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June 2, 2021 by muguk
It was announced on Twitter earlier today that John Wilson, also known by his pen name of 'The Rochdale Balrog', had passed away in his sleep on the 31st May 2021.
John was a much recognised figure within the Interactive Fiction community. Starting out in the 1980s, he and other adventure creators, released lots and lots of text adventures on the old 8-bit systems through John's label, Zenobi Software.
We were also lucky to have a number of their ported from the 8-bit to our 16-bit system mostly via STAC.
He will be greatly missed amongst those fans of the "LOOK NORTH", "GET TORCH" era as well as those who are using modern tools like PunyInform to create modern variants of the classic text adventure.
Indeed, John also ventured down this path in his later years and I will find and acquire the latest versions that he did for the Atari ST and get them uploaded onto Atari Legend as soon as I can.
May 21, 2021 by ST Graveyard
Today we have an interview with Jani Penttinen and Matti Mäenpää, the creators of the original Utopos game for the Atari STe. If you want to learn more about history of Utopos, the demo scene and the game industry from the good old days, read on!
April 26, 2021 by ST Graveyard
We have a new interview up with Jonathan Thomas, creator of Lotus STe. This interview is filled to the brim with technical details of this new production as well as some history of his other ST endeavors.
April 14, 2021 by ST Graveyard
We are proud to present an indepth interview with Sébastien Laborie (aka Orion) of Replicants/Fuzion fame. Séb is responsible for creating the ultimate, working version of the game Son Shu Shi to the ST Community. If you are interested in the glory days of Atari ST cracking groups, this is something for you.
April 11, 2021 by ST Graveyard
INCOMING!
It has finally happened, we are announcing a massive update. Our coder Nico managed to finally merge Stonish.net. This was planned for a loooong time.
You will notice a new button in the top bar called 'Menus'. This will lead you to the main menus page. You will also see a big difference in the game detail pages, as now a list of all menudisks, that contain the specific game, is displayed.
All menudisks are available for download in the AL database and all games are directly linked.
A big thanks to Nico!
March 27, 2021 by ST Graveyard
After our last video about the history of Son Shu Shi over at the Youtube channel, it is now time to talk to the original developers. In the interview with the Kral brothers we talk about the 80's, classic home-computers and life as a game developer / democoder / hacker.
This is a difficult game, definitely NOT for the unexperienced adventure gamer. Many items are hard to find, and many puzzles are very hard to solve. Oh, and by the way, Rosella has a wicked tendency to die very often.
August 26, 2001 by Lorenzo
Read the review of King's Quest 4 - The Perils of RosellaIn 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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