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Message-ID: <atari-8-bit/welcome_1236673310@rtfm.mit.edu> X-Last-Updated: 2008/08/02 From: Michael Current <michael@mcurrent.name> Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Welcome to comp.sys.atari.8bit! Date: 10 Mar 2009 08:24:12 GMT Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome Posting-Frequency: 10 days Last-modified: July 20, 2008 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. Today, the Atari computer intellectual property rights, along with the home market rights to the Atari trademark itself, are owned by Atari Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of Infogrames Entertainment SA. http://corporate.infogrames.com/ ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT Kept by Michael Current, michael@mcurrent.name The latest version of this document is posted to these Usenet newsgroups every 10 days: comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.answers, news.answers Known mirrors of the the latest version of this document: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/atari-8-bit/welcome http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/atari-8-bit/welcome.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/welcome/ 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/ RELATED USENET NEWSGROUPS alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit Programs for Atari's 6502-based orphans. comp.sys.atari.advocacy 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. 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 http://www.atarimania.com/ "The World's Finest Atari Database" http://atari.fandal.cz/ Games, Demos http://ftp.pigwa.net/ or ftp://ftp.pigwa.net/ "Total Demoscene Archive" 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/ 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 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/preamble.html (multipart edition) 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 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev/preamble.html (multipart ed.) 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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