News

D-Bug 185 was released yesterday (1/11/04).

Nothing ground breaking but another uncracked game gets the Showaddywaddy treatment. Plus a nice new CJ intro adorns the disk.

Shw
http://www.tphf.karoo.net/dbug/

Hi everybody,

Brume just managed to upload all games ever published by Loriciel. That's 52 ST classics in total. To download them, you will need to be logged in, of course.

We would like to thank the people at Loriciel to give us their permission to publish them freely for the fans! Thanks a lot.

Let's save some history, people!

Hello everybody,

Atari-Forum has been shut down temporarely by our host. It seems in the past few days the site eat up to much recources, 85% of the whole CPU power of our hosting server. Other sites suffered from this. It seems we've been a victim of googlebot. Limitation software for seach engine crawlers will be build in ASAP, so this never happens again.

This downtime has got nothing to do with the complaint which was filed a month ago.

Sorry for the inconvience!

Ijor had some remarkable news the other day:

Pasti is a software package consisting of imaging and preservation tools for Atari ST software.

Pasti.Dll is the emulation helper tool. It extends Atari ST emulators, adding support for extended disk images. These disk images support exotic, custom, and copy-protected formats. You can now use emulators to run ST software in its original uncracked form. At this time, Steem 3.2, recently released, is the only ST emulator supporting Pasti.

Pasti.Dll is the first component of the package released to the public. It is still in beta, but it is stable enough for going out of closed beta. It is available at http://pasti.fxatari.com/ . A short preliminary documentation is included.

There are no images of games available to download at that site. The only image available is the Union Demo, a wonderful but copy-protected demo. The demo is not fully compatible with STe computers, and then it needs the –stfmborder option to run correctly under Steem.

Some images of copy-protected games will likely be released shortly on the usual ftp sites. Please don’t ask, we don’t distribute game images to the public.

Discuss Pasti at Atari Forum

After the issues of september, we decided to remove all games from the site. That was bad news for all game lovers. But today, some of them are getting back online!

We have contacted many editors in order to obtain the rights to make them available. Some kindly answered it is ok. At the moment we have got permission to publish the games from the following developers :

- Lankhor
- Carraz
- Loriciel
- Generation 5

Only the games from the first team are online at the moment, but the rest will follow soon. If despite our efforts someone feels injured with a game he created, please get in touch with [url=../contact/contact.php]us[/url] first.

We like to thank the friendly people from the teams above already for their support! This way, their classics can be enjoyed by the public, and will live forever. That is what we like to do.

Also as a gift we offer a very rare game: Star Trap. The french community is after this game for many years. Here it is. Go on the Star Trap page, and download it! But remember you need to be logged in!

We are planning to release more games soon. Maybe on weekly basis. It will be announced here. The whole Atari Legend team is working on them at the moment!

Enjoy it!

Steem v3.2 has finally been released. There are quite a few bug fixes plus great new features:

-- Emulation Bugs --
. Rewrote DMA sound again (Badger Demo and lots of other STE programs).
. Fixed some CPU bugs (Wrath of the Demon, Zoolook).
. Fixed read-only disk image read sector bug (thanks Jorge).
. Fixed big frame bug (War Heli, thanks Jorge again).
. Fixed byte palette bug (lots of mono programs).
. Fixed current time seconds bug.
. Fixed FDC bug (Chaos Strikes Back Replicants crack).
. Fixed FDC IO access bug (White Spirit Demo).
. Allowed programs to set the time/date (Sewer doc displayer).
. Lots and lots of other stuff (cheers Jorge).

-- Other Bugs --
. Made Steem work again on Windows 95.
. Fixed multiple save over last snapshot undo bug.
. XSTEEM: Improved non-English keyboard mappings.

-- New Features --
. Pasti copy-protected disk image library support (Pasti library will be released soon).
. Disk image database: easy detection of the contents of disk images (thanks to Keili for all his work).
. Vastly improved VSync.
. Undo last reset and undo last load snapshot options.
. XSTEEM: More features in disk manager.
. XSTEEM: Web links have returned (and they work now).
. XSTEEM: Added RtAudio library sound.
. DEBUG: Lots of stuff.

The new version is available from the Steem website http://steem.atari.st/. Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

Anthony and Russell Hayward