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Good example images etc here http://atariage.com/forums/topic/172198-supercharger-ms-dos-emulator/

It was a board with an Intel 286 or 386 CPU that allowed you to run PC software - DOS mainly but I think you could run Windows 3.x on the 386 one. As it was a real CPU it was reasonably speedy at the time.

I had the 286 one in my 520STM (2.5mb). I used it to run Dbase III for DOS for my college work. Good little device.

As people are talking about the UK press view of the Jaguar, here's the reviews I did for Atari St Review magazine back then. You need to scroll down a bit for the Jaguar reviews but there's a good few there. http://laskey.co.uk/category/retro/atari/

No, it was a mistake to do as many as they did. Rybags is bang on. It's cool now to release retro classics but back then it was just seen as Atari cranking out tired old games yet again. T2K worked but the rest were very much meh at the time. Heck, even the old games which they released on the ST were viewed as being a bit desperate and frankly embarassing but by the time the Jaguar arrived, it was really not what they should have been doing - essentially "Look! State of the art 64 bit hardware! And here's a bunch of 8bit games for it!"

I used to review Jaguar games in the UK for the various magazines. I had, I think 3 beta versions of Rayman back in the day, over a period of several months. Initially, it was being pushed as a Jag exclusive with all the info talking about how it favoured the Jag's architecture etc. Later on they did start talking about the PS1. My memory was that it was a few months between the final beta and it coming out but it's hazy now. I just checked my old review which does mention a delay between first versions and release of 1 year and I think that was based on the first beta, which was fully playable but only had a few levels, to the actual release. http://laskey.co.uk/atari-jaguar-rayman-review/

I have vague memories of some oddball shop that I think was Spanish owned that was upstairs in a building down Regent Street in London. They used to advertise during the ST era and seemed to do mainly high end stuff. I did visit one time but the door was closed and no one around.

On your magazines feature, you missed another fairly good UK one: http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-ukacoc-newsletter-monitor_49.html

Pretty much all my friends bought Atari's after I started with one. I'm guessing a dozen 8bits and maybe 8 STs?

Possibly but I listen to other podcasts that do everything via Skype and you'd think they were both in the same room with high quality mics. There must be something else going on here, interference wise?

It would be really good to get an episode without some sort of mic/audio issue. It really makes for difficult listening.

Pretty I used to have a frontier like that in my old STm. Mine was 2mb though to give 2.5mb total. Most people I knew back then had that amount of ram installed. There was some minimal soldering plus the ribbons to sockets, again much like the pic. I think I had a 286 add on in there too, can't remember which one though.

I'm just impressed someone had a copy of Curt's site back when it had loads of cool content. It seems to have lost much of the interesting stuff over the years but here it all is.

Xbox 360 and One have headset sockets on the controller.

I've checked a few PDFs and they're all later editions which seem to be fixed. What used to tickle me was the intro said all listings had been carefully checked and were correct so any problems were users mistakes.

Afraid not, I sold it off years ago. There must be PDFs of it out there.

I remember being horrified by the manual when I bought the assembler editor cart. The listings had really obvious errors in them even having the editor's syntax error message showing.

I have the VHS but you can now buy it on DVD.

I used to review Jag games for various UK magazines and for me, it was the software that let it down. There were a handful of nice surprises (power drive rally, rayman, mutant penguins) but apart from AvP and T2K it was just one disappointment after another. It was a real struggle finding good things to say about most games. Even when I visited Atari for the previews it was heart breaking how poor most were. The final nail in the coffin was the ECTS where Sony showed off the PS1 at a massive stand next to Atari's. I was helping Atari out demoing games. The Sony games just destroyed any hope Atari had and I remember watching their demo screens and thinking it's over.

Back in the day there used to be lots of type in listings that accessed DOS commands this way. It's quite scary how much knowledge gets 'lost' as the years go by then rediscovered but that's often the way in any technical area. I get very frustrated at work when some 22 year old tells us oldsters about some great new tech he's just done at college only to find it existed under a different name in the 70s or 80s but fell out of fashion.

Well surely the site is backed up...?

Arghh.. Let down by autocorrect. Screen shot.

I never said it doesn't work for me, I just pointed out the screen shit showed a typo in the program.

Of course, the news item totally fails to mention it was also on the Atari.

Man, so much stuff I've only heard of and never seen before. Really hope you get good prices for that stuff.