In early 1986 this was one of the few ST games that I had and it was one that I enjoyed a lot. I've played this game for hours and hours and couldn't stop. I couldn't win either - but now, only 24 years later - here's a version of Hex that also includes a trainer.
Many thanks to Marakatti for the Pasti image and to (Sir) Jake/Depression for scanning in the manual.

The Seven Gates of Jambala was Thalion's first venture into commercial gaming. Sadly, regarding gameplay, it's far from the best of their efforts. Anyway, it's fixed for HD and Falcon030/TT now, so why not give it a try if you don't know the game already.

I discovered this game when I had an Amiga for a short period of time, somewhere around 1988. The ST version doesn't look and sound as crisp, but I think that it's still lots of fun, even when it's a bit silly. Here's Aaargh!

This game may be more notable for the early 3D-engine it's based upon than for its playability, but if you love tough puzzles you might want to try it anyway: here's Driller.

On another technical sidenote, I discovered a 'bug' in my code, that would prevent the games from working under MagiC under certain circumstances. Well, actually I found that it's a bug in MagiC's xbios set_screen function. It would only occur if you started the game under MagiC + the size of your desktop screen was larger than the standard ST screen size + you did *not* have NVDI installed (you should have that, anyway ;-) ). That problem won't persist from this game on. As a side effect, I spent some more time with MagiC on my Falcon now and have installed Jinnee as my standard desktop there, which is a really nice piece of software. (Context menus with right mouse button, links, great window handling, etc.) :-)

Another issue has been adressed as well now: in the (unlikely?) case that you're using some kind of PMMU related memory protection on your 68030 based machine (like MinT with memory protection, MAGTOROM, Outside, etc.), you would have not been able to start most of my fixes. Well, it turned out that my PMMU handling code had been too basic to cope with protected memory. In this game and in future releases memory protection will now be disabled when starting the game and re-instated on a quit to the desktop. Well, I should have studied the official ULS3 sources more intensely. ;-)

Here's another classic title: Starglider. Despite its good reputation I must admit that I didn't really enjoy this game. On the other hand, I'm quite sure someone else will. ;-)

I never had played this game before but when I saw it coming up in STOT the next week I thought I'd give it a try. It was quite fun to patch and play test this game, so I hope you'll enjoy it too. Get Rolling Ronny.

On a side note, I've started with adding some bits to the About page. Not much in it yet, but I'll see that I'll keep it updated from time to time.

Well, what can I say? It's Computer Scrabble. Nuff said.

This was almost finished when I did the English version of this nice adventure game, but somehow I forgot to compile the final files and release it to the public. So now, only two years later, here's the HD/Falcon030/etc. compatible French version of Black Sect.

I'm late again, but just a few hours too late at least. Here's my humble Xmas present for this year: Black Tiger.

Well, having finished my version of Defender of the Crown I can finally win a jousting tournament - something I didn't manage during all those years. ;-)

A really sweet game awaits you here. A pitty I've discovered it only recently.

Playing this game is about as exciting as reading a telephone book. So have at least 5 espressos before clicking here. Many thanks go to Mug UK for supplying Pasti images of his original disks.

Here's a game that I always enjoyed playing: Space Harrier.

Is it just a storm in a tea cup? You decide... Get Typhoon here.

... so don't let your eggs get crack'ed.

Having endured some family and health related problems this spring/summer, I'm finally in the mood for doing some Atari stuff again. Progress with patched games will probably be even slower than usual (I'm still not 100% well yet), but I hope to be able to fix a game or two per month, or something like that.

Anyway, here's Leatherneck for starters, fully featured as usual. Go grab it!

Here's Global Commander, aka "The Armageddon Man". There's no manual included yet, but I hope to rectify this soon.

Here's another 'wishlist' title, this time from karlm: Cosmic Pirate. Enjoy (if you can). :-)

Road Runner had a tiny bug that could cause a freeze when your floppy motor was running but the floppy LED had been deselected anyway. This may happen on some systems when you've got no floppy disk in the drive while booting your machine. It's fixed in the new version.

Goldrunner suffered from corrupt graphics if you had put the program in an AUTO folder and ran it from there with some early TOS versions. Fixed as well now!

Download Road Runner. That's all folks!

Let's get going! Here's Flying Shark. Good thing that the games I've done recently were all simple trap #1 loaders, so I could make up a bit for the time lost with Populous. Enjoy! :-)

Here's a relatively unknown title, that I really enjoyed playing: Wrangler. Hope you'll enjoy it too! Many thanks to Mug UK for the Pasti image of the original disk and for scanning and OCRing the manual!

Lowering the quality bar again (not the quality of the fixes I hope, but considering the game in question) here's Steigar, fully feautured nonetheless. Well, I guess at least there's one Falcon user who is now a tiny bit happier... :-)

Here is Populous, a game that was HD compatible from the start, but didn't really like faster CPUs, nor the Falcon or TT. Play it at 16Mhz+, if you can. The input lag that plagued it at 8Mhz is greatly reduced with a faster CPU.
Sorry that it took so long to release a new fix here, but free time was scarce yet again. I hope the next game won't take 4 weeks to finish. :-)

Well, I'm late again with my Christmas presents, but better late than never. So here's a HD, Falcon, etc. compatible version of another old favourite of mine: Super Hang-On, fully featured as usual, including memory snapshots, quit to desktop, trainers, etc. Hope you'll enjoy it. :-)

Here are my final menus #17 and #18. Again, both menus originate from prehistoric times and have nothing to do with my recent patching activites. With these two online, all of my old compilation disks are available now, either here or on planetemu.net. Case closed! ;-)

Sorry, it's not the acclaimed follow-up title IK+, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway: here's International Karate, the original version. Play it at 16MHz, if you've got the hardware.

Sorry for the recent delay, but I had to suffer a few hectic weeks. Anyway, just in time for Santa Claus Feast Day, here's a HD, Falcon, etc. compatible version of Pac-Mania. Btw, I wonder: is it a German only tradition to bring little presents on the 6th of December?

Here's yet another old and slightly crappy title: Hotshot.

North & South is a one-of-a-kind game. Basically a strategy title, it's based upon a Belgian cartoon named "Les Tuniques Bleues". The atmosphere and humour in this comic title have been transferred perfectly to the computer screen. If you don't know it yet, give it try - I'm sure you won't regret it. Oh, and don't click on the photographer's backside. ;-)

Simultaneously with the release of ULS 3 (read more about that at the D-Bug site) a new union in the Atari ST scene is born today:

The ULS Consortium

Consisting of two members only at the moment (D-Bug and myself) we hope this union to grow!

To start it all off you will find a new version of what is probably the best racing game on the ST at D-Bug's, on which CJ certainly pulled out all the stops, while here you'll find a hypercharged version of the old favourite Goldrunner.
Apart from the features you'll have grown accustomed to (like score saving, HD and Falcon compatibility, etc.) this game (along with the one from D-Bug) is the first to introduce a new feature for real machines, that was hitherto only available to some emulators:

Memory Snapshot save/load

Thanks to the brilliant ULS system, this feature will allow you to save/load your progression in the game at any time via hotkeys! You will need a hard disk and at least 2MB RAM for this to work.

Hit
Control 1 - 9 to save memory snapshot #1 - #9
Control F1 - F9 to load memory snapshot #1 - #9

Up to 9 different snapshots can be saved to hard disk. You may resume your saved game at any time, even when you have switched off your machine in the meantime. Trainer status will also be saved/resumed. That means, for example, if you choose no trainer on the textro screen but resume a snapshot that had the trainer on, the trainer options will be restored from the snapshot. Snapshots are compatible with different systems, i.e. you can save a snapshot on a STFM and restore it, for example, on your Falcon.

Enjoy! :-)

Download Trailblazer and bounce away... :-)

Well, I did a kinda major update to the games page today:

As promised, all the games are now available for download in a 'files only' format as well, which should be more convenient if you intend to play the games from your harddisk. The content itself hasn't changed, except for one game (see below).

All games have been fixed for proper detection of STEs and MegaSTEs that have IDE hardware attached. No need to re-download if you don't own machines of that kind.

Menace had a tiny bug, that could cause a crash on the Falcon after a warm boot. Of course this bug didn't raise its head before I had released the game, but the day after that. ;-) Anyway, it's fixed now!

At request of simonsunnyboy, here's a HD/Falcon/etc. compatible version of Menace. Sorry that this release comes a bit too late to be used in the recent round of STOT, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway. :-)
Also, starting with this title, you now have the choice of either downloading an MSA image (more convenient if you intend to play the game on emulators) or simply the zipped file(s), that may go straight to your hard disk (or anywhere else). Thanx to Saviour for pointing me at this. The remainder of the titles on this site will receive the same treatment in the near future.

While doing Darius+ I discovered a bug in my shell code, that could cause a crash with some of my fixes, when running the games from hard disk on machines with only 1MB of RAM. Mind you, the games could all be completed, just the bonus high score savers were prone to crash. I guess most (all?) of you HD owners out there won't be affected - well equipped with memory in great profusion - but I'm picky, so I fixed the games in question. :-)

Last Duel
Zynaps
Mickey Mouse
Exolon
Pang

Well, summer has left early this year in my Franconian homeland, so rather than exercising in fresh air (which strangely didn't have any positive effect on my weight this year anyway) I'm more attracted to switching on my Ataris again and have a go with one game or another.
So here are the first fruits of my resumed patching activities:

Darius+
Chubby Gristle

Yeah, Chubby Gristle is already available in a HD/Falcon fixed version, but it had been lying around on my hard disk for some time now, 99% finished, and was just waiting for some final touches. Darius+ .... well, just go to the game page and read on (if you like). :-)

Just a short note to tell you that I'll have to take a longer break from all things Atari - real life gets in my way again - so this site probably won't be updated for some time. However, be sure that I'll be back sooner or later - promised!

Updated the games page with a HD/Falcon/etc. fixed version of Pang. A bit too late for being a proper easter egg, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway.

Uploaded the trained and final version of Metro-Cross. :-) Get it here.

Guess it was my turn this time to help the good guys at STOT with a fixed game: get the new (yet untrained) patched version of Metro-Cross here. Saves high scores too, btw. :-)

A pepped up version of Exolon is ready for download on the games page. Enjoy!

Have a look at the menu page for another 'lost' Klapauzius menu. This time it's Klapauzius Compact Disk # 11. Please let me stress again that the reason I put them online now is just to satisfy the needs of the die-hard collectors. ;-) These old menus are NOT working from hard disk and most probably they won't be Falcon compatible either (ok, I haven't checked). Eerrmm ... you have been warned! :-)

With the recent addition of an Atari TT to my collection of machines I couldn't help checking all the titles on the games page. It turned out that some would work perfectly on the TT, others were playable but had a few quirks here and there and a handful wouldn't work at all on this machine. Fortunately, fixing the faulty games for the TT wasn't too hard. So if you're a lucky TT owner, you might want to re-download the new patched versions. The titles that didn't work at all on the TT were:

Arkanoid (crashed when picking up certain bonus capsules)
Zynaps (crashed if loaded from floppy)
Garfield (crashed immediately)
Run the Gauntlet (froze after loading the buggy race)

However, all games - except Black Sect - have been updated for the TT, so just get them all! ;-)

Ion Tichy of Elite was here with another guest perfomance, this time with the first ever completable version of "Captain America Defies the Doom Tube"! Yes, there was a bug in the original preventing you from finishing the game. Read more about it at the usual place. The game also features a swell new intro done by Bod/Stax - mille grazie for this one!

The first installment of Garfield's adventures on the ST is now available for download. Since this game is quite tricky to complete there's also a short manual and a walkthrough solution to save you from black dispair. Get it here.

Another HD/Falcon/etc. fixed title is available for download. This time it's Run the Gauntlet by Ocean. Not the best game by this publisher, but certainly not their worst either. And for a change, it's even no movie license, neither is it a platformer. A manual in text file format is on-hand, too. Enjoy!

Upon more or less popular demand I have removed the depacker flashing on the following games: Last Duel, Veteran, Mickey Mouse and Zynaps. Nothing else has been changed, so there is no need to re-download unless you're bothered for aesthetic reasons. The remainder of the games that are yet online don't use depack flashing during play, so I left them untouched.

Well, the last couple of days at work were quite slow, so slow in fact that I even could fire up good old Steem debugger on a PC and do a bit of hacking. So here is another HD/Falcon/etc. fixed title that also appears with a trainer for the first time: Mickey Mouse by Gremlin. You might well need the trainer, because even when it looks a bit like a kid's game, it isn't that easy to beat all four towers.

One of my personal all time favourites has now been reconditioned to work on newer Atari machines and from hard disk. This version also has some additional goodies like new levels and a few nice trainer options. Download it here and enjoy! :-)

Menu # 10 receives it's first public appearance, only 16 years after it had been done. As with all my other menus, please consider it as an collector's item only. It's not up to the standards of my recent single game hacks or the menus of other well-respected groups. Anyway, I hope that some people will enjoy it. Get it here. Three more menus still to come...

Well, you wouldn't visit here if there wasn't anything to play with, right? ;-)  Ok, here goes:

Cybernoid
Overlander
Veteran
Last Duel
Zynaps
Black Sect (English version)

All of them are Falcon/Mega/ST/E compatible and will run from hard disk. Most of the titles have additional goodies, like trainers, score savers and a quit option. I will try to add to the games releases as good as I can, but please don't expect anything like the rate at which the D-Bug guys pump out fixed games. There's just too many things going on in my real life, as well as working on other Atari projects. A rate of one or two new titles per month is more likely, although I can't promise even that. So stay tuned, but don't be all on edge.

Finally found some time over the Christmas holidays to do what I wanted to do for a very long time: build a little web site for all the Atari ST stuff that runs under the Klapauzius label. You will find some hard disk/Falcon/etc. patched games as well as some of my old and dusty menus I did many years ago. As some of you may know, I'm also a member of the Atari Legend team. The stuff you will find here doesn't fit on the Atari Legend website for one reason or another, so rather than keeping it for myself, I decided to give it its own home.

I hope you enjoy your stay!

And, of course, a happy new year to everyone!