Atari Legend home page
I remember getting this classic for Christmas ages back, probably in -92 or -93. Back then, the manual felt enormously thick and the map gigantic. Now when I look at it, the manual feels like a quick install note and the map more like a pamphlet, time flies…
March 22, 2003 by perihelion
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Open Source & Open Data
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We want to make all our efforts available for other projects. That is why we have decided to fully open up our database. All content is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA v4.0 license.
Currently, exporting to different formats is already possible using the game section, daily database and screenshot dumps can be downloaded HERE and an API is planned.
In addition the source code for the Atari Legend website is available on GitHub.
You want to be part in the creation and/or test phase? Please get in touch with us. If you have ideas, let us know. Otherwise, keep your eye on this tile, more updates coming soon!
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Where classic ST games rest in peace
Your number 1 Atari ST resource on the net!
Atari Legend is a living and breathing webproject, designed by sceners. We like to involve as many people as possible to make it fresh and up to date. We offer a nostalgic trip down the Atari ST memory lane, focussing on exciting content. Details on all the classics, in-depth reviews, interviews with the creators of yesterday’s gems and much more.
Play Atari ST games right here in your browser!
October 17, 2026 by LynXX
You can now play games and menu disks directly on Atari Legend, without downloading anything or setting up an emulator. A real Atari ST boots right in your browser, on the very disk images from our database. Wherever a game has a dump available on the site, look for the little play icon: - In the Releases card of a game page, next to each release that has a dump - In the dump table of a release page, to start one specific dump - In the game search results. Tick "Download / playable" in the search form to list only the games you can play - On menu disks: click the screenshot of a disk on its menu set page, or in the Menus card of a game page Click the screen to give it the keyboard. The cursor keys move the joystick and right Ctrl fires. The emulator has buttons for a warm or cold reset, fullscreen and mute. Games with several disks have a button for each disk, so you can swap the disk in drive A as the game asks for it. Games that need medium resolution or a monochrome monitor start in the right mode automatically (assuming the resolution has correctly been recorded in the Atari Legend database). This is still a work in progress, and we have more work to do to support different TOS versions, and STE titles. If you find a dump that misbehaves, let us know in GitHub! None of this would be possible without: - Hatari, the brilliant open source Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator, and its many contributors over the years - Atariaviary by tIn of Newline, the Atari ST demo browser whose WebAssembly build of Hatari is what runs on our pages A huge thank you to both. Now go and load up an old favourite!
New browser-based offline disk toolbox available!
June 14, 2026 by muguk
To give this excellent tool its full name, it is the Atari ST Floppy Image Toolkit and it runs in your browser. All of the magical coding was done by Frederik Lindholm. It supports: *) Opening .ST, .MSA as well as these types of disk image inside .ZIP files up to 11 sectors per track. (Make sure there's only the disk image inside the .ZIP file otherwise there will be an error) *) Import and export .ST and .MSA formats. *) Create standard images (single or double-sided with 9 or 10 sectors per track) *) Extract a few files or the whole contents of the disk (in a .ZIP file) *) Shows if files are Hidden or Deleted (and with an option to recover deleted files if all parts are available) *) View and extract image data / pictures within the disks or any other files (Degas, Neochrome etc.) *) Unpack and examine executable files packed with known packers such as Ice, JAM and others with more packers in the pipeline to be added. *) View/extract text messages / hex dumps from the file(s). *) Look inside compressed archives that are on the disk (.ZIP, .LHA/.LZH, .ARC & .ZOO) I used the latest version of this tool on the Flame of Finland / Superior disk images to help me extract the scrolltexts for their entries in our little old Atari Legend database! For the above use case, I requested quite a few additional features for this program, some of which are already on the list above. There's more to follow including an anti-virus tool (a preview of it is situated in the simulated C: drive). Previously I'd used a combination of Total Commander (Windows tool) with the Jacknife plugin by GGN. I found this newer tool to be much easier to use when doing bulk jobs like this. (When the .PRG depack library is extended, I won't have to dive into STEem to depack files, then use WinHex to get the scrollers out!) To use it, save this link to your favourites. Believe me, if you mess around with any kind of Atari ST disk images, you'll love this new tool! Get it from here: https://flab.se/ataristimagegem/
Interview with Wayne Smithson
April 8, 2026 by muguk
Click here for our in-depth interview with one of the Atari ST's coding greats.
Thierry Levastre RIP
February 24, 2026 by muguk
Thierry Levastre, an accomplished and talented graphic designer who worked at Ocean France, Delphine Software and Ubi Soft, passed away suddenly on Thursday 19 February 2026 at the age of 55 from acute pancreatitis. He was well known for his work on the excellent Pang on ST and Amiga, as well as Cabal, Plotting and Liquid Kids, and later on the immense Flashback and Cruise For A Corpse. His full list of games that he worked on (c/o Moby Games) To those who knew or appreciated him in the ST world, spare a thought for him! (dlfrsilver for posted this news originally on Atari Forum as he'd peronsally known Thierry for over 20 years)
GEMTOS 2026 Event
February 14, 2026 by muguk
GemTos is a French convention for all Atari fans that will held in St Just en Chaussée (in France) on May 2nd & 3rd 2026. For more details, including how to book your tickets, visit the GEMTOS website or book your tickets via the French/English forms on this page.
Sad news - Shredder (Vincent Casiez) has passed away. RIP
January 19, 2026 by muguk
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Shredder. Shredder (Vincent Casiez) was a valued member of Atari Legend and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to his wife, son and loved ones during this difficult time. May their memory live on in the hearts of everyone they touched.
Statistics
- Games: 6204
- Releases: 17328
- Screenshots: 25885
- Games with screenshots: 5851
- Companies: 1387
- Games with companies assigned: 4657
- Games with developer assigned: 3670
- Games with magazine review: 912
- Releases with box scans: 1670
- Games with genre assigned: 4579
- Games reviewed: 126
- Menu sets: 316
- Menu disks: 6929
- Magazines: 8
- Magazine issues: 69
- Registered users: 768
- Articles: 5
- Links: 188
- Games with music assigned: 954
- Music files: 10371
Last Duel
August 31, 2026 by NeepieLantern
Overall, this is a mediocre conversion of a mediocre arcade machine. Despite all that, though, I actually come back to play it from time to time, just to try and get a bit further. So, it must have some appeal after all, warts and all.
Zone Warrior
February 12, 2023 by AtariCrypt
Once again, pesky aliens are giving us Earthlings lots of grief. We previously fought them off but they managed to pinch a time machine so are using that to alter history and wreak havoc by taking crucial hostages from each period in an attempt to halt their influence. From the invention of the wheel in prehistoric times to England's King Arthur uniting Britain! And where would any of us be today without Japan and its technical wizardry? Yep, we cannot allow this - the fight is on!
Son Shu Shi
March 21, 2021 by ST Graveyard
What an accomplishment this game is. Created with such a small team, the result is really amazing. The game oozes creative passion. While the gameplay is really well balanced, it is a tough cookie, very hard from time to time with its moments of sheer frustration. As of level 3, timing becomes key. You will need to practice and learn the levels to complete this game, there are so many bad guys on screen it sometimes gets a bit hard to take.
AL Mobile
Did you know Atari Legend is fully responsive and mobile ready? You want this site to behave like an app on your phone or tablet? Simply open the site in your favorite browser and look for the 'Add to homescreen' button. In Safari on IOS, first press the 'share' icon, then the "Add to home screen" pop-up appears. In Chrome on Android, you press the button at the top right, and select 'add to homescreen'. Once you have done this, the famous Atari bee fits nicely on your homescreen and you can enjoy AL with the tap of a finger.
Let's take a history class and delve deep into the past of Atari Legend. Or maybe you are curious and want to take a peak at what is still to come? Who are the people behind this project? Or maybe you feel like helping out? Check out this section. Learn more about Atari Legend
A few weeks ago, I finally received a very rare menu for the Stonish website: Mad Vision menu #Z. I have been looking for this menu for 15 years, but I must admit I was a bit disappointed since it didn't look as good as the other menu-disks made by Mad Vision. The question remained: Was this menu an authentic one or a fake? I didn't have any contact with old Mad Vision members, only C-Rem, who joined the crew at the end of its lifecycle (long after Mad Vision stopped making menu-disks). With the help of Maartau (Atari Legend) and Orion (Replicants), we managed to trace one of the group's co-founders: Def KLF. He kindly replied to my questions about Mad Vison #Z: even though he didn't remember how it looked, he said this one was probably a fake. But well, I couldn't just leave it with that. This opportunity was perfect to ask him some other questions about Mad Vision. The crew was famous for its menus and cracktros, but also for its diskmags (Amazine) and demos. The first time I heard of Mad Vision was early in 1992, just when they released the great Massive Attack. So it was time to ask Def KLF more details about the team, from its creation to its demise.
March 3, 2018 by Brume
Read interview of Def KLF
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Did you know?
What does ST stand for? Some people believe it is an abbreviation of "Sam Tramiel", head of Atari. Others say it is short for "16 32", cause the ST was the first in a line of 16 - 32 bit computers by Atari!
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Atari ST demo scene. From 1984 to 1994 and beyond. The complete anthology includes several volumes with over 1000 pages full of pixel fascination, interviews, demos, games, tools and computer history. Check out the trilogy by Marco Breddin at his Microzeit website. Visit www.microzeit.com