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Also bizarre: ST.GAME is a one-off magazine name change, from Softline. And here it's a dungeon crawl game in BASIC, ported from Applesoft to Atari BASIC for the 8-bit. NOT for Atari ST (this is 1984, a year before the ST comes out).

I'm not typing this in, and the "text" PDF is as usual completely useless.

archive.org/details/st.-game-p

archive.org/details/softline_m
#retrocomputing #atari

ST.GAME Magazine Programs In Pulp Atari Dungeon Fun Bill Beyermann : Bill Beyermann : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveInternet Archive
The #Atari 1200XL was a 8bit #homecomputer running a #MOS 6502 #CPU at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... https://youtu.be/JyA5tA5mmYY

$omehow, in the #8bitwar the #C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in #BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by #Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/

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