Harlekin was simple best thing ever on ST!

Man, how many memories, this was one of the tools I used to use back these days. I had completely forgotten it.

A Beautiful tool. Always wanted it but cash was sparse. Atari ST had such cool software. Cubase, Notator, GFA and Omikron Basic, Tempus Word, NVDI, KSpread, TurboAss, PureC. Software was really user friendly back then (on all platforms), before career-project managers took over.

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

24 күн бұрын

You sound like a dev! It'd be great if it wasn't for those pesky product managers!

I remember being blown away by this. Incredible!!

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

24 күн бұрын

It seems to have struck a cord. It was a great tool

You awakened neural pathways that have lain undisturbed in me for about 30 years! I remember using that! And I loved the 68000 Hisoft assembler and debugger!

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

24 күн бұрын

The ST was a great platform for music and development. it's a pity most ST content o KZread is games. I was always rubbish at playing them!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the video! Harlekin was my absolute favorite ST software - they don't make them like they used to :D For me, most useful feature was sort table in combo w system font&keyboard editor. It allowed me to have almost perfect sorting for Serbain/Croatian texts, and we have few extra letters (č,ć,đ,š,ž). I was doing a ton of text processing/setting (read: Calamus) - this was a life saver. I still have Harlekin in all of my Hatari boot imgs - pity it doesn't work well w MiNT/XaAES (at least version that I have). Thanks one more time!

@zarjesve2

25 күн бұрын

Pozdrav Vladimire! I mi smo koristili Harlekin za osnovne potrebe a Tempus za konvertovanje između različitih kodnih rasporeda kojih je bilo na pretek u SFRJ! :) I onda smo dozvolili da nam razbucaju Jugoslaviju... :(

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

25 күн бұрын

you are very much welcome. It's strange every time I do a video that I assume is esoteric and won't appeal to people, it finds an audience :-)

@vmisev

25 күн бұрын

@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit 👍 Thing is, over here, in ex-Yu and most of the EU, Atari ST was mostly used by professionals, with Music and DTP as major markets, also devs and science folks. As there was no any sort of support, we were on our own to figure how to best configure ST as a workstation for a given job.

WOW I forgot I used to use Harlequin until you showed it! lol Though I think I used an earlier version provided on a cover disk.

BTW, I think that you made one small mistake - Harlekin system font editor works okay w NVDI. One can load any font from GEMSYS folder as 'GEM font with Fontheader' and save back edited font as same type. My ASSIGN.SYS default font is modified Monaco (8p SCREEN.SYS \ s MONACO*.FNT) and it works perfectly well with NVDI5/SpeedoGDOS. Also, check your Vectors (HARLEGFP.ACC must be in the root for Vectors panel to work, but it's easy to move from ACC folder to root, adjust Vectors/save, and then move it back to ACC folder). Best thing about that feature is that I made my ST text handling - MS DOS 5 CP 852 (Latin 2) & CP 855 (Cyrillic) compatible. Ha! :D

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for that info, I read the manual wrong. It mentioned it did its own rendering and bypassed NVDI.

@vmisev

25 күн бұрын

@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit My pleasure. My 'Vector' settings are: VBL / Line A/System Font OFF / VDI Additionally, my 'Vector' AES/VDI is off because I use Teradesk for both Geneva and MiNT and also for plain emuTOS, so that I have uniform environment and file dialog regardless of kernel/AES.

Towel day is missing in the calendar.

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit

20 күн бұрын

The note for Arthur Dent does say Author Dent Birthday Buy him a new Towel! But it's not scheduled for 25th of May :-)