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

Lendino, Jamie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1732355215 ISBN 13: 9781732355217

Casa editrice: Steel Gear Press, 2019

Riassunto

“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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Steel Gear Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1732355215
• ISBN 13: 9781732355217
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 325
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile