New Kickstarter: The Atari ST and the Creative People.

[zapiy]

Marco A. Breddin has relaunched his Atari Demoscene book on kickstarter and its already at 45% of its target.

Below is a small extract from the campaign, feel free to visit HERE to read more and pledge support.

From 1986 till 1994: the anthology concentrates on two volumes containing over 550 pages packed with pixel drama. A third volume might also be possible but is not mandatory.

Interwoven with the rise and fall of the demoscene, Thalion and Atari, this book series is just fun to read and to look at.

Volume 1 kicks off with the roots of demo creation and follows the transformation of bedroom coders to professionals. The Atari ST is in the center of the interest here, followed by the marketing of the STE. After the successful startup of Thalion the young sceners are confronted with the hard deadline business.

Volume 2 covers the "Golden Years", as well as the doom of a digital era (1991-1994). Atari tries to rescue its market share with the Atari Falcon and Thalion fight a bitter battle against their origin. It is the most dramatic and content-heaviest book â€" containing over 350 pages of glorious demos, behind-the-scene stories and pixel-art.

Volume 3 (?) is still a rough draft. It would observe the return of the homebrew scene and take a closer look at creating with Atari's Falcon machine.

[Shadowrunner]

Looks good, and it's over half funded already.

[Saturn]

Getting ever closer to the goal. Hope it reaches it soon.
Looks like only a couple weeks to go

[Greyfox]

It must be my new book previews I did first lol, no it's a book that needs to make it, I've seen the content and it's something else, the definitive Atari ST book written by an ST scener and ST musician has the scope to make something like this far better than any Journalist / tradiditional Writer, this is all from heart.