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Thierry Levastre RIP

February 24, 2026 by muguk

News illustration image 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

News illustration image 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.

GEMTOS 2025 Event

February 10, 2025 by muguk

News illustration image GemTos is a French convention for all Atari fans that will held in St Just en Chaussée on May 4th & 5th 2025. This will be the third convention so far.

Yastuna Games will release a new game exclusively for the Atari Lynx at the convention, but in limited numbers.

For more details, including how to book your tickets, visit the GemTos Forum

New book from Micro - 68000: Power Without The Price

June 11, 2024 by muguk

News illustration image 68000: Power Without the Price. Crowdfunding from 8-30 June 2024.

A new exciting non-fiction book by Marco Breddin is in the making. This time we travel back to the split of Tramiel and Commodore, follow the founding of the Atari Corporation behind the scenes and explore what made Atari’s ST computer series so special.

We speak exclusively with former Atari employees, a wide range of programmers and artists, and deliver a retrospective 400-page work with fresh thoughts, data, facts and stories about the 68000 computer revolution.

“As one of two expansions to The Flame Wars, the next 68000 anniversary book provides a detailed account of the core competences of Atari's 16/32-bit ecosystem and reconstructs the evolution to market dominance in the 1980s. The competition for the only 68000 system characterised this home computer era like nothing else. We will turn back the clock, breathe in the golden silicon era and report first-hand as to what happened in the Atari labs before and after CES 1984.”

If you are interested: please support the project!

The Airlock Collection - 7 new text adventures released!

July 21, 2023 by muguk

This collection contains polished post-jam releases of some of the games that were entered in Punyjam #3, which was held in February of 2023. A jam means the authors have a limited time in which to finish their game, so the games often lack a bit of polish. The authors of the games in this collection all spent some time after the jam, reading through the feedback they got from the judges and improving their games, while also making sure their games run as smooth as possible on 8-bit platforms.
The rules of the jam required all games to start in or next to an airlock. The authors came up with clever stories around this premise.

You can download all seven of these adventures for your Atari ST (and all the other platforms) in a single 17MB .ZIP file from the Airlock website.

They won't be added to the AL database just yet as we'd prefer you visit their website to appreciate the work by the various game authors.

Screenshot of Thundercats
Random review

Thundercats is another game that bears a famous name, and borrows a sprite or few from some well-known source. When will people learn that this does not make for a good game? But still, there’s something special about this, impossible to put my finger on.

November 18, 2002 by perihelion

Read the review of Thundercats

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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