Links

Links


A collection of links to Atari related websites from predominantly the 16-bit era onwards.  These are links which I have encountered and searched out over the years and bookmarked.  From hobbyists, to forums, shops and download sites, the aim is to compile an organised non exhaustive central repository of interesting and useful websites.

There is also a thread on Atari Forum which aims to do the same found here.  The links on this page are not a copy of the Atari Forum thread, or for that matter any which aim to do the same over at New Beat or the Atari Age Forum.

The below will not include Facebook groups which are straight forward to source with a Facebook search.   Of course websites may disappear or move over time, sadly as I was organising my bookmarks for this page I found that many valuable Atari websites are simply no more.  Even after reconciling this page, another ten or so sites had disappeared.

Articles

Dr. T's - Interview with Dr. T.

Nostalgia Nerd - ST - The STory - Story of the Atari ST.

MusicTech - Atari ST Studio Icon - Atari ST article focused on Music and MIDI.

Notator HD - Well written article about the unreleased Notator HD, by Atari Forum user cb170 and curator of mu:zines.

Red Bull Music Academy - Atari ST - Atari ST article focused on Music and MIDI.


Atari

Atari - It's Atari, of course!


Atari Shops

Amedia Computer France - French store supporting Atari TOS computers.

Arananet - Atari hardware from Arananet.

Atarian Computing - Shop for restored Atari's and peripherals, with resources and downloads.

Atari Giant - Online Atari related shop based in the UK, very much leaning towards 8-bit sales and repairs.

Atari Kit! - Alan Hourihane's Atari projects and shop.  Home of the MonSTer board and Unicorn-USB.

B & C ComputerVisions - US based Atari related sales and service.

Backoffice (The) - Blogger, vlogger, hobbyist and shop which fronts The Backoffice retro creations from Andrew Armstrong.

Best Electronics - Bradley Koda's US Atari shop of delights.

Black Cat Hardware - Atari hardware developed by Black Cat.

Centuriontech - Home of the STPSU, and ST2VGA, a take on Ube's Ubeswitch.

Exxos Web Store - Exxos' shop front for his Atari hardware developments.

Inventronik GmbH - Wolfgang Förster's Inventronik, notably home of the Suska board and the GigaFile SD drive.

Jay's Retro Computer Sales - Also knows as Atari ST Sales, UK based shop selling used Atari STs and peripherals.

Keychange - Barrie's own site who has supported Atari in the UK for years.  Now limited to service and repairs only.

Lotharek's Lair - Lotharek's shop with some Atari goodies, namely the UltraSatan, Netusbee, HXC...

MateoProceo - A Dutch shop offering some Atari custom decals.

Medusa Computer Systems - A long established Swiss shop supporting Atari clones, including the FireBee.

Mutant Caterpillar - A UK shop which also offer an Atari repair service.

New Beat - New Beat, a Swedish group with many facets, from software and hardware development, to the demoscene.  New Beat also sells it's Atari wares.  Home of ACE, which is literally ace!

Piko International  - A US game development and publishing company, which sells the odd Atari Jaguar title.

Retrohax - Online shop for various Atari 8, 16 and 32-bit related hardware, in particular Willy's CT60e.

Retro Lemon - Online UK shop with some goods for your Atari.

Retro Ready - UK based online shop supporting Atari computers.

Solid State Society - Another UK based online outfit for all of your repairs and modification needs.

Songbird Productions - Long time US supporter of lost and new Atari Jaguar ad Lynx games.

ST-Freakz - UK shop dealing in new and used Atari computers and peripherals.

Telegames - Long established UK shop and supporter of the Atari Jaguar.

Zaffin Books - Home of the beautiful We Love Atari.  I would like to own them, but I can't justify that much for paperbacks!

 

Blogs and Vlogs

Ataricrypt - Atari ST blog covering mostly games, but with a software section. 

AtariView - French blog with articles interviewing well known people within the Atari scene. 

D-Bug Blog - Blog from D-Bug.

Democyclopedia - An encyclopaedic blog that encompasses the Atari demoscene.

Falcon Productions - Atari Music Studio blog.

James F Mackenzie - YouTube vlog reviewing Atari TOS peripherals, PARCP-USB, NetUSBee...  Also has his own blog.

The Jag Bar - YouTube vlog reviewing games for the Atari Jaguar.

Nostalgia Nerd - YouTube vlogger, although not pure Atari, has some good Atari content.   Also has a blog.


Crack Crews / Demoscene

Automation (LSD / Was (Not Was)) - Automation Atari ST menu disks from Exxos.  One of my favourite crews!

CODEF - CODEF gallery, view CODEF built Atari demos in your browser! 

Cream - Atari demoscene crew. 

D-Bug - Atari ST menu disks from D-Bug.  These menu disks take me back!

DemoBaseST - Atari ST demoscene archive database.

Demozoo - Demozoo demoscene resources.  A large well catalogued site for the demoscene, including Atari. 

Defence Force - Atari demoscene crew.

DHS - Dead Hackers Society demoscene resources.  Another large well catalogued site for the Atari demoscene. 

Effect - UK Atari demo crew.

Equinox - Atari demoscene crew.

Fujiology - Demoscene archivists.  The Fujiology Archive can be found over at Pouet.

Fuzion - Atari demoscene crew.

Insane - The website of Insane from Altair / Rabenauge / tSCc.

Leonard - Atari demoscener, and the home of SainT Atari emulator.

Medway Boys - Atari ST menu disks from the infamous Medway Boys, beautifully delivered by Spiny. 

Mellow Man - Mellow Man's collection of CODEF demos.

M.L.P - Module menu disk demosceners.

Mr Sam's Atari ST Site - Menu disk archive including Automation, Medway Boys, Pompey Pirates, D-Bug, Stax etc...

PaCidemo - Demoscene archive for menus which run under Atari emulators.

Paradize - Atari demoscene crew with added resources.

Persistence of Vision - Atari and Amiga demoscene crew.  The PoV menu disks courtesy of Exxos.

P.H.F - Atari, Amiga and C64 demoscene crew.

Pompey Pirates - Another big UK crew from back in the day.

Pouet - Another great demoscene resource site.

Reservoir Gods - Atari demoscene crew.

Sector One - Atari demoscene crew.

ST Knights - Atari demoscene crew.

STNICCC - ST News International Christmas Coding Convention archive for all things coding and demoscene.

SYNC - Atari demoscene crew.

TCB - A site dedicated to The CareBears, the infamous.

TCE - BSW menus from German demoscene crew The Chaos Engine.

X-Troll - X-Troll crew's' published game Lethal Xcess.

YM Rockerz - Atari chiptune / demoscene crew.

Zeal - Atari demoscene crew.


Dedicated Atari Emulators

Altirra - 8-bit Atari emulator for Windows.

ARAnyM - A hybrid 'emulator' based Atari Falcon clone.  Don't tell Petr Stehlik I called it an emulator! :P

A8E - Atari 800XL emulator for Windows.

Atari800 - An 8-bit Atari emulator for Unix, Linux, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT / Falcon, Windows, WinCE, Sega Dreamcast and Android machines.

Atari800MacX - Atari 8-bit emulator for the Mac.

Atari800WinPLus - Another Atari 8-bit Atari emulator for Windows.

Atari++ - An 8-bit Atari emulator for Unix.

Atarimax - Home of APE, the 8-bit Atari emulator for DOS and Windows based machines.

AtariX - Successor to MagicMac and MagicMac X for Mac OS from Andreas Kromke.

Gemulator 9 - The last version of Gemulator, the Mac, Atari ST and Atari 8-bit emulator for Windows.

Handy - A Windows based Atari Lynx emulator.

Hatari - Home of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator for Linux, BSD, MacOSX and Windows computers.

PaCifiST - Home of the Atari ST emulator PaCifiST.

Project Tempest - Site dedicated to the Project Tempest Atari Jaguar emulator.

SainT - SainT Atari ST emulator for Windows.  A sub section of Leonard's website.

Steem Engine - Home of Steem, the Atari ST emulator for Windows and Linux.

STonX - Home of STonX, the Atari ST emulator for Unix.

Virtual Jaguar - Atari Jaguar emulator for Linux, Windows and MacOSX.

WinSTon - Atari ST emulator for Windows based PCs.

XFormer - An Atari 8-bit emulator for older Windows based machines up to Windows XP.


Forums

Atari.org - The forum to Atari.org, broken down into sub-forums by system.

Atari Age - A forum with a big community, helpfully broken down into sub-forums by system.

Atari Forum - A more European flavoured forum with a big community, broken down into sub-forums by genre.

Atari-Home.de - The forum to Atari-Home.de.

Atari I/O - The Atari I/O forum, broken down into sub-forums by system.

Chipmusic.org - A forum dedicated to the world of chip music, or 'chiptune', with an Atari sub-forum.

D-Bug Forum - A forum dedicated to D-Bug and Automation demo crews.

Defence Force  Forum - The forum dedicated to Defence Force demo crew.

Exxos Forum - A useful forum centred around Atari hardware mods, namely from Exxos himself.

HDDriver Forum - A forum for HDDriver, the still supported hard disk driver software for Atari TOS platforms.


Hobbyists

3 in 1 Monitor Adaptor - Thingiverse 3D printed design for the 3 in 1 monitor adaptor for the Atari Falcon.

8BitChip - Atari ST Pages by P Putnik, and home of PP's Hard Disk Driver software.

10p6 3D Designs - 10p6's Atari Jaguar related 3D printed designs at Shapeways.

Amazing Atari - Andreas Albersdörfer's very nice Atari collection.

Animator75's UltraSatan case - An alternate 3D printed case for your UltraSatan.

Atari8 - Hobbyist Flashjazzcat from the UK who provides software downloads, upgrades and repairs for your 8-bit.

Atari Benelux Archive - Atari Benelux and Fred's Atari collection.

Atarinside's Pillar Replacement - 3D printed screw / pillar design for Atari ST case on Thingiverse.

Atari ST Image Enhancement Website - Create Atari ST-esque images online.

Atari ST Parts and Add Ons - 3D ST printed designs on Thingiverse.

Atari TT - Mark Nias' Atari TT page.

AVTANDIL - Hobbyist website of Avtandil.

Braincell Gotek Mount - 3D printed Gotek mount for the Atari ST by Braincell.

Buffee - Home of Buffee, the project of the 'universal' accelerator for your 68000 machine. 

Christophe Bray - Christophe's hobbyist website, includes interesting catalogue of Atari Falcon games to download.

derkom's CT60e bracket - 3D printed CT60e bracketed solution on Thingiverse.

Didier Méquignon - Didier's own website and home of Sondigit, Aniplayer and more.

Experiment-S - Wolfgang's own site which fronts Inventronik.  Also home to his blog.

Happydaze - Anders Granlund's interesting ST modifications, including Basilisk II Mac emulator build for TOS machines.

IRATA.ONLINE - Rebirth of the PLATO system with a terminal available via your 8-bit Atari.

Jookie's Home Page - Site for Jookie's hardware Atari projects, UltraSatan and home of CosmosEx.

Klaz' Hideaway - Nice site dedicated to mostly games adapted to work from your Atari TOS hard drive.

Mug UK - Mug UK's hobbyist website including Atari related material.

Online ST Picture Viewer - View ST picture / image formats online.

Probe House Software - Atari hardware mod tips, and software downloads from WongCK.

Pustan - Alexander Pustan's Atari collection.

RetroHQ - UK based Atari supporter and creator of the beautiful Lynx GD and Jaguar GD.

Robert Tercsi - Atari hobbyist with a very interesting and creative collection.

STLabs - Hobbyist website centred around ST and TT hacks and mods.


Knowledge Bases, Resources and Archives

2B - Resource for the once software house 2B, home of NVDI and COPS.

ASH - Application Systems Heidelberg, Atari resource for this once German supporter of Atari.

Atari.org - A knowledge base website dedicated to all that is Atari.

Atari Coldfire Project - Resource for the project that gave birth to the FireBee Atari clone.

Atari Document Archive - Docs, docs and more Atari related docs, inclusive of downloads collected from Atari Forum...

Atari Explorer (AEX) - One of the best resources documenting Atari's history.  Old site mirrored here.

Atari Forum WIKI mirror - A knowledge base mirror of the WIKI which accompanies the Atari Forum.

Atari-home.de - A German Atari knowledge base worthy of a visit, even for us non German speaking folk.

Atari Legend - Atari games and demoscene knowledge base.

Atari PC / IBM Compatibles - A knowledge base of Atari's IBM Compatibles.

Atari ST 68000 Programmers Reference Guide - Comprehensive guide to Atari 68000 based machines.

Atari ST Hardware Hacks - Knowledge base of Atari ST hacks.

Atari ST History of the OS - A slideshow exploring The Operating System.

Atari System V - Resources and downloads for Atari System V Unix environment for the Atari TT.

ATARIworld - German Atari TOS based resource, including blog and downloads.

BJARS - Tools and resources for your Atari 2600 and 7800.

Classic Computer Brochures - A is for Atari, check out this site for scanned Atari brochures in different languages.

DrCoolZic - Useful knowledge base of all things Atari ST, from Hard Drives to Video Sync information and beyond.

Emmesoft - Legacy website of Emmesoft, now serves as a resource of what once was.

Exxos - Chris Swinson's Atari resources, forum, blog, shop and archives, all mentioned here under other categories.

FireBee - New home of the FireBee, news and resources for the same.  You can also preorder here.

FreeMiNT - GitHub resources for FreeMiNT, and the front end for the same, here.

HDDriver - Home of Uwe Seimet's HDDriver, everything you need to know.  HDDriver can still be purchased here.

History of Atari 1969 to 1976 - A resource for the Syzygy and Bushnell years.

History of Atari 1976 to 1992 - A resource for the Warner years.

History of Atari 1984 to 1996 - A resource for the Bushnell years.

invers Software - Home of Calamus, although now no longer available to purchase, serves as an archive.

Joska's Random Atari Stuff - Nice resources for various Atari TOS related subjects.

Joy - Home of Petr Stehlik's wares including ARAnyM, Clocky, PARCP, PARCP-USB...  Hardware available for purchase.

LGD - The Little Green Desktop, once a good resource for Atari games etc...  Now it's more a broken green desktop!

Michael Current's Website - An amazing resource of Atari history, facts and stories.  Includes the History of Atari timeline as above.

Mike's Atari Web Archive - Very nice Australian software archive for Atari TOS computers.

Milan - Uwe Schneider GmbH's Milan Atari clone resource, includes Milan related downloads.

Miro Kropacek's Atari Resources - Useful archive of MINT builds, CT60 TOS resources...

Nature - Home of the SuperVidel and Svethlana boards for the CT60 accelerator for the Atari Falcon.

NewTOSWorld - A German TOS resource, including WIKI and downloads (currently unsecure).

PeST - Resource for the PS2 mouse interface for Atari TOS based machines.

Powerphenix - CT2, CT60 and CT63 resources mirrored by mikro.

Skunkboard Software - Windows software resources for the Skunkboard for the Atari Jaguar.

SpareMiNT - SpareMiNT, FreeMiNT and EasyMiNT resources.

STOS Time Tunnel - Now hosted by Exxos, all you need to know about STOS.

The Atari Bible - French resource site for Atari TOS hacks and more.

Thorsten Otto's Resources - Some nice Atari related resources, tools and downloads.

TOS Docs - Online HYP documentation for TOS.

U-235 - Atari Jaguar developer resources and archive.

uIPtool - uIPtool resources and download.

VanillaMiNT - VanillaMiNT resources from Joska. 


Magazine Archives

Atari Age - A downloadable Atari magazine conceived in 2018.

Atari Classic Computer Magazines - German magazine archive with covers only, but does have some viewable diskmags.

Atari Computing - Archive of British published Atari Computing  magazine.

Atarimania - Big archive of magazines,  Atari ST User, Atari User, Atari World, ST Action etc...  Not all are complete.

Classic Magazine Archive - Atari magazines from the U.S.A, Antic, STart, Analog...  Includes software.

Exxos Atari Mags & Coverdisks - UK Atari World magazine with coverdisks, including Atari Computing and ST Format coverdisks and wonderdisks.

Greyfox - Home of Atari Gamer amongst other beautiful Atari publications.

LowRes - A blog based webzine dedicated to the TOS based Atari series.

MyAtari - Archive of British published MyAtari magazine, mirrored by Exxos.  Original site here.

The One - An archive of British published 16-bit games magazine.  Later this publication focused on the Amiga only.

Page 6 - Archive of the UK Atari magazine for the 8 to 16-bit era.  Complete with 8 and 16-bit coverdisk downloads.

ST Computer - STC, a long serving German magazine still current as a diskmag, complete with PD downloads.

ST Format Shrine - Beautifully presented archive of the British published ST Format magazine.

ST News - An Atari ST disk magazine made available online.  ST News also has a download section with other disk magazines available from around the world.

ST Review and ST Action - Another beautifully presented archive of British published ST Review magazine, now including ST Action, from kodak80.

ToXiC Mag - French underground Atari webzine, with English content.

UK Atari Computer Owners Club - UKACOC online archive.

Zero - An archive of British published Zero 16-bit games magazine.


Music and MIDI

ADAP History - An insider history of Hybrid Arts' ADAP.

AMS - Atari Music Software downloads.

Balanced Output - A small collection of Atari ST related music and MIDI software, as well as MIDI files, Mixer Maps etc... from the creator of Quinsoft.

Cubase Modules - Cracked versions of Studio Module, CueTrax and StyleTrax.

Cubase Video Manual - A video manual for Steinberg Cubase inclusive of Atari version(s).

Electronic Cow - Old Electronic Cow site mirrored by Exxos.

EPSS - The home of Copson Data's Enhanced Polyphonic Sample Synthesiser, now released into the wild!

Falcon Productions - Atari based studio complete with blog and some resources.

Fractal Music - Chris Sansom's Fractal Music for the Atari ST.

Gilles Barges' Shareware - French archive of QUiNCY and SC55 pilot MIDI librarian.

Harald Plontke Software Engineering - Harald Plontke's Atari MIDI software website.

J.D. Koftinoff Software Ltd - Atari MIDI software from Koftinoff Software.  See Historic Projects section.

Jimmy Hotz - Home of the Atari Hotz Box and Hotz MIDI Translator.

marsan dmc - Home of MIDIjoy, the MIDI improvisation program for the Atari ST.

matucana - Atari MIDI downloads from matucana.

maxYMiser - Home of Gwem's rather nice YM chip tracker, maxYMiser.

MIDIgen - Home of MIDIgen, the algorithmic MIDI event generator for the Atari ST.

MNX Atari Music - Atari music and MIDI resources and downloads.

Sgroup - Roland Sampler User Group's archive of Atari ST software.

SMMA - Software Music Machine Archive, Atari section.

SNDH - Another big Atari YM2149 archive of music in SNDH format, including resources and a blog.

SoundPool - SoundPool music software and hardware resource archive, somewhat broken, but good for information.

Steinberg FTP Archive - Atari archive from Steinberg, copy and paste into browser: ftp://ftp.steinberg.net/Archives/Atari/

Studio SON and V-TRAX - Home of Studio SON and V-TRAX, the sample editor and multitrack for the Atari Falcon.

Sweet Sixteen - Home of Roni Music's Sweet Sixteen Atari MIDI sequencer.

Tim's Atari MIDI World - Exxos' mirror of TAMW, a good resource for all things Atari and MIDI.

Tango - Henning Berg's Tango, including download.  Tango was once licensed by Steinberg.

Trackman and MIDIman - Hollis Research's Trackman sequencer and MIDIman universal editing controller.

TTrak - Home of TTrak chip tracker.

Ultrasyd - Who is this guy?  A French chiptune artist who in the chiptune scene was known for rocking Atari.  I have seen Ultrasyd a few times, he certainly waved the Atari flag, I can't quite believe he is no longer with us!

UNI_MANiacs - Home to Zadok's UNI_MAN universal MIDI librarian.

YM DIGITAL - Website for the Atari chiptune artists.


Software Downloads

Atari Age Jaguar ROMS - Atari Age thread collating ROMS for the Atari Jaguar.

Atari.Gmork - Czech download site, mostly centred around the demoscene.

Atari-home.de - Some downloads from Atari-home.de.

Atari Icon Library - Site of numerous icons for use with your Atari.

Atari Shrine - Download site with an emphasis on menu disks.

Backward - Home of Backward, the Atari Falcon software allowing for ST compatibility.

Big-DOS - Big-DOS software download from Rainer Seitel, allowing up to 2GB partitions on your TOS compatible.

BoxKite - Home of BoxKite file selector from Harald Becker.  Download available.

CD.TEXTFILES.COM - A few Atari related shareware CD-ROM titles for download.

Cheshunt Computer Club - Cheshunt's Atari downloads.

Christian Zietz Atari FTP - Atari TOS software archive.

Climatics - Climatics is no more, but an archive is.  Lovely Atari downloads including Hang Loose, Marcer, Spiny, Stonish and Atari CD-ROM archives.

DML's Corner - DML's website and home of Apex and BadMood for the Atari Falcon.  Includes downloads.

Fakulta Informatiky Masarykova Univerzita - FI.MUNI FTP Atari archive from the Czech Republic.  Also found at ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/atari.

Floppy Disk Stream Image Repository - A SuperCardPro and Kryoflux repository of disk images, mostly geared towards games.

Floppyshop PD - The once UK Public Domain mail order shop, now archived by Exxos in a searchable database.

FUNET.FI FTP - The FUNET Atari software archive, or copy and paste into your browser: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/atari/

Ghost Killer - Home of Ghost Killer anti virus.

GokMasE - Atari archive, resources and downloads.  Some very nice downloads to boot, and home of AtarICQ.

JAYSoft - 8 and 16-bit Atari downloads from JAYSoft, home of JAY MSA.

Kronos - Home of Kronos benchmark software, useful for high end or accelerated TOS machines.

Kurobox - Kurobox FTP server full of Atari wares for your downloading pleasure.  Or copy and paste this into your browser: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021/

LIP6 - LIP6 FTP Atari archive.  Or paste this into your browser ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/

Lotek Style's Download Archive - Archive of this demoscener's Atari wares, hosted by untergrund.net.

Milan Kovač Atari Downloads - A very nice site cataloguing Milan's (aka Calimero's) Atari downloads.

Mirari - Art and DTP related Atari software downloads.

Motelsoft - Game downloads from German software house Motelsoft.

Multipaint - A paint program for Windows, Linux and Mac where amongst others, you can export your image in an 'Atari image' format.

Pasti - Home of Pasti, the STX disk imaging utility, useful for preserving software copy protected programs.

Pigwa - The beautiful and maintained Pigwa Atari FTP archive.  Includes a mirror of Fading Twilight.

Planet Emulation - Atari image downloads for TOS based machines, including games and TOSEC PD images.

Ripp3r - Ripp3r download from Orion.  A program which rips software, notably cracktros which are loaded by the bootsector and allows them to be executed as a PRG.

SoulBuster's Archive - A disk image archive from Atari Age member, SoulBuster.  

SYNC Archive - Atari disk images from Troed in SCP, MSA and where necessary STX formats.

TeraDesk - TeraDesk 4 desktop download amongst other things such as LaceScan schematics, a clone or rework of OverScan.

Thing - Home of Thing alternative desktop, including downloads.

TOSEC - The rather large Atari TOSEC software archive and downloads.

Traveller-Box - Downloads from the once Traveller-Box BBS.

TwiLight - Download of the screensaver software for your Atari.

U-M Software Archives - University of Michigan's software archive, the Atari section.

UCSD - UCSD FTP server with various software, some Atari related, but you will need patience and a bit of luck to find it.  Alternatively, copy and paste into browser: ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/

Ultimate Virus Killer 2000 - Home of Ultimate Virus Killer 2000, mirrored by Exxos.

VISION - Home of VISION.

Zorro - The 'Z' creations available for download from Zorro for your Atari TOS compatible.

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