ATARI XL/XE COMPUTER

Hi there!

Welcome to my new ATARI 8Bit web-page, which is still under construction - so please be patient. My interest in the ATARI 8bit began in 1985, when I decided that simply playing games on my VCS2600 was too boring. Since I wanted to write my own programmes, I decided to buy a 600XL with 16KB - nothing else! (no 1050, no 1010 recoder - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!). Hey, what would you have done as a young buy without much money ;-)?! Man, I don't think you can imagine how much time I wasted writing my own programmes, noting them down on a piece of paper, turn off the computer and type the whole thing in again the following day to continue my work! Fortunately someone had mercy with me and gave me some money so that I was able to buy a 1010 tape recorder and a 64KB memory upgrade for my 600XL. YES;-)! In 1986 I got my first 1050 disk drive. That was when I really started working with my ATARI 8Bit. In the following years I published many commercial programmes (like LDS FREEZER XL/XE, LDS "C:" EMULATOR etc.) and bought lots of other hardware. I also wrote basically dozens of articles for the German "ATARImagazin" which used to have more than 100.000 readers! Also, I took over the famous "COMPY SHOP MAGAZIN" (CSM) which had to be renamed to "USER-MAG". If you are interested, I might upload some of them. I also used to sell ATARI 8Bit software and hardware. Boy, I really enjoyed those years!!! I left the commercial ATARI 8Bit scene about two years ago but have never really dropped the ATARI 8bit. Thanks to people like Markus Gietzen, the author of XL-IT!, we are all still able to enjoy our XL/XE software. *SIGH* ! Sometimes I really wish I could turn back the clock. Anyway, check out my homepage and download some of the files if you want. If you want me to add a link to your site to my web page, please don't hesitate to e-mail me!

SeeYa!

Ulf Petersen

My personal greetings go out to Chris Freemesser (and his girlfriend Whitney), Frederik Holst, Markus Gietzen and all the other people who know me!

HERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOME OF MY FIRST PROGRAMMES...
BERZERK - Conversion of the well-known ARCADE-GAME
ALADIN - Find the famous lamp in a tricky labyrinth
ATEX - Useful ASSEMBLER editor for beginners
TKKG 2 - In den Klauen des Tigers (German text-adventure)
All these XFD-images work fine with RAINBOW 95, XL-IT! and, of course, on any real ATARI 8Bit! As I said, these are my very first programmes. Some of them were even published as type-in-listings. Why don't you check them out?

SOME OF MY COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMES. GO AND GET THEM :-)

BLACK MAGIC COMPOSER - Excellent music editor!
By downloading this programme you agree to the following terms: the software must not be changed in any way! Also, the programme is not to be sold (be it at a profit or not!) - unless you have my written permission. It must not be uploaded to any other ftp-site or homepage! Apart from that, you may use this programme as often as you like! IT'S FREE!
NOTE: I wrote MANY other commercial programmes for the ATARI 8Bit. If you are interested, I might add them to my web-page!

FTP SITES FOR THE ATARI 8BIT ...
YOGI's FTP-SITE (BEST ATARI 8BIT ARCHIVE!)

OTHER HOMEPAGES ...
Lots of links and other information
Another good FTP site + lots of info

!!!VISIT THE OFFICIAL "ALTERNATE REALITY" HOMEPAGE TODAY!!!
!!!CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE "ALTERNATE REALITY: THE DUNGEON" MUSIC COLLECTION!!!

ATARI 8Bit Emulators
POKEY - An ATARI XL/XE emulator for DOS
David Firth's ATARI 800 EMU
RAINBOW 95 ATARI 8Bit-Emulator for WIN95
Download the best ATARI 8-Bit-Emulator for DOS --- XL-IT! V0.20 --- HERE

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