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Dutch legend has been running his campsite since 1986 using an Atari ST:
If there's one thing YouTuber Viktor Bart likes, it's retro computers: his channel is dedicated to videos about building old machines, their functions, cool oddities, and just generally the joy of these beige things. Even Mr. Bart, however, was surprised by what he found in Koningsbosch, in the Dutch province of Limburg: a campsite that's been run since 1986 on an Atari ST.
[Ed note: Is there anybody here who has an Atari ST? Please share your experience in the comments.
I bought its predecessor, an Atari 800, in 1980. Even got an expansion cartridge to boost memory from the on-board 8 KB RAM. Yes, I spent countless hours playing Star Raiders. It was not as capable as the Atari ST, but it was a fun system that booted up instantly!]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 03 2021, @08:40PM (4 children)
Back in the day, a friend of mine had an Atari ST and I had an Amiga 1000. We would good-naturedly argue about which was the better system, but in all honesty I had to admit the Atari ST was way better than the Amiga for sound and music production. My friend did things with sound on his machine that the Amiga couldn't match, while the Amiga of course whipped the Atari in the graphics department.
But what it came down to, was that he loved his Atari, and I loved my Amiga, and that was that. Today's machines aren't fun, they're just spy devices for our dystopian would-be overlords.
God I'm old. And bitter, don't forget bitter.
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Sunday October 03 2021, @08:48PM (1 child)
... are you sure you are not just blitter? I'll be here all week ...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04 2021, @12:21AM
... Say goodnight Agnus ...
(Score: 1) by crm114 on Sunday October 03 2021, @10:02PM (1 child)
10 print "This TRS80 is overpriced and this store stinks"
20 goto 10
I miss the old days.
[another old geezer]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04 2021, @12:16AM
(S) was the start address of the video ram
(M) was how many bytes of it there were
(T) was the total amount of memory
I used to know these numbers, but I don't remember them now. Getting old. :(
10 For X = 1 to 10000
20 Print ;
30 Next X
40 For Y = 1 to 10000
50 C = rnd * 255
60 L = (S) + rnd * (M)
70 Poke (L, C)
80 Next Y
90 C = rnd * 255
100 L = rnd * (T)
110 Poke (L, C)
120 GOTO 90
The first for loop would rapidly clear the screen and then make it sit there for a couple of minutes looking like it was doing nothing while you wandered away across the store. Then for a couple of minutes it would draw random spots all over the screen until it was fully trashed, then the last GOTO loop started randomly poking memory until it had a *really* hard crash.
Probably a criminal offense these days under CFAA.