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.

• 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!)
  • Instructions
  • Figures and Tables
• Connecting an Atari joystick to a PC game port
  (Both schematics are now much more readable than before!)
  • Instructions (HTML)
  • Schematic 1 (6k GIF)
  • Schematic 2 (6k GIF)

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• 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

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• 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:
  • The old CompuServe archive
  • The Poole Disk
  (Thanks to Dave Blears for clearing up my confusion on the two different "Closer To Home" names!)

• You might be able to get the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup locally. If not, try Deja News.

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• 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.