Stormtrooper of Death

Wow, thats a very very long time ago. I only snail-mailed (+ floppes) with only one person in the USA. Cool. Did you enjoy the European / Dutch software/demos I send you back in the old days ?

Hi, I am Richard Vermeulen from the Netherlands, also known as DCW!, The Wizard or Stormtrooper of Death. In 1990 I made the Megaview demo. It is a scrolling screen demo, but I wanted the people to discover the hidden trick / easter egg. using your joystick. (afterwards it was a stupid idea, to think that everybody would try this) So, for all your Atarians. run this demo and use the joystick to scroll and read all the messages.. including the C65-1 story. Yep. its 33 years too late, but better late than never. Sorry for my mistake while programming, when I was 19. Here is the youtube video link for this demo.

Thanks, Dinadan67 for the quick reply.

maybe a stupid question, but I see 2 versions of ShamaXL. what is the diference between the DAC PCM5102A AUDIO OUT and the PWM AUDIO OUT version ?

Oh, Atari Magazine, IS the actual name. It was made by the old Stichting Atari Gebruikers (S.A.G.)

The old Dutch Atari Magazine (on paper) also mentioned some Midi hardware/software for the Atari 8bit. in one of their magazines from 1986/87.

When I had an 600XL + 1064 mem expansion, I could run the original Big Demo from High-Tech Team. I then had to hack it to make it working. the 600XL had a difrent ROM than 800XL/130XE. fun fact: My hacked Big Demo didnt work on the 800XL/130XE afterwards... = 600XL + 1064 only

Thank you very much, Poison.

That would be great, Poison. I prefer MP3 (so I can listen to your great music on my MP3 player, while jogging outside)

Poison, Thanks for this great new album. I also your CD with my ABBUC magazine. Is it possible to get the MP3 version files of the songs, so i can play it using my MP3 player while jogging.

It does.

Stephen, but what about using floppy based SDX with 128K (or more memory) Atari computers ? Lots of SDX code can be stored in the ramdisk of the 128K+ machines, so not much code page swapping from floppy..... And there are still much more Atarians that do not have cart based HDD gear (SDX/AVG/etc) in 2022, but like to use SDX floppy instead of the old Spartados versions..

Crossfire

Volgens mij inderdaad John Bierens (of Beerens).

MyTek, can your XEP80-II also do the high-resolution bit-mapped graphics 100% ? (source:https://www.atarimagazines.com/v6n3/xep80.html) When I was a member (and founder) of Atari Club Eindhoven, my friend and co-founder of A.C.E , John (Forgot his last name) , was experimenting a lot with his XEP80. He made some improvements to the bitmapped graphics to make them draw much faster. Sadly I lost contact with him after 1992. I ask this question, because most users of the XEP80 (or your version) want it for 80chars text, but I am just curious about the bitmapping features. Might be interesting, if you are gonna change lotsa things, to speed up the bitmapping gfx....

Today i was sorting several old Text adventures to use on my Atari 130XE and AVG card, and remembered that our Atari 8bit misses some Infocom games. Then I read this old topic. So, are there any 2022 updates concerning a working Infocom Z4/5 -interpreter for the Atari 8bit computers ?

Today I received the AVG Card + SIO cable + ECI (XE)and PBI Cable (XL), and also the Abbuc Sys-Check_V2_2 cart. I am combining my old SIDE2 cart with the Sys-Check_V2_2 and then compare the AVG card setup with SIDE2/Sys-Check_V2_2. Always fun to buy/get new hardware addons for the Atari. Its like having my own christmas birthday presents in front of me.

I have the game on my harddrive. Its a BASIC program. I might be able to upload it here, but I dont know if Grimakis agrees ?

1 Star Raiders 2 Ultima IV 3 Alternate Reality 4 One Man and his Droid 5 Fruit Machine Simulator (Gambling on a deserted Island can be soo much fun. My own private mini Las Vegas....)

After reading several hours info about the AVG cart (and watching some videos about the AVG on youtube), i have a question: Is it possible to use the SDX harddrive capabilities of the AVG cart with a standard 64K 800XL and the AVG PBI Cable (making use of the AVG 576KB Ram option)

Ok. Thank you for the fast reply.

So, after 6 years time to decide, i finally bought SysCheck v2.2 from Abbuc. I waited this long because I also wanted the plastic case that was now for sale on ABBUC aswell. Going to be very happy when the Atari goodies arrive. Are there also other ROMS that can be used on the SysCheck , such as BasicXE, Mac65, etc?

Oh, okay. Then I misunderstood.

No, my program was not about learning to play the guitaar. It was a real sound effect / emulating the Boss DS-1 guitar distortion pedal.

In the 80s, i made my own Guitar Effect. (distortion, hall effect and Delay). using an audio sampler (to connect my electrical guitar to), Stereo modded Atari 130XE and my machine language skills. Worked great. I've never seen many programs specially made to use a guitar with the Atari 8bit. i also made a upgraded second version, that was able to use audio samples that could be played using the guitar. example, play trumpet,piano,etc soundsamplesw using a guitar and my Atari 130Xe + effect program. Worked rather good aswell. The Guitar Effect program seems to be lost in time when i sold my Atari stuff in 1992.