Happy New Year

Welcome to the first MyAtari issue of 2001. I hope that you have had an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas break. I don't know about you, but I certainly needed it!

Over the Christmas period I have kept myself busy preparing this issue and improving the functionality of the online site. For instance many pages have received facelifts while the Classifieds, Q&A, Reader ideas and News pages are now fully automated.

Great, but what does this actually mean? Well, this means that your Atari news, classifieds and ideas are now posted into the magazine as soon as you submit them and your questions are now e-mailed directly to our experts (they no longer sit in my inbox until I find some free time to sort them out).. The middle man - that's me - has been, quite literally, cut out! ;-)

It appears that I was not the only one to be busy during the Christmas holiday. Thanks to your continued interest in MyAtari, our hit counter jumped almost 2,000 hits!! This was no doubt due to the posting of several last minute articles and a superb festive cover design by Agent -t- of German demo group, Cream. Thank you for your continued support.

At the time of writing, the magazines hit counter currently stands at . It would be wonderful if the site could achieve 10,000 hits by the end of January. I therefore challenge you - the readers of MyAtari - to tell as many Atari users as possible about the magazine and ask them to visit us at www.myatari.net .

Please keep those letter, e-mails, questions, news snippets and articles coming, because without your contributions ... you know the score ;-)

Enjoy the issue and see you next month!

Matthew Bacon

MyAtari magazine - Feature #1, January 2001