RETURN OF THE BORDERS – Atari ST volume 3 (with PDF)

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1994-1997: The Atari ST and the Creatives, Vol. 3. In the virtual realm of high-tech pixel worlds. Falcon, Jaguar, 64-bit - it all sounded so good. Former Atari ST specialists want to show off their skills. Was it too little, too late? The demo scene on the threshold of a career, caught in the maelstrom of a declining computer game industry.

With a foreword by Marc Rosocha, founder of Eclipse Software. Rosocha was one of the first 16-bit entrepreneurs in Germany, who benefited from his experience in the demo scene. He began his career at Thalion. But it was only with Eclipse that he went into business for himself and developed one of the most important games for the Atari Jaguar: Iron Soldier.

There is a new spirit of optimism in Silicon Valley. With the Jaguar console, Atari feels invincible again. This not only attracts machine language experts from the digital underground, but many software houses also believe in a new beginning in Sunnyvale. While the coding wizards from the scene hold on to the Falcon, small ST/E programming teams mobilize their 68000 know-how for the ever-faster games market. Eclipse is orientating itself towards the USA and shaping the 64-bit market more aggressively, while the former Thalion team at Blue Byte is gathering for another role-playing epic. The experience of the demo scene holds the creative conspiracy together and the desire for "the impossible" continues. Find out more about the unsettled times of the late 90s and their crazy development teams. Atari Falcon and Amiga 1200 are now fighting for the attention of a dying home computer community. All against DOS. It is a clash of all computer scenes and the awakening of a new, growing creative community. From now on, clubs take over the organization of computer fairs and homebrew developers work on missing software and hardware: even on a new generation of TOS-compatible computers.

RETURN OF THE BORDERS goes back to a time when "64-bit" sounds like an irresistible promise of a digital future. However, home computers remained on the sidelines. Are creative minds ready to invest again? In the future of Atari too? The third volume delves into the darkest era of the Atari Corporation. The scene is broken and is looking for its niche in an already dead games market.

Memories of Makers by Synergy, Pixel Twins, New Beat, The Independent, New Trend, Cream, TOYS, Inter Development, DNT-Crew, Dune, Aura, Animal Mine, ACF Design Team, Reservoir Gods, Running Design Team, STAX, Anvil-Soft, NPG Design, Mystic Bytes, Checkpoint, Therapy, Holocaust, Digital Chaos, No Limit Coding, The Sirius Cybernetics Corp, Avena, The Naughty Bytes, EKO, Exa, Dead Hackers Society, and many more...

With Steven Tattersall (Tat), András Kavalecz (Carnera), Armin Hierstetter, Arnoud Kinderman, Richard Karsmakers (Cronos), Leon O' Reilly (Mr. Pink), Joris de Man (Scavenger), Frank Seemann (Tao), Daniel Hedberg (Daniel), Kay Tennemann (Agent -t-), Hagen Deike (Samurai), Pierre Terdiman (Zappy), Olivier Nallet (Shen Technologies), Oskar Burman (Unique Software Development), Stéphane Perez (Strider), Sébastien Larnac (ST Survivor), Jan F. Daldrup (Nemo/Milhouse), Ralf Zenker (Anvil Soft), Christian Pick (Lucky ST), Matthias Böck (Matt), Kai Jourdan (Questor), Michael Opel (Mike), Stefan Benz (Lotek Style), Torsten Keltsch (mOdmate), Marc Rosocha ...

Demo classics: Are You Experienced?, Built in Obsolescence, Dream Dimension, EKO System, Japtro, Joint Venture, Lost Blubb, Obnoxious, Sonoluminescence, Synergy Megademo and more...

Classic games: Iron Soldier, Iron Soldier 2, Albion, Crown of Creation 3D, Obsession, Running, Substation, Stardust, Super Burnout, The Apprentice.

About the product:

With PDF!

English
offset printing + thread stitching
230 × 170 mm landscape format
book in Atari 12" screen format
400 pages of Atari history
135g/m² semi-matte paper
Fine raster printing, bright colors
More than 35 Falcon demos on display
Interview special with a special donor
Eclipse games on the Atari Jaguar
Jaguar sales history
45-page interview appendix
Comparison tables for the Jaguar and the Falcon
Falcon games in focus
Falcon demos in detail
Atari ST scene in the mid-90s
Technical discussion about 64-bit
The last days of Atari Corp.
homebrew games