Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
- From: Stefan Kuhn <stefanj_mail@xxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- 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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