Re: [steem] Atari Questionnaire
- From: Joseph Newton <josephnewton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:28:41 -0800 (PST)
Nostalgia, that's what it mainly is for me.
That's pretty cool that you know what I mean.
Singing: "Memories..." :-)
Joe
--- Edouard Lombard <edouard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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