Go Ahead Make My Bed

Happy Halloween!

I made a compilation video for Halloween and wondered what it might contain. Well, what's better than Chainsaw Massacre by The Lost Boys? It's an entertaining demo and a great example of the banter between ST groups. I ended my video recording with a beautifully scary image taken from Halloween, by The Black Twins.

If you’re too squeamish to watch a Swedish Carebear being mutilated, perhaps you’d prefer to play a game or two instead? But seriously, what's wrong with you? Anyhow, the Atari ST has many scary games in its library to choose from, and many I have yet to feature here on AtariCrypt. Yikes, I need to work harder!

Here are some nerve-racking ideas which are highly recommended by yours truly...

• Horror Zombies From The Crypt is the obvious choice - because it's fiendishly superb.
• Ooze is quirky, but there are lots of things going bump in the night to entertain.
• The Curse of Rabenstein, a brand new slice of horror that is jaw-droppingly awesome.
• Frankenstein takes us all on a humorous B-Movie adventure.
• What about gore? Nothing beats Death Chase for immense lust for blood!
• Finally, there is Nightbreed if you dare to try your luck within the disturbed mind of Clive Barker.

Now I'm in the mood for more horror: Brides of Dracula, Munsters, or Night Hunter. Has anyone played 'em?? Let me know what you think in the comments. Oh, and don't forget about ZombieCrypt, which is spine-chillingly cool. By that, I mean it's that lame slideshow I made. Watch it and let me know what you think!

Happy Halloween, folks, and remember, it'll soon be Christmas!! ;^)

Evil Ash, from Evil Dead II, and then featured in ZombieCrypt on the Atari ST.

How cool is that!

GEM Desktop Music

Music while you work!

Over the decades, I've seen many neat programs that play a piece of chip music in GEM as a background task. I always thought this was cool and wondered why there wasn't more. Well, it turns out there are a lot on several Budgie UK disks. (I don't think I ever saw these programs on any other floppy disks?)

I've spent some time going through my disks to gather a quick, no-frills compilation. Some of these tracks were made by Goth, but I'm not sure who else to credit for the rest - possibly Budgie UK? There's also an intro included, which is a scroller text by me using a utility coded by Dogue de Mauve of Overlanders.

I hope my floppy disk is of some interest to you, ST Nutters? Like it? Let me know in the comments!

(my download is updated to v1.1 -thanks to Tronic of Effect for his new addition!!) :-)