Is this for real? (aka Drive Tech Chat)

[Fire Button]

On 10/2/2019 at 4:49 PM, Stormtrooper of Death said:

Hi, i think that the Unknown Base is John Beerens (from Eindhoven). He and I started the Atari Club Eindhoven in the early 90s.

 

We spoke several times about programming the standard 1050 diskdrive. And indeed he did make a program to put a markerword/code on a disk, that could be read with a special program. That could be handy to protect your disks so, that if a copy started circulating in the Atari scene, that we could see who the person was who spread the program.

 

I also did some trickery on the standard 1050 diskdrive. Reading MS-DOS files with the MS-DOS <-> Atari emulator program.

 

John tried to explain me his own creations about how to program the 1050 diskdrive, but it was very lowlevel. And I sadly didnt understand much, what he tried to explain to me.

 

I lost contact with him after the Atari Club Eindhoven ceased to exist. Last thing I heard from him, was that he sold all his Atari hardware (8bit and ST(e) ) and went on to work with MS-DOS computers.

 

Wow man, I was at your house back then.

I'm Martin, I lived in Zaandam at the time, think I went by the name of Dexterity. Came all the way down to Eindhoven a couple of times to visit your club since there was nothing close by. I also visited John on a few occasions, and yes, he went by the name of The Unknown Base. Good times! Memory fuzzy, though. Must've been the beers. How's your sister?

[Fire Button]

20 hours ago, Fire Button said:

Must've been the beers. How's your sister?

That came out weird. What I mean is, I remember you and John usually being there as well as your sister and a few kids. I am trying hard to remember what it is that we did, but I think it was mostly playing games, agreeing how much C-64 sucked, and bragging about our development accomplishments (in my case, lack of). Hope you're doing well Richard!

[Stormtrooper of Death]

Thanks for the kind words, Martin (Fire Button). I dont have a sister. hihi. Anyhow, those old Atari days were cool days.

[Jeffrey Worley]

On 12/3/2019 at 5:59 PM, Fire Button said:

Wow man, I was at your house back then.

I'm Martin, I lived in Zaandam at the time, think I went by the name of Dexterity. Came all the way down to Eindhoven a couple of times to visit your club since there was nothing close by. I also visited John on a few occasions, and yes, he went by the name of The Unknown Base. Good times! Memory fuzzy, though. Must've been the beers. How's your sister?

All the Unknown Base are belong to US.