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Temperatures are rising, so we thought we‘d bring you the coolest news: Our website is online!
The next steps towards your happiness (and ours) couldn’t be easier: Have a read through the compo rules, write your name on the visitor list to tell us that you’re coming and treat yourself to a ticket and a shirt!
We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Abenteuerhallen and see what you got! ☮️🫰

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Floppyshop Online - The Atari ST & Falcon Public Domain Library, Reborn

Back in the day, Floppyshop was one of the largest and best-known public domain libraries (PDLs) in the UK - a mail-order institution that supplied Atari ST and Falcon users with disk after disk of games, demos, utilities, music, fonts and art, long before broadband made everything a click away. For countless Atari owners, the Floppyshop catalogue was how you discovered new software.

Collections like this usually meet a sad end: boxed up, shelved, turned into shelf-ornaments and slowly forgotten. I didn't want that to happen here. So my girlfriend and I spent many days painstakingly reorganising the entire Floppyshop Gold series into a fully online, searchable database - every disk catalogued, every file downloadable, and all of it completely free to browse and grab. Thousands of programs and PD titles, preserved and back within reach.

It's all sorted into easy-to-browse sections: Art and Graphics, Astrology, Clip Art, Communication, Demos, Disk Magazines, Educational, Fonts, Games, Programming, MIDI, Music, Product Demos, Sound, Utilities and Word Processing. Buried in among it are plenty of "lost" programs - tools and titles that are still genuinely useful today, not just curiosities.

The originals weren't perfect, and neither were the catalogues. There were many discrepancies between what the Gold collection listed and the disks themselves, and I've corrected as many as I could find - including a few disks that never made it into the supplied (and probably older) catalogue at all. The separate ST and Falcon catalogues have been merged into single sections to keep things simple, with Falcon disks clearly renamed FALC-xxx so they're never confused with their ST counterparts.

Search it, browse it, download it - all free. And if you'd rather grab the whole lot in one go, the complete archives are available over on the exxos forum.

🔗 Browse the Floppyshop libary

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari legacy

 

This came out of nowhere: a printed Atari magazine in English language, written and layouted on an Atari Falcon 060 with PCI-graphics card using Calamus.

Kroll strikes back, even more professional than before with this surprising piece of Atari press which will be available worldwide and also in some Polish shops (the famous Empik stores). The content seems very interesting, covering games, demoscene and obviously including some deeper research, e.g. "The History of the Polish Demoscene on 8-Bit Atari - It didn’t begin with crackers. It began at the computer markets of 1980s Poland."

This seems to be fascinating work!

🔗 Atari Legacy magazine

[ Atariscne.org - News ] STOS BASIC V5.5 ALPHA — The 1989 Atari ST Language, Rebuilt for Modern Hardware

After more than 30 years, STOS BASIC has been rebuilt from its original 1989 V2.06 sources and brought to modern Atari hardware. STOS BASIC V5.5 ALPHA is out now as a free download.

The original STOS was written for an 8MHz 520ST and tends to break or corrupt graphics on anything newer. V5.5 fixes that: it now runs correctly on the Falcon, EmuTOS, 68030 accelerators and fast emulators, all proven across EmuTOS, TOS 1.04, 2.06 and Falcon TOS 4.04.

It's faster, too. Every trap-based inter-library call has been replaced with direct dispatch (125 sprite and 20 music traps removed) and the compiler emits tighter arithmetic and IF code — around 14% average speedup across the 54-test benchmark suite, with FILL, COPY, sprites, CLS BACK and IF gaining 30–50%. The editor has been patched as well (LIST scroll, file-selector and SYSTEM fixes). Best of all, it's 100% source-compatible with V2.06 — your existing STOS listings compile unchanged.

 

💾 Download

🔗 Release page & older STOS packs

🔗 The STOS Time Tunnel (games, demos, source, extensions, diskzines and manuals)

[ Atariscne.org - News ] CT60 TOS 1.03e has been released

Mikro writes:   I'm no fan of cross-posting news but with the current atari-forum.com issues where many people can't reach it properly I guess I can make an exception. :)   So yeah, I have published a new version of CT60 TOS, the "firmware" for all CT60, CT63 and CT60e accelerators. It has been on my TODO list since forever. Sometimes I was really close, then lost motivation / got stuck, then discovered new bugs, postponed again etc etc... so I'm really relieved and happy to announce a modest update to our beloved CT60 TOS: https://github.com/mikrosk/ct60tos/releases/tag/1.03e
Everything is explained in the release notes, and this time (unlike 1.03d), the release is "real", built from source codes, no binary patching whatsoever. So finally we can start fixing bugs without too much hassle (well, for CT60 TOS image creation one still needs to boot into EasyMiNT 1.70 with its old gcc and mintlib ... a decade ago I had this fixed but that was for a later version and I haven't backported the build scripts back yet).

I encourage you to try it out, if something doesn't work, there's always the easy way to reflash it back to 1.03c.

Opening issues on github is appreciated, too.  

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http://mikro.atari.org