| Renato's Atari hole
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This is the place I keep some valuable Atari info.
This is mainly about the Atari ST/TT line. Back in the '80s and
early '90s I was an avid user of my Atari ST.
I started to use the ST for university stuff first: the SPICE
electronics simulator (only available on Atari ST at the time!),
wrote my reports on it in 1st Word and Signum!.
My thesis I wrote on an emulated Mac in Spectre GCR. My Atari was
faster than the Mac and had a larger B/W screen. I think I used
Framemaker to write my final thesis.
After Uni, the ST was used for a lot of other stuff, like midi and
programming in C (I used Pure C).
I must have ditched the machine at some point - I don't remember
and maybe that's good because later I hated myself for it.
The original launching of the Atari TT was too late for me and
maybe also too expensive back in the days.
Fast forward to 2023: I dug up a severely battered, abused Atari
TT030/4 at an auction. To make it run again I was kind of forced to
dive much deeper into the TT than I had ever anticipated.
Fast forward to 2024: my girlfriend bought me a beautiful Falcon!
Of course, I also dived into the Falcon, with mixed success...
During the process I ran into some 'best practices' :-)
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