Guest Book

As one of those old old veterans of the tape drive and Assembler battlefield in the 1980's, i was touched to find a site like this where all those 'gems' are still alive and so phantastically organized. Even those old game authors (like El Ualid Nouri, Christian Griesbeck and little old me) are mentioned. I like it!!! ;-) All I can say is: Great work! Greets, Ralf

WONDERFUL WEBSITE, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE MANUALS SCANS ALONG THE BOXES. THANKS

I owned an Atari 800XL from when I was 11 years old (1984) and then an Atari ST later. Interested in old games from my Childhood. I used to own several games that are currently missing on this site, will have to see if my parents still have the original cassettes/disks.

I love this site. Long live the Atari!

1st visit. My intro to computing was via a 400 I won playing Asteroids in a tournament at Penn Square Mall. It changed my life, and I owe my ability to write concise, clean PLC code to my experiences as a 14 year old creating videogames for the neighborhood kids. Too bad we don't have a modern version of the old system available with today's speed, memory and permanent storage. Imagine how much machine code you could run during the VBI with a 2.0Ghz processor! I spent many hours waiting for the old tape drive to load my latest creations into 16K of ram. Today I wait about the same amount of time with one hand tied to a mouse watching the hourglass spin on my Windoze XP machine. I was surprised to see there are still people who are interested in atarimania...I was simply googling Atascii for chits and giggles...

First visit here. As an alltime Atari addict, I love to see sites like these. Hopefully all information will be available soon. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the work on this site. It has been a great source helping me rebuild my old Atari 8-Bit collection.

Just looking around, nice site!

Simply the best

finally , a place with atari computer roms!

Simply Magnificent! (The preceeding is an understatement)

IT IS A FANTASTIC SITE TO ENJOY EVERYONE, CARRY ON................

Can anyone find "aliens: the search for newt"? It came on a disk with both the c64 and atari versions on it. Some people say it does'nt exist, but I know for sure.. back in the day I copied it... but lost it when i sold my 800xl(w/ an indus gt drive and an xm301 modem!!). I looked all through homesoft as well..

As the programmer of one of the games preserved here (Ithix for the Atari 8-bit) I'm pleased to find such a great site keeping the memory of these games alive! Thanks!

Absolutely fantastic site! Well done.

Pauly, you need to check out: http://vapi.fxatari.com/

I am ruunning atari 800 winplus and can't get .apx files to run. Tried tape / disk / cart / autoboot / tried 'em all! any tips?

GEEHUMSHRIBER, the game you're looking for is Stampede from Activision. Please ask any further questions on our forum.

Hello all I need help, I am looking for a game which I cannot remember what was it called. I played it on Atari, it was a man on a horse with a lasso catching goats, anyone remember?

Muy buena la informacion! saludos desde Argentina! is here a rarity guide?

I love playing my old atari games. Im almost fifty years old and still play all the old games.your site brings me back to the days of putting quarters in the machine to play pong.

Whenever I need to find out something Atari, this is always my first port of call. Great site guys, the effort you all put into this project is amazing. Keep it up.

Back to the past... ;] Greets to webmaster of this page ;]

I just stopped by this site for the first time. Many thanks to whomever works on this database. I was a big 800 gamer, and the trip down memory lane has been great!

Thank you very much. I never dreamed to see an adventure like "MARS" or those from the Rätz/Eberle series ever again! Andy, Germany

Thanks for the site! Allowed me to do some searious gameplay over the Chrimbo. Ahhh... the good old games.

great website see you have a lot of missing 8bit games will visit my old mans attic when im up there next and get out my old collection and see what i can upload 4 u does any1 know where i can get a copy of the ballblaster music in full i definately have star fleet i on original as a us import i used to play that at admiral level

i beginned wiyh a Atari 2600vcs,got a 800xl+1050,ST STE STF, I loosed all my 800xl softs (+3200games,appli ect!!...) in a house fire,water!!!Thanks for this GREAT site almost complete,there all best and famous games i know for atari,like the lucas films ,synaps,english software,sierra,brotherbund,activision,ect games are present...Great job!!!!,many thanks from a old hard-core gamer from the first ages..Thanks,Thanks,Thanks ^-^

Great website, even though I have most of the games here, it is nice to see the supporting material and authors! Keep up the good work.

I programmed the Atari 800 Craps Simulator. On a whim I did a Google search and here it is. I enjoyed writing it and I hope at least a few people found it fun. Thanks!

Excellent site! I did several Atari 800 games for Adventure International before college and it's nice to see them all listed here. I've finally ordered a SIO2PC cable so I can get you a Star Trek 3.5 .atr and better copies of Galactic Empire & Trader soon.

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My computing career began with a 600XL. Upgraded it myself to 64K ! Started with a datarecorder (1010), and later upgraded to a diskdrive (1050). What a great site to see the stuff I played with !!! I'll check my 'dusty&rusty' archive to see what I have left.

I tried contacting you via your email address but it was returned. Is there an error in it? twweber@eng.buffalo.edu

I did not know this place existed, wow, a bunch of great ads, I love it. Keep up the good work!

hey rom hunter!this site is exellent!

Never mind, I figured it out... the game was called Shamus.

I developed the game Syntron but thought it was long lost until coming across your site. Thank you!! I have a few other games to contribute if you would like them. I originally developed Syntron because there was no Robotron ripoff for the Atari 800 (and if there was, I wouldn't have been able to afford it at that time anyway). I then developed "Escape from Syntron" because I loved another arcade game for (I think) the Atari 800. It was a commercially available game (though not made by Atari - and I don't think it was ever a coin-op game) that came out sometime in the 1983-85 period. You would go through mazes and shoot monsters a la Berzerk or Robotron, but there were things (keys?) you could pick up along the way and then move to different sets of mazes and eventually "win" the game somehow. I can't remember if you won by escaping all the mazes, or rescuing a princess, or what it was. But it was a fun arcade style shoot em up with a quest element to it. Does that game sound familiar to anyone?

I really like the 2600 games section, thanks for all the info.

Pretty nice collection!

I programmed Advanced Pinball Simulator for codemasters back in the late 80's. 1988, if I remember rightly through the fog of years. Nearly knocked me out seeing it here; this site is fantastic. I still own the copyright for this piece of rubbish, but since I made very little money out of it I'm really glad you've got it up here. Codemasters offered me a pittance for the copyright way back in the day and, of course, I refused. I was in my teens when I made it and I have fond memories of the time, so even though the game is rubbish I didn't want to give up the rights. I'm really chuffed that you've got it here for people to download. Don't blame me for the music, though. As for the bugs, they were all my fault; well I was teenager when I wrote the code. This is a wonderful site. Tons of stuff that really brought back good memories. Cheers. :)

hey, I don't know why but I never saw that site before???!!!! anyway very good site with a lot of information. continue the great work

IS VERY GOOD, REMEMBER IT`S GAMES...

Great site! If you are every trying to remember what a game looks like, or what other games were similar, you might check out http://www.hallofvideogames.com. It's a visual video game database. A great compliment to this site I think!

Hello, Glad to meet with other Atari enthusiasts. Myself, I've been looking forward to playing Epyx Jumpman again. Now it looks as though I may finally get that chance. Thanks.

Hi guys, thank you so much for building this site! I had this strange feelings for a couple of months that I really need to see "The Great American Cross-Country Road Race" once again in my life but I didn't see a way to do it as my 800XL suddenly died a couple years ago. You fullfilled my dream this way. It's like a feeling a touch of fate or so...

(Sorry.) I wanted to list my e-mail address. grafitronix@yahoo.com Thanks.

Looking for Adventure Construction Set for the Atari 400/800 computer. It was programmed by Stuart Smith and published by Electronic Arts back in 1980 or so. I own the original floppies and due to some problems when I moved from Iowa to Florida, they have become unusable! I was hoping I could get a download of this excellent adventure maker. Back in high school, my friend and I had a small adventure company that used the C64 version and a friend of his that had both--he'd convert our C64 adventures to Atari. I eventually fell into an Atari 400/800 system with a floppy drive, tape drive, joysticks and a mouse. ACS was one of the programs I got with that system. Please help me. P.S. This is the *BEST* website for Atari 8-Bit software. Though some of it is unavailable or "missing", it just proves that the Atari 8-Bit series of computers were the best and easiest to work with. I do miss 'ACS', though...

Wonderful Database!!! I love the ability to bring up software by author or company, verrrry verrrry nice!

Excellent site - very well presented. Great to see some program listings from magazines. I notice there are programs from the UK Home Computer Weekly magazine. I had a couple of games published in that magaizine when I was a child (HCWMAN (PacMan clone) and THE CHAOTIC CROSSING (Frogger clone), so when I can find the magazines in the garage I submit the them. Please keep up the good work.