BREAKIN' THE BORDERS – Atari ST volume 1 (with PDF)

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1984-1990: The Atari ST and the Creatives, Volume 1. From underground magicians to magical developers. Our digital identity began with the computer youth of the 80s. This is the captivating story of a European swarm intelligence that struggled with a truly limited 16-bit machine and created extraordinary digital art to start their own pixel business, Thalion.

BREAKIN' THE BORDERS goes back to the days when the Atari ST and Amiga were revolutionary mouse-driven machines and DTP and interactive design were the future. The book reveals the founding of the Atari Corporation, touches on the marketing of Atari computers, and explores the origins of the Atari ST demo scene, whose creatives were on a rollercoaster ride into the thriving digital entertainment industry.

With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Gundolf S. Freyermuth, co-founder of the Cologne Game Lab. In BREAKIN' THE BORDERS, the author of numerous publications on our digital age talks about the roots of the "demo scenes".

A narrated journey through the Atari ST demoscene - an important subcultural phenomenon in the era of home computers. For the first time, the fast-moving designs are captured on paper. A book in the format of a 12" Atari screen with cinematic sequential tableaux presented in hundreds of demo screens. How do you fight limits and system requirements? How do you make something possible that a machine doesn't actually allow? What challenges did these 16-bit computer geeks face? What did they learn? What are they doing today?

Memories of the creators of The Exceptions (TEX), The Carebears (TCB), The Lost Boys (TLB), Overlanders (OVR), Gigabyte Crew, TNT Crew, Level 16, The Respectables, ST NEWS, Delta Force, Omega, 2-Life Crew, Nordic Coders, SYNC, AAC, Flexible Front, Phalanx, Vector, Total Vision Inc. and many more...

With Erik Simon (ES), Jochen Hippel (Mad Max), Michael Bittner (Hexogen), Richard Karsmakers (Cronos), Michael Raasch (Daryl), Timothy Moss (Manikin), David Moss (Spaz), Michael Schüßler (Sammy Joe), Stefan Posthuma (Digital Insanity), Stefan Kimmlingen (Tyrem), Niklas Malmqvist (Tanis), Anders Cedronius (AN Cool), Marc Rosocha (Thalion), Michael Grohe (Thalion), Monika Krawinkel (Thalion), Holger Flöttmann (Thalion), Celal Kandemiroglu (Thalion), Mike Mee (Mug UK), David Mistouflet (Dim) and Patrick Bricout (Mr. Bee) ...

Demo Classics: BIG Demo (Best in Galaxy), Cuddly Demos, Delirious Demo 2, European Demos, Life's A Bitch, Mindbomb Demo, Overscan Demos, SoWatt Demo, Syntax Terror Demo, Union Demo, and many more...

Thalion/Eclipse games: Chambers of Shaolin, Dragonflight, Leavin' Teramis, Seven Gates of Jambala, Warp, Wings of Death, To be on Top, Ninja Remix.

About the product:

with PDF!

English
Revised hardcover edition
offset printing + sewn binding
230 × 170 mm landscape format
book in Atari 12" screen size
400 pages of history
130g/m² Art Silk Plus paper
Fine print, bright colors
500 images of Atari ST demos
More than 40 demos
games with press analysis
Double-sided compositions
30 features / flashbacks
tools of the makers
40-page interview appendix
Synchronized Scrolling & Fullscreen Special
technical instructions