Title: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: TL on June 12, 2014, 13:59:49 PM
Post by: TL on June 12, 2014, 13:59:49 PM
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[size=140]A few days ago a former member of the prolific Ocean Software revealed that he had found an old disk that was marked as being a version of Rastan for the Atari ST. Ocean only ever released conversions of the popular Taito coin-op for the 8-bit computers of the time, so this discovery of a 16-bit version was exciting news![/size]
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[size=140]Now they have had a chance to try the disk out and it still works! The game was clearly in the very early stages of production and there is still no idea who was actually working on this project. As well as a few screenshots a rather ropey video of it in action has also been posted on the Ocean Software Facebook Page (//https), so go check it out![/size]
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[size=140]A few days ago a former member of the prolific Ocean Software revealed that he had found an old disk that was marked as being a version of Rastan for the Atari ST. Ocean only ever released conversions of the popular Taito coin-op for the 8-bit computers of the time, so this discovery of a 16-bit version was exciting news![/size]
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10297586_338317489626928_2034893414732306830_n.jpg)
[size=140]Now they have had a chance to try the disk out and it still works! The game was clearly in the very early stages of production and there is still no idea who was actually working on this project. As well as a few screenshots a rather ropey video of it in action has also been posted on the Ocean Software Facebook Page (//https), so go check it out![/size]
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Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: TrekMD on June 12, 2014, 14:25:30 PM
Post by: TrekMD on June 12, 2014, 14:25:30 PM
Very cool. These abandoned games keep on appearing and it is amazing that the floppy disks they are still work!
Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: WiggyDiggyPoo on June 12, 2014, 14:33:04 PM
Post by: WiggyDiggyPoo on June 12, 2014, 14:33:04 PM
Quote from: "TrekMD"Very cool. These abandoned games keep on appearing and it is amazing that the floppy disks they are still work!
Its a bit of a dry subject but media degradation can be fairly interesting, ish lol
Floppies should be good for 20 years or more.
Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: TrekMD on June 12, 2014, 15:15:43 PM
Post by: TrekMD on June 12, 2014, 15:15:43 PM
Quote from: "WiggyDiggyPoo"Quote from: "TrekMD"Very cool. These abandoned games keep on appearing and it is amazing that the floppy disks they are still work!
Its a bit of a dry subject but media degradation can be fairly interesting, ish lol
Floppies should be good for 20 years or more.
Many of the floppies I used must not have known that! They failed in a short time!Â
Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: Greyfox on June 12, 2014, 17:04:11 PM
Post by: Greyfox on June 12, 2014, 17:04:11 PM
Guess were this is going ? 
Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: TXG/MNX on June 14, 2014, 17:26:06 PM
Post by: TXG/MNX on June 14, 2014, 17:26:06 PM
Wow did you also find floppys with Jaguar titles they didn't release ?
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Title: Re: Atari ST prototype of Rastan discovered!
Post by: Lorfarius on July 16, 2014, 18:25:17 PM
Post by: Lorfarius on July 16, 2014, 18:25:17 PM
Quote from: "WiggyDiggyPoo"Quote from: "TrekMD"Very cool. These abandoned games keep on appearing and it is amazing that the floppy disks they are still work!
Its a bit of a dry subject but media degradation can be fairly interesting, ish lol
Floppies should be good for 20 years or more.
They will live through just about anything too given chance. In 2011 I went to pick up several boxes that were listed on ebay as being stored in a garage. The estimated there was around 2000 floppies in there (all pirated Amiga games) and when I arrived the garage had a massive whole in one wall and it was damp as hell. The boxes were all soaked and loads of the discs were drenched in the bottom. After a week of drying out most still worked!