Hello from Barcelona
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:24 pm
Hi all,
my name is Jordi, crashman on forums and such...
I've around Atari since childhood, as my first approach to anything electronic related was an 2600 woody from a friend.
I love Space invaders on it!
When my parents bought me a computer, can't remember if it was I that was asking for, or what..., it was an Spectrum.
Pretty common in the 80's in Spain.
Later I bought the 520STFM, upgraded directly before it touches home, to 1Meg.
On those days I used mainly to play, and "spread" whatever comes to hand, to anyone in the city. (sorry... )
On the 90's I manage to buy a Falcon030 from UK, I think it was from Sylica...? Have to check it...
Phone calls with my poor English, faxes up and down...
But i managed it, and got a 4Mb Falcon with and upgraded 250Mb HDD.
I think it was on 96, that I went to London with the college.
I wrote down every single Atari shop form London, to take a visit and buy some things.
That's was the time when I learned that London is veeeeeeeeeery big.
I got to take a train, no tube, no DLR, a train to a supposed London shop, but I can't remember where it was.
I bought there some software, NVDI, ImgCopy... and the FPU for my Falcon.
Lovely days back then...
Well, then Atari closed, everything became absorbed with PC's and I felt in the dark side, leaving the Atari's on the shelve.
Oh! I forgot to mention that the Falcon, opened me the hunger to write some progs, and I managed to make a prog that stills floats around the net, it's name ModRipper, pretty obvious what it does.
On 2014 I visited a retro fair in Barcelona, and I get shocked that there wasn't a single Atari, form ST to upwards..., in the fair.
Even more, there was a huge table with all the existing Amiga's. I was angry! (well, a little bit...)
I told my wife:
- Next year I'm taking mine to the fair!
And right there at this moment, my Atari addiction became a reality...
I started to buy computers and restoring them to it's better days.
So in 2015 I was part of the fair and showed all kind of Atari's, form 260ST booting the TOS from floppy, to a Falcon with a Centurbo, on a transparent case that I made myself. I could try my CosmosEX on that fair, as I got it delivered right to there, with also MegaST ,MegaSTE, Stacy...
But that was the last time I showed them, as it became clear that what the audience of that fair want, was to play games.
Only a few people got interested on the details of the machines, and for what they were used to.
In 2016 I repeated fair, but these time with the games consoles from Atari, but it wasn't the same.
i like more my computers, so no fair in 2017.
Now I'm focused on preservation of, mainly, Midi software for the Atari.
I bought a SupercardPro to preserve the protected disks, and I have on mind to explore the dark world of dongles, to try to replicate them.
But that is another story.
Happy to be here!!!
And thanks exxos for all your work on the Atari's!!!
my name is Jordi, crashman on forums and such...
I've around Atari since childhood, as my first approach to anything electronic related was an 2600 woody from a friend.
I love Space invaders on it!
When my parents bought me a computer, can't remember if it was I that was asking for, or what..., it was an Spectrum.
Pretty common in the 80's in Spain.
Later I bought the 520STFM, upgraded directly before it touches home, to 1Meg.
On those days I used mainly to play, and "spread" whatever comes to hand, to anyone in the city. (sorry... )
On the 90's I manage to buy a Falcon030 from UK, I think it was from Sylica...? Have to check it...
Phone calls with my poor English, faxes up and down...
But i managed it, and got a 4Mb Falcon with and upgraded 250Mb HDD.
I think it was on 96, that I went to London with the college.
I wrote down every single Atari shop form London, to take a visit and buy some things.
That's was the time when I learned that London is veeeeeeeeeery big.
I got to take a train, no tube, no DLR, a train to a supposed London shop, but I can't remember where it was.
I bought there some software, NVDI, ImgCopy... and the FPU for my Falcon.
Lovely days back then...
Well, then Atari closed, everything became absorbed with PC's and I felt in the dark side, leaving the Atari's on the shelve.
Oh! I forgot to mention that the Falcon, opened me the hunger to write some progs, and I managed to make a prog that stills floats around the net, it's name ModRipper, pretty obvious what it does.
On 2014 I visited a retro fair in Barcelona, and I get shocked that there wasn't a single Atari, form ST to upwards..., in the fair.
Even more, there was a huge table with all the existing Amiga's. I was angry! (well, a little bit...)
I told my wife:
- Next year I'm taking mine to the fair!
And right there at this moment, my Atari addiction became a reality...
I started to buy computers and restoring them to it's better days.
So in 2015 I was part of the fair and showed all kind of Atari's, form 260ST booting the TOS from floppy, to a Falcon with a Centurbo, on a transparent case that I made myself. I could try my CosmosEX on that fair, as I got it delivered right to there, with also MegaST ,MegaSTE, Stacy...
But that was the last time I showed them, as it became clear that what the audience of that fair want, was to play games.
Only a few people got interested on the details of the machines, and for what they were used to.
In 2016 I repeated fair, but these time with the games consoles from Atari, but it wasn't the same.
i like more my computers, so no fair in 2017.
Now I'm focused on preservation of, mainly, Midi software for the Atari.
I bought a SupercardPro to preserve the protected disks, and I have on mind to explore the dark world of dongles, to try to replicate them.
But that is another story.
Happy to be here!!!
And thanks exxos for all your work on the Atari's!!!