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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Atari ST Compacted Disk (CD) Scrollers [500] Retro PlayThrus CD #002




500 captures!  That's alot of disks!  To celebrate, I figured might as well post a disk of my own, still have a ways to go in learning from even when this disk was done.  Here is Retro PlayThrus CD #2!  I still love how the sloth turned out!



Disk Contents (Titles based on video names from YouTube) -

  1. Atari ST Cracktro [013] Blade Runners from Arkanoid II - Revenge of Doh
  2. Atari ST Cracktro [012] Blade Runners from Thundercats & Pandora
  3. Atari ST CrackTro [004] Mr. Atari from Defender of the Crown
  4. Atari ST CrackTro [005] Mr. Atari from Star Wars
  5. Atari ST CrackTro [006] Mr. Atari from Trivial Pursuit
  6. Atari ST Cracktro [032] Replicants from Dragons Lair II - Time Warp
  7. Atari ST Cracktro [010] The Big Four from Strider
  8. Atari ST Cracktro [011] The Union from Thundercats
  9. Atari ST Cracktro [020] The Exceptions [TEX] from Spy Vs Spy
  10. Atari ST Cracktro [021] 16-Bit Crew from Rocket Ranger
  11. Atari ST Demo / Intro [001] 3D Corp - Intro #2
  12. Atari ST Demo / Intro [002] Abyss - The Very Little Intro
  13. Atari ST Demo / Intro [004] BaPAUG - Graphics Demo
  14. Atari ST Demo / Intro [015] DATADEMO by The Hacker Crew
  15. Atari ST Demo / Intro [016]  Super Mario Show by The Atari Boys 


A few Screenshots -

Dragon's Lair 2 Cracktro by Marvels Corp. and The Replicants Spy vs. Spy 1 Cracktro by TEX

Bapaug Graphics by BaPAUG  The Datademo aka Datademot by The Hackers

Scroll Text Transcription -

WELCOME TO RETRO PLAYTHRUS CRACKTRO / INTRO / DEMO (C.I.D.) COMPACTED DISK 2.  AS WITH THE FIRST DISK RELEASE, THIS DISK CONTAINS ENTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN POSTED TO THE RETRO PLAYTHRUS YOUTUBE CHANNEL!  UNFORTUNATELY, THIS DISK IS  NOT COMPRESSED AS WELL AS THE FIRST RELEASE, I AM LEARNING AS I GO! AND I STILL DID NOT GET THE REPLICANTS CRACKTRO FROM DOUBLE DRAGON II ON THIS DISK!
ONE OF MY FAVORITES!  HOPEFULLY THE SPACE AND NUMBERS WORK BETTER FOR INCLUSION ON DISK 3!  VISIT HTTP://WWW.RETROPLAYTHRUS.COM/ FOR BLOG POSTS FOR EACH ITEM ON THIS MENU, YOUTUBE LINKS, AND OTHER CAPTURES ON YOUTUBE, MAINLY FROM MANY OTHER ATARI COMPACTED DISK MENUS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THEIR SCROLL TEXT AS WELL. I HAVE CREATED A DECENT BACKLOG OF DAILY YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND COMPANION BLOG POSTS, SO THERE MIGHT BE A DELAY IN SOME ENTRIES ON THESE MENUS SHOWING UP ONLINE.  THE BACKLOG EXISTS SO THE CONTENT DOES NOT STOP WHEN REAL LIFE HAS TO TAKE ITS COURSE, I AM SURE MOST UNDERSTAND!  ONE OF THE REMAINING SCROLL TEXT MISSING FROM DISK 1 AND SOME OF THE SCROLL TEXTS FROM THIS DISK APPEAR IN THE SCROLLER FOLDER. THE MISSING ONES WILL APPEAR ON ANOTHER DISK SINCE I FILLED UP, MAYBE EVENTUALLY ACCESSIBLE WITH SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE REVENGE DOC DISPLAYER. PLANS, IF ONLY TIME WAS AS LIMITLESS AS IDEAS! MENU CODE BY MSD/POV. MUSIC FROM THE BLACK CATS THE YO DEMO INTRO INFORMATION SCREEN, CREDITED TO MAD MAX.  ANOTHER DEMO I HAVE NEVER SEEN, BUT USING 11 SECTOR FORMAT, UGH!  I MIGHT HAVE TO INVESTIGATE TRANSCRIBING THIS DEMO AND CAPTURING IT LATER! MENU PICTURE COBBLED TOGETHER FROM VARIOUS ONLINE PUBLIC DOMAIN SOURCES! SAY HI TO THE CUTE SLOTH! ALTHOUGH I THINK THE FOX ON DISK 1 TURNED OUT BETTER! MOST FILES ON THIS DISK ARE COMPRESSED WITH UPX 3.95. GREETINGS TO - GGN, SHW, ATARI FORUM, ANIMA (GREAT RETRO IMAGE TOOL), LOTEK STYLE (FUJIOLOGY IS AWESOME), DEMOZOO, BRUME, MICROZEIT, NIGHTOWL AND YOU! AND NOW FOR THE BABBLE! IT FEELS REALLY WIERD MENTIONING MODERN TERMS LIKE BLOG, YOUTUBE AND EVEN PROVIDING A WEB LINK WHEN WRITING A SCROLL TEXT.  CERTAINLY A BBS PHONE NUMBER WOULD NOT BE OUT OF PLACE, EXCEPT MODEMS ARE PRETTY CLOSE TO EXTINCT NOW.  WHO WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING IN THE DAYS THAT THE ST WAS IN FULL BLOOM?  STARTING TO FEEL OLD NOW, THE ST WATCHED THE BERLIN WALL CRUMBLE, AND THE IRON CURTAIN DROP.  AND THESE DAYS ONE CAN INSTALL A BOARD EQUIPPED WITH A RASPBERRY PI CREATED BY JOOKIE INTO THE FLOPPY BAY OF THE ST AND GET USB MOUSE, KEYBOARD, FLASH DRIVES, AND CONNECT TO SMB SHARES WITH AN NETWORK WIRE.  AND I REMEMBER WHEN SEAGATE ST-296N 80 MEG SCSI DRIVES WERE A HOT PIECE OF KIT! I GUESS I HAVE GONE ON ENOUGH FOR NOW. CHECK OUT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL, RETRO PLAYTHRUS, AND THE COMPANION BLOG AT HTTP://WWW.RETROPLAYTHRUS.COM/ - MOUSE MASTER OUT - 05/02/2019 - WRAP TIME ....5....4....3....2....1....0....

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