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New Steem Version Released

October 22, 2004 by Steem Authors

News illustration image 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

SainT v1.72

October 22, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Who can stop Leonard to update SainT? Not us!
The current developper is just coming to release another version of the emulator. This time it updates:

- tricky timerb event mode setting in a fullscreen line ( ULM 8channels demo )
- wrong top-border and timerb usage bug fixed ( screen number 6 in delirious demo 2 )
- potential crash at startup if TOS rom file not found fixed


As far as I know the ULM 8channels demo has not yet been released. Hope it will be soon available.

Go to SainT website to get version 1.72.

Ancient GFA demo by Tobe/MJJ-Prod

October 20, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Tobe of MJJ-Prod is just coming to retrieve his demo coded in 1992. It is named 1999 and works on 1 MB STE. It features nice effects and a good tunnel used later in the game 'Roger'. It was a good attempt to code a demo in GFA Basic back in 1992!

Grab the 1999 demo now and watch it.

DragonFlight for Steem v1.1 (update)

October 20, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image A correction to the game has been posted. It affects the french version only.

This bugfix corrects an error in PEGANA, where ELKAMUR doesn't answer when he is showed some items.
The bug only exists in the french version!
This bugfix will be included in Dragonflight V1.2 for Steem.


Download Dragonflight Bugfix and replace the faulty file in the FRA_DATA directory.

Another 16x16 demo

October 20, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image A new screen for the 16x16 challenge is done. This time it is coded by Phantom, who was previously a guest-coder for V-Max.
Once again the demo doesn't follow the rules established by Leonard. The demo displayed 250 masked sprites. It is more likely a 'wink' to the contest, altough it runs fine on any ST/STE (with at least 512 KB of memory). Also Phantom works at the moment on a rules compliant screen. This new one may be finished next week.

Download Phantom 16x16 Sprite Demo.

DragonFlight for Steem v1.1

October 19, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image A new version of Thalion game DragonFlight is available. According to Udo Fischer, here are the modifications:

- removed a copy protection check which was left in the emulator version unintentionally...
this led to the 'Game-over' sequence when entering 'King Halfton'.
- added the 'Wordlist' with all the words which might be asked as 'extra adventure'. It's directly a part of the source code but I think you will find the appropriate words...


Download DragonFlight v1.1 and feel free to visit Thalion Webshrine.

Screenshot of Frogs
Random review

When I grew up, multi-player games contained two players sitting around the screen. That was what the Atari ST was made for, and we enjoyed the crap out of it. But what about 4-player games, is that even possible? No problem according to Thomas Ilg, and he proves this with his brand new release of Frogs.

December 4, 2018 by ST Graveyard

Read the review of Frogs

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