Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
- From: "Edouard Lombard" <edouard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:35:25 +0100
Wow, are you kidding me? The very well known plug-ins of TC Electronics. =
How
would I not know about them, since I'm also a pro musician (using Cubase =
SX
(sorry pals, not the Atari Cubase). I'd say the technical level of the
members of this mailing list is pretty high.
What are you working on at TC Elec?
Ed
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Objet=A0: Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
Hi Edouard,
the company I work for is tc electronic. If you're into music=20
production, you might have heard about our flagship product "Powercore".
If you're interested in digital audio, and specifically virtual=20
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 =
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> late
> to really work in the early days of computers. Tell me, in what audio
> software company do you work?
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> Edouard
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> -----Message d'origine-----
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> la
> part de stefan kuhn
> Envoy=3DE9=3DA0: jeudi 26 f=3DE9vrier 2004 13:28
> =3DC0=3DA0: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet=3DA0: Re: [steem] Atari Questionaire
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> Edouard Lombard wrote:
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>>Why not tell us about your own Atari story?
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> 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. ;)
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> 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.
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> 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! ;)
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> 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.
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>>How many do you have?
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> No hardware ST anymore. They all died by long.
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>>Which model?
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> See above.
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>>How much do you like it?
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> I knew the purpose of every memory address, so I had a very close
> relationship to it... ;)
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>>Are you some of you not working in the computer industry now?
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> 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 =3D
> specific.
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>>How did you get yours?
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> See my story.
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>>How do you still like to use them?
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> 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 =
=3D
> 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. ;)
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>>Do you use Steem in conjunction with your real machine?
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> No, since I have no real ST anymore.
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>>What are your favourite programs/games?
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> Mainly my own software. I was never too much into ST gaming. ;)
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>>Do you mainly use original discs or ones found on the Internet?
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> I use mainly my own discs, most of them I was able to transfer to the =
PC
> before my last ST died.
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>>How do you share your time of personal use between Atari and PC?
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> 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.
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> Best,
> Stefan
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