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Atari Mega Development Mysteries | Salvaging a Game Dev Atari

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18th October 2024 23 min

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This Atari Mega ST was a game dev powerhouse used and owned by Richard Costello. Today we're taking a look at the condition of it and seeing if anything can be salvaged from the original 1988 hardware, and we find some very interesting things along the way!

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● Chapters

00:00 Richard Costello's Mega ST

01:48 Atari Mega ST background

04:07 Thank you PCBWay.com

04:36 Checking the condition of the Atari Mega ST

10:56 Can the Hard Disk be Salvaged?

13:49 BlueSCSI Initiator Mode!

15:50 What's on the Hard Disk?

19:46 Have we saved the dev environment?

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  • nostalgia
  • computer history
  • tech history
  • atari mega st
  • game development
  • retro gaming

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