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The creators of Utopos talk!

May 21, 2021 by ST Graveyard

News illustration image 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!

A chat with Jonathan Thomas, creator of the new Lotus STe

April 26, 2021 by ST Graveyard

News illustration image 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.

New interview with Sébastien Laborie / Orion

April 14, 2021 by ST Graveyard

News illustration image 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.

Stonish merges with Atari Legend

April 11, 2021 by ST Graveyard

News illustration image 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!

Interview with the Kral brothers, creators of Son Shu Shi

March 27, 2021 by ST Graveyard

News illustration image 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.

My Dream STe, new article added

December 27, 2020 by ST Graveyard

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Thomas Niemann (aka Schlampf) wanted to share his dream Atari STe with you all. Over the years, he has been enhancing the machine with all kinds of hardware mods and in this write up you can find out all the juicy details. A must read for hardware hackers! Enjoy.

Screenshot of Xenon
Random review

Xenon can easily be considered as the mother of the 16-bit shooters. It looks beautiful, it sounds cool and it plays great in the first level. After that, all hell breaks lose and the game starts to become unplayable for me. It's just extremely difficult.

November 15, 2002 by ST Graveyard

Read the review of Xenon

Did you know?

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer

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