Issue 32: June 2003
Features
- | Foreword
- | An Atari MIDI Studio
- | The Return of the Original!
- | The Ultimate Atari fan?!
- | Tip of the day
- | Atari Logo Evolution
Reviews
- | Return of the SainT
M@ilbox
| Tip of the day Reader Mark "Two Jags" Banfield sent us this tip. Watch out for the Dalek! My first computer was a Dragon 32, when it was one of the only high street computers with a real keyboard, but I really wanted an Atari! A few years later I had saved enough money working on the farms to buy an STFM. This was a great asset while I was at college (Medway College of Art and Design, two years Product Design, three years Industrial Model-making). I wrote many essays with it, and in my final year show I had it running a Cyber Studio animation of a product I had designed - almost state of the art stuff back then! In 1993 I found a job in Hong Kong that was too good to miss so I sold my STFM and left. While in Hong Kong I started using PCs but missed the straightforward Atari TOS and GEM. A few years later an ex Atari developer (Yat Siu of Lexicor Software) gave me the TT in a non-working condition. After replacing one resistor it was up and running! It now has a 250 MB hard drive, 16 MB TT RAM and 8 MB ST RAM. The Mega STE (which is desperately in need of a case) was bought from Toad Computers when it had its clearout sale. When I returned to the UK in 2000 I started collecting all the Atari stuff I had missed over the years. In this six foot square room you can find the TT with TTM195 monitor, two STEs, two Jaguars, and the Mega STE. Alongside these are two PCs, a Power Mac 8100 and a Silicon Graphics Indy, which does make a great TTM195 monitor stand! Most of these have either been given to me or were very cheap at boot fairs. I am slowly getting back into programming for the Atari. Nothing too fancy to start with, but I hope to have something to show at next year's JagFest!
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