The Atari ST and The Lost Dutchman Mine – The Movie

by Steve Fulton | Mar 31, 2023 | 1980s, AtariST

What does it mean to finish a computer game? Why are people sometimes compelled to get to the end state of a game decades after they first played it?What if that game is so obscure, almost no one alive even remembers it even exists. What if the developers never made...

Did The Atari ST Midi Support Ruin Our Favorite 80’s Rock Band?

by Steve and Jeff Fulton | Dec 13, 2022 | AtariST

It’s nearing the holidays, so we won’t have anything brand-new to post until 2023.    So instead, please enjoy an episode of our podcast from a couple years back where we explore The Atari ST Midi support, and how the ST was used by just about every band...

Some Of The Very first Atari ST Entertainment Programs Finally Archived

by Steve Fulton | Nov 30, 2022 | 1980s, AtariST

  Tech blogger Josh Renaud has rescued some of the earliest entertainment software for the Atari ST, snatched directly out of the jaws of the bit-bucket.   Back in 1985, Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen’s released “Murray and Me” and “Mom and Me”...

Five Great ST Games From 1986

by Steve Fulton | Nov 14, 2022 | 1980s, AtariST

When the 520 Atari ST was released in the summer of 1985, it wowed computer journalists with its high-resolution Mac-alike monochrome display, and its 16-color (from a palette of 512)  320 x 200 graphics mode aimed squarely at the games market while “The 520 ST...

Two Brothers and their Atari ST

by Steve and Jeff Fulton | Oct 31, 2022 | 1980s, AtariST, AtariST Intro, Retro Computing

Part 1: Rediscovering The Atari ST In 2018, after our mom passed away and we spent months cleaning out her house, we decided, as twin brothers who quite literally “grew up Atari”, that we would start a podcast about retro gaming for Atari platforms.  That podcast...

Metal Slug gets a beta port for the Sega Mega Drive and Atari STE

by Indie Retro News | Jul 9, 2022 | 1990s, AtariST, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I can say for sure there’s probably not many of you that haven’t heard of ‘Metal Slug’, a game in a series of games that are well known in the community, going back to the days of the Neo Geo system. This game has plenty of humor, while...