Attention! It has been brought to our attention that it is no longer ChriSTmas, and that, in fact, SanTa never existed. While we cope with the inevitable sadness of the occasion, we ask that you all observe a minute of silence for our shattered dreams. Er... STs eh! They're brilliant aren't they! Fantastic!
As I was so bloody slack in not updating this page for a whole 3 months, the mail backlog built up considerably, so I deleted the lot without bothering to read it. Only kidding... I read most of it, except the spam. It has to be said, spamming a bunch of hackers is not a wonderfully clever thing to do; no doubt Darwin would have had something to say about it. Anyway, from digging through the various bits of mail (and there was a hell of a lot!), I've arranged a little robo-response for you all as many of the mails seem to be very similar...
Well, that's enough crap for this time. If you feel the need to mail us with further additions to the great Mac vs PC debate, please do so. We have set up a special email address for any such correspondence!
If you're gonna bookmark this page, then bookmark the address below; this page is liable to move without warning (it's a bit like those old blokes you see in city centres, well dodgy and liable to lunge at you spraying saliva and mumbling "Gnenerrrccchhhyyyyaaaaabugger!"):
PaCifiST
Hey, hasn't the emu come along in leaps and bounds since our page first went up? Sound, proper palette support, joystick and mouse emulation, the works. It really kicks Gemulator in the nads! With hobnailed boots on! Frederic, if we were WareZ WannabeeZ, we would call you a Do0d. Unfortunately, we are all in posession of brains and are therefore incapable of mistaking letters for numbers or using mixed upper and lower case text in a KeWl manner. So we will stick to our previous description of you - bloody genius.
Anyway, enough of the brown tongue brigade, if you've been living in a cave or something and haven't already downloaded PaCifiST, you should immediately zip off to Fred's home page and grab a copy. You'll also want to grab yourself some TOS ROMs and games to go with it. Though the TOS ROMs we put up on the old page have spread nicely, which was the intention, they're here again to keep it nice and easy, plus the ZIP now contains TOS 2.0 as well as 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.62 and 2.6. Now we really should moan about what a bunch of nobbers Atari/JTS were/are and how bad... er, I'll stop right there. Tossers. Us, that is - we're killing the Atari scene, remember.
But hang on, "what about this ST emulator for the Mac?" I hear you ask! All three of you. Well, it's simple you see. A Mac is just a crappy old thing you get an ST to emulate, so it's obviously silly doing it the other way round. Nuff said.
What, still moaning? Asking "what about this ST emulator for Win95?"... well yeah, it's there but it ain't much cop right now. Mind you, neither was PaCifiST to start with so WinSTon (for it is, er, it) is worth keeping an eye on.
Games!
It's a strange and inexplicable fenon phenomomomn
thing - people have an ST emulator, and all they want to do is play games on it. Wot no
word processing? Wot no image editing? Wot no running air traffic control systems? Well
of course bloody not. Anyone with any sense stopped using Atari machines for anything
serious a good few years back, so who gives a stuff if the emulator doesn't run sodding
1st Word Plus or Calamus perfectly, as long as it runs Falcon or Rainbow Islands or
Deuteros or Oids or Dungeon Master or... you get the idea. But remember when you're playing
these games - you're killing the ST scene! Yes! Don't forget this very important fact! After
you download the image files, make sure delete them after 24 hours and go down to HMV or
Game or whatever and buy a real copy. What's that you say? You can't find the real thing
cos they'd don't sell them any more? No! I'm shocked.
Welllll... unfortunately the emulator doesn't (at the time of writing) run all games perfectly, but it's getting damn close. And there are plenty of games out there, and plenty of our menu disks. There are two particular site you absolutely must visit - Matt's Pompey Pirates Tribute Page (now there you have the perfect web site - it's got a bloody big ALIEN logo on it) and Rich's Little Green Desktop, which not only has an archive of every PP menu, but also has a search engine so you can look for a particular game and then grab the appropriate menu! Bloody great! You should also stop in at Juggler's Page, the only other Pompey member to bother putting finger to keyboard and come up with some webby thingy stuff. Be warned though! There's one of those noisy smelly baby things lurking there...
Other sites worth a look at for games and stuff are the Sewer Doc Disks Shrine (dunno how to play a game? Get the manual off a Sewer Doc Disk!) and Aengus' Demonburp's ST Emporium. He updates it rather more regularly than this page is updated (having avoided getting machine-gunned to death in Egypt and thereafter pledged to God that he shall run the most regularly changed ST site in the universe) and has plenty of links too so you can find out about all the other great ST pages with loadsagames on them.
Contacting Us
If you are what is technically described as a LAMER and want help with some aspect of running PaCifiST or playing some game, you are cordially invited to:
If you want to find a particular game, then:
If you want to know about getting a CD full of ST stuff, then:
If you want to contact us for anything else, then:
Sign the guestbook and we'll view the guestbook from time to time so you can rest assured any abuse/praise will be read and ignored/lapped up. Don't expect any replies from us to anything you put in the guestbook - if any of us get the time to look and reply, we will, but we don't guarantee anything.
Greetings
Greetings go to Teddystacker, Matt Sephton, Rich Davey, Aengus Jankowsky, Frederic, Automation (esp. The Law & Neil of Cor Blimey), BBC, Medway Boys (esp. Zippy), Superior and Sewer Software.
Alien, for the Pompeys
I managed to resist putting a scroller in yet again! Blimey. You'd better get a copy of
AssiST v0.27 if you want to read that kinda crap!