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Hi all, Apologies if this has been covered before - I had a quick look but did not find a discussion although it must have been talked about. No matter, why not start a new discussion? So, a lot of people talk about the "rat room", but for me, as soon as I hit level 4 (the one with the wor...

Although it doesn't really mean much today, when the PC version came out, the fact that it ran from a hard disk and reduced the loading times massively made it the best version at the time for me.

Yes, Atari failed by making all machines backwards compatible - people didn't think there was much difference between the ST and Falcon (which was a beast of a machine but had even the same case!). I would say Atari were incredibly innovative with hardware, but sucked at business and marketing. So P...

That was not my actual point - I meant that my ST was fast enough for anything for 10 years. A PC will not run modern software after 10 years. It's down to bloatware. My oldest PCs are running and have been for over 10 years - hardware is sound, but the power is no use for modern software (fine for ...

Thanks for the welcome! I have browsed the forums in the past, but DM outdates the Web, so it's never been a natural source of info - it was old magazines and Mitch in those days! It's true, DM almost has arcade like qualities in the RPG genre - I remember a birthday party as a teenager and for some...

Apologies for the thread revival, but I saw the title "The Return of Mitch" and thought, could this be the Mitch I read about in ST Action in the 80s and 90s? Of course it is! I remember the parchment backing for Dungeons & Disk Drives well - it was probably my favourite section along ...