[Freemint-list] Let me introduce myself

[Philippe Noble]

Hi,

As it is my first post in this mailing list, let me introduce myself.
I am Philippe, a 49 years old French Atarian living in Brazil.
I have been using an Atari since 1987 when I bought my first 520STF, that
later on I sold to buy a Mega ST4 with SM124 and hard drive. My main usage
was for Home Studio (Pro 24 and later Cubase) and office work (Le
Redacteur, Kspread, Calamus ...), though I did also some programming in GFA
basic. I was not really into games.
I spent fantastic years using this incredible machine until 1995 when I
bought a PC, fully setup for my music needs with Cubase Audio.
But, even though I knew  Windows architecture by heart, this shitty box was
not working properly and both midi and audio were not as reliable as with
my mighty old ST. So in 1996, I bought an used Falcon, exchanged Cubase
Audio PC for Cubase Audio Falcon, expand it with memory, a CT2, a CDRom
writer, audio interface and put everything in a home made 19" rack :
everything was fine ...

Until 2001 I used this setup, and had a lot of fun with my Falcon, but I
finally sold it and switched to Mac. May be my biggest mistake, knowing
what it worth today. Anyway, for 10 years the apple satisfied my needs, and
even if I was looking at Atari news and testing emulators in development
from time to time, I really lost contact with the Atari world...

Until 2011, curious of knowing what was going on with the Atari world, I
was quite surprised to see that it was still alive, and that many emulators
had reached maturity. So I decided to dive into Aranym, and after a hard
learning curve, finally got a system working and worth sharing : that was
EasyAraMint.
I continued working on this setup and released this year BeeKey, as self
booting USB key running Aranym on any machine with all the bells and
whistle of a modern system, and BeePi the same setup for Raspberry Pi. My
goal : make a distribution as easy as possible for somebody who have left
Atari for a long time to reuse this beloved machine, and why not build his
own clone with an easy system to boot on.

If you want to have a look at it :
https://sites.google.com/site/emaappsarch/news/beekeyandbeepibeta9areavailable

Now, what brings me to this mailing list will be the subject of the next
post.

Cheers,

Philippe
-- 
Philippe.noble at gmail.com
www.philippeworld.net
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