Atari ST

Yes, it looks like Atari, maybe? He had a joystick.

He had a joystick, but it looked like a little too fancy for old Atari, but being that this was 87, maybe like an Atari ST. 2600? No, the 2600 didn't have graphics that good.

I had a 2600, but it could have been an Atari ST, which played a little more like a computer that you attach to your television.

I didn't recognize this game.

I had the NES spec.

It's emphasizing on scientific information.

computation in particular that's cool next on the list is something kind of goofy which is retro image handler from blue sky user titus rab i believe is uh their handle titus rab.bluesky.social but they added a typescript library for decoding validating converting previewing and encoding retro graphics for web apps web workers for like commodore 64 let's see what they support uh Yeah, Amiga, OCS, ECS, AGA, ILBM, Raw Planar Images, Commodore 64, Koala Art, excuse me, Koala, Art Studio, Doodle, and Raw Graphics, ZX Spectrum, Sinclair, Atari ST.

So ancient computers.

Original computers, you can now do this in TypeScript, which I love.

You still had all of the 8-bits, they were all still around, and you had the 16-bits coming in as well.

The Atari ST and the Amiga were both out, and, uh, while the Amiga hadn't yet entered its, uh, its mainstream, uh, user base, it was still around there.

People were starting to make user groups.

But I was too young at that point, I think, to be in them.

But boy, these old user group newsletters are a quick way to be reminded of the incredible limitations of the day.

So picture yourself.

You're, you're buying a flatbed scanner and an Atari ST interface for that scanner for over $1,200 US, 1987 dollars.

But you, you can't scan a full page in color at 300 DPI, which today is, you know, the standard for print resolution, because y- you don't have the storage space to put that anywhere.

I don't think they made the NES version, because this game, um, has started on the computers.

It was on the Atari ST and the Amiga and stuff like that.

Uh, so I think the NES version was made by a group called Gremlin Graphics, which doesn't sound, uh, real.

Uh [laughs], but sure.

They're getting long in the tooth, right? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, in the late 80s, you've got 16-bit machines, Atari ST, your Amiga, the PCs are gaining some ground in that market.

So what do you do if you're a guy who's running the show and you've got eight bits out the in-ya, you can see the writing on the wall.

You can do one of two things.

Mm.

Uh, because after Atari ST, it kind of went off to be a PC title and that, it was like, "Goodbye, see you later," and, uh, you know, "I guess we'll never meet again." And then, you know, it lit up in a magazine, screenshots of it.

I was like, "Oh my God, I can't believe this is coming to this.

This is like the greatest thing." Now, obviously it never made it.

I think it would've been a quite easy port for them to do, I'll be honest.

Um, but yeah, sad day.

MicroProse are a home computer studio that really, during the sort of 8 and 16-bit computing era, home computing era of the Atari ST and Amiga really, when it came to its full force, um, was making some absolutely brilliant games.

Um, simulators, which I love.

Well, he had that.

And then just around that time, I had got into, I bought an Atari ST and had Cubase, one of those early, you know, MIDI...

Yeah.

Ramming, you know, kind of what we call a door on our DAW.