This Atari ST works in a way that’s predictable to him. No other platform can provide that feature. Changing the compiler/IDE might cause unexpected behavior or silently mess up 36 years of data.

For Atari ST owners, the evocative journey is preceded by a suitably haunting theme created in conjunction with the world-renowned composer, Jean-Michel Jarre.

Running Doom on a real Atari ST instead of Eschenburg's emulator will likely prove challenging. The 1985 PC, the first entry of Atari's TOS platform, features an 8 MHz 68000 CPU and up to 512 KB ...

In this case, the Atari ST has its own specs that push the boundaries of what's necessary to be able to play Doom. The end result is a heavily dithered experience comprised of a total of 16 colors.

During the same period, a neat transputer-based parallel processing computer was created, which leveraged the Atari ST purely for its I/O. This was the curious ATW800 transputer workstation .

One element of the video is down to a slight memory lapse: Bos says he bought the machine in 1985, but the 1040 model of the ST came out in 1986. I think after 35 years we can all let that one slide.