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I think I might just have to buy an NTSC version for the collection then! For me it means messing around with the TV signal and power converster though!

How about 400/800 with support for disk drives and tape input?

These arguments have and always will be pointless and silly. It all comes down to what machine you personaly like the best, that's what makes it 'better'. I don't care what anybody says, my VIC-20 is still the bestest computer in the history of ever!!!

I noticed on the main page of this site that there is a section for all the American Atari Magazines, but no British titles. We did have a couple over here, ‘Atari User’ and ‘Page 6’. Later Page six bought over the ‘Atari User’ name and became ‘Page 6 Atari User’ for an entire two issues before becoming ‘New Atari User’. I still have a fair bit of the magazines and was just wondering if anybody else still has any or collects them?

Thanks for the offer, unfortunetly I'm in Scotland!!! So they may not survive being posted to Cleveland It would only be a hand full of disks and I don't know how much would still be readable! Hopefully I'll find a compleat version of my JetPack and Tempest clones. I've been thinking about getting an Atari 8Bit and Disk Drive again anyway. I would still lke to get them archived though... I've had a quick look to see if I could see any of my old programs on the net, a long shot at best! But I couldn't see any (Although if memory server right my Tempest clone was better than the 'Livewire' one that I've downloaded )

Thanks I'll give that a try. The thing is there may be a lot of stuff that was not finished or never sent to anythere on these disks. Still I suppose I might find some of my stuff on the net. It would just be interesting to find out what (if anything) in on these as this was from around the time I was first getting to grips with programming. the Atari 800XL was the first computer I really did any programming on after the VIC-20, my first computer. I had a Spectrum as well at the time but did little to no programming on this; the keyboard really put me off!

Hello everybody! I’m new here and this is my first post! Can anybody tell me if there is a way to recover files from an ATARI 8Bit formatted disk, short of getting a new machine and disk drive? I ask because I’ve recently found some of my old ATARI 8Bit disks that could hold some of my PD games programs. I thought were lost forever years ago. Any way of getting them back is worth a try. I've found software that is supposed to make in image file out of an Atari formatted floppy. I tried this with a 5.25" drive that I had lying around, but it didn’t work I think it might be because it's a relatively 'new' 5.25" floppy drive, anybody know if this would work with an older drive? I also have an old 40/80 switch type CUMANA drive (attached to a BBC); is there any way I can connect this up to my PC so I can try and use this to retrieve the Arari disk image. Or am I going about this all-wrong? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.