Raf's Atari 8-bit page

Current Projects

Ramdrive v1.0

I'm currently working on a new ramdisk which if I can get it working the way I want it to should have some nifty features. When I've got it working I'll be looking for people to test it out, if this appeals to you then mail me. Right now I'm looking to gather info on as many different Atari 8-bit drives as I can, if you want to help then download it from here . It's written in BASIC so boot up, ENTER the program stick a disk in the drive do a disk directory and run the program. It should return information on the drive's configuration block and status bytes, which is what I'm after. I'm looking to run this program against as many different drives as I can with as many different densities as the drive will support. To switch densities just stick a disk formated in that density into the drive do a disk directory and run the program, and then send me the results.

I've also go a game half started (no name yet), which I might go back and finish when I've finished the ramdisk project. For now the ramdisk takes priority.

Other programs

Speed Fox
Programmer's Workshop 4

FAQ's

Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions
Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers List
Welcome to comp.sys.atari.8bit
The Atari 8-bit New User, Emulator Help FAQ

Other WWW Pages:

Krap's Atari page (In Polish, 1450XLD piccie harware upgrades and other info, including Reference Manual)
The Closer To Home Web Page (Lots of links and other info)
Atari 8-bit Projects & Stuff (Links to XL-It 0.20, SID-LOAD 1.0.5, BINTRIM 1.0.1, AnaDisk 2.0.6, AnaDisk 2.0.7, DeAna, ImageMan 0.3 and TT)
Atari Planet (home of the Atari 8bit Support BBS's List)
The Atari 8-bit Hardware Upgrade, Modification and Add-On FAQ (Description of hardware upgrades)
Ken's Atari 8-bit Page or Ken's Atari 8-bit Page (ATR and XFD Utilities, KAsm65 and KLink65 some games)
collection (Collection of old computers including Atari 400)
umich archive via www (Another way to get into the umich archive)
sunsite umich mirror archive via www (another way to get into the sunsite mirror archive)
Atari Flashback (hackerz.com Atari 8-bit web page)
NBS Atari Software (William Kendrick's Page, Index, Star Raiders Tribute Page, XL_Search, and lots of other stuff)
Atari & Commodore Home Computer Museum - The Atari Exhibition (History of Atari and some good piccies)
The Atari Vaporware & Prototypes Site (cvendel's site, great piccies of 1400XL, 1200XL, 1090XL and others, well worth a look)
Atari Gaming Headquarters (vapourware piccies, some H/W mods, and other interesting stuff)
Trevin Beattie's Atari Technical Information (Info on 6502, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, Pokey and PIA)
Saltine's 6502 op-code list (List of 6502's op codes)
Dan Boris's 6502 Processor Page (Info and links to 6502 pages)
6502 Cross-Development Languages and Tools List (lots of links to 6502 development tools)
The Video Game OASIS (Sale, auction and 1450XLD memory upgrade doc)
B & C ComputerVisions (Atari hardware and software for sale)
Rob Funk's Some Atari 8-bit Stuff (Assorted list of useful info, including Atari 8-bit reference cards)
The Atari 400/800 and OSS (story of the birth of the 400/800)
OS/A65 Computer and Operating System (André Fachat's preemptive-multitasking 6502 system)
Video Game Advantage (Atari 8-bit cartridge screen shots)
Kevin Atkinson's Atari Area (Antic, Analog issue disks)
Emulators Online - Atari 8 (PC Xformer, Xformer cable details, download area)
The Video Game High Score Page (Atari 400/800/XL/XE Scores as well as other platforms)
Patrick's Atari Classics Page (General Atari games stuff, plus swirling fuji)
Midway Games Inc. (short Atari history)
DIGITAL PRESS ONLINE (General Classic Games page with some A8 references)
APE - Atari Peripheral Emulator Home Page (APE's Homepage, Ape Warp+ OS - hardware OS replacement for XL/XE's, and Imagic 1.05 ATR<->XFD<->DCM<->SCP conversion)
BRiTiSH Underground Atari 8bit: (Atari Technical Reference Manual, Hardware upgrade information, and other general information, mirror of justins and yogis)
ACE: Atari Computer Emulator (800/XL/XE) (Atari 8-bit emulator for Unix)
The AEL Home Page (Atari Exchange of Louisville Home Page)
Atari 8-bit Resort Alternate address (Marek Tomczyk's site, H/W mods, Lots of links, Demos, English/German)
Atari Internet Resource Guide (Atari Links)
Planet Irata... World of Atari (Atari history, piccies, Tips and tricks, Reference Manual)
The Home Computer Hall of Fame (Atari 8-bit specs and some historical info)
Atari: from boom to bust and back again (Article on Atari)
Sacha's Homepage (Atari's History, links and some piccies)
Discovery Online, You Shoulda Been There -- Pong (Atari's early days)
PHOAKS: Resources for comp.sys.atari.8bit (Atari 8-bit links posted in comp.sys.atari.8bit)
Phoenix Atari Connection (The Big List of Atari 8-Bit Hints, Tricks and Cheats, and Best catalog info)
red web site (REDRAVEN's page, under the bonnet of the 130XE, English/French)
TIGHT group - Atari 8-bit stuff (Demos, BMP2HIP, HIP FAQ, and other bits and pieces)
Bravo Sierra Computers (H/W, S/W and books catalogs)
Atari 8-bit Emulator Page (Tony Smolar's page on Info and links to available emulators)
8 Bit Atari - The Emulation Of (XL-It v.0.16, AR City and Dungeon and links)
Antic - The Atari Resource (Digital Antic project, Online copies of Antic magazine)
DGS Homepage (Dean Garraghty's page, 8-bit catalog, P.D. software, used H/W and S/W)
Morbid Guy's Atari 8-bit Manual Archive (Some games manuals and DOS 2.5, Action and Mac65 manuals in plain text)
Tom D'Ambrosio's "Break Movie" Warehouse (Collection of Atari 8-bit Atascii Movies)
THE ATARI INSIDE Home Page (Info on The Atari Inside BBS)
Big Atari 8bit Home Page (Technical Info on BASIC, DOS and Technical Reference Manual, some files to download, HIP info, links)
The Atari 8-Bit Homepage (Ivo van Poorten's page, H/W piccies, S/W, pinouts, docs, 6502 bugs, vt100 codes, Mega Magazine and more)
Atari XL/XE-System (Links)
The M*U*L*E Web (M.U.L.E. info)
Reminiscing: 8-bit Atari Games (Screen Shots)
Homepage Nyman: Atari 8 bit (links)
Area 51: For all your 8Bit needs and desires (Emulator links, top 10 games)
Alpha Omega Systems Atari 8bit page (a few links and not much else)
Fran's ATARI Long List-O-Links! (Lots and lots of links to 2600/7800/XL/XE/ST/LYNX/JAGUAR etc...)
Obsolete Computer Museum (Atari 800, 800XL and 810 piccies)
Draco's Atari area (Atari XE Hard Drive Project, SysInfo, short SIO Protocol description, download area)
Beyond .... The Black Stump Atari Page (Quite a few links)
Atari 8-bit Docs, Hints and Solutions (Lots of games manuals)
Robert's Homepage (Atari 8-bit links)
Captain Blade's Atari Bookmarks (Atari 8-bit Links and Atari User Groups list)
Pokey: The Atari 800/800XL/5200 Emulator for MSDOS (Atari 8-bit emulator)
Atari 8bit Emulator for Unix, Amiga and MS-DOS (David Firth's Atari800 Emulator, and screen shots)
Atari 8-bit Stuff (Waldi's page, Paint programs, ORNETA '96 Copy Party, Music composer programs)
Atari Boise User Group (info on ABUG a few 8-bit bits and pieces)
Atari 8-bit on the internet (Steve's pages, links to 8-bit sites)
The Original 8-bit Alternate Reality Homepage (Info on Alternate Reality)
Micro Discount Atari 8 bit Home Page (Derek Fern, H/W, S/W, books for sale)
Stuart M. Thorpe Home Page (Did you hear anyone say "Goodbye"? article and links)
Computer History and Emulation Homepage (History of computers and a dinky little bit on atari 8-bits)
Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers (History of computers from 1947-1997, 1971-1976,1977-1980, 1981-1982, 1983-1985, 1986-1989, 1993-1994)
Alex's Classic Computer links (a few Atari 8-bit links)
Alternate Reality on the Web (Another Alternate Reality Page)
Atari 8-bit Utilities (Preston Crow's page of Atari 8-bit utilities, DCM and ATR conversion, binary load menus, anadisk and deana, SIO2PC programs, Binary load file analyzer)
Atari Stuff (Dave Bennet's page, a few links)
Atari Systems... (A few 8-bit links)
Atari on the Web! (Mark Stephen Smith's page, a few links to 8-bit related items)
ATARI XL/XE Computer - Welcome / Willkommen / Bienvenue (Ulf Petersen's page, Black Magic Composer, XL-IT 0.20, some of Ulf's first programmes and links)
Atari800Win (freeware Atari 8-bit emulator front end for Win9x/NT, and a few links)
Classic 8-bit Emulators HomePage (The home of Raibow, Atari 8-bit emulator for Apple Mac and Windows 95 or NT and Direct X)
Archaic Ruins: Atari 800/5200 Emulators (XL-IT 0.20, Pokey 0.62 and Rainbow emulators for download as well as VSS 5200 emulator)
Spudsian Atari 8-bit Collection (a few links)
FM ATARI 8BIT INFO (Links, piccies, news and S/W for sale)
La Cueva de los 8bits - English, y en Español (PCX to graphics 8 converter, Turbo Basic patch for NTSC clocks, ATR and XFD to disk converter, links)
The 8-Bit Atari Mod Home Page (Atari 8-bit mods - in theory, only one of the links worked when I tried to access them, and links)
FujiMan's ATARI Homepage! (ATR's of several DOS versions and links)
Atari/Apple Kyan Pascal Manual (Partial online version of Kyan Pascal Manual)
Beco Tel - Home Page / Front Page (H/W piccies, ATAR-Z-MODEM 1.2, BobTerm 1.23, DeTerm 1.59, Ice-T XE and PabQwk software for download)
Frankfurter Hardware (SIO2PC, PC-Xformer cable, Atari-PC interface, in German)
ABBUC e.V. Online (Q-MEG OS, XL-IDE controller and more, in German)
Len Spencer's Atari 8-bit Page (HyperSpeed, Forem-XE Pro BBS info and files, links)
Kory Keith's Links Page (A few Atari 8-bit links here)
Museum of Dead, Gone & Obsolete Computers (400, 800, 600XL, 800XL, 1200XL, and 130XE displayed, with motherboard images)
The Atari Library - Atari 8Bit Computer Systems (piccies and info for 8-bit H/W)
Dave's Video Game Classics (8-bit Emulator links, game sounds and songs)
Schmoe's Page (Game theme tunes)
SPACE: Saint Paul ATARI Computer Enthusiasts (Info on SPACE and their newsletters online)
ABBUC News Archiv (The ABBUC News archive, in german)
Atari 8-bit & Linux (sio2pc 4.13, Floppy EMULator for linux, Bobterm docs, bobterm, reference manual and H/W mods and upgrades)
Atari demo crews on the web (Links to a few 8-bit demo crews on the web)
Atari XL/XE Games And Demos Page (Index of Megaimages at Yogi's, demos, DOS II/+ description, H/W mod)
BKproductions 8bit Power (ROMS, best/worst games)
Kevin's Software Page (cc65 for DOS and OS/2 for download)
DAVE's ATARI 8-BIT EMULATION PAGE (Info on emulators, screen shots, links)
Atari 8-bit Resources and Links (ROMS, Carts, Transdisk, mods, docs and links)
The Atari Years (Steve Lashower's Labyrinths, Antic Music Processor and Antic Sampling Processor, and FTP site)
VIDEOTOPIA (History of Arcade games, well worth a look, includes Atari Pong, 2600, 5200 and 400)
ATARI 8bit page (links, and some S/W)
Atari Emulators for MS-DOS (Atari emulator links)
home page stack (POOLDISK and XDIR info)
Atari 8-Bit (Marcus Phillips' home page, screen shots and some utilities to download)
My computer atari (Marek Chorvat's page, GMG links)
Renés Computer Page (S/W list, H/W piccies, in German)
Atari-related Pages (some links here to 8-bit sites)
Freddie's Atari Page! (lists of H/W and some links)
Classic Game Links (a few links to classic game sites, including atari 8-bit)
Adventure Game List (Lists of adventure games for classic machines, including Atari 8-bit, along with info on the companies that released them)
Tolkien computer games for the Atari 400 (Info on tolkien games for the atari 8bits)
Level 9: The Dungeon Masters (Info on Level 9, well worth a look)
M.U.L.E. (Info on M.U.L.E.)
msc homepage (Info on msc hard disk interface and download area)
Kevin's Atari 8bit corner (a few links here)
Hellbelly Emulation (Page dedicated to emulators with some Atari 8-bit links)
Page of all atarians and M.E.C. group (HIP FAQ and programs, links, demos and other stuff)
Bit Busters Homepage (Info on the Bit Busters and download area)
HeAvEn's Demo-Homepage-Index (ANTIC modes, GTIA modes, Extended RAM info, Detecting which CPU code is running on, unofficial 6502 opcodes, demos info - BROKEN LINK)
Ryan's Tribute to the Classic Atari (Switchable OS diagram, US Doubler ROM image, links)
The Last Hope BBS Home Page (info on The Last Hope BBS, list of files, users and message bases)
MAS65 -- 6502 Macro Assembler (Cross Assembler for MS-DOS and CP/M-Z80 systems)
Ray Wilmott's Atari Links (piccies and links)
The Toronto Atari Federation Home Page (Info on this User group)
My computers & Historical Links (a few links and pictures of an Atari 800 and 65XE)
David's Rehabilitated Computer Collection (400 and 800 specs, list of manuals and books )
Welcome to the Giant List of Classic Game Programmers (List of S/W authors and their games on the 'classic' machines)
Zippo Dot com - comp.sys.atari.8bit (read csa8 on the web)
Atari 8bit Game Engine alternate link (Ultima III and Alternate Reality)
M.A.C.E. Homepage (The Melbourne Atari Computer Club, a couple of 8 bit links here)
JAY Software's Home Page (Some download files here)
GREEN EGGS REPORT for news: comp.sys.atari.8bit (List of links collected from comp.sys.atari.8bit)
Game Over (Mostly games consoles, but the XL and XE are mentioned)
The Atari Atria (Articles on Atari, mostly games machines)
Dan's Atari 5200 Tech Page (Technical info for the 5200, ANALOG article comparing it to the 400/800's)
Atari Preservation Society Homepage (info on Atari games machines, but the 5200 is in there, info on the Atari Preservation Society)
ATARI 8-Bit Homepage (DATABYTE's page, in German)
ARRGH! - Atari 8-bits (Specs, piccies and Atari 8-bit history as seen in the UK, plust some cool animated GIF's)
Lost in the Classics (mostly 2600 and other games, but has Activision patches picces, remember these?)
HARD Software's Home Page (Demos, Veronika, Cool Emotion, Joyride)
Atari 400 und 800 (Atari 400 and 800, links, in German)
Die ATARI 8-Bit-Computer (Atari computer info, in German)
ABBUC e.V. Homepage - R.A.M. - Info (Info on R.A.M. and members, in German)
Go to a URL (For restricted Lynx users goto any url page)
LINKS:Atari (a few links to other Atari pages)
The Original Atari Teenage Riot (Naked Eclectic article on the 400)
ATARI XL/XE Homepage (temporarily down - or so it says - but here's the link anyway)
Atari Memo Pad, February 1996 (Volume 1 No.1, Feb. 1996, not much here except a piccie of a 1400XL)
Atari 8-bit Emulator Utilities (Imageman, monitor, xfd2atr, adir, robc2dos, img2path, dosmenu, dcmtodsk utilities, and how to put an Atari binary on a disk image)
Toad Computers: Atari 8-Bit (Toad Computer's page, H/W and S/W for sale)
Richard's Atari Software Warehouse (S/W for sale)
Atari 8-bit Computer Carts owned (cartridge lists, H/W lists)
Infrared remote control gateway (IRG) (info on IRG, instructions and software, control your Atari by remote control, and control other devices from your Atari)
Atari 8-bit (John Yeates' page, carts and systems owned)
Codename GENOS (Generic Operating System project)
Classic Computers and Video Games (8-bit stuff for sale)
Atari 8bits(Camelot Web) (Emulators Atari800, Atari800Win, PC Xformer, Pokey, Rainbow and XL-it! for download, in Spanish)
The Fridge (C=64 site, but with useful 6502 assembler code)
www to ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm (C=64 site but some useful 6502 stuff, such as cross assemblers)
Reinhard Pribish's Atari 2600 (and Atari 400/800) Pages (Lists of 400/800 carts by company and alphabetically)
Timeline of Microcomputers (History of microcomputers and how the Atari 8-bit fits into it)
C=Hacking (for the commodore, but with some useful ML stuff)
The Machine Room: Index of Micros (piccies and specs of 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL and 800XL)
6502 Links (Links to pages about the 6502)
Mike Naberezny's Home Page (Links on the 6502)
MOS Technology Integrated Circuits (Look inside the 6502)
Atari Archives (Electric Escape, Robert Jung's page on Atari, covers all things Atari including The Atari Timeline)
Telegames Atari Products Menu (S/W available from Telegames for the 400/800 and other Atari platforms)
Frankenstein's Gaming Zone (Atari 400/800 emulators page a couple of links)
Home (A few links here)
Atari (Emulator links for the Atari 8-bits)
Classic 8-bit Computers - Atari (A few links)
The Classic Computers List Web Page (a few links to Atari 8-bit stuff)
Hot Spots: 8-Bit-Advertisement (2 Atari 8-bit German adverts)
Bandit's ATARI Page (Links and piccies)
ATARI 8-bit - RASTER (cool screen shorts of some demos and games, ermm.. well it's not english)
Fuller Household (A few 8-bit links here)
H.A.C.E. / Houston Atari Computer Enthusiasts (user group for all Atari computers)
ICD - Atari Bargains (ICD's page, one or two bits and pieces for the 8-bit)
Syd Bolton - Classic Computers (a dinky little bit on 8-bit Atari's)
Atari links (Ben Baker's page, a few links)
Microcode Solutions - Home Page (Atari 8-bit emulators for the Amiga and the Mac)
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Telnet sites:

Cleveland Free-Net (type go atari at any menu)
National Capital FreeNet (login as guest, type go atari at any menu)
Closer to Home

Ftp sites:

Umich and mirrors
closertohome.dyn.ml.org (Closer to Home archive)
chris.se.com.pl
ftp.gmd.de (GMD National Research Center for Information Technology)
ftp.xmission.com (XMission Archive)
ftp.cs.vu.nl (Mega Magazine archive)
Super Products (POOLDISK CD-ROM online)
ftp.sodre.net mirrors of ftp.clark.net, ftp.pvv.unit.no, archive.umich.edu, ftp.hackerz.com and ftp.cs.vu.nl,
ftp.pvv.unit.no
svs.scsss.sk (Slovakian Atari Archive)
hipokrates.am.lublin.pl (Polish Demo Archive)
ksk.novastor.com (mirror of Umich, CTH, JustinsSite and hackerz)
ftp.teleport.com (Bravo Sierra's FTP site)
ftp.demon.co.uk (Atari Emulators)
ftp.netcom.com (Steve Lashower's ftp site)
ftp.hackerz.com (Yogi's site)
ftp.funet.fi (C=64 site but some useful 6502 stuff, such as cross assemblers)

Gopher sites:

sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk (umich mirror at imperial college)
gopher.archive.umich.edu (umich archive)
wuarchive.wustl.edu (umich mirror at wustl)
nic.merit.edu (umich mirror at merit)
gizmo.freenet.columbus.oh.us (Columbus freenet Atari 8-bit SIG)

Newsgroups:

Mailing lists:

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