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Once in a while we discover a game that was released in the heyday of the Atari ST but has remained 'undiscovered' for all these years.

Today we'd like to present you with another one of those lost and forgotten titles:

Pharaoh III by Supernova Software

It's not related to "Pharaoh" by Rainbow Arts, but is actually a little "Space Invaders" variation that takes place in the land of the Pharaoh's in ancient Egypt. It may not be the greatest game of its kind, but there are much worse titles released commercially on the ST ;-)
A text file with some instructions on how to play is included on the disk image.

Cheers to Goldrunner for unearthing this title! Other credits for this release: game cracked and trained by Klapauzius - Intro by Bigfoot of MJJ-Prod - Intro music by Dark Angel.

Get it here and blast away!

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...?