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1 Look it up on wikipedia!1/1/ Atari ST knowhow Workshop 1: History and Introduction

2 Look it up on wikipedia!2/2/ 198619851984198 0 198 1 197 9 19821983 History It's complicated Jeff Miner Game developers Hi-Toro Amiga Inc Project Lorraine Money? Activisio n Shiraz Shivji $$$ Jack Tramiel $$$ Money? ST dev520ST Amiga 1000 1976 C= buys MOS 1994 bankrupt Video game crash 1977 vcs 6507 chips 1996 merged

3 Look it up on wikipedia!3/3/ Specifications First ST specifications ● Motorola 68000 CPU @ 8Mhz ● 512K RAM ● External single sided floppy 360K ● Separate B/W and Color modes ● Basic audio chip, additional MIDI ports ● Printer, serial and harddisk connectors

4 Look it up on wikipedia!4/4/ Video 2 worlds: B&W and Color B&W 70Hz, professionally aimed 640x400 pixels Macintosh had 512x342 => “Jackintosh” Dedicated monitor, only from Atari. Very good quality.

5 Look it up on wikipedia!5/5/ Video Color was for games. Need different monitor Palette based, 512 possible colors to choose from Low resolution: 320x200 16 colors Medium resolution 640x200 4 colors 50Hz (USA: 60Hz)

6 Look it up on wikipedia!6/6/ Audio ● Built in soundchip: YM2149 What a downfall from C64 or XL! ● 3 channels, square wave, independent volume ● one ADSR envelope with repeat ● noise generator ● But the ST also had MIDI (great success among musicians)

7 Look it up on wikipedia!7/7/ Connectivity Standard ports ● Serial ● Printer ● MIDI ● Joystick & Mouse Proprietary Ports ● Monitor ● Rom port ● Floppy ● ACSI (harddisk)

8 Look it up on wikipedia!8/8/ Variations ● RAM: rounded gives model number ● 512K => 520ST / 1024K => 1040ST ● Superscript add ons indicate model: ● M: RF modulator ● F: built-in floppy ● E: enhanced (M + F + 4096colors, digisound, hardware scrolling, additional joystick ports) Example: 1040ST FM

9 Look it up on wikipedia!9/9/ Variations ● Mega: desktop with separate keyboard ● model number indicates quantity of MB ram ● TT030 using pure 32bit 68030 CPU ● Falcon030 with DSP and advanced ● grafics modes

10 Look it up on wikipedia!10/ OS ● TOS: CP/M based with DOS hierarchical filesystem ● User interface: GEM ● VDI (drawing primitives) ● AES (UI elements) ● Operating system: GEMDOS ● BIOS ● XBIOS

11 Look it up on wikipedia!11/ Software ● Aimed to B&W market ● First Word (included) ● Calamus (DTP) ● Signum (think LaTeX wysiwyg) ● Cubase (MIDI sequencer) ● Aimed to Color market ● NEOchrome, Degas, Spectrum512 (paint programs) ● Tracker, Quartet (4 voice digi music) ● soundsampler

12 Look it up on wikipedia!12/ Software ● Initial supply ● ST basic (horrible) ● ST Logo (more horrible) ● Independent ● GfA Basic (the reference) ● Devpac ● Turboass ● Pascal ● Turbo C

13 Look it up on wikipedia!13/ Software ● Games ● Mostly only for color ● Dungeon Master (3D RPG) ● Falcon (Flight sim) ● MIDI maze (first ever LAN game) ● Platform games (Lemmings, Barbarian) ● Shooters (Xenon2, Wings of Death)

14 Look it up on wikipedia!14/ Demos ● Games had cracks, later came demos ● We can do what Amiga does! But we use a menu (huh?) ● (this section could last several hours, if you want) ● 1987: READ_ME.PRG, LSD, LCD ● 1988: B.I.G, Fullscreen, FNIL, Amiga ● 1989: NY1, Union, Cuddly, Whattaheck, Sowatt ● 1990: NY2, Mindbomb, Overscan, LifesBitch, Syntax Terror, Spoon ● 1991: Electra, European, Decade, Scorcher, PYM ● 1992: O-Demo, Phaleon, Bollocks, Socks, Ventura ● 1993: Froggies, Synergy, Flip-O ● Newer stuff: Nostalgic-O, Virtual Escape and many more

15 Look it up on wikipedia!15/ Hands on ● Start your ST: put button to ON ● Stop your ST: put button to OFF ● Emulators: there is really no shutdown. You just close it. ● On ST only bootsector virus was an issue

16 Look it up on wikipedia!16/ Where to get software ● Demos: www.pouet.net ● or pacidemo.planet-d.net ● Games: ● Applications: ● ask me! ● http://ahladnik.free.fr / http://dbug.kicks- ass.net/dbug/ http://www.emuparadise.me/Atari_ST_ROMs/6 3

17 Look it up on wikipedia!17/ Syn2cat projects ● Computer Museum plan is to buy shelves, one shelve per system put them into the hallway, accessible front/back with nice decoration ● Floppy archiving robot ● Maybe using the KryoFlux ● Shugart to USB magnetic sampler ● Take pic of disk, insert, save, eject 100 €

18 Look it up on wikipedia!18/ Next Workshops 2. Hacking hardware & software 3. Putting it all together 4. Assembler and Hardware 5. Algorithms and Optimizations 6. Sync programming 7. First own steps This is not finalized


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