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March 5, 2008 by muguk
First the good news - we've set up a mini-group with some willing volunteers from Atari Forum to help tidy up/fix the errors in the Atari Legend database. A full list of all the bugs quashed will have to wait until they're *all* done but with the help of bullis1, unseen_menace and Dal_1978 (especially his PHP skills) we're quashing away!
Some bad news - part 1. Brume has retired from Atari Legend, Atari and retro-gaming in general. It's been coming for a long while due to the politics within the 'scene' and other personal issues. We're all sad to see him go. But life is life and you got to go out there and enjoy 'real life' at some point! Best of luck to Brume in whatever he does from now on - especially learning the bass guitar. The door will *always* be open for you should you ever want to come back ......
More bad news - part 2. We're all taking a long earned break here in Atari Legend. The site is, however, staying exactly where it is so don't panic! We're hardly likely to throw away almost 5 years worth of work now are we!
What we're up to at the moment:
Mug UK - I'm slowly wading through and cataloguing, PASTI'ing and scanning in the boxes of my sumptuous originals collection (oo-er!). Not run out of room yet... but the scanning etc. has kind of taken a back burner now I'm on Xbox Live and enjoying modern gaming 
Klaz is working on other projects (mainly his h/drive & Falcon patched games) as well as other mini-projects here and there.
Marcer is still working on his Game DVD and his work for Elite in 2008.
Maartau is returning to his Empire resurrection project as well as helping Marcer out with his Game DVD.
DM - still buying originals for preservation. Hopefully he'll be at AC-2008 along with Maartau.
ICS - also semi-retired as more into creating subs for anime films
Goldrunner - continuing with his Guardians Of The Past project.
ST Graveyard - busy restoring classic sports cars!
Shredder - not enough hours in the day for him to get everything done he wants to do. He's still promising he'll MSA up the 1100 disks from a Belgium PD library ... one day.
Champions_2002 - still helping hack away at the AL database and fixing entries etc.
Some of us will be at the AC 2008 in the outskirts of Paris next month if you're in the area. I'll also be at the first e-Jagfest in Italy in July (which will be more like an all-forms-of-Atari event judging by what the hosts have been writing on the Jagfest.org BBS) and I'll (hopefully) also be at the EuroCon 2008 in Germany in October - dates as yet unconfirmed for this event.
This isn't the end of this site as it will keep on going - as per the good news above, expect a full list of all the bugs that have been fixed sometime soon.
As for it being the end of Atari Legend (as in the game-releasing side) - who knows?
February 26, 2008 by muguk
It's OK, we were only sleeping! Here's another French educational classic from Atari Legend. It's been in our vaults for many a full moon!
It runs in medium res or high res and the funky medium resolution intro was coded by Bod/STAX for us.
Full credits go to Maartau for doing the business and getting this title working on multiple machines. Get it here!
December 25, 2007 by Marcer
As promised yesterday.
Here are the final gifts from Atari Legend this year(!?).
Cracking, Patching, Trainers & Compiling done by:
Avenger, Brume, CB, Dungeon.Master, Fred_R, Maartau, Marcer & Mug UK.
Intros from these crews:
Cerebral Vortex, MJJ Prod, NoExtra & Stax
Thanks a lot guys! You have done great coding/GFXing and SFXing (Marcer, Tao and Mad Max) .. hehe.
Titles presented today are a mix of games and even more French-education ones - because we know you love them!).
- Essex Enjoy!
- Division One 92 Enjoy!
- Histoires de Villes Enjoy!
- La Bosse Des Maths 3e Enjoy!
- La Bosse Des Maths 4e Enjoy!
- La Bosse Des Maths 5e Enjoy!
- La Bosse Des Maths 6e Enjoy!
- Maths CM Enjoy!
- Ortho CM Enjoy!
- Orbit 2000 Enjoy!
- Dungeon Master data disk - Tomb of the Firestaff Enjoy!
- Dungeon Master data disk - Tower of Chaos Enjoy!
- Ultima 4 v1.1 French Enjoy!
- Vegas Craps Enjoy!
Merry Xmas & Happy New year from all of Atari Legend! 2007-12-25!
December 24, 2007 by Marcer
Atari Legend's Xmas 2007 Theme is: Education Doesn't Stop During Xmas for every French speaking (or learning) kid around!
Here we present you some of the very rare Coktel Vision French Educational Tools and Games.
Now your Atari can transform into a French school for the kids!
All these titles are:
- Bug fixed (the originals weren't working properly on many TOS versions!)
- Falcon compatible
- HD compatible
- Bug Fixing, patching & cracking by Klapauzius!
- Intros By MJJ Prod!
ADI 3e - Environnement - Anglais - Francais - Maths
ADI 4e - Environnement - Anglais - Francais - Maths
ADI 5e - Environnement - Anglais - Francais - Maths
ADI 6e - Environnement - Anglais - Francais - Maths
ADI CE1 - Environnement - Francais - Maths -
Passage
ADI CE2 - Environnement - Francais - Maths
ADI CM1 - Environnement - Francais - Maths
ADI CM2 - Environnement - Francais - Maths
Please note that you will need an environment disk before you can use the data disks (French, Maths, etc.).
More will come tomorrow - unless I have a bad hangover
Merry Xmas to everybody from Atari Legend!
December 23, 2007 by Marcer
Elite play Santa Claus again(?). This time, we bring you:
Zynaps - Multi-trained, score saver, 16MHz, Mega/ST/E/Falcon compatible, 512KB compatible, HD compatible *and* a quit option (CTRL-D).
All work by Ion Tichy! (what a beast!)
This title was fixed for Marcer by request. This title has been hacked and menu'd tons of times. But a real proper and trainer bla bla version was needed in the collection. Now it is!
Intro code by Wacko/Lynx
Enjoy!
December 13, 2007 by Marcer
There is an urgent waiting for the kids right now for Santa Claus. But we are lucky that Lucia has stopped by with some cookies for us in the meantime!
Atari Legend gives you:
Hamlet (English & German) - Chess Game (Color & Mono) + Works From HD
- Not tested due lack of (Water Damage). It *might* work on all TOS Systems.
And for all kid's parents:
Cookbook Vol 1. Color and Mono! - Klapauzius first AL Hack!
- Who needs Aunt Mary´s cooking advice when your Atari has the best ones? Not bad for a 20-year old piece of software
These are just small releases so we decided not to get them working on multiple systems. They may work on F030 etc, as they are Gem-based titles.
Anyway.. just teasers for now.
Included with the programs you get intros by MJJ Prod and music by Marcer.
Grab the small cookies here:
Cookbook Vol 1
Hamlet
Turrican 2 is just awesome! It still is the best game in its genre. 5 worlds might seem a bit on the low side, but if you wander around some, you'll be busy for a while. And so what, I've finished it a million times and still load it up now and then.
November 4, 2001 by ST Graveyard
Read the review of Turrican II - The Final FightIn the mid 80's Atari was approached by a company called Nintendo. They asked if Atari was interested in distributing their new 8 bit system. At that time, Jack Tramiel was head of the Atari company. He declined the offer, saying Atari wanted to stop releasing consoles and focus on personal computers instead! So in the end, Nintendo had to distribute the consoles themselves ... In just a few months, they wiped Atari from the throne!
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