Amimitl2

I've played Colonial Conquest a lot. Although not Risk, it is similar and is great fun to play. https://www.ludd.ltu.se/~joshua/colonial/colonial.html

I actually think that's a good thing. Not being forced to get the latest hardware just to be able to play a new game. Graphics isn't everything. That being said I probably wouldn't be able to play that game anyway, because of motion sickness.

The only way of writing 820K disk images to floppy is with an internal floppy drive. If you had more than 1MB memory on the STs, it would probably be possible to use Ghostlink and a null modem cable to transfer the disk images over to the ST and write it on a floppy with a program like JAY MSA for instance. But I think the simplest would be to get a HxC Floppy Emulator, where you can transfer disk images to the ST with an SD Card instead. The alternative is to get a desktop computer with an internal floppy drive. Plus you will need to get DD floppies, as formatting HD floppes as DD is not that reliable. Even floppies in general are not that reliable in the long run, when it comes to corruption.

Although it might be a bit overkill using it on a stock Atari ST with 1MB, when it comes to its memory usage. An alternative can also be Joe (the HTML editor)*, which is quite nice for writing HTML pages. It also has the nice feature of writing foreign characters, when you type them, directly as HTML code, instead of the letter. The reason I point this out is that if you type a document with foreign letters directly and save it, you will need to convert the font table to be PC compatible, with a program like Blinex, or else the foreign letters will become strange symbols instead. The Atari font table is fine to use and open on PCs, as long as you type in English though. And with writing a document in HTML, you will be able to open it in any web browser on the modern platform, while keeping the formatting intact. And by using a suitable HTML editor on the modern platform as well, you could quite easily write back and forth between the platforms. * https://ptonthat.fr/joe-html-editor/

I must say, I very much like Hatari, and I actually don't mind the UI that much. It's really the only option I got too, since I use Linux exclusively. And it has great documentation as well: https://hg.tuxfamily.org/mercurialroot/hatari/hatari/raw-file/tip/doc/manual.html#The_GUI The only downside with it for me, is that memory snapshots are tied to the specific version of Hatari you're using. So if you later upgrade Hatari to a newer version, you can't use your current memory snapshots anymore. I believe Steem doesn't have that problem.

Yes, it's quite simple. Have it in a folder named AUTO on the boot medium, in your case the SD card, then TOS will automatically load it in, when you boot. Zogging Hell has an excellent guide about it: http://www.zhell.co.uk/sthelp07.html

I was wrong about my tip about TeraDesk as a solution, as the desktop needs to be at medium resolution to make it run. It can't change the resolution to medium by itself, which I thought it could, for some reason. But anyhow what you need is STE_FIX.PRG, which you need to put in a folder named AUTO, either on a floppy disk or a hard drive. Then when you save the desktop, in medium resolution, it will be remembered next time you boot up. STE_FIX.PRG is in the TOSFIXES.ZIP attachment. TOSFIXES.ZIP

Or you could install a different desktop, like TeraDesk, for instance.

That's always a possibility.

As for the question "are there good games for the ST", I would certainly say yes. I think a good starting point may be this list: http://www.atarimania.com/top-atari-game-atari-st-_G_S_H.html

Wings of Fury was never released for the Atari ST. It's a good game though, I've played the Amiga version.

No, far from it, I think Atarimania is a great resource. I use it regularly myself for finding manuals and Atarimania covers software and demos too, which I like. So I really appreciate the work that has been done with it. It has become a really good site, so I want to say thank you for that.

I prefer to play cracked games myself, from the different cracker groups at the time, like Automation, Pompey Pirates, D-Bug et cetera, which you can easily download from http://www.planetemu.net/roms/atari-st-compilations-games. You have lists from several cracker groups, of what games they had on their compilation disks over at http://members.optusnet.com.au/atari1/. All those games usually work well with TOS 1.62, so I just emulate an Atari 1040STE all the time, which was what I played on, when I was little. A great place to find games are http://www.atarilegend.com/games/games_main.php You also have http://www.atarimania.com/pgemainsoft.awp?type=G&system=S, although I find Atari Legend has more pictures of the games, which I find useful.

I have uploaded both DeskPic and Smurf as attachments, in case someone should ask for them. I also noticed that Gerhard Stoll's site is now down, so Smurf is not easy to get a hold of, unless it lies on some ftp servers. deskpic.zip smurf_106gpl.zip

All you need to have is DeskPic really, which you run as an accessory, plus you need to have the DESKPIC.PRG in the AUTO folder. Not much of a big deal for me. For converting images to the .img format I use a combination of GIMP and Smurf. GIMP on the Linux side, where I scale the images down and Smurf on the Atari side, where I convert the image to the same palette, as is used in the current resolution you're using, where I then save it as an IMG file. I use the medium resolution, which only has 4 colors, where the colors I use on the desktop are black, white, grey and red. I use ordered dither on the images, so I get more details. If you're running it in low resolution, you can get a pretty decent image with ordered dithering. As you can see here on one of my videos: https://youtu.be/RAHUnyIDwDc Here's another video which shows DeskPic in use in higher resolution: https://youtu.be/phPOUTo2fNg