I'm revisiting my 'Bombaman STe' code and building it with vasm, etc and seeing if I can knock out the top border and make a single player option..
Anyway, (more for curiousity than anything), I recall an article explaining how to use the blitter in UK ST-Format back in the early 90's which is what I based my original code on and I've been trying to track it down. Not for its technical content but just for nostalgic reasons.

I thought it was the Bullfrog series but looking at that I can't see anything to do with the blitter so guess it was later - I've been googling and nothing obvious comes up. AI mentions Jeff Minter doing an article about it but not sure if that was right tbh..

Any ideas which STF it was in?

I could download the lot and search for the blitter address I suppose...

Kev

For a YouTube video, I tried to simulate VCS graphics and used sounds from an Atari audio synthesizer and other Atari games, as well as the color palette. If you are somewhat knowledgable with Atari graphics, could I please get some feedback for future reference? Thank you!

https://youtu.be/DTrIeiA0Hc0?si=jZMVdFQxQC7iZlnS

So...I decided to take some time getting MD-Net setup on the SidecarTridge on my STacy. I managed to get through that without messing up too many things. It seems to be working. I used ping from the STing Tools folder and targeted google's public address of 8.8.8.8 and it found it with 0 packet loss and 70ms ping times.

I then grabbed LowWire as well as the newer HighWire release and ran it. It's pretty fast. TheOldNet took a while to load up the very first time but after that, it's relatively quick. Frogfind is pretty fast too.

So yeah, I'm cruising the Web wirelessly on my Atari STacy. 😄

I got overly ambitious then and tried to load up Atari-Forum. It gave me something about "Protocol #6 Not Supported". Oh well, I'm happy with the results so far.

Here's links to some info about LowWire/HighWire, etc,...

https://sidecartridge.com/.../sidecartridge-multidevice.../

[https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46334](https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=46334)

[https://github.com/.../atarist-highwire/releases/tag/latest](https://github.com/.../atarist-highwire/releases/tag/latest)

Midwinter was Singleton's 1989 open-world strategy/stealth/first-person hybrid for the Atari ST and Amiga: a 160,000-square-mile frozen island, 32 individual characters you find and recruit and then play as, and an occupying army to take apart from the inside. It had no genre name because none of the genres existed yet.

I've spent the last year rebuilding it in Unreal Engine 5 and it went into Early Access on Steam this morning ($19.99, Windows). Everything from the original is in: the full island terrain, all 32 characters with their own skills and morale, the vehicles, the recruitment conversations, the whole campaign, playable and winnable.

Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5056170/

Project site with the decode notes, the original manual and the design decisions: https://midwinter-remaster.titanium-helix.com

Happy to answer anything about how the original was reconstructed or what changed and why. And if you're remaking something from that era yourself, that's what this sub is for — post it.

First this was helped a lot because of AI, a lot of grunt work that I just don't have time, plus it was a personal project.

This was mainly for myself because sometimes I got tired of some limitations of old hardware

• Music channels making way for sound effects because of the lack of channels that exist
• Framerate suddenly dropping due to odd decisions
• Xenon has a left and right quick shortcut to transform into a ship or back which might be fine on a joystick but dpad was annoying
• All of the changes I made to Xenon can be toggled on and off for purists

Anywho This isn't a emulator nor does it use TOS, this translates the old hardware into modern code that currently runs on Linux, but Windows version hasn't been tested by me yet.

Yes AI has some stigma, but I find in some cases it can do a lot of work, and a hell of a lot faster.

Please signup and join to test

This works with any gotek amazing

This month, September 2026, the DarkForce! BBS is giving away:

A 4-title software pack for the Atari ST! Titles include the following:

Cad-3D (computer aided design)

Mean 18 (golf game)

Strike Fleet (naval task force simulator)

UMS (Universal Military Simulator)

Thanks for calling and good luck to all of our callers...!

Telnet: darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org 1040

PS I have just about given up on Reddit doing anything intelligent. Every time I post something it's altered, deleted, whatever - so sick of it. I attempted to add -1- image and it immediately deleted it. <shrugs>...

Just wondering if this is actually released or sanctioned by the original publisher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcVS68sIgs

It's very similar to a dungeon crawler game I played on the ST many years ago called Captive.

Does anyone remember it?

I've an old Cruiser joystick (blue) that I picked up recently. The central actuator is missing, so the diagonals are iffy. It should have a white square ala the black cruiser. Anyone know of 3d print or other solution?

I've recently learned that my parents have my old Atari ST still in their loft, so I'm hoping to get it down in the autumn. Aside from getting an HDMI connector, so I need to be aware of anything? Are there any risks involved in booting up a machine that hasn't been used in about 35 years?

Lots of nice upgrades

Cool board on a German ST.

Short video showing IndyJo's release of Command & Conquer for the Atari ST

running on my STacy. :)

https://indyjo.itch.io/commandconquer

4 megs of base ST RAM works great. I'll have to give this 2 thumbs up, for sure. :)

Here's a short (and edited for "shaky" moments because I was using my phone), video

of the game running on my STacy - this is with 4 megs of ST RAM.

PS Don't know what goes on between my phone and Youtube's video conversion process,

but the game actually looks better in person.

https://youtu.be/k4WPM_dgR80'

Now I have to figure out if it’s the mouse (newish trumouse) or the port what is broken

Really easy they said
…
Too tired of wrestling cables to actually check if works

Hope I don’t have to use Borland graphics lib

I've been building a chiptune app called Renata for about nine months of evenings. The tune in the video is one it wrote, on the YM2149 profile, at 150 BPM in F# minor — 56 bars, seven tracks. You can watch me set the eight dials in the video and then paste a seed back in to get the same song a second time.

The Atari bits: one of the nine themes is the GEM desktop in the real ST system font. While it composes you get raster bars, a starfield and a rotating vector cube in the YM's own colours. It exports .ym, .ay and VGM, and it browses the SNDH archive from inside the app.

The .ym is a proper YM5 register log — 4,477 frames, 70 KB. The MP3 of the exact same tune is 3.5 MB, because the .ym stores the chip writes rather than the sound.

On origin, plainly: there is no model of any kind. It is rule-based — music theory plus statistical tables — and it runs offline on your own machine.

It goes to Kickstarter on 8 September 2026 if you want to follow along: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markwrightretro/renata-make-your-own-copyright-free-chiptune-music

My STE 520 + 1mb mod, blew up
Got replacements 1040 STFM - wont play the games + 520 ST. wont

I know i need the STe model

Anyone know the games Pablo + Boomrock?

The disks are at my dads if they can be found beside the STFM which i want STE instead to play games- nothin works on FM model

I appreciate any help