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- Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome
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- Welcome to the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup!
-
- You've found the Usenet newsgroup for discussion about the Atari 8-bit
- family of computers! These include the 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL,
- 65XE, 130XE, 800XE, and the XE Game System. Atari (based in Silicon Valley,
- California, USA) produced this line of computers from 1979-1992.
-
- To see what Atari is up to today visit http://www.atari.com/
-
- NEWSGROUP BACKGROUND:
- comp.sys.atari.8bit was created in November 1986, and is unmoderated.
- There is no charter for comp.sys.atari.8bit. (It pre-dates that custom.)
- This newsgroup was known as net.micro.atari8 from Feb 1986 to Nov 1986.
- The earlier net.micro.atari existed from Nov 1982 to Nov 1986.
-
- Please don't try to post binaries in comp.sys.atari.8bit, use the appropriate
- binaries groups instead.
-
- RELATED NEWSGROUPS:
- alt.binaries.atari
- alt.binaries.atari.d
- alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit
- comp.emulators.misc
- comp.emulators.announce Moderated.
- comp.sys.atari.advocacy
- comp.sys.atari.announce Moderated by Kevin Savetz.
- `- comp.sys.atari.announce Web Page: http://www.atariarchives.org/csaa/
- comp.sys.atari.programmer
- rec.games.video.atari
- rec.games.video.classic
-
- E-MAIL LIST:
- atari8-l, kept by maciej grzeszczuk, info at http://atari.krap.pl/
- To subscribe, simply mail a message to majordomo@listserv.krap.pl, with
- the following line in the body (not the subject) of the message:
- subscribe atari8-l
-
- WEB PAGES:
- Atari 8-bit Computer Web Ring, kept by Raphael Espino
- Ring Hub: http://www.webring.com/hub?ring=a8bit
- Ring Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/rjespino/a8ring.html
-
- SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS:
- XL Search, the Atari 8-Bit File Archive Search Engine (Bill Kendrick)
- http://xlsearch.atari.org/ or http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/
-
- Underground Node #472 (TXG/MNX)
- FTP Host: atari.xs4all.nl Port: 21
- User: atari8 Pass: atari4ever
-
- INFORMATION:
- Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions (Michael Current)
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/
-
- Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers (Michael Current)
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev/
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- Atari 8-bit New User, Emulator Help FAQ (Bill Kendrick)
- http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/new_and_emu.html
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- Atari Disk Image FAQ (Steve Tucker)
- http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/
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- Cartridge List for the Classic Atari 800/XL/XE Computers (Andrew Krieg)
- http://www.execpc.com/~krieg/links/8bit.carts
-
- Atari 8-Bit Telnet BBS List (Nolan Friedland)
- http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-telnet.html
-
- Atari 8-Bit Dialup BBS List (Nolan Friedland)
- http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-dialup.html
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- Atari SAP Music Archive: http://asma.atari.org
-
- ONLINE MAGAZINES:
- http://www.myatari.net/ MyAtari
- http://www.atarinews.org/ Atari Online News, Etc. (A-ONE)
- http://www.ataritimes.com/ The Atari Times
-
-