h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

beautiful things dont you think?
Ive got an STe 520 in perfect working order. i take it apart and mke sure everything works every month or so.

Anyhow, just thought id pop by. Im in fife and saw you on the SRG page.

have fun

E

Somewhere there's my old Atari ST4040 - Ha one up for me!
Yes I managed to get a whole 4 Megs of memory squeezed in (those were the days). Not to mention a 60 meg external hard drive the size of a shoebox!

OK , maybe it should have been a ST4160? At my age the maths go quickly

Well... going by the 520, which shipped with 512K RAM (although i think we got a whole 1 MB!!!), ATARI numbes have nothing to do with the computer i think

I recently discoverd my computing department at school have two TT's in working order with 3 or 4 hard drives! They are big.

Do you know anywhere that still sells atari hardware? im wanting to get a hard drive myself

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It was the ST1040 that had the 1 meg of RAM - thats what my one started life as, before the soldering iron got to work!

As for buying Atari hardware? The only place I've seen any in years has been among the miscella..(B*gg*r!) mixed goodies at computer fairs.

I'm an Amiga owner of more than ten years, so best not to mention the Atari ST to me

Amiga? BAH! heresy! Begone ye! Well, actually, stay if you want, i was almost about to buy one.

So, did you ever write anything for your ATARI, or did you just play games like everyone else?

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Write anything? - Yes!!!

Finish writing anything? - Well actually now you mention it...er...um

Anyway it was Dungeon Master that sold me my Atari! Wonderful game, many, MANY happy hours spent (and MANY lives) down there...AH the fond memories.

Never had it on the ATARi

i had a wonderful RPG/combat dungeon creator for my STe. Basically you had a grid of anyhting up to 1000 squares. YOu then sat down, got rid of walls, put in doors, added objects and wrote text. And then.... you played it.

Really really quite fun.

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I recently got sent a link to a great website about Dungeon Master. If you remember it with fondness you should have a visit.

D*mn!! drat and double drat!!

I meant to hit the preview button! Can't seem to get the hang of this GuideML thingy yet. But it looks as if the link should get you there OK.

I only recently got to play Dungeon Master at last. I played Eye of the Beholder (a Dungeon Master clone) on the Amiga religiously.

If you like those Dungeon-type games, then I would strongly recommend "Angband", a highly-detailed "Above-view" dungeon game that is available as freeware.

Information on Angband and downloads are available here:

http://www.thangorodrim.net/

have fun

Zagreb
thanks for the tip, but the site I mentioned includes a download of Dungeon Master for playing on the PC and I have the funny feeling that any spare computer time away from here might be taken up with reliving some of my (mis-spent?) youth

mis-spent? even better! It seems to be more fun.

Im going for Dungeon Master just now, cheers

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I have DM for the PC but the sound doesn't appear to work

And I don't understand how all the different character classes and spells and stuff are supposed to work. I do like killing the baddies and then eating them for tea, though. Something that was sadly missing from Eye of the Beholder, but then Kobolds and Zombies probably aren't too nutritious. Or tasty.

The site I mentioned includes downloads of all the relevant manuals (in PDF format). There's details on spells, experience points - everything!
There's even a download of DM for the Amiga
And what's the point of killing all these baddies if you can't eat a few to get your strength back? Shoddy workmanship I call that!

I have Amiga DM, and thanks for the manual help

In Eye... you had to keep collecting Iron Rations to keep your party with full tummies. Must have been quite a tedious diet.

Maybe the writer was a part-time Dentist and needed the extra business?

couldnt get DM to work but i got angband (is that what its called?) working and its fast taking my pittiful social life from me

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Sorry about that, I should have clarified it, if you go to the site what you are looking for is 'Chaos Strikes back for Windows and Linux' once you've unpacked it there's a batch file called 'PlayDM-Atari', double click that and Robert's your parents brother!

Good luck and have fun!