Jrecee wrote:So the amiga was more popular? I always see screens of amiga games on mobygames and assume 90% of the stuff on the atari st was on that too. Can't say I was into computers at that time (I was 5) so I don't know much about them. Would I have better luck tracking down an old amiga? Can you download games and stuff for it?
I know that with a null modem cable and the software that comes with amiga forever you cAn actually write games in .adf format straight to the floppy drive on the amiga. I've got a lot of great games to work again using that method. It's the only problem
with games on floppy disk. The data disintegrates so fast. Having a back up of all my games on my system that I can put on my amiga at anytime is great.
I don't know of any similar method for atari st though sorry.
I'm not at my PC right now but if you want I can write up a guide of how to transfer games onto an amiga from a PC using amiga disk format (.adf) images downloaded from the Internet.
We had an Atari ST when I was about 5-6 in 1984, so after the 2600 I did all my gaming on that machine. Everyone else was into nes while I was pretty much trading games and making holes on the 5.25-inch floppy disk to copy on the other side of the disk. After the atari st I got a nes clone and moved to consoles for a few years and then moved to pc gaming again. I also remember the first time I hooked up my modem to call a friends who lived on the same street to exchang some games, he sent me wargames (which I can't find on the net and most certain it was base on this film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/ if anyone can confirm this). It took a lot of time don't recall if it was 400bps or what, but I tought the world was coming to and end and could not beleive what had just happened.
We had an atari st 800XL and later a gray XE model. I also remember programming my own games at first with a book writing codes all day just to be able to play games and using a cassette player to run programs, but think that was another computer we had before the atari. My cousin supposedly has his stored somewhere and been planning to raid his house to look for it, think I'll cry when I boot it.
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