December 2017 Meeting Report

'was the 8th nigh' before Christmas(, well actually day(Sunday), although in Greenwich it would be the wee-small hours of night) and the meeting was held.  A convener, an attendee - "Who could ask for anything more" (Ok, we'll be asking for more next year as we wind down from this year).


Do you have a need for Jaguar Pro-Controllers?  At a reasonable price?  Here's the proposal we found at AtariAge  Why do I need this you ask?  So you can play the following Jaguar games of course!

We also played some of this on the computer as we discovered a little more about Ken Sider

November 2017 Meeting Report

On this sunny, summer day in Melbourne the November MACE meeting was attended by Andrew, Tom, and a few tumbleweeds blowing by - fitfully faltering in front of our ST's screens before continuing on their way, driven by the dry wind. Unchained, released, but never free, the winds captive.

That laborious intro out of the way, onto less fanciful content: at today's meeting we continued a deeper look at Tautology 2 by Reservoir Gods, both the gameplay, and with Assempro's decompile function. It's always an amusing and fruitful idea to decompile programs written in C and try to understand the assembler output. I for one have no idea what's going on, but Andrew and our guest from the Microcontroller MelbPC SIG (this month, and last), Mohan Gupta, had some.

Tautology 2, for the Atari Falcon

Tautology 2 is a favourite of ours and is an original and interesting take on the Mahjong theme.

Other random noteworthy happenings on the Atari scene over the last few months which were touched upon include:

• The rebirth of the Atari-legend website. The new version of the site is looking great and hopefully it can become a centre of collaboration from the Atari community again, in preserving and documenting the old games and software we all love!
• We watched this interesting, 25 minute, documentary by released by Wrestling With Gaming last month on the rise and fall of the Atari Jaguar. A nicely done, fairly balanced (some retrospective narratives on the Jaguar are overly critical in my opinion) review of the rise of the Jaguar, the cancellation of its ST-related predecssor, the Atari Panther.
  
• Daimakaimura / Ghouls 'n' Ghosts arcade port by AnimainCorpore (Sascha Springer). This is really quite an incredible achievement on the STE, eclipsing the original game graphically by a significant margin and causing some scratching of heads over on the English Amiga Board which is a rare and enjoyable thing for an ST production.
  
• We had look at a Wrath of the Demon game play video. We are meant to be nostalgic types, we're meant to view the past through rose-tinted glasses, however in my opinion this games appeal has been tarnished with age. The graphics are impressive for the time, but the game play looks tedious, repetitive, and recycled.
  

Meeting report for October, 2017

Now that was spooky!

     LDX #$FF

Meeting report for September, 2017

Review of Boulder Dash on youtube

Meeting report for August, 2017

One of our regular's Atari Falcon through a wobbly...Opps!

Meeting report for July, 2017

Really good meet!

This Month we were fortunate to have on display a 3D Printer

Meeting report for June, 2017

Another jam packed meeting with Honey Jumble & snowballs to boot!  (Well 2 eat actually)

& Thanx Tom for pointing us in the direction of this "modern" take on an original classic

Need to whip up a quick circuit diagram on your Atari ST try; this article

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WARNING!  https://omarcast.com/blog/2017/4/24/howl-ssl-cloud-credit-card-charge-scam-alert

...We even unpacked the dishwasher!

Meeting report for May, 2017

This Month we fired-up a box of 3.5" diskettes including;

    

Jack Nicklaus' Golf

Plus we had Sim City

    

Meeting report for April, 2017

A song in scratch  http://scratch.mit.edu

And as expected over the Easter Long Weekend a few of our regulars were sorely missed.  But we did have at least one welcome New Face, take a look/listen at this;

     http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/25248443
     http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/25193074
     http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23985240
     http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/24269466

And also a computer is being build, wow!  Plus whatever time permits..

Meeting report for March, 2017

A BIG Thanx to all the boys & gals out @ Silicon Valley for creating good ol'Atari

This Month;

     GFA BASIC on an Atari Computer

     And a comparison with  http://scratch.mit.edu

BIG differences!!!!!

     Looked at MrPetari's improvements to Uridium, Prince Of Persia
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPetari/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=1

     Oh, and something about Stonehenge

Thanx Tom for the last 2 items

Meeting report for Febuary, 2017

Quite a bit going on..

  Developement
  Social Networking
  Viewed Flashback Portable review online
  'Hands-On' demo Atari Lynx
  actually mostly social networking!

BBQ Meeting for January, 2017

Anyone like to report on that?..

Meeting report for December, 2016

Always Fun!