I’m a British dad of 2 toddlers, the Atari ST and its games were a gateway drug to code and now I use that code with a little help from AI to speed up building stuff for my family. I talk about retro tech, cars, broken Britain, and family life. Follow me for dad jokes, poo,…
Did anyone out there have this as a kid? I got one for my little boy, he’s not quite old enough for it just yet but he likes me playing tunes on it. Just need to teach him how to do it. I should probably do a video demo..
So I'm sure you know the Bonnie Tyler version but have you ever heard the Nicki French version of Total Eclipse of the Heart that ripped off Dr Alban's It's My Life? My dad managed to get hold of it before it was removed from shops for its dubious approach to copyright. Absolute…
It’s clear that people are enjoying my posts more when It’s in the world I know, retro, tech, etc and I avoid modern matters and negativity. I can live with that, it’s a fun way to do Twitter. Definitely beats taking about politics.
When I was a kid I used to make music plugging my Atari ST into a Yamaha PSS-480 with a free copy of Sequencer One from ST Format magazine. It kicked off a life-long love of making music. I got to do loads of exciting gigs years later. Did the ST get you into music production?
Kids today have no idea what expensive memory is. And this is 1990 money - multiply those prices by 4.
Yeah I know, not retro, but a magnificent game, really good on a Steam Deck when the kids are otherwise occupied.
I remember seeing this and desperately wanting an Atari Falcon. No way in hell I could ever afford one of course. Marketing was terrible - only ST mags and this segment from Bad Influence really let me know it existed. Did you lust after the Falcon or did you want an Amiga 1200?
Did you get an Atari STe? Did you waste money on games that didn’t work? Or did you have an STfm and look on enviously? Or were you an Amiga owner looking on with bemusement? I had a 520STfm - killed by a RAM upgrade where the STe was just plug in. If only…
1/x 🧵The Atari STe was a bit of a mess. Various bugs didn’t help but the biggest problem was that it never felt like a significant upgrade to the STFM. Not significant enough to buy a replacement machine for, which was the only upgrade path. What should Atari have done?
So did you survive the robot uprising 3 years ago? Sometimes it’s funny reading old mags where games are set in the far future and it’s just not worked out as well as we all hoped. What year disappointed you?
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