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Atari Legend strikes back with Masque+

June 22, 2005 by Brume

News illustration image The incredibly game Masque+ is now available on the site! It was very hard to find, and not so easy to crack and fix, but we are very proud to present it. Here is the complete story about this game:
Some years ago most of our members were looking for rare games in old magazine issues (Fred_R, cb, myself,...). Some advertising and reviews were published about Masque+, but the game was unfindable. Also the author himself said to Florent Coste (ex-webmaster of Atari French Games) that the game was ported on Atari ST after the Amstrad release. But he didn't own the disks anymore.
Two years ago, Totoch a generous donator sent a copy of the game! But the game was still hardly protected. The protection was signed by Tsunoo Rhilty, the famous hacker. He joined for a few time some french companies and coded protection for games such as Masque+, Le Manoir du Comte Frozarda, etc.
Last year Ijor improved the Pasti program in order to image the game in .STX format. But the game wasn't easy to play (it needed to wait for the end of the music of the intro, it bombed often on STE, etc.) When Klapauzius joined Atari Legend, Masque+ was one of the first games we supplied him. He managed to crack it, to fix for any TOS, he added the space-key support in the intro, and finally he added a trainer mode. Why a trainer in an adventure game? Well, try the game and you'll see ;-)
Finally Zorro2 of MJJ-Prod sent us an intro some weeks ago, and so here it is! The intro has been tested on STFM/STE machines and features a different tune for each kind of computer.

Now you just have to download the game. We send a big thank to everyone who helped in this project: Totoch, Felx, Zorro2, F.F. and of course... Klapauzius!

Click here to go on Masque+ page!

Atari Legend presents The Tomb of King Hissssa

June 17, 2005 by Marcer

News illustration image Dungeon Master - Data Disk 2 - The Tomb of King Hissssa

STORY :
Hello.
I'm Old Grey Lord.
Great King Hissssa is dead. After his victorious fusing of Black Chaos, he has been chosen to be the King of Viborg. But today, he has died. After this last adventure, I came away from Viborg, with my apprentice Boris, to the town of Baldor. To forget all those crazy things. Beowulf and Karybde followed us. But Hissssa stayed and became a King.
But he has died. Before losing him, he told me and his former mates to come back, and to dig the mountain a great palace for his (and our) glory. Perhaps I was stupid, but I accepted.
I digged the mountain, helped by the strength of Karybde, the skill of Boris, and the will of Beowulf.
But there has been an earthquake. King Hissssa had an old foe, King Dragon, who lived under the mountain. He invoked an earthquake. The palace was heavy and well designed. Only a rock fell from a wall. On King Hissssa's head. Now he's dead.
And King Dragon invaded us, with his army of monsters. He stole all my keys, he locked me up in the deep of the palace. He definitely mirrored my friends and some other heroes on the top of the palace.

You're the only one who could help us, Theron.

Please, free us, and defeat King Dragon.

Please...

Get it here!

Atari Legend Presents Explora - Time Run 100%

June 11, 2005 by Marcer

News illustration image Explora - Time Run 100%

Why a Re-release of this game?
Since other hacks of this game, have corrupt gfx in the game.

Therefore we present you it here!

Atari Legend Presents: Dungeon Master Data Disk 1

June 10, 2005 by Marcer

News illustration image With an intro from Paradize, Atari Legend Gives you:

- Dungeon Master Data Disk 1 "Kids Dungeon".

This is the first of data disk, Which I belive is a good start of what more to expect.

If you never played Dungeon Master before, I suggest you start with this one.
I will not tell more. Unless, Welcome to a great world of stunning, horror, clues and and action.

here.

Petit Suisse demo by MJJ-Prod!

June 9, 2005 by Brume

News illustration image Bigfoot of MJJ Prod (one of the most famous names of the french scene) is back! Don't expect for a new-record screen, this demo is an oldschool one... and we like that very much!
The Petit Suisse screen has been made with some stuffs eleven years old, but it displays an intro by Strider, graphics by c-rem, and of course a main code by Bigfoot. As always, the 'ataristocrats' won't probably like this screen, but who cares? The result is very funny :-))

Download the MSA disk or leech the files version. And send a big thank to Felx for this exclusiveness.

Hatari v0.70

June 7, 2005 by Brume

News illustration image A new version of Hatari is available. Hatari is Atari emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS and Mac OS X. About the new release, Thomas Huth wrote the following lines:

- No more crashes when a program tries to access illegal floppy disk sector numbers.
- The built-in ROM cartridge has been improved.
- The IO memory emulation code has been rewritten for better compatibility.
- Support for TOS 1.06 and TOS 1.62 has been added.
- Emulated CPU can now also be run at 16 MHz or 32 MHz.
- File selection dialog is now scrollable with mouse wheel or cursor keys, too.
- Hatari now works on 64-bit host CPUs, too.
- Floppy disk images can now be set writable/write-protected in the GUI.
- Hatari can now also load a global configuration file (e.g. /etc/hatari.cfg).
- Configurable logging functions.


To get the emulator, you just have to visit the official website. That's all, folk!

Screenshot of Dungeon Master
Random review

I wouldn't call dungeon master my favourite ST game, because I find the dungeon environment quickly tiring, but it is certainly in my top 10 for sentimental reasons if nothing else. It has entertained me enough to still be thinking about it 20 years on, and I believe that the best epitaph I can write is...

March 20, 2006 by Sarek

Read the review of Dungeon Master

Did you know?

The creator of the ST was a guy named Shiraz Shivji, who was also the main engineer behind the Commodore 64.

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