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Posted 12 September 2023
Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution (Paperback)
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More of an Amiga fanboy personally... But for Atari ST owners out there, this book might scratch a certain itch. Good price too.
“Power Without the Price.” Every Atari fan remembers that slogan from the 1980s as the rallying cry for 16-bit computing in the form of the Atari ST. This groundbreaking computer brought previously unimagined power to the home user for the first time—and transformed an industry or two along the way.Author Jamie Lendino offers a fresh, vital look at the history of the Atari ST, guiding you from its inauspicious genesis at the center of a company known for its gaming consoles to its category-defining triumphs in music, desktop publishing, and video gaming. And he doesn’t stop there: He then leaps to the present to pull back the veil on the thriving software and mod communities that aren’t just keeping it alive today, but taking it to places its creators never could have imagined.
Whether you’re a longtime devotee who wants to relive the magic of the machine that unleashed the wonders of Dungeon Master, Time Bandit, and Starglider, an intrepid DIYer on the hunt for new ideas and resources to take your homebrew system to the next level, or a newcomer hungry to learn the ins and outs of one of the most important computers ever created, this book will get you there just as the ST did its long-ago digital pioneers: Faster Than Light.
“Power Without the Price.” Every Atari fan remembers that slogan from the 1980s as the rallying cry for 16-bit computing in the form of the Atari ST. This groundbreaking computer brought previously unimagined power to the home user for the first time—and transformed an industry or two along the way.Author Jamie Lendino offers a fresh, vital look at the history of the Atari ST, guiding you from its inauspicious genesis at the center of a company known for its gaming consoles to its category-defining triumphs in music, desktop publishing, and video gaming. And he doesn’t stop there: He then leaps to the present to pull back the veil on the thriving software and mod communities that aren’t just keeping it alive today, but taking it to places its creators never could have imagined.
Whether you’re a longtime devotee who wants to relive the magic of the machine that unleashed the wonders of Dungeon Master, Time Bandit, and Starglider, an intrepid DIYer on the hunt for new ideas and resources to take your homebrew system to the next level, or a newcomer hungry to learn the ins and outs of one of the most important computers ever created, this book will get you there just as the ST did its long-ago digital pioneers: Faster Than Light.
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sorted byHowever no new interviews with key people involved or new insights etc
I’ve noticed a lot of recent books are like this - Is this the way it’s going?
AMIGA 4EVA
Atari was great for music steinberg pro
have 3 in the garage but gone a bit yellow over the years (edited)
I got the ST and hi Rez b&w monitor for Uni because they were 1/2 the price of a BBC micro on its own - and had this new fangled windowed / icon desktop plus mouse.
It will never catch on :-)
So I bought the Amiga 500 which I felt was more of the Atari's true successor, since amiga's co-founder and head developer, Jay miner had a hand in the development of both system's custom chipsets. If I recall correctly, the other co-founder of the company that developed it was a former Atari programmer, and the chipset was even part funded by a loan from Atari.
Meanwhile, the ST was developed by the new Atari owner, former Commodore boss Jack Trameil, and a group of former commodore engineers that had gone with him to Atari. Atari had expected to acquire the Amiga on the cheap since they were running out of money, but commodore bought Amiga instead. (edited)