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Hey so I wanted to share a relatively new discord server from the Atari Crypt website and the dude himself.
The Discord server invite is:
While the main focus is 16-Bit Ataris, it of course welcomes our beloved 8-bits and other Atari home computers. The chat has been very lively all around, so check it out!
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Briefly discussed this on the boards. I stumbled around and found some from the last organized campaign I played it, yeah, a long while ago. "Defenders of Evereska". I forgot about some of the sections included. Rumors is kind of funny, but there is humor through out.
Attached is a zip of 5 newletters encompassing about 8 game sessions (I think). I redacted last names and email addresses.
I re-read them and there is some funny stuff. Enjoy.
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Compute!'s Gazette was doing a C64 text to typing game for Gorillas and I did not want Atari users to miss out so here is the ATR and code. While it is simple basic code, the game is pretty challenging.
I don't know why, but I loved this game in Q-BASIC. They have a version for C64 and Atari now? HOW COOL!
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Hey Amis so following up on the post where you mentioned that this cartridge thing I had for the Atari 800 that was used for Audubon High School (where I went) on a local cable access TV station was called SpectraView.
So the beginning of this upload of mine uses that thing:
Yeah enjoy the banter of a young teenager. I made a collection of Atari 800 demos and sprinkled words of wisdomus between them.
And here is a similar cart - https://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-info-soft-5000_s12922.html
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Over the last few weeks, I have been testing and now finalized a direct post from the Atari BBS Gateway to BlueSky. Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media platform that looks and functions very similarly to X (formerly Twitter). It is designed to be an open, user-controlled alternative to traditional, corporate-owned social networks.
So what does this mean for sysops and users? First, as a BBS is selected from the Atari BBS Gateway, it is published as you will see below: The Atari BBS, Address, etc. This helps make the awareness of the Gateway and your BBS available to BlueSky users. It also will advise users when someone heads over to the Chat app so you know when we have people in the chat room or playing multiplayer games.
So why BlueSky and not some other outlet - Hey, its free and has an API thats easy to use..…
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Just landed in the latest issue of Compute!’s Gazette — my newest Dialed Back column:
“Reading the Board: The Atari BBS Written in BASIC”
This month dives deep into the actual code behind Atari BBS systems like AMIS, FoReM, Carina, and NiteLite — from modem answer routines and ATASCII handling to message bases, file transfers, and how 64K machines somehow became full online communities.
Still amazing to me that these systems, written largely in BASIC, handled users, databases, uploads/downloads, and real-time communications decades before the modern web. Even better — many of them are still online today.
Huge respect to the sysops, coders, restorers, and preservationists still keeping these systems alive.
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The possibilities are extending for FujiNet… iOS is coming, the app is developing! #bbsing #fujinet #atari
Saw that. Good hack!