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Welcome to the April
2002 issue of MyAtari magazine. This month sees the
results of the eagerly anticipated MyAtari 2002 Awards.
Following weeks of nominations and over 1,700 votes,
the winners of the MyAtari 2002 Awards can now be announced.
However, before I do
so, congratulations to all the nominees for reaching
this far and a big thank you to everyone who took the
time to vote. Sadly, there can only be one winner per
category.
To recap, below is a
list of the nominees, in no particular order:
Nominees: Best Atari web site of the
year
Nominees: Best Programmer of the year
Nominees: Best Commercial release of
the year
Nominees: Best Shareware release of
the year
Nominees: Best PD/Freeware release of
the year
Nominees: Best Game release of the year
Nominees: Best Hardware upgrade of the
year
Nominees: Best Atari supporting company
of the year
Nominees: Best Atari magazine of the
year
Nominees: Outstanding contribution to
the Atari community
 
And the winners are...
Category: |
Best Atari
web site of the year |
Winner: |
AtariAge
www.atariage.com
"AtariAge
is proud to be awarded "Best Atari
Web Site of the Year" by MyAtari.net. Thanks to all who
voted, it's nice to be recognized among
all the excellent web sites out there." |
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Runner-up: |
Little Green
Desktop
http://www.atari.st |
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Category: |
Best Programmer
of the year |
Winner: |
Carl Forhan
(Songbird Productions)
http://songbird.atari.net |
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Runner-up: |
Leon O'Reilly
(Reservoir Gods)
http://rg.atari.org |
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Category: |
Best Commercial
release of the year |
Winner: |
MagiC 6.20
by Application-Systems Heidelberg
http://www.application-systems.de |
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Runner-up: |
CyberVirus
by Songbird Productions
http://songbird.atari.net |
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Category: |
Best Shareware
release of the year |
Winner: |
Aniplayer
by Didier Méquignon
http://aniplay.atari.org |
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Runner-up: |
AtarICQ by
GokMasE and Baldrick
http://aicq.atari-users.net |
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Category: |
Best PD/Freeware
release of the year |
Winner: |
Steem Engine
by Anthony and Russell Hayward
http://steem.atari.org
"Thanks
to everyone who voted for Steem, it's nice
to know the many hours of work that has
gone in to the program have been worth it,
we never imagined when we first started
that Steem would get this far. Hopefully
over the next few years with the help of
our users we will be able to improve Steem
further and get the last few ST programs
with problems running as they would have
on an STE."
Anthony and
Russell Hayward |
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Runner-up: |
EasyMiNT
by Marc-Antón Kehr
http://mico-mint.atari.org |
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Category: |
Best Game
release of the year |
Winner: |
Chu Chu Rocket
by Reservoir Gods
http://rg.atari.org
"It's
a great pleasure to receive this award for
"Chu Chu Rocket". We believe in
making commercial quality games software
for Atari machines, and to achieve this
we worked exceptionally hard on this title.
It was a year of long late nights of coding,
painting graphics and composing music culminating
in months of play-testing and debugging.
It's good to see that all our hard work
has paid off, the response from the Atari
community to this production has been nothing
short of fantastic.
Although
we have been creating games for the Atari
since 1994, all our previous releases have
been Falcon-only. With "Chu Chu Rocket"
we broadened our horizons to support STE
machines and later TT, Mega STE and STFM.
Creating a title that ran nicely on this
range of platforms presented its own series
of technical challenges, and we have to
thank the many Atarians who gave up their
free time to test this game on their machines
for us.
The credit
for this award is spread amongst so many
members of the team; shTHREE for his excellent
graphics, MSG for the huge amount of music
he composed for this title and Neo for his
graphics and his relentless testing and
debugging. Also big thanks to the rest of
the atari scene for their constant encouragement
and enthusiasm, especially those on #atariscne,
and also to the magazines and web sites
that have given us support.
The feedback
for this title has been so positive that
we are very motivated to produce new games
for Atari machines, so keep your eyes peeled
for plenty more productions from RG."
MrPink/RG |
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Runner-up: |
SCSIcide
by Joe Grand
http://www.mindspring.com/~jgrand/atari/ |
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Category: |
Best Hardware
upgrade of the year |
Winner: |
CT60 by Czuba
Tech
http://www.czuba-tech.com |
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Runner-up: |
JAMMA Joystick
by Goat Store
http://www.goatstore.com |
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Category: |
Best Atari
supporting company of the year |
Winner: |
Best Electronics
http://www.best-electronics-ca.com
"First
of all, I would like to thank all of the
MyAtari participants for taking the time
to fill out the survey!
Best Electronics
is honoured to be voted Best Atari supporting
company of the year.
My passion
for Atari came in 1978 when I won an Atari
400 personal computer by filling out the
registration form from the purchase of my
very first Atari product (2600 for $250+
at Atari employee cost!) through an Atari
employee friend at the local Atari Company
Store in Sunnyvale.
Best Electronics
has been dedicated to supporting the international
Atari community for nearly two decades.
We are most humbled and gratified by this
recognition of our past support. We look
forward to continuing to support the international
community of Atari users into the future.
In the early
days of Atari, Atari set up a nationwide
network of Atari Service Centers and Authorized
Dealers to support the Atari community.
The demand for replacement Atari parts and
service was to say the least overwhelming.
Atari was unable to meet the increasing
demand and thus the birth of Best Electronics
18 years ago. Best Electronics began supplying
Atari parts and our own "BEST"
improved and enhanced Atari replacement
parts direct to Atari Service Centers, Atari
Authorized Dealers and Atari end users.
I would have never dreamed 18 years ago
that Best Electronics would develop into
an international business and would continue
in the market place long after the demise
of Atari Corp.
Over a decade
ago, when we expanded our Atari business
into the Atari European community, little
did I dream that I would be going to Atari
trade shows all over Europe. After participating
in over 200 Atari and computer shows throughout
the world, one question I am asked all of
the time at these Atari shows and I still
get a big kick out of, is "Do you remember
me? I saw you at an Atari computer show
some number of years ago." Today, those
Atari users are now coming to Atari shows
with their kids and pointing out Best Electronics
and telling them they bought from Best Electronics
when they were kids!
In closing,
I wish to express my appreciation for this
honor and extend my personal thank you to
all that voted for Best Electronics."
Bradley Koda
Best Electronics |
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Runner-up: |
Songbird
Productions
http://songbird.atari.net |
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Category: |
Best Atari
magazine of the year |
Winner: |
st-computer
http://www.st-computer.net |
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Runner-up: |
alive!
http://alive.atari.org |
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Category: |
Outstanding
contribution to the Atari community |
Winner: |
Anders Eriksson
at Dead Hackers Society
http://www.dhs.nu
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Runner-up: |
Carl Forhan
at Songbird Productions
http://songbird.atari.net |
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Please send your
suggestions and ideas for next year's award ceremony
to me at matthew@myatari.net.
See you next month,
Matthew Bacon, Editor |
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