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This is the finest Atari website, it really is!

This site is amazing! Thank you for providing all of these amazing things!

Nice site, my Atari Mega ST is now flooded with useful applications and nice games thanks to this site! Keep up the good work!

I'm interested to join this website, good luck for all.

Just want to say thank you. Atari 2600 was my first console. Atari 800XL was my first computer. Finding your website brought back good memories. Hope this archive continues to thrive and curate.

Well done Bertrand a really nice website best wishes

I love your site, Keep up the great work!!

Nice Site!

Decided to was time to sign up, now getting back into my retro years of Atari Computers :-)

Dude, Well done! I have had some trouble finding a lot of my old favorites and your organizational skills have really helped me.

Wow, amazing site! My favorite! Just w.o.w.!

Hi, its a great archive you have here but I see that most of the Atari ST stuff is in the STX/Pasti format. This is useless for real Atari user's as I understand it. Do you have any links to useable ST format images? Or perhaps I am wrong that STX is useless? I cannot find a way to make a floppy from any STX file. Kind regards. --- Hi Kennyb, Thank You :) It depends how you look at it. Yes to be honest the STX is pretty useless format for real hardware users, which i also am myself. Unless you want a cheap, easy and pretty reliable way to preserve your original retail disks from being lost in time of course. But it becomes less useless being a software history preservation tool, as it is one of the preservation formats that duplicates disk as it was sold in the shops back in the day. Like images created with SuperCard Pro, Kryoflux and maybe other preservation methods, these were also never intented to be used with a real hardware. It is a format to preserve disk image data in original form instead of something that runs on real ST. The reason for our way of choice is because many of the cracked games from the era has title screens either removed or edited with cracker messages, introduction animations, digital soundtracks or even hard disk installers removed to save disk space. It's like reading a book which someone has ripped covers off from, or doodled their own messages on the pages, or taken off the first chapter. No doubt cracked versions also have a very important piece in software history as many of the games or tools we are able to enjoy today would have been totally lost without this underground culture. They did a very important job back in the day. But they are not a piece of original commercial software history anymore the way they were intended to be experienced by the programmers, graphics artists, designers and musicians. This is Atarimania's way to show our respect to the game developers of the 80's and 90's, to preserve their hard work the way it should be in our mind. For running STX on a real ST / STe, if you have Lotharek's HxC Floppy Emulator hardware add-on you can run majority of the STX-images on a real hardware with some limitations. You still need the game manuals and protection wheels to play them of course, remember, they are pretty much exact copies of the commercial disks. For the modified versions, the web is full of them. Just take a look at The Old Games Finder for example, or even better the premier menu disk archiving project at stonish.net. It will keep you busy for ages :) All the best, Marko / Atarimania ST archiver

I have been a fan of the Atari since I was a kid. My cousin's had one as well as a Commodore 64. And those were my go to gaming machines till I was an adult and bought my first NES at a local yard sale. I have over 100 original cartridges for my 2600. This site looks great and looking forward to checking it out more in depth.

I'm so glad to have found this website! A wonderful game database for my ST.

Thanks for this site some great memories.

I'm a little mystified and discouraged at the lack of responses since I have been trying to contribute. I did register with the website, but my forum activation has been in limbo for nearly a month now. I see there are two new responses to other people on the guestbook, but my guestbook attempt to message you under the name "liv" has apparently been lost in a spam folder or ignored since it didn't match my username livorno. Anyway, a month ago, I uploaded a zip file to the ftp with about a dozen .BAS type-ins from Computer and Video Games magazine missing from your database. The filename is "8bit/CVG games to AtariMania.zip". --- Hi livorno, My apologies for the situation, it has not been intentional in any way to ignore your messages. But as with many of these hobby projects there are times when it's simply impossible to find free time to handle all the requests in a speed that makes everyone happy due to our real life demands and responsibilities. I know it sucks for things being handled slowly, and i hate is as much as everyone else. But there are times when the amount of contributions is so huge compared to what we can do with a very small team of 3-5 active members. That's actually less than one persion per Atari system. Most of us can only spend a few hours a week for trying to keep the database going. Once again my apologies, we really appreciate that you have donated your free time to help preserving our beloved Atari machines. Hopefully your work will be updated as soon as possible by a member who handles the stuff for A8 machines. All the best, Marko (Atarimania ST / TT / Falcon030)

Getting into homebrews, protos, unreleased and making my own cartridge cases. :)

This site is amazing . I have got back in touch with my childhood. Remember buying Page 6 each time it came out . wow.

Fabulous site, can't thank the developers enough!

Looking at the answer to Dean's question below. I'm not too much of a techie but sure love the old 8-Bit Atari stuff. Is there a site where I could buy an SD card adapter for a cartridge so I could run the files from dumps with or without emulator? Thanks --- Hi TomV, Look here for possible solutions :) https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=56

This is a great place to be. I am a 48 YO man and wanted to play my favorite games after 35 or more years and I found at least one of them today, but I cant control it. Are these games compatible with web browsers, keyboard combinations or need some additional hardware? Many thanks in advance -- Hi Dean, depends a lot about which Atari system you're about to play. Atari 2600 games are playable from browser, while the others need a program called "emulator" to load the software from. Most of the files also runs on an original hardware with some modern day add-ons like SD card adapters and so on. Some great emulators to try are "Altirra", "Atari800" or "Xformer 10" for Atari 5200 and 400/800/XL/XE series, "STEem SSE" or "Hatari" for Atari ST and Falcon030 compatibles, or "Virtual Jaguar" for Atari Jaguar.

Many thanks for this great site, on which I stumbled recently! Are you interested in getting missing dumps? If so, how best to contact you? I send an email but nobody replied...

Great Resource for Atari Stuff! Another great Atari site is http://13leader.net/

LOVE THIS SITE! Man great site! Sure brings back memories don't it? LOL >>>>Again awesome site!!!

Fantastic resource. Thank you. I have loved getting some of the old classics for the 800XL and ST (I had both as a child). Also great to look through all the Atari User magazines I was so familiar with. I learned programming by typing in (and then debugging) the software printed in those magazines!! And then to find the copy (Aug 1998) with the letter in I wrote when I was 11 years old! Well appreciated.

Thanks so much for this site... makes it easier to get all this 8 bit stuff up and running again.

Thirty-odd years ago my programming and video game making started on an 800XL and I’ve just started my classic collection with another 800XL and a 520STfm. This is a great site and I look forward to coding on the 8-bit again thanks to all the documentation on here. (First an interrupt driven tracker player and then to complete the project I always wished I had.. an Outrun clone.) I’m pleased to see the old publications again that I had a few programs published in.. more than half a lifetime ago now. Well done Atarimania - keep it up! --- Thanks Matt for your support! I really wish to see your Out Run clone one day, it certainly is something Atari 8-bit is still missing :) Marko

Hello, I was looking for some (obscure) Atari 2600 roms and I found almost all of them here! Thanks!

Thanks. So many great memories.

Great resource for my atari project, hard to find complete listings for systems on the web so ill be using this as a reference. The project is a 3d cover art collection for official releases, prototypes and promotional releases across the entire atari range for arc browser on android. Covers can be used across all platforms and devices as they are .PNG Files. The Project will be a long road and ill be doing other systems in future. I estimate 2-4000 3d covers should complete the collection.

i must say Atari is no bad brand they seem to have no real luck often like bigger companies do. i ve seen the ataribox (atari vcs) system beeing announced on youtube, but they seem also to do things wrong,. like no or too little merchandising we do not even know what games run on it, except tempest. i used to have a atari2600 in the 80s and i was quite fond of it. pitfall 2 is my alltime favorite from the 80s.

Started on Atari back in the 80s' ... wow we have come a long way. But this was the beginning for me. Still remember a game on the Atari that I can't remember the name probably one of the first first person games where you flew Jet a space ship and wandered through a maze and found clues. Anyone else remember this game?

Wow, bringing back such cool memories. I started with the 400 and a cassette drive, moved to the 800 and eventually an ST. Still have the 800 though all the disks went bad on me. Thanks for the memories!

Hello! wonderfull good side for the atari. Dreams become true. Thank you ;-)

Hello from Creonix! I am looking for some info about the game "Swiat Olkiego" so apparently I came here. See you soon! cvgm.net - best radio playing the music from games and demoscene

this is a great site can I found.all about atari. thanks you so much

Félicitations à l'auteur de ce site qui est une MEMOIRE extraordinaire rappelant bien que dans les années 80 Atari a lancé de ce qui est devenu en 2018 une activité plus importante que le cinéma dans le monde : les jeux vidéos Bravo !!

It is the site everybody that is an Atari fan should go to!

Amazing! I had always wanted to figure out ROMs when I learned about them years ago, but when you get older and things take more than 3 steps, they tend to be too much work! But here, in all their 4-bit glory, are my favorite games from 30 years ago. I can't thank you enough for making these available, and I can sit here for hours and play the same games I sat and played for hours decades ago! -------------------------- You're welcome, Scott. Enjoy!

This is a great site, extremely well curated database - with access to many things I thought I would never find! Greetings from Nova Scotia Canada!

When I was 13, I bought my first Atari computer. It was an Atari 600XL, and I bought Pac-man, and Missile Command right off the bat. Then a few days later I came back to Sears(get that, SEARS??LOL) and purchased a 1010 Cassette drive to keep tabs on all my home brew games. I kept adding to my game collection thru the years and then the 600XL vanished, I think my ex-wife took it. But to make a long story short, I now have an Atari 800XL, a 600XL, and a whole bunch of games. I love these machines and hope I get to use them more in the future.

After all these years - since the Atari home computer was released - it's SOOOO good to see and hear from all the other dedicated hackers, geeks, and enthusiasts that have kept the Atari (and early 8bit systems) alive and still going!!!

Wow

Thanks for all, super site! Greetings from Italy

Thanks for all. great site.

Thanks a lot I find all the roms for the atari 2600 and the information. My favorite game OUTER SPACE for the ATARI 2600. I still got the Atari 2600 with all my cartidges original. NOT FOR SALE.

Thanks for sharing those roms sir I appreciate it

Great Site

Hi and real thanks for this website ! If u need scans, please contact me on my fb page ST Sewers. There are some things missing on your listing. best regards

I have been collecting Atari 8-bit hardware for years. Specifically 400/800 XL XE. The software has always been the difficult part of the equation. Atari Mania has been an indispensable part of my collecting for many years now. Thanks, in part to you. ATARI Lives On...