@troed Writing demos teaches some skills that are hard to acquire otherwise... while also creating some bad habits.
Oh, and I'm writing that literally as I'm starting work on a new ST demo, I just did the first git commit of a trivial program that'll grow into some demo over the next few weeks.
--Djaybee from the MegaBuSTers
you can see you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason
probably using that Apple Imagewriter
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST
The Atari 260ST. There's a lot of misinformation circulating about this model on the internet, including the "fact" that it was only released with 256K of RA...YouTube
someone pointed out there is an Apple Lisa with Atari asset tags owned by a collector in Germany?
and may still have the TOS development system on its hard drive
homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.h…
could be the same one on the far right in the photo!
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa
as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985
the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready
the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:
archive.org/details/JeromeDomu…
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa
Jerome Domurat worked at Atari from November 1981 through July 1986 as an artist and interface designer. He started creating art for the home game systems,...Internet Archive
speaking of Apple Lisa source...
source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back
now that's how you publicly license historical source code
and people have gotten it to run!
with a full GEM desktop!
it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!
stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi…
alternative-system.com/en/revi…
compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/…
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM
