Note: **Updated for 2024. My hard drive crashed last year before I could export this in HD and update some of the temporary content. So only the SD version was published. Reconstructed from an earlier file save, this new, definitive version is closer to what I wanted to produce the first time. Released in time for Father's day 2024 to salute fallen fathers everywhere. ** What compels someone to finish a computer game after more than three decades of first trying? The Lost Dutchman Mine for the Atari ST is such a game for me. First played in 1989, this obscure game and its subject matter of a legendary gold mine have stuck with me ever since, but why? When I sat down to play it again last October, I was not ready for the memories and emotions that would emerge. Welcome to Into The Vertical Blank's first (almost) feature length documentary film: Found In the Desert - Dads, Guns, Gold, The Atari ST and The Lost Dutchman Mine. --- Links: World Of Atari: Atari At Disneyland (atarimagazines.com) https://www.atarimagazines.com/st-log/issue35b/058_1_FEATURE_ATARI_AT_DISNEYLAND.php World Of Atari: Z*Magazine: 2-May-89 #155 (atarimax.com) https://www.atarimax.com/freenet/freenet_material/5.8-BitComputersSupportArea/11.Z-Magazine/showarticle.php?159 Atarimania.com : Atari ST Lost Dutchman Mine : scans, dump, download, screenshots, ads, videos, catalog, instructions, roms (atarimania.com) http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-lost-dutchman-mine_9869.html Walkthrough blog: https://rekowski.info/home/misc/the-lost-dutchman-mine-guide.md Video gameplay diary: (2) Lost Dutchman Mine | EP7 Found a piece of the map in a mine | Amiga 500 | commodore 64 | - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdXX4TIi30 Intro 0:00 Title 0:15 Part 1 The Game 0:25 Part 2 Lee Vining 5:05 Part 3 The Legend 1 7:47 Part 4 Time 9:28 Part 5 The Pan Grind 14:28 Part 6 The Gunslinger 16:46 Part 7 Mini Games 18:27 Part 8 Panning The South Fork 20:19 Part 9 Mine Explorer 24:44 Part 10 Gold Mines 28:02 Part 11 Help Online 29:10 Part 12 Penny Poker 31:27 Part 13 Five Card Draw 33:40 Part 14 The Shi*tter 34:35 Part 15 The Cave Grind 35:26 Part 16 The Legend -2 40:54 Part 17 Renewal 43:15 Part 18 The End Of The Road 45:25 Part 19 Location. Location, Location 47:01 Part 20 Found In The Desert 51:15 Outro 52:46 Out of the Vertical Blank Theme By Tony Longworth Find the full song on band camp https://t.co/qxbudlAFCK Theme by Brian Travis Title: Into The Vertical Blank theme Words & music by Brian Travis (c)(p)2021 Taste This Moment Music ASCAP http://www.briantravisband.com/ Find us here: http://intotheverticalblank.com Into the Vertical Blank: Generation Atari | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/intotheverti... Into The Vertical Blank Pod Cast – Twitter https://twitter.com/Atari_VB_Pod