Dev Kit Mysteries - Exploring a 1988 #Atari Mega ST

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This Atari Mega ST was a game dev powerhouse used and owned by Richard Costello. Today we're taking a look at the condition of it and seeing if anything can be salvaged from the original 1988 hardware, and we find some very interesting things along the way!

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● Chapters
00:00 Richard Costello's Mega ST
01:48 Atari Mega ST background
04:07 Thank you PCBWay.com
04:36 Checking the condition of the Atari Mega ST
10:56 Can the Hard Disk be Salvaged?
13:49 BlueSCSI Initiator Mode!
15:50 What's on the Hard Disk?
19:46 Have we saved the dev environment?

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