The computer built out of spite. Jack Tramiel, ousted from Commodore, bought Atari and shipped the 16-bit ST in five months – undercutting the Mac, standardising the recording studio with built-in MIDI, and fighting the Amiga for Europe’s bedroom desks. This page is its complete story, from the Jackintosh to the Falcon.
Escape 2042 Breaks Out Again – the homebrew scene’s ST, alive and releasing: a modern prison-break game sneaks onto the platform.
The eternal rival: the Amiga story.
Built in five months out of spite: the Jackintosh that undercut the Mac, ran the world’s studios on MIDI, and fought the Amiga to a standstill. The complete Atari ST story.
Some games launch once and settle down. Escape 2042: The Truth Defenders kept picking its own lock. By the time our original news item appeared on 22 June…
Some ports take twenty-seven years to arrive. In June 2015 this site carried a piece of news that read like a correction to the historical record: R-Type, Irem’s 1987 arcade masterpiece, was being rebuilt for the Atari STe, not as…
