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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.

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 10th June 09 Codemasters Codemasters where setup by the Darling brothers after they had produced a string of hits for the 8-bit micros of the 1980's, they where most famous for producing quality software at budget prices. The 12 games here give a good overall feel for their output on the 16-bit micro's, none can really be called a classic but there certainly some quality games here. Advanced Ski Simulator Guardian Angel, The Italia 1990 Kamikaze Little Puff In Dragonland MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Nitro Boost Challenge Pro Powerboat Simulator Pro Tennis Simulator SAS Combat Simulator Spellfire The Sorceror Sword & The Rose, The Join us next time for more of the same or maybe something a bit different! Posted by Goldrunner 8th June 09 The Dizzy Series! Guardians have now completed adding all the Dizzy games from the Codemasters that where released on the ST, this also includes the two compilations that where released. A couple of these where already in the database but we thought it would be a good idea to list them also for this update. Although these where sold at budget prices they where and remain highly playable arcade adventures, with excellent graphics and sound. Crystal Kingdom Dizzy went gainst this low price trend since it was released at £19..99, the Codemasters said it was twice as big as every other Dizzy game and so it warrented a full price. This Dizzy game would also turn out to be last on the ST. Bubble Dizzy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy Dizzy Panic Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk Easter Extravaganza: Starring Dizzy Fantasy World Dizzy Fast Food Kwik Snax Magicland Dizzy Spellbound Dizzy Treasure Island Dizzy Dizzy Collection Dizzys Excellent Adventures More very soon as we peel back the years and bring more ST software back to life! Posted by Goldrunner Older news Games 363 Applications 47 Compilations 32

Quadralien [1988] From The Box You are entering Jupiter Space.  Your Destination - Astra, the vast cybernetic nuclear fission complex they orbited in the mid-21st century.  Something strange has happened there.  Astra has sealed itself to the outside, the control mechanisms won't respond, the temperature's rising.  Meltdown is nigh.  But it's worse than that... For in the very heart of the reactor itself, the sinister QUADRALIEN forces have establsihed their foothold in our solar system.  You have just six droids to sort it out. Another Random Title Search Engine Add-on Add the guardians search engine to your Firefox or IE7 browser Rim Runner Heavily advertised by Palace and even reviewed by some magazines. It's none appearance one of the most baffling in ST history. read more Click here for more software that wasn't

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