[HN Gopher] FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
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FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
Author : rbanffy
Score : 107 points
Date : 2024-11-22 09:33 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.goto10retro.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.goto10retro.com)
| riedel wrote:
| I was searching on the net but couldn't find it: does some one
| remember the floppy zine on the Amiga with releases of Flip the
| Frog and Banana Man comics? I will otherwise look in my old
| floppy stack if I find time ..
| tiahura wrote:
| Some insightful stuff about open source.
| Agingcoder wrote:
| Sun dog and gold runner !!!! I had forgotten about these, but
| they were somehow hidden in my brain.
|
| I used to love diskmags ( Imphobia on pcs in particular ) but the
| format has afaik completely disappeared, and has been superseded
| by the web.
|
| Thanks.
| technothrasher wrote:
| I used to occasionally babysit a couple of kids when I was a
| teenager. Babysitting wasn't really anything I had much
| interest in, but I would do it for this family. I couldn't wait
| to get the kids to bed, so that I could fire up Sundog on the
| family's Atari ST.
| CodeCompost wrote:
| Somebody commented in the post that the little devil logo is
| Beastie:
|
| https://www.goto10retro.com/p/faster-atari-st-digital-magazi...
|
| Interesting that it shows up on an Atari ST magazine. Maybe
| somebody there was a BSD fan in 1987?
| jasomill wrote:
| Specifically, it's a rendition of the daemon from the cover of
| the 4.2BSD _UNIX System Manager 's Manual_[1].
|
| "Cover design by John Lassetter _[sic]_ , Lucasfilm, Ltd."[2]
|
| [1] https://archive.org/details/smm-4.2bsd/mode/1up
|
| [2] https://archive.org/details/smm-4.2bsd/page/n1/mode/1up
| rob74 wrote:
| This is an interesting intersection between the printed magazines
| with cover disks and the floppy collections containing "public
| domain" software, but without editorial content (e.g. the famous
| Amiga "Fish Disks":
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish#The_Amiga_Library_Di...),
| which were both more widespread.
| rbanffy wrote:
| Back then I wanted to publish collected stories in floppies as
| Windows .HLP files. The SDK was... discouraging.
|
| And then the web happened.
|
| The company I worked for managed to publish a couple e-commerce
| (we didn't call it that) CD's using Windows remote access clients
| to dial up a server (as in using a phone) to post orders that
| would be delivered next day. Fun times.
| layer8 wrote:
| From a user perspective, I'm still fond of WinHelp/CHM. It's a
| rather consistent and predictable format, with a standard
| hierarchical TOC, index, full-text search, and hyperlinking,
| distributed as a single file you can open on any Windows PC.
| The AutoHotKey documentation is a good example.
| rbanffy wrote:
| Oh yes, but that ship sailed really fast. The idea would
| start from RTF files, but by the time we hit the market, the
| distribution channel would be gone.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| EPUB is a fairly modern counterpart to CHM. The old WinHelp
| file format (.HLP) was RTF-based as pointed out in a sibling
| comment.
| pjmlp wrote:
| This was a quite common way to publish in the demoscene, see
| Hugi.
| juliend2 wrote:
| Seeing the articles penned by "Alain Plouffe", "Andre Lafreniere"
| and "Serge Vaillancourt" makes me realize they were _french_
| canadians.
|
| Funny to imagine a clique of - old like my parents - quebecois
| geeking out about Atari computers and making a floppy zine about
| it.
| maupin wrote:
| Loadstar (a C64 magazine) for me is still the gold standard for
| magazines on disk. Every issue was a pleasure and so well put
| together.
| snvzz wrote:
| diskmags[0] are a still a thing.
|
| Back in the day, we called them ezines.
|
| 0.
| https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B0%5D=diskmag&page=...
| bbqfog wrote:
| I remember Softdisk for the Apple IIe. It has an ASCII "tv show"
| call Alfredo:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OQ4eheYKc&list=PLWOBhBZEPZ...
| cmrdporcupine wrote:
| Ah, memories. I was a member (and even secretary for a bit) of a
| 16-bit Atari user group for a bit back in the late 80s/early-90s.
| We used to put out a disk "magazine" for members and distribute
| others. The latest shareware and the like.
|
| So much was about magazines back then, even after BBSs and the
| early Internet came on the scene.
| hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
| Reminds me of the big blue disk and gamer's edge from which ID
| Software grew. We now have an abundance of software to enjoy but
| I wish I lived through the early days.
| fyt2024 wrote:
| Fun fact, some software developed for the Atari ST survives until
| today. For example one of the fastest word processors
| https://www.papyrusauthor.com
| rajbot wrote:
| After spending all week reviewing and commenting on gdocs, I
| have to say that the Papyrus interface looks really beautiful.
| I love how they implemented sticky notes!
| j45 wrote:
| Amazing to see these examples still around and working.
| GuardianCaveman wrote:
| My dad use to take us to Atari conventions in the Bay Area and LA
| and I grew up with it. I never heard of this magazine!
| hoistbypetard wrote:
| Using the "outline" style for fonts is, sadly, a lost art. I feel
| like that went away almost entirely around the turn of the
| century.
| mastazi wrote:
| Growing up I had an Amiga but my uncle, who was a semi-pro
| musician, had an ST and this was connected via midi to an Akai
| sampler and a Roland synth that were mounted in a rack near the
| computer; in the rack there were some effects too. This was a
| dream setup in the late 80's. On the Amiga I would use tracker
| software[1] to make music and until I finally got a cheap
| sampling interface[2], I had to just use samples that I would
| find in the accompanying floppy of various Amiga magazines.
| Obviously my uncle's setup was extremely hi-fi compared to mine
| and so to this day I have this idea in the back of my mind that
| "ST is for people who have money" LOL.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
|
| [2] it was something like this
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gTWf6IGCJM
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