very popular in my region, I could trade games and stuff with my
> > friends and other people. Yet, I was more interested in programming and
> > eventually switched from basic to 6502 assembler language.
> >
> > When the Atari ST came out my two best friends and I were thrilled about
> > this new 16/32 bit computer and how fast this thing must be and decided
> > that we MUST have this one.
> > So we saved money and bought our first Atari STs and started
> > programming. My interest mainly shifted to programming the sound-chip
> > and the MIDI ports, while my two friends started making their first
> > game: "Terranova", which was distributed by "Kingsoft".
> > Meanwhile I started to write my own music composition software
> > "MIDIPlay", which I used to compose my own music and extended to my
> > needs over the years.
> > Also during that time I helped my friends with the other games they
> > wrote, most importantly "Spherical", which was distributed by "Rainbow
> > Arts", where I also made the sound f/x and music for.
> > The game was a big success, we even ported it to the Amiga, others
> > ported it to Amstrad, VIC-64, etc.
> > We all got the money for our first SH-204 harddisks that way. It was
> > loud, it was slow, it had "only" 20 MB, but we thought it was the
> > greatest piece of hardware of all times! ;)
> >
> > I was the last one of us three who left the ST and bought a PC. That was
> > in 1995. I had all in all 3 Ataris. The first one was a 520STFM, then a
> > 1040 ST with 4 MB memory expansion, TOS 2.6 and SCSI harddisk in a
> > tower, and finally when it died, I bought a similar tower second hand.
> > I worked on, and used my "Midiplay" for 5-6 years, and it was my main
> > reason not to switch to another platform.
> >
> >
> >>How many do you have?
> >
> > No hardware ST anymore. They all died by long.
> >
> >
> >>Which model?
> >
> > See above.
> >
> >
> >>How much do you like it?
> >
> > I knew the purpose of every memory address, so I had a very close
> > relationship to it... ;)
> >
> >
> >>Are you some of you not working in the computer industry now?
> >
> > No, I'm not not working in the computer industry now. ;)
> > Means, yes, I'm working in the computer (software) industry as a
> > software developer now. In the audio software industry, to me more =
> > specific.
> >
> >
> >>How did you get yours?
> >
> > See my story.
> >
> >
> >>How do you still like to use them?
> >
> > I boot up STeem mainly to look at the programs I wrote and to play
> > around with my "MIDIPlay". I'm happy that it runs in STeem and that I
> > can actually listen to my old music (if I connect my old synths to my =
> > PC.)
> > I even further developed my only ST game (which was never released)
> > "Monster Mission" on STeem. Originally I wrote this "dungeon shooter"
> > style game for color mode, but when I got my monochrome monitor, I had
> > to change the code to work in mono mode. (Which looked ugly.)
> > Using STeem, I loaded the source up in my DevPak assembler and changed
> > it back to work under color mode. That was fun. ;)
> >
> >
> >>Do you use Steem in conjunction with your real machine?
> >
> > No, since I have no real ST anymore.
> >
> >
> >>What are your favourite programs/games?
> >
> > Mainly my own software. I was never too much into ST gaming. ;)
> >
> >
> >>Do you mainly use original discs or ones found on the Internet?
> >
> > I use mainly my own discs, most of them I was able to transfer to the PC
> > before my last ST died.
> >
> >
> >>How do you share your time of personal use between Atari and PC?
> >
> > This varies. I have phases where I am extremely nostalgic and run STeem
> > all the time. But in general I would say 95% PC now.
> >
> > Best,
> > Stefan
> >
> >
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