DrCoolZic Atari ST Site
Presentation
When I started to re-use my Atari in 1998 only limited information was available on the net and most of the sites where either not maintained or disappearing. Today (in 2018) the situation has changed drastically and a lot of new projects and new sites are coming out. As amazing as it may seem the popularity of the Atari seems to be growing every year just check activities on forums like Atari-Forum.
Here is a short list of few active projects I am following:
- Hardware project to replace hard to find peripherals:
- Mouse with PeST, and CosmosEx
- Hard Disk replacement with Satan, UltraSatan, and CosmosEx
- Floppy Disk emulator with HxC2001, and CosmosEx
- FD Preservation with KryoFlux, Supercard Pro
- New Atari Clones with Suska III-C boards from Wolfgang Förster and the Atari ColdFire Project.
- On the Software side there is a lot of activity around Floppy disk preservation projects (e.g. PASTI, SPS, and Aufit) as most of our Floppies are probably close to their end of life! Completely new programs are also developed: some to support new hardware projects (e.g. HD Driver), some to replace old and not maintained programs (e.g. AHCC C Compiler of Henk Robbers)... Many authors have now donated the source of their program to the public domain (e.g. The BIG GEM Library of Claude Attard), some are still doing maintenance of their programs (e.g. HDDriver, PPDriver). Many Atari emulators are still maintained like STeem, STeem-SSE, and SainT and new one are now available like the Hatari. Some amazing work has been done by PP to improve the TOS 1.04 and 1.62 (better file system, optimizations, bug fix..) - more information can be found on this page.
The Organization of my Atari Site
My Atari site is organized around three major sections plus a page that links to some intereting sites:
- Atari Documentation: My-documents, My-FAQ, General,Datasheets
- Atari Software: Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, Atari Development, Floppy Disk image format, Floppy Disk Protection / Preservation, PC-Projects (Aufit, FD Flux Analyzer, Steem-DCZ, Utilities), Atari Projects (Disk Library, Utilities, BIG GEM Library)
- Atari Hardware: Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, Hardware Devices (Supercard Pro, KryoFlux, Discovery Cartridge, CosmosEx), STE Hardware description, Atari Memory, Atari Interfaces, Atari Video, Atari Disassembly
- Atari Links -- Yet another collection of links to interesting sites.
About Me (English)
Hello and welcome to this section of my site which is
dedicated to Atari ST computers.
DrCoolZic is a pseudonym and my real name is Jean Louis-Guerin.
I
have started to use Atari computers back in the 80's! Initially I bought one for playing games and
to control my musical instruments through the midi interface. I have always been
passionate by technical matters and made my career as a hardware & software engineer. I have
therefore searched technical information about the Atari and over time I have accumulated a lot of documentation and a certain knowledge about
Atari machines... I have decided to spend some of my time to share this
knowledge in this site. As there are already many sites about the Atari I have tried to only publish original information…
Unfortunately for French speaking people this part of my site as well as all my documents about the Atari are written in English to reach people from all over the world.
As English is not not my native language please forgive me for bad English or mistakes
A mon Sujet (Français)
Bonjour et bienvenue dans cette section de mon site qui est dédié
aux ordinateurs Atari ST.
DrCoolZic est un pseudonym et mon vrais nom est Jean Louis-Guérin.
J' utilise des ordinateurs Atari depuis
les années 80 ! Le premier que j'ai acheté c'était pour pour les jeux
et pour contrôler mes instruments de musique électronique en midi. La "technique" étant ma passion, et mon métier, j'ai été amené assez rapidement à
m'intéresser aux aspects techniques des Atari tant sur le plan logiciel que sur
le plan matériel. J'ai donc accumulé, au fil du temps, pas mal de documentations et
une certaine
connaissance sur ces machines et j'ai donc décidé de
consacré un peu de mon temps à partager ces informations. Comme il existe déjà
de nombreux sites sur les Atari j'ai essayer d'apporter des informations originales sur
ce site...
Malheuresement pour les Français, la section Atari du site est en Anglais afin de permettre la compréhension des documents par un maximum de personnes dans le monde . Deux exceptions: Les memoires et le demontage de l'Atari en Français dans le texte!