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, remaining intellectual property rights associated with the Atari 8-bit
family of computers are owned by Atari Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of
Atari, SA of Lyon, France.  http://corporate.atari.com/

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

The latest version of this document is posted to these Usenet newsgroups
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Known mirrors of the latest version of this document:
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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 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/forum/12-atari-8-bit-computers/

SOFTWARE
  http://www.atarimania.com/ "The World's Finest Atari Database"
  http://atari.fandal.cz/ Games, Demos
  http://www.atarionline.pl/ 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

  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

  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/

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

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

  AtariWiki  (Carsten Strotmann)
  http://atariwiki.strotmann.de/  Information mainly intended for programmers

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/

  ABBUC RENO - ABBUC Regional Group North
  http://andymanone.dyndns.org/reno/

  ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus
  http://acec.atari.org/

  AKPV - Atariklub Prostejov
  http://atariklub.prostejov.cz/

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

  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 -- Atari web news meta-site (Andreas Bertelmann)
  http://www.ataritoday.net/

  Atari User -- monthly PDF magazine  (Anglo Internet Press)
  http://atariuser.com/