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Hello everybody,

I feel a bit like an ass here since this is the 3rd time this year we announce it, but atari-forum is back online.

Richard Davey managed to get his server secured, so lets hope this does the job. Thanks a lot for this, Rich!

It might be a nice christmas after all ;-)

Enjoy

Hello,

We have a special little surprise which I hope you all will like. A little AL chat room has been build and can be accessed at the left menu bar. Make sure you are logged on to the site, and join in for some good 'ol chatting.

I still need to test it all, but you can only really do that when others join in, so if you feel like it, don't hesitate!

UPDATE! New version online. Bugs fixxxed for Firebird browser.

Cheers

Hello all,

After the super release of the Jukebox today, we have another big surprice for you all.

Every ST fan remembers the great wars with the Commodore Amiga, back in the good ol' days. Well our new update is a big wink to those golden years. With the help of Kim Lemon from Lemon64 and Lemon Amiga, it is now possible to compare the ST version with their Amiga and/or Commodore 64 counterpart. Not all games are linked yet, but we'll be updating this weekly. At the moment 650+ games have a compare link. Just go to the game detail pages to find the "vs" links, if they are available.

Enjoy this great feature and ... Stay Atari!

perihelion has been working hard together with the Atarilegend team to realize the year old dream of an AL jukebox. We shamelessly stole the graphical interface of Grazey's awesome UMD8730 muzak demo and therefor it looks quite good. (Big thanks to Grazey - Download his fantastic UMD8730 now) Click the link on the left saying ”Jukebox” and take it for a test spin. You will find cirka 530 game music files in there today, hopefully that amount will increase over time. If you have music files to submit please get in touch with us and we will try and put them online.

And don't worry, the soundfiles will also become available from the games detail pages at one point in time!

Today Paradize released a small tool for precalculating picture fading effects on STE. You can fade pictures to black, white, fade them back in and fade them to custom colors. The resulting fading can be saved as a block of ready-to-use step-by-step palettes saving you from the hazzle of reinventing the wheel by coding a yet-another fading routine.

Currently uncompressed DEGAS pictures and NEOCHROME pictures are supported.

The Fade Calculator always calculates STE fadings but the results are fully STFM compatible, only a bit rougher.

The tool works on Atari STFM/STE and Falcon 030 in ST-LOW and example sources in 68000 assembly and GFABASIC are included.

Check the Paradize website: http://paradize.atari.org/

Hi everybody,

The first reviews have been submitted by Shredder. He has taken quick peeks at the following games :

-Shufflepuck Cafe
-Sheer Agony
-The Secret of Monkey Island

There is also an indepth review of the classic Driventure online ;-)

Enjoy the read ... and keep those reviews coming!