From: rossi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz)
Subject: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:20:22 GMT

Hi folks !

Yesterday I took a look inside all my collected articles for the ATARI
8bitters. I remembered the good old times with ANALOG, ANTIC, ATARImagazin
and many more mags for the ATARIs.
And an idea was born.
Okay, there are several 8bitter (semi-)professionals out there still working
with these computers. There are several people out there owning one of those
little ATARIs. But there is a leck of new and good software, exellent hardware
magazins and books for the 400/800/600XL/800XL/130XE/65XE/1200XL/1400XL/1450XL.

There were quite a lot good descriptions of os abilities and hardware in
this good old times. But these times are gone. Where are the sources for
'new' programmers and hardware freaks? If you don't have any books or old
magazines, you're like a swimmer without water.
Okay, there are a few magazines out there today, but they do not come to
too many of you...
Why don't put all of you, who have some knowledge about whatever (concerning
the ATARI 8bitters), it in an ATARI 8bit nuewsgroup as some kind of articles.
But please think of this. In this newsgroup comp.sys.atari.8bit a lot of
postings are set in per day. Those artcles won't get to the right people.
So why don't found a NEW newsgroup, maybe called comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
with a moderator for it, who posts regularly good stuff about these computers.
So everbody who wants to, is able to get the knowledge about programming the
XL/XE and its hardware. Maybe it would be an idea worth to think about to
talk to the people who made the ATARI magazines and ask about re-publish
articles from this magazins in this new newsgroup.

Problems are
-found a new newsgroup
-find a lot of freaks to write the articles
-find a moderator (At this moment I have not the time for it but maybe in
 6 month)
-cooperate with the atari archive to put software down there which demonstrate
 things explained in this articles
-get things started

Note: I don't mean to put software in this newsgroup. There is an archive site
      for that. Just descriptions of ...

      ...BASIC/Turbo-Basic
      ...Action!
      ...Assembly Languages
      ...Interrupts
      ...Graphics
      ...P/M
      ...Sound
      ...Disk Drives
      ...Interfaces
      ...XEP 80
      ...Software
      ...Keyboard
      ...Koala Pad
      ...Ports
      ...MIDI
      ...booting the ATARI
      ...Cassette recorder
      ...Hard Disk
      ...DOS
      ...I/O
      ...Editor
      ...Errors
      ...other hardware
      ...AUTORUN.SYS
      ...Cardridge Slot
      ...Joysticks and the ports
      ...RAMdisks
      ...picture formats
      ...history of the ATARI computers
      ...Printer
      ...Hardcopy
      ...Parallel Port
      ...processor
      ...S.A.M. (Screen Aided Managment)
      ...Speech synthesizer (soft- and hardware-)
      ...Quick
      ...OS at general
      ...Digitizing
      ...Pascal

      and whatelse you can imagine.............

Please don't say nothing. Write down your opinion and post it.
Maybe the 8bitters are able to make things become true...

I'm first: I have a large number of good articles and books at home.
           If this newsgroup will be there, I will post several articles
	   there.

--==rossi==--
Oliver Rosenkranz
rossi@cs.tu-berlin.de