News

Our initial thanks must go to Linkovitch (of the Jagfest BBS) for being our new host.

We also need to thank Mark Durban (our old host) for doing his best to get our data back from the hosting company who were moaning about us in the first place We got there in the end with some help from Linkovitch and his array of industry contacts

What's not working - ahem, quite a few things unfortunately. Whilst most of the back-end stuff seems to be working, there are several front-end bits that aren't We're getting there but, as we've all got full time jobs and other hobbies, it will take some time to get everything 100% fixed and tickety-boo.

Whilst we've been "offline", there are two other database sites out there and we hope to be able to work with both of them.

Guardians of the PaST is run by a fellow AL-member, Goldrunner (him of GamebaseST) Xperimental, Snaptari, X3peri_MENTaL, Marakatti and Ijor (another good friend of Atari Legend).

AtariMania is being run & looked after by Marakatti (yes, he's got fingers in both pies!), Trooper and Franck.

Both sites look good so far and I hope to be able to supply them with some scans for their specialist subjects

Mug UK/Atari Legend

After a lot of research, result collating and general messing about with people's votes from loads of retro forums, including Atari Forum, Stickhead has finally released his Top 50 ST Games.

If you want to gander, then click here to see if your favourite games are in the top 50!

Many thanks go to Stickhead for undertaking this mammoth task. And as a mini-thank you, he's also started an ST-related blog which will feature a random game from the 4,834 (current) games stored on this here website

An email has been received from the organisers and this year's Eurocon / Retro-Borse (combined event) will be held on the weekend of 10th - 12th October 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

From the email:

Here are the first details. More info later on www.eurocon.info.

* As with every Eurocon the last 9 years you can expect a weekend filled with fun, gaming, talking, trading, party, meeting of old and new friends and much more.

* The fee for the Eurocon will be 60€ per person.

Included are the participation, coffee/water, snacks, entrance to the RetroGames e.V. (www.retrogames.info), free entrance to the exhibitions of the ZKM, a guided tour to the exhibitions “YouSer” and “World of Games” on Sunday morning, one table (optional) at the Retro-Börse, transport to/from RetroGames and a lot more surprises

I'll be going most definitely - and hoping to find stuff to buy this time. Hope to see more Atarian's at the event too. Don't know about my mate and his JagVR helmet but if he's got it working, I daresay he'll be taking it too. See you there!

Picross ST has been released.

They (the authors/designers/graphic artists) would like any feedback on this first 'proper' release so let them know if you find any errors.

There wasn't time to add my "flash the red border/make a noise' if you make a mistake but there's always v1.1!

Myself and GazTee (owner of the Jaguar Virtual Reality helmet) flew out to Paris last Friday and then travelled onwards to the AC-2008 weekend. We met up with a fellow Atari Legender, Dungeon Master, and lots of people who all love their Atari machines (of all types, not just the 16-bit ones).

A good few presentations were made and myself & GazTee's thanks go to Arethius for doing a running translation on some of them for us.

Highlights of the show were:

Picross ST - a special AC-2008 preview version was launched and a presentation given on it.

SDiskemul - a new hardware card that will allow you to store your disk images on an SD card and fool your ST into thinking it's loading up a proper disk. The beauty is that the same card also works on Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari XL/XE machines too.

Jagware's CF card - a proper development tool for the Jaguar can only mean lots more games to be released. A competition was set for someone to write a game for the Jaguar using this card in 24 hours - and it was completed too!

Kradd's new game - as yet unreleased but a demo of it was on view and a small presentation given (with Arethius doing the translation for the French audience)

Our thanks go to the organisers of the event for all the hard work and fun competitions - and not forgetting the food. Well, OK, except for my total dislike of Brie cheese as it smelt (almost) as bad as my trainers do after a day on my feet but everyone else loved it!

I sure hope to be at the next event which is planned for sometime in October.

Meanwhile there are tons of photos and video clips doing the rounds but I'll just link you to the main forum for AC-2008 which is collecting all the links - which reminds me to put my own photos up a.s.a.p!

First the good news - we've set up a mini-group with some willing volunteers from Atari Forum to help tidy up/fix the errors in the Atari Legend database. A full list of all the bugs quashed will have to wait until they're *all* done but with the help of bullis1, unseen_menace and Dal_1978 (especially his PHP skills) we're quashing away!

Some bad news - part 1. Brume has retired from Atari Legend, Atari and retro-gaming in general. It's been coming for a long while due to the politics within the 'scene' and other personal issues. We're all sad to see him go. But life is life and you got to go out there and enjoy 'real life' at some point! Best of luck to Brume in whatever he does from now on - especially learning the bass guitar. The door will *always* be open for you should you ever want to come back ......

More bad news - part 2. We're all taking a long earned break here in Atari Legend. The site is, however, staying exactly where it is so don't panic! We're hardly likely to throw away almost 5 years worth of work now are we!

What we're up to at the moment:

Mug UK - I'm slowly wading through and cataloguing, PASTI'ing and scanning in the boxes of my sumptuous originals collection (oo-er!). Not run out of room yet... but the scanning etc. has kind of taken a back burner now I'm on Xbox Live and enjoying modern gaming

Klaz is working on other projects (mainly his h/drive & Falcon patched games) as well as other mini-projects here and there.

Marcer is still working on his Game DVD and his work for Elite in 2008.

Maartau is returning to his Empire resurrection project as well as helping Marcer out with his Game DVD.

DM - still buying originals for preservation. Hopefully he'll be at AC-2008 along with Maartau.

ICS - also semi-retired as more into creating subs for anime films

Goldrunner - continuing with his Guardians Of The Past project.

ST Graveyard - busy restoring classic sports cars!

Shredder - not enough hours in the day for him to get everything done he wants to do. He's still promising he'll MSA up the 1100 disks from a Belgium PD library ... one day.

Champions_2002 - still helping hack away at the AL database and fixing entries etc.

Some of us will be at the AC 2008 in the outskirts of Paris next month if you're in the area. I'll also be at the first e-Jagfest in Italy in July (which will be more like an all-forms-of-Atari event judging by what the hosts have been writing on the Jagfest.org BBS) and I'll (hopefully) also be at the EuroCon 2008 in Germany in October - dates as yet unconfirmed for this event.

This isn't the end of this site as it will keep on going - as per the good news above, expect a full list of all the bugs that have been fixed sometime soon.

As for it being the end of Atari Legend (as in the game-releasing side) - who knows?