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Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions: The comp.sys.atari.8bit Frequently Asked Questions document, with a wealth of information on the 8-bit. Also available at rtfm.mit.edu,www.cis.ohio-state.edu,www.cs.ruu.nl,www.landfield.com,www.jmas.co.jp,w3.one.net.
ATARI 8Bit Games and Demos - Homesoft: Huge archive of games and demos for the 8-bit Atari with more than 2000 programs. A great site with some files for download that I've not seen anywhere else, each program also has a screen shot available to view before you download! Also available here.
Atari 8-bit Resort: Marek Tomczyk's site, H/W mods, Lots of links, Demos, English/German automatic altavista babelfish translation
Atari Cartridge Dumping Project: Details of the Atari Cartridge Dumping Project, an attempt to gather as much information as possible about every cartridge ever produced for the Atari 8-bit computer. Information on how to dump cartridges to disk, cartridge screenshots, cartridge connector details, bank switching details for several cartridge types, and more.
Atari SAP Music Archive: The Official Atari SAP Music Archive homepage, with over 1000 tunes for the SAP player, that plays Atari 8-bit tunes on other platforms including Windows, Linux, MacOS and others. With mirrors here and here.
Atari Strikes Back: Nice site, with emulators, tools, utilities, and games for download, game maps, links and more. In Polish.
Atari technical documents: Atari 8bits: Part of the Atari Historical Society's site, but worth listing on its own merits. Technical documentation for several of the Atari 8-bit's custom chips, including ANTIC, GTIA and POKEY, as well as technical information on the Atari Speech Handler, 1400/1450 Modem, SIO Interface Handbook and more.
Atari XL/XE Games And Demos Page: Index of Megaimages at Yogi's with some descriptions and more info, huge list of demos for download, DOS II/+ description, H/W mods for XC12 and RAM expansions, most pages are in English, but there is one page in German automatic altavista babelfish translation
Atari.org / Home / The Definitive Atari Resource on the Internet: The title says it all, one of the biggest Atari resources on the internet, dedicated to all Atari systems, including the 8-bit computers. With news, free atari.org subdomains, hit counters, discussion forums, and more.
AtariArchives.org: A great resource with the full text of several books, including Mapping the Atari, Compute!'s first and second books of Atari Graphics, Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, The Best of Creative Computing, Computer Animation Primer, and Atari BASIC - A Self Teaching Guide, APX information and software, a copy of the Cleveland Freenet Atari SIG, The Old Hackers Atari User Group newsletter archive, several articles and a software library. With still more promised.
BRiTiSH Underground Atari 8bit:: Atari Technical Reference Manual, Hardware upgrade information, and other general information, and a mirror of justin's and yogi's ftp sites.
Classic Computer Magazine Archive: Digital Antic project, Online copies of Antic magazine
Dan's Tribute to OSS: Great site with information and articles on supercartridges, online copies of the Indus GT Drive manual and utilities, Monkey Wrench II , Pirate's Treasure Chest and S.A.M. (Software Automated Mouth) manuals, 1200XL upgrade projects, the Atari810 program for download, manuals for Broadsides, Galactic Adventures and Six-Gun Shootout, and more.
Google Search: comp.sys.atari.8bit: Access the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup through the web, with a wealth of information and an archive dating back many years, and the option to post your own messages to c.s.a.8
Holmes Atari 8bit Games: A huge collection of games for download, as well as emulators, top 100 games list, games reviews and links
Jindroush's Main Page: Home of the Atari Cartridge Dumping Project, lots of information including a list of Atari file formats and extensions with some descriptions, descriptions of DOS 2 and 3 formats, a list of CIO, SIO and DOS error numbers, 6502 op-codes and descriptions, hardware and ports information, SIO programming information, plenty of links, a huge list of software and more.
Mapping the Atari: Ian Chadwick's Mapping the Atari, Revised Edition, online. THE Atari reference book.
Mr. Bacardi's Homepage: Downloads of many European games, listed by company, also some rare american games and prototypes available for download. Details of game protection mechanisms, AURA (Atari Union of Rabid Apostles) disks available for download, Grim Reaper disk mags, some demo disks, some utilities and tools including sector editors, DOSes, a Cruncher, an editor, an assembler, a disassembler and sound players, and some links. Also available here. Also some pictures of Manchester with someone who looks a tad like me in the background (ooer!).
NBS Atari Software: William Kendrick's Page, with games, demos and utilities for download, also XL_Search - search the FTP archives for atari 8-bit files, emulator FAQ, Star Raiders Tribute Page and other stuff too.
Nostalgia: Many games available for download in .ATR, .CAS and .XEX formats, along with ABBUC and ANALOG disks, manuals and maps for various games from different systems. (Click on Pliki for download area). Also has a search option (click on Szukaj). In Polish.
The Atari 8-Bit Homepage: Ivo van Poorten's page, H/W piccies, S/W, pinouts, docs, 6502 bugs, vt100 codes, Mega Magazine and more
The Closer To Home Web Page: Great site with lots of links, files for download, web chat and much more
umich archive via www: Another way to get into the umich archive
VJETNAM Atari 8-bit Games Archive: A huge download area, with ATRs of many games, some of them with screen shots and other information, Emulators and system ROMs also available for download. A top 20 games list rated by number of downloads and by number of votes, several discussion boards, some with frequent posts and some links.
8 Biscuits: Games and demos for download, with a description and rating for each, an emulator for download and some links.
8bit atari: Not much on the page, but has a link to the local ftp archive with a number of files
AiDS MaIN: Files for download, including demos, utilities, emulators and others. In Polish.
Allen's Halloween Page: Atari 800 Robotics: Details of the Atari 800, and how to program it to control external devices and acquire data, along with a few links.
ATARI 8-bit - RASTER: Cool screen shots of some demos and games, FLOP magazine downloads. Also available here. In Czech.
ATARI 8-bit - RASTER: MULTIJOY8 interface, allowing up to 8 joysticks to be connected to one Atari 8-bit machine, ATADIM a Windows utility for reading and modifying .ATR and .XFD files, DRATEX a PC utility for converting between character set layouts and LPTJOY/ATAJOY driver, allowing the connection of a standard Atari joystick to the parallel port on your PC. Also available through here in Czech, with more information and links in the Czech version.
Atari 8-bit & Linux: Sio2pc 4.13, Floppy EMULator for linux, Bobterm docs, bobterm, reference manual and H/W mods and upgrades - mostly from Craig Lisowski's BRiTiSH Underground pages
Atari 8-bit developers page: List of unofficial 6502 opcodes, list of A8 OS's and list of languages available for the A8, revision A, B and C BASIC ROMs and OS ROMs for download.
Atari 8-bit Docs, Hints and Solutions: Lots of game manuals, some solutions and other manuals too
Atari 8-bit SpartaDOS Project: Nelson Nieves' Atari 8-bit homepage, with the SpartaDOS X and MIO manuals online, and some SpartaDOS Utilities for download.
Atari 8-bit Stuff: Atari 8-bit discussin forums, Action, Mac65, SpartaDOS X cartridge image downloads, 65816 patches for Atari800 emulator, Turbo-OS ROM, virtual PBI device source code, a library of many of the Atari custom chips for use with Eagle PCB v4.0 software, a machine language monitor/debugger/mini-assembler ported from the Apple, and editor/player for .AMP files, IDE schematics and more.
Atari Gaming Headquarters: Vapourware piccies including 65XEP, 1055, XF351, some H/W mods, and other interesting stuff, deals with all Atari games machines too
atari homepage: Details of the myIDE harddisk interface for the Atari 800 and XL/XE, with schematics and software, scan of ILIFE magazine article, Atari hardware and software owned and more.
Atari Internet Magazyn: Nice site, with links, lots of hardware mods and schematics, and other info, in Polish.
Atari Mega Game Images: A copy of Holme's and Natty's Mega images.
Atari Planet: Home of the Atari 8bit Support BBS's List, Atari interactive discussion and some links and files
Atari Stuff: TurboTari, an extended BASIC and Atari architecture emulator for the PC, games collection for download with a description and a screenshot of the games, and a version of the Atari colour palette
Atari XL: Info on msc hard disk interface, picture of the board and download area, with documents, in German automatic altavista babelfish translation
ATARI XL Downloads: Several demos, and several issues of ECS-Info-Mag, CCB-Club-Mag, STARSOFT Mag and TOP Magazin.
Atari XL/XE and MIDI: Chaos Music Composer files, MIDI interface for 8-bit Atari's, MIDI software and files, information and files for extra memory on an 130XE and some links.
atari.area: Good site with H/W schematics, BASIC and ROM versions for download, utilities for download, demo scene, emulators, Vector game screen shots, and more. In Polish.
AtariAge - Have You Played Atari Today? (A.Yarusso, A.Bilstein): A site for all Atari systems, especially games systems. With a frequented discussion forum for the 8-bit computers, events list, an "under development" list, some links, some useful How To's (such as how to clean your cartridges/equipment) and more.
Atarka! Serwis u�ytkownik�w 8-bitowego Atari: Many games for download, with some demos and disk magazines too, and emulators, transfer utilities, DOSes, ROMs and some utilities. Also has some photos of the an 800XL and 130XE complete with boxes.
Beco Tel - Home Page / Front Page: H/W piccies, ATAR-Z-MODEM 1.2, BobTerm 1.23, DeTerm 1.59, Ice-T XE and PabQwk software for download
Bob's Atari page: Partial online version of Kyan Pascal Manual, Mapping the Atari, the docs for US doubler and some other files.
Boot Factory 2000: Link to the Boot Factory 2000 BBS, and some files for download
BOSS Homepage: BOSS - a graphical user interface for the 8-bit Atari. There are three different versions available, with screenshots, manuals and downloads available for each. A list of some Atari file types and their extensions, and some links. In German, with some English text. automatic altavista babelfish translation. Another version is also available here.
CC65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems: An up-to-date version of CC65, a cross compiler with the option for multiple target machines including the Atari 8 bit.
Clarence's Atari 8 Bit Page: Info and schematics for SIO2PC, ProSys, SuperVideo, ClearPic, speaker for 800XL/130XE and ICD USDoubler. Also available here.
Computer and Video Game FAQs: FAQ for the 5200 with lots of info on it, and other systems
CyberRoach: The covers and contents of many A.N.A.L.O.G magazine issues, as well as a list of video game books and ratings for them.
Dave's Computer Systems, Details page: An online copy of De Re Atari, and partial copies of Atari Software Protection Techniques and Advanced Atari Protection Techniques, also has the cartridge port pin assignments.
Envision Home Page: Darren Schebek's page, with details and download of Envision - a character and screen editor, along with documentation and the story behind it. Also a couple of games for download.
Eric's Atari Stuff: Atari hardware Manual for download, 850 manual, and De Re Atari in HTML format.
Fannyho domovská stránka: Atari page with several links, some downloads and manual for M.U.L.E.
GMG Headquarters: Info on GMG group, and some of their files available for download, links
HeAvEn's Demo-Homepage-Index: ANTIC modes, GTIA modes, Extended RAM info, Detecting which CPU code is running on, unofficial 6502 op-codes, demos, assemblers for download and more info, good site with technical info. Also available here and here.
HiassofT's Atari 8bit world: Descriptions and downloads of software written, including AtariDsk for accessing Atari SS/DD 180K disk in a PC 5 1/4 disk drive; WriteAtr for writing double density ATR images to Atari Floppys using a 5 1/4 disk drive on the PC; and MyPDOS a small "gamedos" for loading files from MyDOS disks including subdirectories and large disks.
Highlander's Home: Info and links on Atari 8-bits, with some files available for downloading, in German, automatic altavista babelfish translation.
Himü's Homepage: Manuals for Atari BASIC and BIBO Assembler, De Re Atari and Die Hexenküche (Tips and tricks by Peter Finzel), ANTIC, GTIA, POKEY, FREDDY, 6502 and RAM chips information and pinouts, pictures of several Atari 8-bit computers, some links and more. In German.automatic altavista babelfish translation
Home XL-Project: Some downloads here, including a few demos, utilities, games, a copy of Atari800Win Plus, as well as copies of TOP-Magazin, Compy Shop Magazin and Starsoft Magazin, in German, automatic altavista babelfish translation
Homepage of Nir Dary: Details of the PAL-NTSC upgrage, and details and pictures of the Super Archiver, A/D Converter cartridge (with downloads), Super E Burner (with manual), and the Black Box (with manual and utilities).
Infrared remote control gateway (IRG): Info on IRG, instructions and software, control your Atari by remote control, and control other devices from your Atari
Itay's Atari page: Ice-T XE 2.72 and Ice-T 800 an Atari Winamp skin and a couple of other programs for download.
JLS Basic: Details and downloads of JLS BASIc, a BASIC compiler for the XL/XE series, along with its history, manual and source code
Kevin Atkinson's Atari Area: Antic and Analog issue disks, as well as some other software.
Lato Ludzik�w 2002!: Details of copy parties. Also Details of Q-MEG OS, a download area, an SIO2PC schematic using a MAX 232 chip, Syzygy and Serious Magazine downloads and some links. Also available here. In Polish.
Mac/Atari Fusion: Info on using your 8-bit with a Mac, including classic Atari style TrueType fonts for the Mac and PC, file transfer and more
MacFalkner's Homepage: Atari Keyboard Interface, Atari Disassembler and Flash-Disk details, in German with some english translations, automatic altavista babelfish translation
MagnusSoft: With downloads of several european games, including Monster Hunt (a Super Mario clone), The Laser Robot, Plot's, Galaxi Barkonid (Arkanoid clone) and Crazy Quader, along with descriptions of other games and tools. In German.automatic altavista babelfish translation
Mathy's first Homepage: An assortment of files and utilities (including the source code and docs) for MyDOS, information and modifications for the Blackbox, information on ASPI - software that provides a common interface for different types of hard disk interfaces on the Atari, a general collection of miscellaneous information relating to the Atari 8-bit, and Mathy's own CDAP - a CD Audio Player for the Atari 8-bit.
MyAtari - The monthly on-line magazine for Atari users!: Free on-line for all Atari machines, with articles and information about our favourite computers, with back issues available for download.
Nick Kennedy's Page: SIO2PC software for download, FAQ and diagrams, straight from the author's homepage. Also info on using AMAC and some other files
Oliver�s Atari-Archiv: Several 5200 games for download, along with emulators for all Atari 8-bit systems. In German automatic altavista babelfish translation.
ozkan.co.uk: A computer games nostalgic trip for Atari 8-bit machines and others. Download games some cheat versions and tunes and other stuff.
Page 6 [New Atari User]: An online archive of the Page 6 / New Atari User magazine, this was a UK magazine dedicated to the Atari 8-bit (with some ST content too) that ran for 85 issues from 1983 to 1998. With cover scans of all issues and the content from some of them, with more promised.
Pairman Atari 8-bit Stuff: A TTF of the Atari Character set, a copy of Rob Funk's Stuff, a list of useful info, including Atari 8-bit reference cards with BASIC commands, XIO commands, useful memory addresses, adding a Parallel Bus Interface to a 1200XL, a dual PIA modification, and some links.
Philippe PVBest's Atari 8bits Web Site: Atari File Designer a utility for transfering files to and from an Atari disk drive and the PC for MSDOS, Atari Monitor a utility to view, modify and disassembler the contents of .XFD files running under MSDOS, Atari Rom File Designer a combination of Atari File Designer and Atari Monitor that runs under Windows. Also has some technical information on the Atari 8-bit and some links.
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns: Maps and binaries for Pitfall II for various platforms, with a couple of .mid files tooautomatic altavista babelfish translation
Ricks' Website: Rick Detlefsen's website, with details of "Eight" a set of useful add on routines for the O.S. and programs, list of Texas user groups with meeting details and events, links to the online Atari chats, list of hardware projects, memory upgrade, keyboard connection grid, floppy drive information, ATR-8000 and manual, OSS supercart info, some software for download, and more.
Satantronic Atari Crew: Atari 8-bit files for download, including a demo and some utils
Strefa Atari: Wstep: Emulators, ROMs and utilities for download, descriptions screen shots and downloads for several european games, music players and collections, drawing programs and more. In Polish
Tajemnice Atari - unofficial digital archive: Online copies of the Polish TA magazine. Looks good, but hard to understand unless you read Polish. The downloads and game maps should be understandable in any language though =).Polish version. In Polish.
TalkAtari Atari.Org Forums: Atari discussion forums, including an Atari 8-bit forum. A decent discussion forum, with semi-frequent posts.
The Anarchistic Atari Page: A selection of ROMS available to download and burn, including Action, Basic XL, Basic XE, SpartaDOS X and server Atari O.S., Amy development disks, ZAP! and more for download
The Atari 8-bit Hardware Upgrade, Modification and Add-On FAQ: A list of many hardware upgrades available, including RAM, video, sound and disk drive upgrades. Also available here
The Console Museum: Hardware pictures, some software and emulators for download, covers many other systems too.
The Last Hope BBS Home Page: Info on The Last Hope BBS, list of files, users and message bases
Tinker Atari Computer Enthusiasts: Online copy of the SynAssembler manual, instructions for Cross Town Crazy 8, several pictures and an article of Percom drives, with SynAssembler XL, an ATR to disk utility and a Boot Maker program available for download. Also has a few links to other sites.
Tom D'Ambrosio's "Break Movie" Warehouse: Nice site, with collection of Atari 8-bit Atascii Movies
Tomas Meyer's ATARI 8-BIT PAGES: Turbo-Basic XL and Compiler listing scans for download
Trevin Beattie's Atari Technical Information: Info on 6502, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, Pokey and PIA, with pinouts, instructions and registers
Welcome to HCRBurk's Homepage !: SUBMON and ATARI FileManagement for download and some links, in German automatic altavista babelfish translation
xasm home page: xasm - a set of development tools for creating Atari 8-bit programs on a PC, including a cross-assembler and some utilities for handling Atari executables.
ABBUC News Archiv: The ABBUC News archive, in German automatic altavista babelfish translation
Atari 2000: The Official site for Phoenix, the new Atari XL/XE web browser being devloped, and some links. Also available here
Atari 8bit Computer Links: A list of mouse supporting programs, a download and instructions of Rescue at Rigel, a HIP viewer and some HIP pictures and a few links
Atari 8-bit Cross-Platform development tools: A couple of tools for cross platform development of Atari 8-bit programs
Atari Central: Under construction, some links and downloads
atari.da.ru: Atari 8 bit .cas project and archive, with some turbo tape files in .mp3 format
Atari-to-PC joysticks interface: Schematics for an interface designed to connect Atari joysticks to your PC. Also A simple monitor cable for Atari computers
AtariWorld: Info and links for the 8-bit, 16-bit and games systems, under construction
Bit Busters Homepage: Info on the Bit Busters and download area. Also available here.
Calagan's Gaming Hell: Emulators and files, including all 22 of Yogi's MegaGames compilations with lists and some screen shots. The downloads don't appear to work at the moment though.
Chris Lang's Retrocomputing Projects: With details of a Super Video upgrade for PAL Atari 600XL's. Under construction.
FujiMan's ATARI Homepage!: ATR's of several DOS versions including 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, XL, XE and others, plus some links.
HARD Software's Home Page: Demos, Veronika, Cool Emotion, Joyride, nice graphics, but unfortunately not all the links are there
Isaac's Software Emporium: Some links a download of Scram with a few other BASIC programs, and an online copy of the Atari Basic Complier
JAY Software's Home Page: Some download files here, including Turbobasic DOS and a version of Minesweeper for the 8-bit, and some links.
JRC ONLINE - ATARI: Some files for donwload and a few links, in Czech
JTKirk's Home Page: Controller information, some files and links - or brave the frames! *argh!*
Len Spencer's Atari 8-bit Page: HyperSpeed, Forem-XE Pro BBS info and files, links
red web site: REDRAVEN's page, under the bonnet of the 130XE, a few file images and ROMs, with English and French versions
Rick Cortese: Instructions for building an SIO to PC cable, and a picture of Alternate Reality cover art.
Russ Gilbert's Home Page: Some links here, used to have some Atari 8-bit book programs, but they have been removed, you can still get them by e-mail
Ryan's Tribute to the Classic Atari: Switchable OS diagram, US Doubler ROM image, and links
ST Informer Magazine: Online magazine, mostly ST but covers all machines with some 8-bit info
The 8-Bit Atari Mod Home Page: Add a LED to your ramdisk, and links.
THE ATARI DEVELOPPER RESOURCE: An interactive 6502 disassembler for Windows and several links to other Atari 8-bit pages
THE ATARI INSIDE Home Page: Info on The Atari Inside BBS - now defunct, and a demo for download
The Atari Years: Steve Lashower's Labyrinths, Antic Music Processor and Antic Sampling Processor.
The humming home page: Description of Diskcomm files, and DCM2ATR, WAV2CAS, and CAS2WAV files for download.
Tips & Tricks zum Atari 800XL: A couple of files on monitor cables and floppy speeders, in German automatic altavista babelfish translation
Wacko Software's home page: Mostly for the ST, but with Line Crash, an Atari 8-bit game available for download.
Atari 8-bit JPEG Viewers: View and convert JPEGs on your Atari 8-bit, with this JPEG decoder and viewer, ported from the C=64, complete with source code available for download. Also available here.

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