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To my surprise, D-Fox approached me at Revision 2017 and had an Atari Mega ST for free from the former facility manager. As you can guess, I didn't say no, even though I am an 8-bit Atarian. I've spent quite some time taking it apart and properly cleaning it. Here's how it looked in my bathtub.
And this is the final result. I gave it to Biobern, and he's trying to make the Mega File RLL hard disk work. And we plan to release something small and Atari ST related at Revision 2018 to thank you, guys!
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Finally, I had the guts to update my Joomla version to the most recent one. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but... when I first installed Joomla and made it look how I wanted it to, I had no clue about PHP, CSS, and Joomla. Consequently, I modified all kinds of files to fit my needs. As part of the recent update, I extracted all my changes into separate PHP and CSS files and adopted the CSS, so it should work better on big screens and mobile devices. If you find something is broken now, please contact me.
Apart from that, I spent some nights chatting with Kevin Savetz this week and (in his own words) "harassed him to actually" perform the port of his "Kaverns of Kfest" game from the Apple ][ to the Atari 8-bit using WUDSN IDE. You can find the details, download, and source in the AtariAge thread.
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My passion is coding- And whenever I came across a game that I liked in my life, I immediately tried to take it into pieces and find out how it works using monitors, hex editors, freezers, or screwdrivers. There were not many games that I played. But one of them is the "The Legend of Zelda" series, starting with the original "Link's Awakening" that I played on a grey brick with a monochrome display two decades ago. Ever since, I've tried to play every Zelda game on every Nintendo console. I'm playing "The Minish Cap" on my DS these days, and I'm almost done. And here is a pleasant surprise I found on Indie Retro News and wanted to share it with you.
"What an incredible end to the week especially for Zelda fans across the globe, as BS Zelda no Densetsu, also known as 'BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets', has received a full English dub restoration. If you've never heard of the game, which until today included me, it was a score attack version of 'A Link to the Past', featuring high quality CD music and voices, but had to be played during a satellite broadcast. This rather jaw dropping release on the SNES according to Romhacking, is a full 4 hour English dub restoration available in both the original music arrangement and a custom orchestral arrangement. It also features a full voice cast including professional voice actress Kira Buckland (Danganronpa, Disgaia, Skullgirls) as Zelda, and is even playable on real hardware with a sd2snes."
Here's just a tiny screenshot, and it looks great to me. Read the full article on Indie Retro News and visit the BS Zelda Home Page for the download.
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I've updated the "The!Cart" page with:
- The description of the key features of "The!Cart" like hardware emulation of bank switching schemes
- An overview table comparing the features of the most prominent mass storage media: Atarimax Maxflash 8mbit, "The!Cart", SIDE, SIO2USB, and SIO2SD
- The lasted model files, download links to the software, models, and the new shell thread on AtariAge
- The video tutorial The!Cart - Changing the Original Shell to the 3D Printed Shell
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Atari Video Games - The Rise and Fall of a Cult Brand (German) was published mid of December in the German online news portal www.spiegel.de. The public relations manager of the ABBUC was asked to contribute some lines, and I'm pleased to see the ABBUC mentioned including the link to the home page. Great job, Florian!
