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Guardians Of The PaST (Preservation for Atari ST). The last bastion in the fight to safeguard a software legacy, Guardians is a project at the vanguard of ST preservation.  Virtual crusaders in a virtual world, we aim to find, document and protect it all.  We will save history... we will make history! -Welcome to Guardians Of The PaST.

12th February 11 Guardians still alive and kicking 10 months with seemingly no activity on the Guardians website, did we go to sleep or lose interest or something? Well, lets just say real life issues got in the way and the Guardians website was put on the back burner for a little while. However, essential work did continue behind the scenes to ensure Guardains long term survival was ensured. We will post more on this when we have finalised everything behind the scenes. For now, lets to just say its looking good, very very good! From now on the website will be updated on a regular basis, we really hope everyone will enjoy Gurdains as we strive to catalogue and preserve the impressive software written for the Atari ST. Posted by Goldrunner 4th April 10 Lankhor's Rody & Mastico Series It's been a long time since Guardians was last updated so here goes! The Rody series of educational games where superb pieces of software which utilised striking graphics and speech synthesis. To do them justice over 250 screenshots have been added to the Guardian database showing all the screens (in both Hi and Low res) from these classic software titles. Rody & Mastico Rody & Mastico II Rody & Mastico III Rody & Mastico IV: Rody Noel Rody & Mastico V Rody & Mastico VI The Guardian project is finally back so please expect more news very soon! Posted by Goldrunner 4th July 09 Graphics & Sound Work continues on Guardians unabated, however, we haven’t had an update on the news page for some time, so here goes. As you probably know, the ST was much more than a glorified games machine, it could turn its hand with equal success to more serious things like, graphics, sound, and business software. The ST had some great art packages, Degas and Neochrome where the first two to appear on the ST soon after its launch in 1985 and where highly successful. HyperDraw and HyperPaint showed that art packages could be done using GEM. But the most breathtaking of all was Spectrum 512, this incredible piece of software allowed users to paint using all 512 colours of the ST on screen at once. To make this possible the authors used the ST's rapid palette switching to get around the normal 16 colour screens. Degas HyperDraw HyperPaint Neochrome Spectrum 512 The ST was capable of capturing excellent quality sound for use in a variety of ways. To get sound into the ST you needed a little piece of hardware called a sound sampler which plugged into the cartridge or even printer slots, these then hooked up to the audio source with leads. The software that came with sampler then allowed the user to capture, edit, and apply a host of special effects to the sound. Below are some of the software that where used for capturing sound on the ST. Master Sound Master Sound 2 Pro Sound Designer Stereo Master Music Construction Set allowed users to create music using actual musical notation sing three channels of sound. Smooth Talker allowed the ST to actually talk by the use of phonetics, whole documents could be read and there is even a facility for the program to learn difficult english words. Music Construction Set Smooth Talker Posted by Goldrunner 15th June 09 Compilations & Appliactions Something a bit different this time with some newly added compilations and applications. A good way for software companies to make more money was to dust of old games and use them as part of a compilation. There would normally be a couple of really good games with a couple of duds in the compilation, the duds being added just to make up the numbers. No doubt some customers would find them irresistible since there where bound to be games on them they wanted, with the others being an added bonus. Compilations obviously sold quite well or software houses would have stopped producing them, however, they are a lot rarer than full price or even budget games and so database like Guardians really needs to catalogue them in the same manner as any other release, or we would be neglecting a major piece of software history. Cartoon Collection Joystick Lightning Premier Collection III Quattro Arcade Quattro Fighters Quattro Sports Raving Mad Super All Stars Applications are just as important to us as games, so each and every application we find for the ST will be added to Guardians. Utilities also come under this section no matter how trivial they may seem, for example you wouldn't expect us to add just clipart or fonts to our database, but if they where sold commercially the we will be adding them. ST Basic The Music Studio Posted by Goldrunner Older news Games 399 Applications 47 Compilations 32

Speedball [1988] Trivia Astronomy Inspiration The team names used in Speedball (Mira, Dorado, Perseus etc) are all astronomical terms for stars & constellations! Another Random Title Search Engine Add-on Add the guardians search engine to your Firefox or IE7 browser Indigo The existence of this game first came to light in 2003 when the original programmer, Stéphane Belin, was contacted by Mike Clarke a fellow ex Psygnosis member.  Mike had done the music for the game was eager to know if the game still existed. He promptly posted the news on an Amiga forum that Stéphane still had the game! read more Click here for more software that wasn't

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