I use your site to research what cartridges to buy for my 800XL. Brilliant!

Thank you very very much for this great work.

What a wonderful memories!

I begun to love computing stuff since I knew the Atari 800 XL in 1987, now I work as software engineer because of it and I still enjoy my job.

I could only bought some numbers of MundoAtari and TurboNews in Chile those days and never saw the whole collection. I have it now!

Thank you!!!

I'm glad Atari Mania is still going strong. I finally checked out the game ads page and was swept up with a wave of excitement when my memories went back many years. The ads are colorful and the art was/is inspiring setting the mood for the games very well.

Hi guys - just joined - might not remember me but I won the Space Invaders contest in London in 1981. Just been reading the old Member News - takes me back - still have an old scrapbook that includes every newspaper clipping that was taken from the day including even Australian coverage!!

No matter how much time passes by, how much computer technology evolves, to me nothing compares to the power inside the humble ATARI 800XL, my first computer ever. How amazing the things that CAN be done about sounds and graphics with only 32k available for programming!

Awesome site guys, despite all the advances in technology, I still find time to play Atari 2600 games. It's my fountain of youth. It's great that you are preserving arguably the greatest period in gaming history.... well done!! keep up the great work!

I started off with a 2600 when very young and eventually had (after a spectrum) 529 STe upgraded to 1040. Dungeon Master, Captive, Wings of Death, Epic, Fire and Brimstone, Most Microprose titles, Another World, Castle Master, Magic Pockets, forever swapping discs, pre-ordering Legends of Valour direct from US Gold and waiting for what seemed like years for it to be released and dancing for joy the 1st time it loaded up, the box was really cool too, like a book (Bethesda have obviously used this game as an inspiration). I could jabber on forever until my tiny brain imploded and my comma key wore out. Oh and Jeff Minter is a God!

Amazing Stuff ! I was CTO at Roklan Software, and I can't believe this stuf is still alive.

Now I can prove to my son the value of what I did before he was born.

Thanks.

You're amazing, thank you!

SPLENDID WORK

WOW, so many memories...I owed a 65XE and then the 1040STFM....I loved it! Happy to see that there still is an active community out there.

Ahhh, so nice to revisit, my childhood. The hours spent on weekends, and ill off school, dipping into the powerpack, I can still smell the scent of the overheated st. Thankyou, Great site

Although I no longer have any of the old consoles & computers, I do like reading about retro history, & playing the old software. This site is an excellent resource for the Atari machines, & I must thank you for enabling me to do this.

Glad to see many out there who still cherish these memories. What a great time it was - making "bad sectors" on my 1050 floppy drive with sector editors, dialing into CompuChat, and hours of typing in cool programs from the latest magazines. I remember how exciting it was when a new magazine hit the stands!

Thanks to all contributors.
St. Louis, MO

Brilliant site !

cant believe RainbowWalker isnt in the 400/800/XL /XE TOP 100!

cheers
steve

Hi Guys just want to say thanks for having some great atari magazines on this site as well as a lot of great info here.

Brings back a lot of good memories.

Wow , you have a very complete site with lots of info.

thanks

Thank you guys so much for all the wonderful memories. I am from Brazil and I used to play these games when I was 11. Now I'm a woman of 43 years old, and to be able to play these games again in my PC it is beyond words!!! Back then my favorites were asteroids and enduro. Thanks guys, again for this magnific site! Best regards, Chris.

This site is fantastic! I remember buying a copy of Antic Vol 3 No 2 June 1984 and spending hours typing in the Escape from Epsilon game into my Atari 800. Those were the days.
Thank you for making my day.
Cheers
John

Great work on this site. Really good source for STX images.
Just one note: it is not possible to make "STX-loader for ST. " - even if there is plenty of RAM.
STX format is good only for emulators. When some game takes control over machine you can not execute other tasks - like decoding STX file.

Thanks for this site,it is wonderful to have a place like this to come to,as a teen I started on ATARI 800,it still reveger me to play with some of thease games on an emulator,thanks again,keep up the good work,the best to all your team,thanks.

Thanks for this great site and lots of information.
I have an Atari 800 XL 1985 bought in Poland, because in East Germany no Atari computer was gaufen to. I have. Many programs on cassette in the "CHAOS SYSTEM" and it uses 6000 baud for data transfers There are some programs that are missing here, for example. "Star Lyricist". The programs are still to load and work without problems. Unfortunately I have only the CHAOS CopyTrans Later. I lack the programs for the 6000 baud 600 baud back to normal convert, maybe someone can help.

Thanks from Berlin
Wolf
axel.wolf@gmx.de

I give my best congratulations and I send only Thank you, Thaks for that years of entretaiment, but I did'n found controls for my 5200, but in this web site I can play my best games when I was a child, thanks for all ATARI and ATARIMANIA.

Thanks from Quito-Ecuador
Madcat X

I had a lot of fun programming the Atari and missed that when I gave all my stuff away -due to emigrating. Now, with an emulator on the pc and some of the books from your site I can enjoy it once more - and, of course, play some games.
Thanks so much! :)

Love This Site! Im 51 And Love All The Stuff Here!!!

This site is just amazing. This site took me back to age 13 and some really great times. Thanks you.

I can't thank enough for all the love and effort that you invested on your site. It's of great generosity that you published all this work for free, everything so well organized and simple.

Those were the golden days of videogaming, and you did a great job of displaying everything about them here, with all the care that they deserve.

I only wish I could go back in time and enjoy a bit more those long afternoons of Atari. With your great site, we can almost do that.

Best regards from Brazil.

Thank you so much for making this site! It means a lot to me and I am telling my old friends about it who had Atari computers back in the day like me. It really fulfilled my nostalgia for Atari stuff. I will be coming here often. Great job and super thorough! :D

I really miss the atari and specially megamania.

Excellent site ,
I have 2600, 7800, 130XE, 1040ST, 1040STf, 1040STe and a atari portfolio.
best machines ever

thanks!

Greetings from the Netherlands.

I just found this site and it has reignited my interest in all things Atari. Brilliant site, well done those who built it. I have two Atari 800 XLs and one 400 with membrane keyboard. Have about 1500 programs for them. I will have to get one set up again and have a go at Zaxxon and Clowns and Balloons. Regards to all, and thanks for letting me join.

Awesome resource! Thanks for all the hard work!

Best Atari site on Earth, well done!

Excellent, thanks! Greetings from colombia

Great site. Here I can remember, search and learn!
I liked the vidoes very much. And the 2600 catalog is really huge.
Thank you very much! I can see much love in this work.

thank you very much for all the wonder that you placed on the site.
I never hoped to see my games that have made ??me a fanatic of video game consoles.
This is thanks atari 2600 I came to the digital world
I am especially a fan of the game Persian Gulf War that was for me the best game on this console output
Going Home Booby also another marvel
in short it is thanks to you that I was able to get his game that was a stroke of heart during my childhood

<3 Atari Mania <3

You guys and girls have created one of the best websites I have ever visited. I cant thank you enough and describe just how many fond memories your website has given me of the golden age of atari gaming I had when growing up. How you have managed to catalogue all the games, pictures, movies and magazines is amazing. Your website is by far the the most comprehensive atari database ever. I had an Atari 520STe for many years and enjoyed games like Flood, Paradroid 90, Chuck Rock, Robocop 3 and many more. With your STX file dumps and the Steem emulator I can relive all those classic games again. I hope this website continues to grow and grow. Thank you. Mark B, Hampshire, UK.

Thank you for this site! it has brought back many memories and wasted a lot of my time ... :)

WOW!! you have improve the site so much... Thank you very much this site is a dream come true.

Great site. Really brings back the memories of a simpler time in life. No worries, just Atari.

Man waren das schöne Zeiten in den 80 jahren.ich hatte einen 800xl mit Datasette und eine Floppy.ich vermisse diese schöne zeit die leute haben da irgend wie mehr zusammen gehalten und wir waren meistens immer in kleinen grüppchen von 3-4 leuten.wenn es eine zeitmaschiene geben würde dann würd ich mich in diese schöne zeit zurück versetzen lassen.

Hello Everyone! I had the good fortune to work at Atari in the late 80s and you know what I miss the most? The Atari User Groups and my co-workers. What a great group of folks. User Groups (absolute FANATICS) would bring their home projects and personal code to shows - it was amazing what folks were able to do with these great little machines. And what I didn't realize back then, was how early we were in the PC world - just the dawning days of personal computing. And a special thank you to my old Boss and mentor, Sig Hartmann. I'm sure Sig is gone by now, he was a "lotta lotta" fun, a role model, and a good man. And a special thank you to Mel Stevens, Dir. of Creative Services. To watch Mel work on packaging or an ad or a booth for a show was like watching a master at his craft. An amazing guy. We had a lot of fun, and we sold a lot of great products. And thank you Sam Trammel for the opportunity. It was a blast.

This site is an excellent source of all things Atari.

Thanks to the team for their preservation of its memory.

Having a blast helping you out and having you help me out with the scans.

I am an old Atari technician back when the 2600, 400, and 800 were the hottest things around. I love this site keep up the good work!!!

Kudo to the Atarimania team. Thanks for the work behind that awesome site. I'm 41 year old now but I can't forget that golden age of early computer gaming. You bring back that glory in such brilliant maner. Thanks again guys !

hi there. this is a superb site! atari was the only console i could play and enjoy :) i was just wondering whether my favourite game still exists somewhere and if there would be a chance for you to put it in here. It's called SUBMISSION ... thanks

This is the greatest archive of ATARI I have ever seen! Stumbled upon it one night and ended staying up all night reliving many memories of my ATARI 2600 and ATARI 400 days! Thanks to the authors responsible for this site, LOVE IT!!!

Found this great site, I also found you have scans of some old mags which is great as I had some article published back in the day and I found them, thank you so much for doing this great bit of computing history. I still have all my atari gear (not sure if it works) I could never part with it. (Atari User Vol 3, no. 4 and page 6 issue 47) keep up the great work

Great site.I was a kid, this site gives me tears in my eyes.:-)

Great Site,congratulations ( São Paulo Brazil )

Back 25-30 years back in the past ! Still have a 800XL in the attic with its tape recorder, floppy drive and plotter, some original manuals, some copies... but I couln't manage to find the floppies :-(
Thanks for your great site ! Now, I'll be able to share with my children "my" old video games and the beginning of the video game adventure.

Thank you so much, for the ROM Collection of 2600 games. I'm a HUGE Atari fan and cannot afford to buy alot of Atari games and a console. The only thing stopping me from downloading emulators was all of the time to spend on Roms.

This saved me HOURS of work.

Superbe site, qu'il faut absolument maintenir. Félicitations pour le travail accompli.
Une mine d'information et une retour vers le passé qui nous est nécessaire

MERCI

This site is great. When I was young I had a 600XL, 1010 tape deck, and stack of Antic/Analog/Compute/Softside magazines I found at sales and library. Many hours of typing. Later on I managed to upgrade to 800XL/1050 drive, then SIO cable. My atari is in a safe place now, but emulators still run on my Win 7 machine.

Great site, brings back some great memories i had in the 1970s for the Atari VCS (2600), i am now collecting for the 2600 and 7800 and having a ton o fun, your site is a lot of help, hope that you can keep it going for many years so that Atari never dies out.

Hey , Very impressive collection . I can't thank you enough for sharing . I appreciate this very much . Thanks again !!!

Hola saludos desde argentina, querido colector, es realmente admirable el trabajo que tiene tu sitio, felicidades por este excelente portal... Best wishes for you bro, and thanks a lot for the roms...

Writer and producer of the Atari 1050 ISPlate and LightSpeed multi-boot menu.

Good to see Atari is still going. Still have all my hardware; 1x400, 2x800s, 1xXE 2xXL 4x1050 and a whole bunch of STs too.

i like atari mania, the games liked very very

THANK I´m crying of happines this is just great so many memories

Just stopped by to say hi. I was a member of CHAOS, produced the ACE80 carts, and basically loved the Atari 8-bit computers!

Thanks for producing this site.

This is a great site. It is nice to see that you have a majority of the Atari magazine collection. Keep up the good work thanks.

Very nice site. I like the collection of your atari.

Greetings Rolf

Excellent site.
To be a kid again...

So a nice Site. The Games pushed me into my childreens Time. Great Thanks

Hi, good to see you, Guys !
Best regards to Jacek Trzmiel, Atari developer !!

awesome site...wish there were more working atari 5200 emulators outhere

Awesome website!!

excellent website!

Great and amazing site!!! Congrats dudes...

Helped to bring back my old and happy old days of computer memories...

Cheers... :D

It is so awesome! I have a homemade MAME cabinet that runs all of your games.I am hoping that you will add more games.Keep up the good work!
P.S Best roms available on the internet.

my tears went down when i found this atari 2600 roms so many beautifull memories,
excellent collection and i hope you keep up the good job

thank you web master team

LO MEJOR QUE HAN ECHO FELICIDADES

Thank you guys for the best Rom collection available for download. This is the best site about Atari. This is a real Atari Mania. I wish my best for you!!! Keep going!!

Beautiful site. Lots of info/reading for the trip on memory lane. I couldn't resist meself and immediately downloaded an Atari emulator!!

I like the site. The fact that these games are celebrated and enjoyed today.

Thanks for this site, your doing a fantastic job. My ATARI in the 80s started me off in a career in systems, now Im retired and glad to be back.

An excelent resource for the Atari society!

Nice site. As an owner of an Atari 2600, Atari 800 and later an ST 1040, it brings back a lot of memories!

Amazing site. I hope it stays around for a long time! I've owned just about every computer and console since the 80's, and the Atari era was no doubt, the height of my technology high! It was sad time when the inferior, C-64 (the McDonalds of computers) took over.

Just managed to find this site

Absolutely fantastic !!

Keep the Atari alive, best machines ever

Just found your site. LOVE IT!
I remember spending hours on the 2600 sold it way back for 200 bucks including the 150 games i had. Man I wish I still had it.

such a wonderful valuable site! THANK YOU ATARIMANIA!!!

Hi, I had an Atari 800 XL when I was a boy. Only had one game for it. Was Miner2049r. Great Game! It was a cartridge which plugged in the back.
Used to play it in my Garage when I was living with my family in Knoxfield.
But one day i was interested to see what was inside the Atari 800 and I pull it apart. When I put it back together and turned it on smoke came out the back. I killed it!
This site brings out the child in me.
Great website!
Seeyou Michael

This is a fabulous site! Bookmarked as go to database for all things ST.

Actually, I`m an Amiga collector and think back of the good old times, were we had that funny "Atari vs Amiga war". But I must admit, that this Atari Site is optically much better than the most of the Amiga sites I know. What should be implemented are downloadable game-music files. cheers from the old enemy ;-)

Great site!
Brought back a lot of forgotten memories.......

Ahhhh the good old day's, great site, will be back soon! :)

This archive is fantastic! I used to subscribe to Analog during the Atari heydey in the 80s, and I remember spending hours typing in those looong strings of hex numbers so I could enjoy games in machine language instead of BASIC. The ads bring back a lot of fond memories too. Thanks again.

I was lucky enough to find out about your website through a magazine titled: Retro Gamer: Videogames Hardware Handbook: VOL #2 it went through Consoles, Computers & Handhelds from 1977-2001 Printed in the UK & purchased in the USA. I've found this magazine booklet to be very handy & most of all extreamly interesting about all the past video game consoles and handheld devices as it goes through all the history of each & every gaming console, handheld & computer's about gaming. I feel very lucky like I stated above to find such a magazine booklet that tells me about the games, consoles in great detail & how each company learned how to produce better gaming consoles from past mistakes that were made to lead to there great sucess in todays gaming market. It was by pure luck I found this on the shelf at a very well known book store in the magazine section. I'm a collector of these consoles, games so it's come in very handy for me to purchase this older technolegy over the internet. Thanks for providing such great detailed information on your website too, It's great to finally have found what I've been looking for, for many years of reserch to be able to find these older consoles, games in which I can find for purchase & know what I'm getting before I purchase it. Keep up the awesome work your doing on your website. I look forward to reading & finding out more information on the things I want as a collector.

I really like the page. i have a 2600 was a long time ago and i have found a lot of games, back the old memories. A big thank you.

great site, will look again

Really enjoying the site. Very well done.

Your site brought back memories of laboriously typing in programs from magazines like ANTIC and ANALOG. Of course the checksum programs helped. I had no money for software. I am thinking about trying it again on an emulator. With the books that you have on your site I can continue with my programming education.
Thanks a lot!!!!

Very Nice site. I just rediscovered my old Atari computer after 25 years. They are great!
Thank you.

My mate and I used to type in program listings from ANTIC in the 80's and I never could save them; I didn't get a cassette recoder for a year after my parent bought me the 800. Then I could save things and what a blast! The 810 disk drive was brilliant, faster loading and heaps more storage. I remember the memories like they were yesterday from you website - great work, keep it up!

This site looks awesome

wow fantastic site, it's brilliant to play games from when i was a kid, thanks verry much :))

So good to get back to good oldies.
Many thanks for all these infos and videos !
I'll be back as soon as possible, wandering thru this site.

Fantastic Website, I will continue to Look and Update my information and find ways to improve the programming.

Thank you guys! Great site. I can't describe how owesome it is to re visit all these games from my childhood. Many thanks again!

Nice website!

It is nice to see websites that bring me back to my atari days.

Great site! Lots of info and screenshots of games I played in my youth and other stuff I'd heard of but never seen/played.
Makes me want to dust off the old Atari sitting in the back of the cupboard and give it 'one more whirl'.
Keep up the good work guys and gals.

I'm 30 these days and part of my youth days were passing in the company of my friends and my Atari ST 1040... This site is one more where i can visit the best games ( at least in emotion and passion) i've ever played!!! Thank you and continue the GOOD WORK!!!!

Respect.....Thank you very much...Long live..

You do an excellent work here for our beloved Atari computers! Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart!
Best wishes from Greece!

This is a great site! I gave away my Atari 2600 in the 1980's so it's nice to be able to play the games I played when I was still a kid. It would be cool if you could play 5200 games directly from this site, as well as arcade games but at least you can play a ton of Atari 2600 games.

Un site aussi complet sur toute l'histoire d'Atari avant Infogrames Lyon Vaise… C'est tout bonnement rarissime! Je voudrait rajouter que sur Atari ST le jeu Xénon 2 MegaBlast (Bitmap Brother's) était l'un des meilleurs Shoot'Em'Up avec des SFX surpassant les capacités de n'importe quels autres consoles de jeux de son époque! De plus la musique de Bomb The BaSS; "MégaBlast" était réstitué presque quasimment à l'identique!!! Une performance incomparable à l'époque!

Muchas gracias amigo!!! Thank you very much my friend for sharing this excellent collection with us. Congratulations from Mexico!!!

Thanks for the archive of videos and magazines. All I can say is WOW! Love watching the documentary. Keep it up!

Thank you for share your Atari games database. Now I can remember my youth.

I learned to program on an Atari 800XL, later modified to a 256K 800XL. Back then people said I was wasting my time on such a device. 27 years later, I still program for a living. Thanks Atari!

I still have a massive collections of games, disks, drives, and computers, all Atari stuff.

Excellent site.
The 800XL was my first games console.
Its great to play those games from the old days. Missle Command is exactly the way I remember it.

great website!!
lots of info to be found .

Great site, but I found 2 games that I really want that you have no dump for.......

Biffdrop and Bopotron

Ohhh good memories. This is an excellent website. Atari will always remain as a leader in home computing technology.
Thank you soooo much for this site.

Edwin- Los Angeles,CA

fantastic, what you create here. I visit your site every week. Thanks for that
Michael from Germany

The new Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon section is great, but as there are already a lot of titles, it would be nice if one would be able to select in the advanced search whether one's interested e.g. in things that:
- Work (only) in medium or monochrome resolution
- Are STE or TT enhanced
- Are Falcon only

This is my new favorite site. Great info on Autoduel for the 8 bit computers under united kingdom. AWESOME SITE!

Glad to read comments there !

Keep up the good work / I follow your job for the ST/TT/FALCON section :).

See you on -aTaRi-FoRuM-.

Great site. Probably the best Atari site on the net.

Incredible SITE!!!! the first place that actually has the game ABUSE! i have ever found. Keep it up, never close this down!

What a great site, thanks for all your hard work! I still love my Atari 1200XL & the big 1050 :)

This page rules. I never was expected a page like this, I have my own Atari 2600 (in fact, I have 3) and I never was expected a page created only for Atari. Thanks to all the people that make this page exists. Thanks to all :D

Nice website! I've been collecting atari games for a couple of years now.It's funny because i had a colecovision back in 83, which i loved, but i also had the adapter to play atari games too. Even though the graphics weren't as good as colecovisions i really liked the game play of the atari games. Reliving my youth.LOL Can't wait till you update the 7800! Just got that one for Xmas this year.

Thanks for sharing all your work with us! This site is fabulous! :)

i have to say that this site is great. theres games i never seen on here before nor heared of. its great that ttheres so many atari enthusiasts out there that still believe in classic game playing fun.

great site...great job atarimania...

Amazing site, keep up the good work!!

I had all Atari systems starting with the VCS 2600. Thank you for this great site. Really professional work. Hello to you all guys who did know those good old days !

You have a great Web site. I am from Germany. In the past I had some Ataris 600 XL, 800 XL, 130XE and a lot of equipment. It´s nice to see the old pics. Thanks a lot.

Absolutely FANTASTIC work!!

My family bought a 400 because it played the best Pacman. I then bought a 1200XL and diskdrive from a friend that won it on a radio show. I still have both of them! This site is incredible and has allowed me to run the emulator on my PC and more easily relive so many great games!!

ATARI FTW!!!

You guys deserve great respect!

respect dudes. i was amazed with your great job here. my first homecomputer was an atari 800xl. i used to have donkey kong as a cartridge. it is still my fave classic game. i rememberm mr. robot was great too. and scooter drove me nuts. thanks again! atari forever :-)

Great site for the best part of my life.....my childhood :)
Fantastic memories for a 1976 class like me....thanks thanks thanks!!

Carlos Fidalgo from Portugal - (sorry my english)- Thanks for this site . I am again 15 years old. the Atari 800XL it was my very first computer and I can felt the smell of the wonderfull afternoons. Whos touch in a Atari touch in a heart.

Thanks for the perfect site,
wonderful memories with friends playing togehter all night are coming back,in greece i remember my girl fighting with me through the mazes of wizard of wor... i remember being lost alone in the city of catch 23 on some lonely cold nights in germany, i remember my 130xe back then, not only the design was ahead of its time.
You do not choose your computer it chooses you : )

Wonderful new design..........LONG LIVE ATARI!:)

Love the new look, kinda reminds me of the 70's 2600 wood grain look.

Wow! Excellent archive! Brings back my childhood memories. Thank you guys!

Nice new design. Thank you very much.

Very cute..Long live..

The new site format is awesome. You've created the best Atari resource in this galaxy. Keep up the good work and you'll convert all of those old Commodore fans.

Site looks soo good!
Great Job!

love the sight. the 2600 was the first system i had. i also had a lynx, it was way ahead of its time. i still have all my 2600 and the games. tryed to use it and it still works. my lynx broke but i still have batman returns.

gust downloaded the rom zip now to find a emu for my nds to run them. keep up the good work.

p.s. masters of the universe and e.t. rocks! ;)

Great site, lot's of info, on Atari. Brings back lots of memories of when I was growing up with my first Atari! Good Job! Thanks!

I am impressed. You send me 27 years back in time when I was 9 years old kid. Thank you and keep the good work!

Nice site you've got here..

In the 1980s my rock band "Circus of Legends" installed 4 ATARI 2600's on our Tour bus. We have a new bus today but we still have 3 out of 4 ATARIs on our bus and a Cabinet FULL of Games.

Absolutely fantastic site!

Thanks fot the work it really a good idea to have a atari only database ;-) Hope you will have the time to fix it during many years ;-) See u

What a greaz archive and vaulz of our beloved atari memories!!!
Thanks for all the effort so much!!!

8 Bit Atari Memories will live forever

Atari 800XL started it all for me

People with a historical perspective --- are good people. Yes, I am the same Norman T. Thornton that programmed Bomby (the 1k contest winner in 1988 or so) in 6502 Assembly Language.

Ah, now if only there were an archived for all the other software I've developed for the corporate world. Interesting how many coders of the past have made their way to this site. If anyone is interested in some of what I am doing these days, visit PoeticWrites.org.

In attitude, you have managed to capture the spirit of the era (a certain generosity, whimsy and technical savvy) and look of the as well. I trust that the Internet Archive (or, the like) will preserve your worthy site far into the future.

Carry-on! And, Thanks.

Just wanted to say thanks!

I've been looking for the atari st
compare ad (the one with the waterfall
on the screen made with neochrome) for
the longest time.

It's the ad I drooled over till i got my
520st! them days are gone! :-(

Just stumbled across this site and was amazed to find two games here that I wrote back in the 1980's, The Amulet and Blok-Head. I barely remember writing Blok-Head at all, but The Amulet was a labour of love and took me several years to complete. It's nice to see it still available, I might even have a play with it myself. Keep up the good work.

thanks. from holland the good old days from the 80s sometimes a play still on my atari 800xl and the 130xe all the great games.

All I can say is WOW! I just stumbled onto this website today for the first time and I gotta say, I'm totally impressed. It's like being a kid again... literally!

BRAVO!

Thanks for all the memories!

I have to congratulate you all on your hard work and dedication to the ATARI cause.

It is very encouraging to us diehards to see that there are Atarimaniacs like you still out there, and willing to give up their time to keep these wonderful computers alive.
May you continue as long as possible.

As an ATARI 8-bit owner / user / programmer for 28years, I have accumulated a lot of hardware, software, and information. If I can
contribute in any way, please let me know.

Yours Atarily,

Chris Davis

An old Atari User, and reseller here in Winnipeg.
Started with the 2600 game machine, then to 400, then advanced to 800, then to 520ST.
Had quite a library of old cartridges, tapes, and diskette programs - but, and this I am sorry to say, didn't seem to have a market, so I junked much of the product.
Still have an original PAC-MAN in sealed package #CXL4200, for the 400/800 machine; and also a sealed carton DEFENDER #CX2609. Stickers on boxes are the red N, which I think means for North America.
Published a newsletter called Ad Astra, for the Atari Microcomputer Network (radio amateur group), and did this for about 8-1/2 years.
Sure miss those old days!
Gil Frederick, VE4AG/G4NZO (for Hams viewing)
130 Maureen Street, Winnipeg, MB R3K 1M2 Canada. gilfred@mts.net

Excellent work, everyone! My sister, and I grew up with the 2600, and we won't forget those wonderful times for the rest of our lives. Thank you so much for working so hard to keep the memories alive!

Greetings from www.AtariFun.Com - Wow!
AtariMania is a great site and wonderful java app to play the classics online too. Keep up the fantastic work. :)

Congratulations for your very nice site ;-)

/|\ATARI FOREVER

great site! i love my atari machines and this site is helping me a lot!

Nice to see a site like this, dedicated to the one of the most brilliant form of entertainment in the 20th century...

Congrats to you all! ;)

Great site

Wow. The passion that went into this site is amazing. I've literally spent the last 2 days looking at stuff that I haven't seen in 25 years. Your 8-bit archives are the best on the 'net. Nothing else comes close. THANK YOU!

I love this website! Long live Atari! I can't wait till you finish the 7800 and Arcade database.

Awesome archive, nothing else comes close.

Wow! I could almost feel my long lost atari 2600... Thank you very much... my 80s childhood seems just a few days away...

Keep up the excellent work!!!!


I love the website. I hope to be able and visit the site well into the future...

great site! i love all the old lucasfilm games!

Great site!

Long live Atari. :)

It is great to find such a nice site dedicated to those machines that we played with some (!) time ago. Good work. Keep it up! - Edgar from Mexico.

Great site, easy to find stuff.

Good site, good stuff

Nice to see that the Atari spirit is still alive :)

Greetings from www.atarihistory.de to everyone who helps maintaining ATARIMANIA.
Congratulations for your good and hard work!

Thank you very much for the interesting archive and the nice games.

Look at the Slovak and Czech Atari scene. You dont have latest information. A lot of latest pretty games are not here.
Please update it.

As a former Atari authorized retailer, elf Software, I still own (and enjoy) much of my Atari overstock. It's wonderful to see Atari alive and well here on your site!

God's best to you!

Ms. Ellexis L. Fletcher
Corpus Christi, TX

I programmed Domination, Trutti Frutti and Hotel Alien for the Atari 400 & 800 back in the days when 48k was huge. Just found your site. Neat!

As one of those old old veterans of the tape drive and Assembler battlefield in the 1980's, i was touched to find a site like this where all those 'gems' are still alive and so phantastically organized. Even those old game authors (like El Ualid Nouri, Christian Griesbeck and little old me) are mentioned. I like it!!! ;-) All I can say is: Great work!
Greets,
Ralf

WONDERFUL WEBSITE, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE MANUALS SCANS ALONG THE BOXES. THANKS

I owned an Atari 800XL from when I was 11 years old (1984) and then an Atari ST later. Interested in old games from my Childhood. I used to own several games that are currently missing on this site, will have to see if my parents still have the original cassettes/disks.

I love this site. Long live the Atari!

1st visit. My intro to computing was via a 400 I won playing Asteroids in a tournament at Penn Square Mall. It changed my life, and I owe my ability to write concise, clean PLC code to my experiences as a 14 year old creating videogames for the neighborhood kids.

Too bad we don't have a modern version of the old system available with today's speed, memory and permanent storage. Imagine how much machine code you could run during the VBI with a 2.0Ghz processor!

I spent many hours waiting for the old tape drive to load my latest creations into 16K of ram.

Today I wait about the same amount of time with one hand tied to a mouse watching the hourglass spin on my Windoze XP machine.

I was surprised to see there are still people who are interested in atarimania...I was simply googling Atascii for chits and giggles...

First visit here. As an alltime Atari addict, I love to see sites like these. Hopefully all information will be available soon. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the work on this site. It has been a great source helping me rebuild my old Atari 8-Bit collection.

Just looking around, nice site!

Simply the best

finally , a place with atari computer roms!

Simply Magnificent! (The preceeding is an understatement)

IT IS A FANTASTIC SITE TO ENJOY EVERYONE, CARRY ON................

Can anyone find "aliens: the search for newt"? It came on a disk with both the c64 and atari versions on it. Some people say it does'nt exist, but I know for sure.. back in the day I copied it... but lost it when i sold my 800xl(w/ an indus gt drive and an xm301 modem!!). I looked all through homesoft as well..

As the programmer of one of the games preserved here (Ithix for the Atari 8-bit) I'm pleased to find such a great site keeping the memory of these games alive! Thanks!

Absolutely fantastic site! Well done.

Pauly, you need to check out:

http://vapi.fxatari.com/

I am ruunning atari 800 winplus and can't get .apx files to run. Tried tape / disk / cart / autoboot / tried 'em all! any tips?

Hello all I need help,
I am looking for a game which I cannot remember what was it called. I played it on Atari, it was a man on a horse with a lasso catching goats, anyone remember?

GEEHUMSHRIBER, the game you're looking for is Stampede from Activision. Please ask any further questions on our forum.

Muy buena la informacion! saludos desde Argentina!
is here a rarity guide?

I love playing my old atari games. Im almost fifty years old and still play all the old games.your site brings me back to the days of putting quarters in the machine to play pong.

Whenever I need to find out something Atari, this is always my first port of call. Great site guys, the effort you all put into this project is amazing. Keep it up.

Back to the past... ;] Greets to webmaster of this page ;]

I just stopped by this site for the first time. Many thanks to whomever works on this database. I was a big 800 gamer, and the trip down memory lane has been great!

Thank you very much. I never dreamed to see an adventure like "MARS" or those from the Rätz/Eberle series ever again!

Andy, Germany

Thanks for the site! Allowed me to do some searious gameplay over the Chrimbo. Ahhh... the good old games.

great website see you have a lot of missing 8bit games will visit my old mans attic when im up there next and get out my old collection and see what i can upload 4 u does any1 know where i can get a copy of the ballblaster music in full i definately have star fleet i on original as a us import i used to play that at admiral level

i beginned wiyh a Atari 2600vcs,got a 800xl+1050,ST STE STF,
I loosed all my 800xl softs (+3200games,appli ect!!...) in a house fire,water!!!Thanks for this GREAT site almost complete,there all best and famous games i know for atari,like the lucas films ,synaps,english software,sierra,brotherbund,activision,ect games are present...Great job!!!!,many thanks from a old hard-core gamer from the first ages..Thanks,Thanks,Thanks ^-^

Great website, even though I have most of the games here, it is nice to see the supporting material and authors! Keep up the good work.

I programmed the Atari 800 Craps Simulator. On a whim I did a Google search and here it is. I enjoyed writing it and I hope at least a few people found it fun. Thanks!

Excellent site! I did several Atari 800 games for Adventure International before college and it's nice to see them all listed here. I've finally ordered a SIO2PC cable so I can get you a Star Trek 3.5 .atr and better copies of Galactic Empire & Trader soon.

nwa nna i der here

My computing career began with a 600XL. Upgraded it myself to 64K !
Started with a datarecorder (1010), and later upgraded to a diskdrive (1050).
What a great site to see the stuff I played with !!!
I'll check my 'dusty&rusty' archive to see what I have left.

I tried contacting you via your email address but it was returned. Is there an error in it?

twweber@eng.buffalo.edu

  I did not know this place existed, wow, a bunch of great ads, I love it.

Keep up the good work!

hey rom hunter!this site is exellent!

Never mind, I figured it out... the game was called Shamus.

I developed the game Syntron but thought it was long lost until coming across your site. Thank you!! I have a few other games to contribute if you would like them. I originally developed Syntron because there was no Robotron ripoff for the Atari 800 (and if there was, I wouldn't have been able to afford it at that time anyway). I then developed "Escape from Syntron" because I loved another arcade game for (I think) the Atari 800. It was a commercially available game (though not made by Atari - and I don't think it was ever a coin-op game) that came out sometime in the 1983-85 period. You would go through mazes and shoot monsters a la Berzerk or Robotron, but there were things (keys?) you could pick up along the way and then move to different sets of mazes and eventually "win" the game somehow. I can't remember if you won by escaping all the mazes, or rescuing a princess, or what it was. But it was a fun arcade style shoot em up with a quest element to it. Does that game sound familiar to anyone?

Pretty nice collection!

I really like the 2600 games section, thanks for all the info.

I programmed Advanced Pinball Simulator for codemasters back in the late 80's. 1988, if I remember rightly through the fog of years. Nearly knocked me out seeing it here; this site is fantastic. I still own the copyright for this piece of rubbish, but since I made very little money out of it I'm really glad you've got it up here. Codemasters offered me a pittance for the copyright way back in the day and, of course, I refused. I was in my teens when I made it and I have fond memories of the time, so even though the game is rubbish I didn't want to give up the rights. I'm really chuffed that you've got it here for people to download. Don't blame me for the music, though. As for the bugs, they were all my fault; well I was teenager when I wrote the code.

This is a wonderful site. Tons of stuff that really brought back good memories.

Cheers. :)

hey, I don't know why but I never saw that site before???!!!!

anyway very good site with a lot of information.

continue the great work

IS VERY GOOD, REMEMBER IT`S GAMES...

Great site! If you are every trying to remember what a game looks like, or what other games were similar, you might check out http://www.hallofvideogames.com. It's a visual video game database. A great compliment to this site I think!