Steve wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:24 pm
I know exactly what you mean - it's hard to even get the Atari 'community' itself to be excited by anything Atari related. Just look at PiStorm, massively supported in Amiga-land but like a barren wasteland in Atari-land. Another thing that frustrates me a little is when decent youtubers come along, doing Atari content, but then don't seem to cover any Atari community innovations/work - for instance ctrl-alt-rees. I've often mentioned to him about the things going on in this Forum, like the H5, Cyberlegends etc, but he just doesn't seem the least bit interested. It would be nice if he'd support innovative Atari projects, help spread the word etc. I mean, if you're an Atari-centric youtuber, why wouldn't you? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Totally agree Steve.
I just don't really understand why people seem to totally avoid Atari machines. They deserve to be mentioned and talked about as much as any other retro computer and yet they seem to be always forgotten and ignored which is really bizarre.
Indeed we have a total lack of developers these days. I've talked about it before. It's one reason I've had to abandon many projects, mostly lack of interest or help developing. I try to help people as much as I can but I'm struggling to keep up with my store problems and don't have time for development anymore.
I mean yes, this community has done a lot of great things over the years and it is like none of it even exists. Every retro channel out there should be keeping on top of the news and current events, reporting on it and helping others to keep the community going but it just does not happen. It's like they turn their nose up at Atari machines or simply cannot be bothered.
I mean I've seen many channels talking about Amiga stuff and terriblefires upgrades etc. Frankly just got repetitive in the end. But none even mentioned my Atari port of the 536. Or any of my stuff for that matter.
As people know I have been supporting Atari for the past three decades now and it's like I don't even exist. Occasionally I do my rounds like today, Ill post some random links for stuff which I think is important. But it's like I'm shouting into a black void. At some point you just have to call it quits and give up. I've been there or the past couple of years now.
I do get regular sales in my store, nothing huge really, so it's not like people are not using the machines. There was, I said before ,I think the power of the internet and the abuse side of things has made a lot of people keep quiet these days. What is really inexcusable that retro channels seem to completely ignore the Atari machines.
Of course I seriously don't want to discourage anyone from developing for the platform. But I have said for years, I think we are basically fighting a losing battle at this point. I think wrapping up current hardware projects and concentrating on software preservation side of things like the wiki is the only thing left which should be done now.
