> Why not tell us about your own Atari story? Ok, my turn... 1981: Bought a ZX81. Learnt Basic. 6 months later learnt Z80. This computer taught me a lot. I got it to make different tones (it made 2 sounds on/off to record to tapes), and figured out how to make it display 220 x 192 "Hi rez graphics". I started at age 10. 1985: Got a BBC B (6502/32 Kb), and learnt a lot more. In particular sound synthesis, sprites, more mucking with the video controller to make the only I believe 4bit upwards hard scroll on the Beeb. Great computer but had no friends to exchange stuff with. Finally bought a Floppy Disk Drive ! instead of using tape. 1987 (?) Sold my BBC B :-(. Instead of buying an Archimedes, bought an Atari ST because friends had it. Wrote one of the first soundtrackers ever, and eventually the fastest one ever written on a 68000. This formed part of "HMS Soundtracker" sold by ESAT Software. Founded the group "Technocrats" with Ajrarn -- no released demos, but we joined with ST-Connexion and I released 4.5 demos. Figured out hardscroll independently, made a 5 line hardscroller, the only 4-bit hardscroller on Atari ST. Wrote the ST-MAG series of articles on overscan which were the basis for Flix' TOS magazine articles on the same. Co-wrote a game with ATM of Naos and Ajrarn, but didn't release it due to university. My main demo is in Punish your machine. Wrote tons of stuff, mostly unreleased... > How many do you have? Two. One in europe packed, and one here in the US. When I moved here I was too poor to bring it :-(. So I bought another one a few weeks ago on ebay :-) > > Which model? Atari ST 520, expanded to 1 Mb. In Europe, don't remember. > How much do you like it? I knew its hardware backwards. 1st step of Demo writing: turn the OS off. Very different from nowadays. > Are you some of you not working in the computer industry now? Yup, at AMD. > How do you still like to use them? Well, I'm trying to run TurboAssembler (one of the best programs ever written) on STEEM, to start coding again. > Do you use Steem in conjunction with your real machine? Yup. > What are your favourite programs/games? - Demos - TurboAssembler - Goldrunner :-) - Return to Genesis - Enchanted Land - Alien8 on the BBC B - The Sentinel on the BBC B - Elite on the BBC B My favourite activity was coding. > Do you mainly use original discs or ones found on the Internet? Internet nowadays. I don't know whether my originals still in Europe still work... > How do you share your time of personal use between Atari and PC? Linux 95%. Atari 5%. But on Linux Steem/hatari... Depends how nostalgic I am. Sengan / Alien of ST-CNX -- Steem - http://www.blimey.strayduck.com/ Manage your list membership - //www.freelists.org/ Click here to unsubscribe - mailto:steem-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe