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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 System console.

The 400/800/1200XL/600XL/800XL computers were marketed from 1979-1984 by
Atari, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, USA, while Atari was a subsidiary of Warner Communications Inc. (WCI), the media and entertainment conglomerate.

The 800XL/65XE/130XE/800XE computers and XE System console were marketed from 1984-1992 by Atari, Corp./Atari Corporation, also based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Today, remaining intellectual property rights associated with the Atari 8-bit family of computers are owned by Atari Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of
Atari S.A. of Paris, France. http://www.atari.com/

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
Kept by Michael Current, michael@mcurrent.name

The latest version of this document is irregularly posted to these Usenet newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.answers, news.answers

It is also kept at: https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/welcome.txt

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 NEWSGROUPS
alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit
Programs for Atari's 6502-based orphans.
(This newsgroup is not widely propagated.)

de.comp.sys.atari
[German language discussion about Atari micros.]

fr.comp.sys.atari
Machines de la gamme Atari.
[French language discussion about Atari micros.]

pl.comp.sys.atari
Grupa dyskusyjna uzytkownikow komputerow atari.
[Polish language discussion about Atari micros.]

WEB FORUMS
Atari 8-Bit Computers forum at AtariAge
https://atariage.com/forums/forum/12-atari-8-bit-computers/

SOFTWARE
http://www.atarimania.com/ "The World's Finest Atari Database"
http://a8.fandal.cz/ Games, Demos
http://www.atarionline.pl/ Games, Demos
http://ftp.pigwa.net/ or ftp://ftp.pigwa.net/ "Total Demoscene Archive"
http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/ Homesoft's Disk Images (games)

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)
https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt
http://www.atari800xl.eu/

Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers (Michael Current)
https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/vendev.txt

Atari Disk Image FAQ (Steve Tucker)
https://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/

Atari BBS List (Trevor Holyoak)
http://atari.holyoak.com/ATARIBBS.TXT

Easter egg list (Atari Compendium)
http://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/a48/atari8bit.html

Game Solution Maps
http://mapy.atari8.info/

AtariWiki (Carsten Strotmann)
https://atariwiki.org/

Atari 8-Bit Cartridges (PitfallJones)
http://www.pitfalljones.com/atari.htm

USER GROUPS
ABBUC - Atari Bit Byter User Club
http://www.abbuc.de/

ABBUC Regionalgruppe Frankfurt / Main (RAF)
http://www.abbuc-raf.de/

ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus
http://acec.atari.org/ or http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/acec/acec.html

AKPV - Atariklub Prostejov
http://www.atariada.cz/atariklub/

Atari klub - s.p.h.v.t.
http://www.atariklub.cz/

SCAT - Suburban Chicago ATarians
http://www.scatarians.org/

SLCC - San Leandro Computer Club
http://slcc.bdgeorge.com/

SPACE - Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/AtariMinnesota/ or http://space.atari.org/

Southern California Atari Users Group (SCAUG)
http://galacticjourney.org/scaug/

WASEO - Walkenrieder Anwender-Software Entwicklungs Organisation
http://www.waseo.de/

NEWS SOURCES
PRO(C) ATARI -- print, quarterly, German/English editions (Markus Roesner)
http://proc-atari.de/

Excel -- print, bimonthly (Robert Stuart)
http://excel-retro-mag.co.uk/
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Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome
Posting-Frequency: 7 days
Last-modified: July 28, 2003

Welcome to the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup!

You've found the Usenet newsgroup for discussion about the Atari 8-bit
family of computers! These include the 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL,
65XE, 130XE, 800XE, and the XE Game System. Atari (based in Silicon Valley, California, USA) produced this line of computers from 1979-1992.

To see what Atari is up to today visit http://www.atari.com/

NEWSGROUP BACKGROUND:
comp.sys.atari.8bit was created in November 1986, and is unmoderated.
There is no charter for comp.sys.atari.8bit. (It pre-dates that custom.)
This newsgroup was known as net.micro.atari8 from Feb 1986 to Nov 1986.
The earlier net.micro.atari existed from Nov 1982 to Nov 1986.

Please don't try to post binaries in comp.sys.atari.8bit, use the appropriate binaries groups instead.

RELATED NEWSGROUPS:
alt.binaries.atari
alt.binaries.atari.d
alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit
comp.emulators.misc
comp.emulators.announce Moderated.
comp.sys.atari.advocacy
comp.sys.atari.announce Moderated by Kevin Savetz.
`- comp.sys.atari.announce Web Page: http://www.atariarchives.org/csaa/ comp.sys.atari.programmer
rec.games.video.atari
rec.games.video.classic

E-MAIL LIST:
atari8-l, kept by maciej grzeszczuk, info at http://atari.krap.pl/
To subscribe, simply mail a message to majordomo@listserv.krap.pl, with
the following line in the body (not the subject) of the message:
subscribe atari8-l

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 DOWNLOADS:
XL Search, the Atari 8-Bit File Archive Search Engine (Bill Kendrick)
http://xlsearch.atari.org/ or http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/

Underground Node #472 (TXG/MNX)
Host: atari.xs4all.nl Port: 21
User: atari8 Pass: atari4ever

INFORMATION:
Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions (Michael Current)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/

Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers (Michael Current)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev/

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://www.execpc.com/~krieg/links/8bit.carts

Atari 8-Bit Telnet BBS List (Nolan Friedland)
http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-telnet.html

Atari 8-Bit Dialup BBS List (Nolan Friedland)
http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-dialup.html

INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC) CHANNEL: #atari8

Atari SAP Music Archive: http://asma.atari.org

ONLINE MAGAZINES:
http://www.myatari.net/ MyAtari
http://www.atarinews.org/ Atari Online News, Etc. (A-ONE)

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Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome
Last-modified: June 27, 2021

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 System console.

The 400/800/1200XL/600XL/800XL computers were marketed from 1979-1984 by
Atari, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, USA, while Atari was a subsidiary of Warner Communications Inc. (WCI), the media and entertainment conglomerate.

The 800XL/65XE/130XE/800XE computers and XE System console were marketed from 1984-1992 by Atari, Corp./Atari Corporation, also based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Today, remaining intellectual property rights associated with the Atari 8-bit family of computers are owned by Atari Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of
Atari S.A. of Paris, France. http://www.atari.com/

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
Kept by Michael Current, michael@mcurrent.name

The latest version of this document is irregularly posted to these Usenet newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.answers, news.answers

It is also kept at: https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/welcome.txt

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 NEWSGROUPS
alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit
Programs for Atari's 6502-based orphans.
(This newsgroup is not widely propagated.)

de.comp.sys.atari
[German language discussion about Atari micros.]

fr.comp.sys.atari
Machines de la gamme Atari.
[French language discussion about Atari micros.]

pl.comp.sys.atari
Grupa dyskusyjna uzytkownikow komputerow atari.
[Polish language discussion about Atari micros.]

WEB FORUMS
Atari 8-Bit Computers forum at AtariAge
https://atariage.com/forums/forum/12-atari-8-bit-computers/

Atari 8-Bit Computers forum at atari.io
https://forums.atari.io/forum/15-atari-8-bit-computers/

SOFTWARE
http://www.atarimania.com/ "The World's Finest Atari Database"
http://a8.fandal.cz/ Games, Demos
http://www.atarionline.pl/ Games, Demos
http://ftp.pigwa.net/ or ftp://ftp.pigwa.net/ "Total Demoscene Archive"
http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/ Homesoft's Disk Images (games)

MUSIC
http://asma.atari.org/ Atari SAP Music Archive

INFORMATION
Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions (Michael Current)
https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt
http://www.atari800xl.eu/

Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers (Michael Current)
https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/vendev.txt

Easter egg list (Atari Compendium)
http://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/a48/atari8bit.html

Game Solution Maps
http://mapy.atari8.info/

AtariWiki (Carsten Strotmann)
https://atariwiki.org/

Atariki - the Online Encyclopedia of atari.area (Polish)
http://atariki.krap.pl/

Atari 8-Bit Cartridges (PitfallJones)
http://www.pitfalljones.com/atari.htm

Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative
http://www.a8preservation.com/

USER GROUPS
ABBUC - Atari Bit Byter User Club
https://www.abbuc.de/

ABBUC Regionalgruppe Frankfurt / Main (RAF)
https://www.abbuc.de/~raf/

ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus
http://acec.atari.org/ or https://www.angelfire.com/oh4/acec/acec.html

Atari klub - s.p.h.v.t.
http://www.atariklub.cz/

SCAT - Suburban Chicago ATarians
http://www.scatarians.org/

SLCC - San Leandro Computer Club
https://slcc.wdgeo.com/

SPACE - Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/AtariMinnesota/ or http://space.atari.org/

Southern California Atari Users Group (SCAUG)
http://galacticjourney.org/scaug/

WASEO - Walkenrieder Anwender-Software Entwicklungs Organisation
https://www.waseo.de/

NEWS SOURCES
PRO(C) ATARI -- print, quarterly, German/English editions (Markus Roesner)
https://proc-atari.de/

Excel -- print, bimonthly (Robert Stuart)
https://excel-retro-mag.co.uk/
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