Issue 17: Mar 2002
Features
- | Foreword
- | ACE: World Exclusive
- | Have Atari users got a future?
- | I want my AEX!
- | Tip of the day
- | Get Calamus Fonts Without Selling the House
- | The Current State of the Desktop Publishing Art
- | Reader Profiles: Markus Binder
- | Atari GmbH
Review
- | Atari Emulation - Part 2
News
| Vote today in the MyAtari 2002 Awards! Welcome to the March 2002 issue of MyAtari magazine. Last month, I asked you to send us your nominations for the MyAtari 2002 Awards... It is therefore, with great pleasure, that I announce the launch of the MyAtari 2002 Awards. I am pleased to say that in under two weeks, we received over three hundred and fifty nominations for the categories below. Best Atari web site of the year Best Programmer of the year Best Commercial release of the year Best Shareware release of the year Best PD/Freeware release of the year Best Game release of the year Best Hardware upgrade of the year Best Atari supporting company of the year Best Atari magazine of the year Outstanding contribution to the Atari community The short-lists have now been drawn up (in no particular order) and you can now cast your vote in the MyAtari 2002 Awards. All you need to do it complete and submit the forms below. Please note that you only have until 7th April 2002, so every vote counts!
Best Atari web site of the year
| Atari.Org http://www.atari.org
| AtariAge http://www.atariage.com
| Little Green Desktop http://www.atari.st
| Atari Source http://pikachu.atari-source.com
| Dead Hackers Society http://www.dhs.nu
Best Programmer of the year
| Carl Forhan (Songbird Productions) http://songbird.atari.net
| Didier Méquignon (Aniplayer) http://aniplay.atari.org
| Roger Burrows (Anodyne Software) http://www.anodynesoftware.com
| Erik Hall (MyMail) http://www2.tripnet.se/~erikhall/index.htm
| Leon O'Reilly (Reservoir Gods) http://rg.atari.org
Best Commercial release of the year
| MagiC 6.20 by Application-Systems Heidelberg http://www.application-systems.de
| Porthos by invers Software http://www.dsd.net/prod/atari/porthos.php
| Calamus SL2002 by MGI http://www.calamus.net
| Papyrus 9.0 by ROM Logicware http://www.rom-logicware.de
| CyberVirus by Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
Best Shareware release of the year
| Aniplayer by Didier Méquignon http://aniplay.atari.org
| AtarICQ by GokMasE and Baldrick http://aicq.atari-users.net
| PhotoTip by Durs Locher http://home.sunrise.ch/dursoft/
| MasterKEY by KickBox http://www.kickbox.de/masterkey/
| Eureka by François Le Coat http://eureka.atari.org
Best PD/Freeware release of the year
| Steem Engine by Anthony and Russell Hayward http://steem.atari.org
| AtarIRC by Lonny Pursell http://www.q1.net/~atari/
| GEM Graph 2 by Bernard Le Tirant http://perso.club-internet.fr/letirant/index_e.html
| zBench by Zorro http://the.zorro.free.fr/zbench.html
| EasyMiNT by Marc-Antón Kehr http://mico-mint.atari.org
Best Game release of the year
| Chu Chu Rocket by Reservoir Gods http://rg.atari.org
| CyberVirus by Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
| Allia Quest by Ebvision http://www.ebivision.com
| SCSIcide by Joe Grand http://www.mindspring.com/~jgrand/atari/
| Castle Blast by Ronen Habot http://members.bellatlantic.net/vze2j83t/public_html/MyGames.htm
Best Hardware upgrade of the year
| CT60 by Czuba Tech http://www.czuba-tech.com
| ROM-port Adapter by Elmar Hilgart http://www.asamnet.de/~hilgarte/
| Eclipse PCI Adapter by Istari Software http://www.uni-mainz.de/~heuno000/ECLIPSE/welcome.html
| EIFFEL PS/2 Adapter by Laurent Favard http://eiffel.atari.org
| JAMMA Joystick by Goat Store http://www.goatstore.com
Best Atari supporting company of the year
| Electronics Boutique / GAME http://www.eb.uk.com http://www.game.uk.com
| Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
| Hozer Video Games http://www.hozervideo.com
| invers Software http://www.dsd.net
| Best Electronics http://www.best-electronics-ca.com
Best Atari magazine of the year
| st-computer (German) http://www.st-computer.net
| alive! (English) http://alive.atari.org
| FLOP (Czech) http://flop.atari.org
| Atarimagasinet (Swedish) http://www.sak.nu
| 2600 Connection (English) http://2600connection.atari.org
Outstanding contribution to the Atari community
| Randy Crihfield at Hozer Video Games http://www.hozervideo.com
| Matthias Jaap http://www.atariuptodate.de
| Carl Forhan at Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
| Rodolphe Czuba at Czuba-Tech http://www.czuba-tech.com
| Anders Erikson at Dead Hackers Society http://www.dhs.nu
I'm off to start counting your votes! I hope you enjoy the issue, see you next month with the results ;-) Matthew Bacon, Editor
Note
P.S. In the interests of being unbiased, we have decided not to include ourselves in any of the categories this years Awards. However, thank you to everyone who nominated us ;-) P.P.S. As you can imagine, we received far more than five nominations per category. Consequently, a short-list of five were created for each category based on the number of nominations received.
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