Renato's Atari hole | |
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This is the place I keep some valuable Atari info. | |
This is mainly about the Atari ST/TT line. Back in the '80s and | |
early '90s I was an avid user of my Atari ST. | |
I started to use the ST for university stuff first: the SPICE | |
electronics simoulator (only available on Atari ST at the time!), | |
wrote my reports on it in 1st Word and Signum!. | |
My thesis I wrote on an emulated Mac in Spectre GCR. My Atari was | |
faster than the Mac and had a larger B/W screen. I think I used | |
Framemaker to write my final thesis. | |
After Uni, the ST was used for a lot of other stuff, like midi and | |
programming in C (I used Pure C). | |
I must have ditched the machine at some point - I don't remember | |
and maybe that's good because later I hated myself for it. | |
The original launching of the Atari TT was too late for me and | |
maybe also too expensive back in the days. | |
Fast forward to 2023: I dug up a severely battered, abused Atari | |
TT030/4 at an auction. To make it run again I was kind of forced to dive muc | |
During the process I ran into some 'best practices' regarding the Atari TT. | |
Atari TT hardware I use | |
Atari TT software I use | |
FreeMINT is a MiNT distribution that creates a full multitasking environment | |
FreeMINT on the TT | |