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While the forum is down, we got this message from Phantom :

Hi ! I can't wait for the forum to come back...
Here are 4 of my attempts for the sprite contest :

1 - 162 (250 balls with a cheating method - already published on forum but with a loading bug corrected) - SainT v1.80 seems not to boot it ?!
2 - 162a (216 balls with leonard curve) - no boot protection for SainT user - screenshot
3 - 162b (220 balls - record is equalized) - no boot protection for SainT user
4 - 162c (222 balls- record is broken) - no boot protection for SainT user

Thanks,
Phantom

Leonard, the current author of SainT, is just coming to send an e-mail about the new version of his emulator. According to the beta version he sent some days ago, the program now offers better quality with digisounds. Take an ear to the digi screen from the Cuddly Demos, it deserves a listening.

Here are the changes:

1.80
* New powerfull digit-sound volume register caching technic. No more noise in Digi-Sound !
SainT sounds better than ever ! ( Thanks to Paulo Simoes for nice talks and ideas )
* Adding STEREO sound support ! ( for STE stereo sound )
* Powerfull and "no click" 0 dc sound adjuster

* 68000 Prefetching mechanism re-written to support more protection code ( sprite record by Phantom )
* Re-written disk controller stuff from Assembler to C++ for future extension ( Pasti )

Good news! SainT v1.80 is available on Leonard Homepage.

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