Hello Bluesky. I'm the guy known as RetroRacing on Twitter/X, and the author of Pole Position, Lotus STE and FASTER for the Atari STE. FASTER is a new racing game for Atari STE, and is being shown at the Silly Venture demoparty this weekend and released to the public next Monday 9th December. - ThreadSky

atariste.bsky.social • 81 days ago

Hello Bluesky. I'm the guy known as RetroRacing on Twitter/X, and the author of Pole Position, Lotus STE and FASTER for the Atari STE.

FASTER is a new racing game for Atari STE, and is being shown at the Silly Venture demoparty this weekend and released to the public next Monday 9th December.

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breakintoprogram.co.uk•81 days ago

And an instant follow from me. Quite a portfolio there.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Thank you! I must admit that I definitely prefer "Quite a portfolio there" to "I could be rich by now if I'd spent less time writing racing games for a long commercially dead 1980's system"... 😀

breakintoprogram.co.uk•80 days ago

I should have said Atari portfolio. I’ll let myself out.

breakintoprogram.co.uk•81 days ago

Hahaha! I’m not going to throw stones at this point!

retrofrog.bsky.social•81 days ago

I've been following your work on Twitter and can't wait to try this out on my machine.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

I'm grateful for all the retweets Todd ... long may they continue!

yermo-l.bsky.social•80 days ago

/The Pole Position/?

adfielding.bsky.social•79 days ago

Holy shit, this looks amazing! Can’t believe how much you’re pushing out of the STe

atariste.bsky.social•79 days ago

Thank you Adam! We've discovered a lot of new things in the last 5 years about how to get the best out of the STE. 😀

dukenugem.bsky.social•81 days ago

Very cool.

42hz.bsky.social•80 days ago

Woohoo!

twh1st.bsky.social•81 days ago

Welcome!

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Thank you for the warm welcome!

sanxion.bsky.social•80 days ago

Loving the look of FASTER. @rectapete.bsky.social posted about a few days ago. It’s looking amazing. Will be talking about this on our Podcast this month.

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Excellent, thanks in advance for the coverage Tim. I'll be releasing the game on Monday 9th December so you'll hopefully have a chance to play it thoroughly before featuring it in the podcast!

sanxion.bsky.social•80 days ago

Yes, I will for sure. Episode will be 30th of December and in the news section on the 15th

entropicenigma.bsky.social•81 days ago

Seeing this post is making my miss my 1040ST.. lol.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

There are many of us that foolishly ditched our STs back in the early 90s and had to obtain one again in recent times. 😀

entropicenigma.bsky.social•81 days ago

It was my 2nd computer.. my first was an Atari 800.. then shortly after I got the ST I started to get my hands on a bunch of stuff like a Commodore 64,. a TI-994/A, and eventually even a Kaypro II portable.. I've been a dork for quite a while.. lol.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Ah yes, the TI99 was my first computer, but I only had a tape player with BASIC games on it so didn't see what it was capable of! Also had a mint boxed Atari 800 in the early 2000s but sold it on Ebay for next to nothing. 😬

Quite fancy getting a collection like yours but space is limited!

sentry23.bsky.social•81 days ago

Excellent!
Welcome :)

I've missed the last months of updates on X, so really looking forward to new posts.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Thank you! New game FASTER is finally being released next Monday 9th December. 😀

ctrl-alt-rees.com•81 days ago

Well that's an instant follow from me, good to see you here!

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Thanks Rees - appreciate the warm welcome! 😀

plgeek.com•80 days ago

Wow, this looks amazing! Really wish I’d kept hold of my ST’s 😮‍💨

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Thanks Ben! I think most of us (including me!) made the mistake of getting rid of our STs back in the early 90s. 😀

plgeek.com•80 days ago

Outside of the games you developed what were your favourites? My STFM then STE time was split between gaming, Cubase and coding fractal based graphics animations 😂

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

The stupidly ambitious 3D games were my favourites. F1GP, Midwinter 2, Powerdrome. Also have a soft spot for Turbo Cup because the cars are so nicely drawn. Never played Damocles back in the day but it's lovely.

I spent lots of times writing racing games in STOS but they were all terrible. 😀

mikeyboyo.bsky.social•80 days ago

Awesome! Is FASTER like Revs on the BBC Micro?

https://revs.bbcelite.com/

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

They're both racing games. But FASTER leans heavily towards arcade, and Revs leans heavily towards simuation.

mikeyboyo.bsky.social•80 days ago

Awesome, can you send me a link to it, when you've completed?

Also happy to provide any free UX / UI if you need anything, just DM me here :-)

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Thanks Mike. I'll be posting the download link on here and Twitter on Monday 9th December.

0xc0de.bsky.social•81 days ago

Yeah, rings a bell 😜

ben22racing.bsky.social•80 days ago

You have peaked my interest sir!

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Excellent! Please have your Atari STE (or emulator!) on standby for the public release of the game on Monday 9th December!

bitriot.dev•80 days ago

Welcome! There's a really good retro scene here on Blue Sky, I barely saw anything on X for whatever reason and I've found this place so much nicer.

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Thanks Andy! I've built up a nice following on Twitter in recent years but things are declining quite sharply in recent days in terms of quality and quantity of engagement.

Pleasantly surprised with the amount of activity over here so far!

bitriot.dev•80 days ago

Yeah, it's such a shame. Every single post reply is this

Ad for drop shipped product.
Animal video for click farming
OnlyFans post asking "Yeah, but would you like me?"
Right winger telling me this won't happen under Trump
Left winger tell me it's only happening because of Trump

Over and over....

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

We live in hope for a better experience here on Bluesky. Although, amusingly, my second follower on Bluesky was "a single woman who wants to say hello". 😆

bitriot.dev•80 days ago

I'm on GMT time and I got a few of those overnight, by the time I've seen the post and clicked on the profile they've been deleted.

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

That's encouraging to hear!

davevelociraptor.bsky.social•80 days ago

Welcome to bluesky. Keenly looking forward to FASTER on Monday.

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

Thank you! Looking forward to sharing FASTER with you!

steverudland.bsky.social•81 days ago

Brilliant, you're finally on here. Welcome and enjoy.

atariste.bsky.social•81 days ago

Hello Steve, and thanks for the welcome. I would have been here a week sooner if it wasn't for the pesky person that already took the RetroRacing handle. 😀

steverudland.bsky.social•80 days ago

No follow back?😭😭😭😭
😂

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

There you go. 😀

steverudland.bsky.social•80 days ago

I was only kidding, but cheers.😁

karadocthedwarf.bsky.social•79 days ago

Pay us a visit at the tavern :)

https://bsky.app/profile/karadocthedwarf.bsky.social/feed/aaafqagjopfto

nitendoaustralia.bsky.social•80 days ago

Im happy that isn’t a Mario kart N64 copy otherwise i would have had to make a few calls

atariste.bsky.social•80 days ago

The Atari STE is far too powerful to be concerned with menial tasks like running a clone of Mario Kart. 😆

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