Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

Abacus Books for the Atari ST, Part 1

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Paul Lefebvre
Apr 05, 2024
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The Atari ST was designed and developed very quickly. By all accounts it was about a year. That’s is not much time and it meant that some things were not readily available when it finally shipped.

One of these things was documentation. Sure, you could get the Developer’s Kit from Atari itself, but this was a $400 package ($1100 in 2024) that consisted of…

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