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Last weekend was a great rush for us! While Mug UK was at the Charity 2006 gig that featured Benn Daglish, I drove down to Saint-Avold (near Metz, in France) in order to pick up a Falcon 030 with a hard-drive, a lot of floppy disks (more than 500 of them!) and an impressive pile of magazines... I still haven't counted them, but there are at least 400 magazines devoted to the Atari ST and other machines!

The best thanks go to The U-Man who sold me the Falcon for a very nice price, and gave me the magazines for free. It was a real pleasure to meet him

The Falcon is a pretty good addition to our library of machines (we still got some, but we want to upgrade this one as much as possible in order to test latest releases). Who said Atari Legend will stay a 16-bit only team?

In the magazines there are many rare ones such as Arcades or Faucontact (in French). Also some German and English magazines

Of course, we'll do our best to scan them and offer them to our mates over at: abandonware-magazines.org.

Lastly, The U-Man was in contact with a member of The Avengers - known for their Gateway To Hexenland megademo. He managed to get some unreleased stuff by the crew, for both the ST and Falcon. We are currently sorting them out and imaging the disks, so expect a release of them as soon as we obtain an agreement to spread them

Nothing new since April, 26th 2006? Well, not really. We are very busy at the moment because we recently received tons of rare games from a new contributor in Belgium (nickname: shadow!). We are sorting them out and adding them to the database, which takes a long time. You can be sure we'll announce them as soon as they are available for download!

At the same time, we finally updated the page of... Chimera!

This is one of the rarest games ever made since only 400 copies were produced. Please note that it has never been hacked, either. Do the new screenshoots on the site mean we finally managed to get a copy? Well, maybe yes, maybe not

Lastly, we are still working on the translation of games. We also have many interviews in the pipeline that will be very interesting but need to be translated, too.

And many more hacks, patchs and trainers will follow shortly. So who said we aren't alive anymore...?

One of the first hackers on Atari ST was Tsunoo Rhilty. The guy was famous for his cracks, but also for his trouble with the law. He also worked for Atari ST developers/companies by coding file & disk protection systems.

Le Manoir Du Comte Frozarda belongs to this category of game by featuring protection by an ex-cracker.

So it was a nice challenge for our own cracker, Klapauzius. He hacked the game two years ago, but we never managed to find the time to release it on the site... until today!

Klapauzius also packed the game so it fits on one disk now and patched it to make it compatible with 4MB machines. The whole thing works like a charm now. This game is probably one of the rarest titles we ever provide.

Hope you'll enjoy this new release. Feel free to take a look at Le Manoir Du Comte Frozarda before going to sleep ... but try to have a nice dream!

Back from the Atari Connexion 2006! It was a real pleasure to go there. The party gave the opportunity to meet finally good old friends such as Lotek Style (TSCC), Frost & Dma-Sc (Sector One), Zorro2 (NoExtra), Cooper (Paradize), Atari STE, etc.
We played to the next TSCC game on Falcon which supports 8 players at the same time, we saw the JagCF, some challenges were organized, etc. Also people at the party saw a preview of the next version of Atari Legend... oups... can't say anymore

So, back from the party with another rare stuff! The game is Rody & Mastico V. Guess what? We now have online the complete serie of Rody & Mastico! You won't find that anywhere else at the moment.

The original disk was supplied by Dungeon.Master (aka the man who lives in a flat full of games!). The protection was so easy to remove that it was hacked by your servant. Last but not least, a big thanks must be given to Bigfoot/MJJ Prod who sent the intro long time ago. Please note that all Lankhor games are provided on the site with the permission of Jean-Luc Langlois who created and managed the company.

Follow this link to grab Rody Mastico V. And hope to see you all at the next Atari party!

Antago is a cute puzzle game where a little devil and an angel try to get five balls in a row on a board. It's a jazzed up variation of the old "Four Wins" theme.

You will probably already know or even have this game in your collection, but this version is the first one that includes the undamaged sampled loading tune! Only one of the various cracks available (the Empire one) did originally have this music, but as it wasn't in a file it got lost at some time when copied carelessly. All images of the Empire version that you can download today have horrible noise instead of the music.

Avenger cracked this game and put the music data into a file, so it won't get lost again when copied. The great intro on this disk has been designed by NoExtra once more.

Download this 100% version here.

... if you're in the mood for a round of darts.

Bully's Sporting Darts

will do the trick quite nicely too!

This is a very late commercial game for your Atari ST(E) machine, developed by "Alternative Software". Although being released by a major publisher, this game has remained a very rare and obscure title on the ST.

The original disk wasn't copy protected, so all that was left to do for us was to incorporate some fixes for machines with 4MB RAM or more and to get it working with TOS 2.x - which we did. The game can also be installed to your hard disk if you like.

You surely know where to download this game.

Finally, I'd like to send my best regards to all Atarians at AC 2006. We hope to give you some more releases on the occasion of this event. :-)