Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome
Posting-Frequency: 7 days
Last-modified: October 20, 2007
Welcome to the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup!
Discussion about 8 bit Atari micros.
Welcome to the Usenet newsgroup for discussion about the Atari 8-bit
family
of computers! These include the Atari 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL,
65XE,
130XE, and 800XE personal/home computers, and the Atari XE video game
system.
The 400/800/1200XL/600XL/800XL computers were produced from 1979-1984 by
Atari, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, USA, while Atari was a division of
Warner Communications.
The 800XL/65XE/130XE/800XE computers and XE game system were produced from
1984-1992 by Atari Corp., also based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.
The Atari computer intellectual property rights are currently owned by
Atari Interactive, which is managed by today's Atari, Inc. Both of these
are divisions of Infogrames Entertainment.
http://www.atari.com/
http://cor****ate.infogrames.com/
ABOUT THIS DO***ENT
Kept by Michael Current, michael@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NEWSGROUP BACKGROUND
comp.sys.atari.8bit was created in November 1986 (as part of the Great
Renaming) as a direct replacement for: net.micro.atari8
comp.sys.atari.8bit is unmoderated, and has no formal newsgroup charter.
The comp.* hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups is managed by the Big-8
Management
Board: http://www.big-8.org/
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Attacking and defending Atari computers.
comp.sys.atari.announce
Atari related hard/software announcements. (Moderated)
Moderator: Kevin Savetz
comp.sys.atari.announce web page: http://www.atariarchives.org/csaa/
comp.sys.atari.programmer
Programming on the Atari computer.
E-MAIL LIST
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WEB FORUMS
Atari 8-Bit family (forum sponsored by Atari, Inc.)
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=524
Atari 8-Bit Computers forum at AtariAge
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showforum=12
WEB PAGES
Atari 8-bit Computer Web Ring, kept by Raphael Espino
Ring Hub: http://www.webring.com/hub?ring=a8bit
Ring Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/rjespino/a8ring.html
SOFTWARE ARCHIVES
http://www.atarimania.com/
("Atari Frog")
http://atari.fandal.cz/
(Frantisek "Fandal" Houra)
XL Search, the Atari 8-Bit File Archive Search Engine (Bill Kendrick)
http://xlsearch.atari.org/
or http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/
Atari SAP Music Archive, http://asma.atari.org/
(Zdenek "PG"
Eisenhammer)
INFORMATION
Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions (Michael Current)
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq
http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/atari-8-bit/faq.html
Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers (Michael Current)
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev
http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/atari-8-bit/vendev.html
Atari 8-bit New User, Emulator Help FAQ (Bill Kendrick)
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/new_and_emu.html
Atari Disk Image FAQ (Steve Tucker)
http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/
Cartridge List for the Classic Atari 800/XL/XE Computers (Andrew Krieg)
http://my.execpc.com/~krieg/links/8bit.carts
Atari BBS List (Trevor Holyoak)
http://www.atariplanet.info/ATARIBBS.TXT
Easter Egg Compendium and Contest (Digital Press)
http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/
--Atari 400-800-XL-XE-XEGS
computers
USER GROUPS
ABACUS - Atari Bay Area Computer User Society
http://www.abacusonline.org/
ABBUC - Atari Bit Byter User Club
http://www.abbuc.de/
ABBUC HAR - Hanover ABBUC Regional Group
http://www.bertelmann.org/har/
ABBUC RAF - Frankfurt ABBUC Regional Group
http://www.abbuc-raf.de/
ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus
http://acec.atari.org/
IMAGE - Indiana-Michigan Atari Group Exchange
20087 Roosevelt Rd, South Bend IN 46614-5026, USA
SCAT - Suburban Chicago ATarians
http://www.scatarians.org/
SLCC - San Leandro Computer Club
http://william_george.tripod.com/slcc/
SPACE - Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts
http://space.atari.org/
NEWS SOURCES (in addition to comp.sys.atari.announce)
Atari Online News, Etc. -- A-ONE Online Magazine (Dana P. Jacobson)
http://www.atarinews.org/
ATARItoday (Andreas Bertelmann)
http://www.ataritoday.net/
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