Some Atari 8-bit Stuff

I no longer have time to maintain this page, so it will be disappearing sometime during or after June, 1998. Grab all you want. Please feel free to re-post this stuff, as long as it does not appear that I still maintain it.

I have received many messages with updates to this page. I have not yet had a chance to integrate the information into the page (and probably never will), but I have put them in an errata page.

We've been mentioned in USA Today! A Commodore guy typed the article in, so go read it!

The Atari 8-bit Reference Cards I put together
Adding a Parallel Bus Interface to a 1200XL
Peter Bell's <peter@bell.demon.co.uk> dual PIA modification for the Atari 800 (11k ZIP file)
Connecting a 1200XL keyboard to any Atari 8-bit (now completely in HTML!)

Connecting an Atari joystick to a PC game port

Instructions (HTML)
Schematic 1 (6k GIF)
Schematic 2 (6k GIF)

How about an Atari 800/800XL emulator for Unix or Amiga systems!
Wow! André Fachat has a preemptive-multitasking 6502 system!
Read about The birth of the Atari 400/800 and Optimized Systems Software
Here are the comp.sys.atari.8bit FAQs, but our CIS network is unreliable enough that you might want to try the FAQ or the vendors/developers list in the Netherlands
Now there's another multi-platform Atari emulator, XL-It!
Frank Barrus's ACE is another emulator for Unix
You say you've got a Mac? Try Chris Lam's Rainbow emulator
Wanna see a bunch of screenshots from Atari cartridges?
The major storehouse for software is the Atari 8-bit Area on the Umich Software Archive (it may be better to use the gopher version of the Atari 8-bit Archive)
There are lots of Atari games at ftp3.cyberspy.com.
James King's Atari Connection II archive had a lot of fun stuff that can't be found anywhere else. Only problem is that he had to take everything out because it was costing too much. I have seen some odds and ends remaining there, though. You may want to email him about the CD-ROM he put together. You can also call his BBS at (801)969-1468.
The clark.net archive has Antic and ANALOG magazine archives, as well as other Atari stuff.
Get Steve Tucker's APE, and read the APE User's Guide.
Tom Hunt has a Closer to Home (CTH) web page
The Queensland Atari Computer Enthusiasts User Group has a web page and a couple of Atari-related FTP directories:

You might be able to get the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup locally. If not, try Deja News.
The Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus (ACEC) are on the net!

... and now on the web.

Ivo van Poorten's Atari 8-Bit Home Page has a lot of useful stuff, especially his lists of documents and pinouts
Tomasz Tatar's Big Atari 8bit Home Page
The BRiTiSH Underground Atari 8-bit page
Bill Kendrick's New Breed Software page
Marek Tomczyk's Atari 8-bit Resort
Darek Mihocka's Branch Always Software page (find the PC-Xformer Atari emulator here)
Mariano Dominguez Molina lurks in the 8 Bits Cave, also known as La cueva de los 8 bits
Bravo Sierra Computers sells Atari-related hardware, software, and books
Peter Garriga has an Atari Page
John Goodman has Atari game graphics on his page
Douglas Beattie has a 6502 macro cross-assembler for MS-DOS in his x65tools directory.

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