Hallo! They say that you should put your strangest statement at the top of a letter to guarantee that your letter gets read all the way through; so here goes - I found your name and web page by looking for Linux versions for Atari. I grew up very sheltered (but impovrished) in the world of that famously expensive operating system that is published by a company in Redmond. I am very much a newbie at Linux, but I am also an academic and a glutton for punishment, so I have picked out a project to take me through the inner world of Linux: I want to get Linux to run on my Atari ST. I have found some good resources on the web, but I am sure that I will need to ask questions now and again! (Anybody care to jump in this together?) Here are some starters. One how-to online says to use rawwrite.ttp to unpack some .bin files for a "rescue disk." Question: on what OS does rawwrite.ttp run? Is it for the Atari TOS, for Windows or for Linux? How does one enter command lines on the Atari TOS? (Sorry, most of my Atari experience is 8bit). Also, should restore disks like resc1440bin be bootable from most emulators? (I like WinSTon.) Should the TOS image be attached? (Would the TOS OS be ignored when booting from disk?) I imagine there is a document in somebody's garage that would answer most or all of these questions. I would be most grateful if someone could respond with a link, and copy of such a document or answers to some of the individual questions. THANKS! Steven in Pelham, AL, USA |
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What was the First Home
What was the First Home Computer? What was the First Game Console? Well, there’s some debate on the subject. For those that know however, a leading contender for the title is the Bally Astrocade, also known as the Professional Arcade. It was first shipped to the public in 1978!
But why are we interested? Because as TigerDirect enters its 20th year in the computer industry, we reflect on the changes we’ve seen, as well as participated in creating. It’s important that we understand the history computers and consumer electronics share so that we have a sense of where we’re going from here. So take a trip down Nostalgia Lane with us. We’ll visit some products that changed the world, and some that were just too strange, even for the era they were born in.
The Astrocade was first shipped to the public 30 years ago, in 1978. But what was it? An early video game console and simple computer system conceived by a design team at Midway, the video game (read: consumer electronics) division of Bally. Bally was a pinball manufacturer that also built many of the vintage Las Vegas Casinos. The Astrocade was sold for only a limited time before Bally decided to exit the market. The rights to the system were later picked up by a third party company who re-released it and kept it alive until 1983.The Astrocade is particularly notable for its very powerful graphics specs, but the Bally engineers never really provided the hooks and access to it so it was, in a way, a waste of capability.
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