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Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution

Jamie Lendino

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Description:"Power Without the Price." Every Atari fan remembers that slogan from the 1980s as the rallying cry for 16-bit computing in the form of the Atari ST. This groundbreaking computer brought previously unimagined power to the home user for the first time-and transformed an industry or two along the way.Author Jamie Lendino offers a fresh, vital look at the history of the Atari ST, guiding you from its inauspicious genesis at the center of a company known for its gaming consoles to its category-defining triumphs in music, desktop publishing, and video gaming. And he doesn't stop there: He then leaps to the present to pull back the veil on the thriving software and mod communities that aren't just keeping it alive today, but taking it to places its creators never could have imagined.Whether you're a longtime devotee who wants to relive the magic of the machine that unleashed the wonders of Dungeon Master, Time Bandit, and Starglider, an intrepid DIYer on the hunt for new ideas and resources to take your homebrew system to the next level, or a newcomer hungry to learn the ins and outs of one of the most important computers ever created, this book will get you there just as the ST did its long-ago digital pioneers: Faster Than Light.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution. To get started finding Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Power Without the Price." Every Atari fan remembers that slogan from the 1980s as the rallying cry for 16-bit computing in the form of the Atari ST. This groundbreaking computer brought previously unimagined power to the home user for the first time-and transformed an industry or two along the way.Author Jamie Lendino offers a fresh, vital look at the history of the Atari ST, guiding you from its inauspicious genesis at the center of a company known for its gaming consoles to its category-defining triumphs in music, desktop publishing, and video gaming. And he doesn't stop there: He then leaps to the present to pull back the veil on the thriving software and mod communities that aren't just keeping it alive today, but taking it to places its creators never could have imagined.Whether you're a longtime devotee who wants to relive the magic of the machine that unleashed the wonders of Dungeon Master, Time Bandit, and Starglider, an intrepid DIYer on the hunt for new ideas and resources to take your homebrew system to the next level, or a newcomer hungry to learn the ins and outs of one of the most important computers ever created, this book will get you there just as the ST did its long-ago digital pioneers: Faster Than Light.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution. To get started finding Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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