Re: [steem] Atari Questionnaire
- From: "Edouard Lombard" <edouard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:33:08 +0100
Hey Joe, I find that your story is the closest to mine, with a strong =
link
to the growing up phase, and the will to get back to that period of =
time,
despite the hardware failures and the loss of information. This is all =
about
nostalgia, isn't it?
Edouard
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> Why not tell us about your own Atari story?
In 1988, I was 16. My friend got me hooked on Dungeon
Master. I wanted an ST so bad that I worked almost 40
hours / week while going to high school at $3.20 /
hour to save up for an ST. A 1040 ST was about $1500
at the time. I saved up about $750. My mom pitched
in the other half. That ST was my one and only
computer until 1993 and I used it all the time.
In 1993, I went the way of the PC, but I still played
games on the ST.
In 2001, half of my disks were too degraded to read.=20
This saddened me very much until I learned about the
ST community. I found replacements for all of my
degraded floppies, replacing many fond memories of
growing up. I made images of my good floppies, which
were featured for a while on a website that was hosted
by a really nice guy named MODULA. Hey MODULA, if
your still out there, send me an e-mail!
In 2003, I had collected so much Atari stuff that I
decided to share it with the masses via an FTP site
that I simply dubbed Joe's Atari Stuff
(http://www.visi.com/~josephnewton/atari/).
> How many do you have? Which model?
I have 2 Atari 1040 STs, but only one that works. The
one I bought in 1988 had been used so much that about
1/3rd of the keys on the keyboard no longer responded.
Fortunately, an old friend of mine gave me his 1040
ST which was in perfect condition, except that the
pins on his monitor cable were smashed in. I used the
monitor cable from my ST to fix his and viola! I have
an ST that is in perfect condition, though I now only
use STEEM. STEEM is so incredible and much more
convenient than the actual ST.
> How much do you like it?
I love having my ST games available to me. They were
a huge part of my growing up. When I was a teenager,
I was constantly getting in to trouble, so I was
grounded to my room a lot, which meant I spent a lot
of time with my ST.
> Are you some of you not working in the computer
industry now?
Nowadays, I work with the infrastructure of data
networks for a large corporation.
> How do you still like to use them?
Mainly for games.
> What are your favourite programs/games?
I'll always love Dungeon Master. My other favorites
are:
Star Raiders
Barbarian (aka Deathsword)
Night Hunter
Typhoon Thompson In Search of the Seachild
Backlash
Chip's Challenge
Laser Chess (the best PD game ever)
Mercenary: Escape From Targ
Technocop
Any of the Sierra On-line games
That's more than long enough, so I'll shut up now.
Joe
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