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Another day, another game...

To supplement our recent release of a scarce Dungeon Master variant, we bring you another rare version from the same universe today:

Chaos Strikes Back v2.1 English

Although we don't have much information on it, this seems to be the final version of Chaos Strikes Back. All fans of the series will surely be keen to find out the differences to the more common version 2.0 (please tell us about it if you should do so ;-) ).

Avenger has done a great job again with cracking this game, which was protected even better than its ancestor Dungeon Master. He also added a trainer and played it through to the end to ensure that the crack works fine. The nice intro was coded by our friend Zorro2 of NoExtra.

Well, nothing more to say at the moment, except telling you where to get it. What, you already know? Ok, but just in case you don't - it's here.

Today we present you another very rare title for your collection:

Soccer Manager Plus

This game was somewhat more common on the Amiga, from which it was ported, but had remained a very obscure title on the ST. Only a very few die-hard collectors had this game in their collection and to the best of my knowledge it had never been cracked - until now!

The protection was removed by Klapauzius. We have also added the option to activate a built-in cheat menu to make your life easier, and made the game STE compatible.

The original was supplied by Alex of ICS, the colourful intro was coded by Jace of ST Knights.

And there's another first for us! When you run this game from your hard disk it will use routines from D-Bug's brillant ULS. Thanks must go to Cyrano Jones and Showaddywaddy for this great invention!

Just click here to grab this game ... and have a nice Sunday!

We're back again! :-)

Here's another piece in the puzzle of the Dungeon Master universe:

Dungeon Master v1.2 English

It was cracked, multi-trained and fully playtested by our great member and Dungeon Master specialist Avenger. The original disks were supplied by Kenneth Bazan. The beautiful intro for this release was coded by Zorro 2 of NoExtra.

Well, yet another version of one of the most famous games on the Atari ST. I think all the many Dungeon Master fans out there will be happy to see it. We should be near completion in the Dungeon Master series now.

Click here to download this new version.

Also stay tuned for one more goodie coming this weekend! See you soon...

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!