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The future of Atari Legend

We have a lot of ambition, and this project will be updated regularly.

If you have something in mind you like to see in the future on this website, please let us know. We have an open mind and are interested in your opinion.

Future

Merging with Stonish.net

Stonish.net, the website by fellow member Brume featuring the biggest collection of Atari menudisks, is merged with Atari Legend.

April 2021

Site overhaul

AL gets a complete redesign and code overhaul, based on Laravel & Bootstrap, making everything more accessible for possible future developers.

December 2020

Open source

The code for the AtariLegend website is now open-source! We wanted to open the code as well for a long time, but it took some time to reach that point. We now have our own GitHub.

August 2020

AL TV

Atari Legend starts a Youtube channel.

May 2019

Open data

The first part of the Atari Legend project has gone open source / open data. From now on, any developer who is interested can download the full database (except the sensitive user related data) and all the screenshots, boxscans and other graphics used for their own project.

January 2018

The team grows

A new developer, LynXX, joins the AL team. With his professional webdevelopment skills, the future of the project is looking bright!

November 2017

Atari Legend 2.0 beta is released

After almost 3 years in the making, Atari Legend is finally re-released.

October 2017

Atari Legend demo

The first signs of life. A 'coming soon' demo screen is released and the Atari Legend facebook page is opened. A week later a complete new game is released, cracked by the AL team.

July 2017

Reaching out

After a period of almost 10 years of complete silence, STG and Brume contact Silver Surfer and explain their ambitions. He decides to join the project again.

April 2015

Old habits never die

Brume shows his Stonish project to STG. After some conversations, motivation rises and development on a new version of Atari Legend begins.

January 2015

STonish starts a revival

Brume releases his beautiful new website STonish.net. This website focusses on rare menu discs and is a recreation of his PACIGAME website from the past. Brume manages to preserve some very rare menu collections which weren't available before.

October 2014

Donation day

Because lots of people have spent countless of hours working on the AL project and this work should not get lost in time, the complete database is donated to AtariMania, another beautiful database driven Atari ST website.

October 2012

Ice Ice baby

After a complete burn out of all the coding, Atari Legend slowly comes to a stand still. Many of the team members have other things on their mind and as always, real life gets in the way. The project is put in the freezer.

March 2008

One big happy family

The AL team is expanding drastically. Quickly the Database grows over 4000+ game entries and 19000+ screenshots. Marcer, Brume and Mug UK work 24/7 to accomplish this task. Atari Legend also becomes a hackers group and starts to release special versions and cracks of games

February 2005

Atari legend is done

Atari Legend is created - Legends never die! All content of previous projects is now merged into a fully, db driven web project.

March 2004

Development of Atari Legend has begun

The bad news of the cancellation of both Pacidemo and Pacigame will be the beginning of something big! STG, Silver Surfer and Brume join forces and start working on a big secret new project.

December 2002

Missing Atari ST games project

And yet another project by the almighty Brume. This time 'Missing Atari ST' website covering all games that are still wanted but never found.

November 2002

The ST Graveyard v2.0 is released

The second version of The ST Graveyard is released.

November 2002

Atarizone enters the scene

Silver Surfer creates the Atari Zone, a database driven ST games site. Work on a second version is quickly canned in favor of the Atari Legend project. (Even though that name didn't exist yet)

May 2002

Atari-Forum is born

At the beginning of 2002, Brume is frustrated by the lack of a decent ST forum in the scene, so he uses VBULLETIN to hack something together. This forum's main focus was on demo's and games. A few weeks later Silver Surfer joins the fun and it is decided more topics are added to the forum and a name change takes place. An upgrade to phpBB soon follows. Hence Atari-Forum is born. The very first release of the biggest ST forum on the net to date.

May 2002

The ST Graveyard is released

New Atari ST scener STG releases the first version of 'The ST Graveyard', featuring loads of self written reviews and articles on Atari ST games.

June 2001

Pacigame sees the light of day

Brume creates another incredible resource for Atari ST gamers, this time focussing on rare menu disks.

May 2001

Pacidemo opens its doors

With the creation of a decent emulator and hardware to match, intrest in the ST reaches a new high. Brume creates a website called 'Demos and intros running under PaCifist'. He shows the site to Pacifcist author 'Fréderic Gidouin'. He however, found the name way too long. After this conversation, the mother of all Atari ST demo websites, Pacidemo (Pacifist demos) is released. Pacidemo was one of the oldest and most respected demoscene sites on the net.

August 1997