Whilst processing Archer’s Atari ST disks, we found a few bits of software and prototypes which are believed to be missing, or are at least marked as so at our friends at https://www.atarimania.com/
First up is a strange prototype of Karate Kid 2 that was found lurking, containing a slideshow of some images, but pressing F5 will bring up the main character:
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Then there was a copy of TNYView with a set of images. TNYView seems to be preserved, but some of the images may not:
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Then the following software, where these particular versions are marked as missing:
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With huge thanks to Chris Wilkins (Fusion Retro Books) for the loan of Archer’s disks to preserve and permission to add executables to the site and Alan Hammerton for hardware help.
In memory of Archer Maclean – 28 January 1962 – 17 December 2022.
Just when you think you’ll never find something, the ST 3D Graphics Programming disk show up.
However, my first look in Hatari, multiple of they files seem to be corrupt. Am I wrong, I hope so…
Thanks, Mitch
Unfortunately Mitch – the disk was damaged and had come away from the spindle too. I managed to fix it and grabbed what I could – but as you’ve spotted, not everything transferred properly. I should still have the RAW Kryoflux files if anyone wants to try and take a look at them to fix.
Thanks for your efforts, they’ll show up eventually. Sure, I’ll have a look at the Kryoflux files.
Thanks, Mitch
No problem. Just going away shortly, so i’ve made a note to try and dig them out and add to the page next Tuesday. Will post back here when I do.
Thanks everyone for rescuing and dumping these disks! I guess we now know which utilities the late great Archer Maclean used to develop his ST version sound and graphics.
The ST3DGraphics dump files comes from Uwe Braun’s Atari ST 3D Graphics Programming book published by Abacus Software (https://archive.org/details/Atari_ST-3D_Graphics_Programming), so he might have taught the art of 68000 3D programming himself by reading that book!
No problem at all Marko! And great to learn where the 3D graphics disk came from – that was a tricky one to back up, as the magnetic layer came away from the metal plate and required some careful re-gluing to get it backed up.
If anything else comes to light, i’ll continue to post here and let AtariMania know too.