========================= THE ATARI 8-BIT HOME PAGE ========================= Created : 25th of May, 1994. Last Update : 31st of October, 1995. by Ivo van Poorten aka the Gatekeeper. History ------- dd/mm/yyyy vers. comments 25/05/1994 v1.01 Very limited. First attempt to create a WWW home page for the atari 8-bit. Supports only the FAQ and the vendors list. date unknown v1.02 Added FTP support and two new documents. One about the 65c816 and one PostScript document containing an opcode table of 65(C)02(c). date unknown v1.03 Added my software distributions. Also changed the layout of the main page. 02/06/1994 v1.04 Fixed a 'bug' in the headerline of the documents section. 23/06/1994 v1.05 Added a document somebody ( I forgot the name ) mailed me, about the 6502/6510/8500/8502 CPUs. It came from a C64 emulator package. 24/06/1994 v1.06 Added the stuff about the MIDI interface for the C64... 08/07/1994 v1.07 Added a link to the GREAT Antic Magazine archive. Also made a link to the Analog magazine directory which hopefully will be filled soon! 08/07/1994 v1.08 Almost forgot it but luckily I browsed through my recently received mail... I added a suggestion I got from Brent Buescher about the MIDI interface stuff. 08/07/1994 v1.09 Added a Statistics page... 01/08/1994 v1.10 Updated the stats until today ( 1st of August ). Corrected a spelling error in the MIDI page. 08/09/1994 v1.11 Added Atari logo at the title and added the Boston FTP archive. Also added a link to the Big Atari 8bit Home Page from Thomas Tatar. 21/09/1994 v1.12 Changed title picture. Didn't liked the ripped picture from Hensa's archive. Updated the stats again... 21/09/1994 v1.13 Changed the statistics page. Also drew a graph of it. 27/09/1994 v1.14 Added the Atari System Reference Manual. 03/10/1994 v1.15 Updated the stats again. September set the high score! 177 polls from outside the VU. Also, I`m busy doing a hypertext version of the Atari System Reference Manual. At this moment I have finished 8 chapters, but it's a lot more work then I expected... 04/10/1994 v1.15.1 Bad luck... I have to go home, but I did a hell of a lot of work today! I finished chapter 1 to 17, the table of contents and all three apendices. So, tomorrow I hope to do chapters 18,19 and 20 and it's ready to be included in the main page! 05/10/1994 v1.16 Yeah!!! It's finished. I included 24 new html pages! Also changed the lay out of the main page again and splitted up the ASCII version of the reference manual into the actual reference manual part and a reference to the XModem/YModem protocols. Next project will be an HTML version of the XModem/YModem documents or the interactive Atari 8-Bit picture and add. info archive to be made with a collection of scanned images from a rare Atari catalog... but that depends on whether the pictures are uploaded to delphi yet or not.... 12/10/1994 v1.16.1 Converted all gifs of both my personal home page and this one to the GIF89a format with a transparant background. 20/10/1994 v1.17 Added Rob Funk's Reference Cards. Instantly converted them to HTML also. 02/11/1994 v1.18 Added three new ASCII documents, namely, the list of bugs, the opcode table and the list of vt100 terminal codes. Because of some troubles with WWWstat here I have not updated the stats yet, but in October 8bit.html was requested at _least_ 300 times!!! 02/11/1994 v1.19 Scanned in some diagrams about the R6502/R65C02 and added them to this Home Page. 03/11/1994 v1.20 Removed the scans again. Didn't thought about the copyright issues. But... I'm going to draw some of the figures myself. ( With xfig! :-) 10/11/1994 v1.21 Updated the stats and drew a new graph. Wow! 328 polls in October. 21/11/1994 v1.22 Redesigned the Atari 8-Bit Home Page. I gave it a new main page and splitted up the old page into several subpages. 24/11/1994 v1.23 Drew a knew title picture. 29/11/1994 v1.24 The past two/three weeks I drew some IC and port pinouts with xfig. Today I converted them all to Postscript and made both version publically available by FTP and through this WWW Home Page. 29/11/1994 v1.25 Woaa! Removed a very silly bug. The Title of the renewed Home Page was still set to test! 14/12/1994 v1.26 Added the new Atari 8-Bit Forum! Hope you all like it. The hardware project is delayed a bit ( I started it two weeks ago already, but yesterday I decided I want it all different. :) But, tomorrow I probably finish the new setup. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/01/1995 v1.27 Updated the stats. My program to draw the graph doesn't work on Soloris 2.3 and I lost the sources, so the graph isn't updated yet... 26/01/1995 v1.28 Added the steering controllers info document 21/02/1995 v1.29 Added a whole bunch of new WWW resources. 24/02/1995 v1.30 Created a bunch of new pictures, changed colors of existing images and gave the pages a brand new look! Very lively, as it should be, for a lively computer! 03/03/1995 v1.31 Added a new Atari Archive mirror to the FTP Site list. 19/05/1995 v1.32 It's not finished at all, though I decided to add the "Hardware" section. Let's see what people think of it. BTW I noticed that next thursday it's our first birthday!!! 22/05/1995 v1.33 Made a new Statistics page. Well, actually I generated the Statistics and the graph last week, but I added it today. ( Still three days to go!! I count the days! :) 28/07/1995 v1.34 Finally I found some time to work on these pages again. Changed the layout of the main page a bit. Probably I will move all the stuff ( pages, images etc. ) to a faster machine. This means a URL change again, but it will be for about ten times faster !!! 03/08/1995 v1.35 Experimented a bit with different backdrops. Not completely satisfied yet, but have it added anyway... 04/08/1995 v1.36 Created the 'Hardware' pages about the datarecorders and diskdrives. 09/08/1995 v1.37 Finished the 'Hardware' pages about printers, modems and miscellaneous items. 31/10/1995 v1.38 Deleted some old WWW Resources links. Also added 3 new images to the Hardware section. (Thanks to Matthew Chiavelli.) Played around with some HTML 3 tags, but since Mosaic still doesn't display them correctly, eh... not at all, I won't put it online yet....