[what do you want the FB3 to be?]

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

[Atari XL/XE vs ZX Spectrum... And the winner is...]

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!!!

[British 8bit Atari Magazines]

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?

[How to recover files from an ATARI 8Bit formatted disk]

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 )

[How to recover files from an ATARI 8Bit formatted disk]

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!

[How to recover files from an ATARI 8Bit formatted disk]

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.