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atarimania
02-04-2004, 04:50 PM
Hello folks,

The guys at Atarimania (http://www.atarimania.com) are proud to announce the grand opening of their website! We hope to make it one of your favorite stops amidst the busy Atari highway.

Although we will try to cover most of the Atari machines, the main effort will be towards the venerable VCS and 8-bit computer line. We think there is still some uncharted territory in these two areas and our main goal is to fill this gap, particularly in the gaming department.

To whet your appetite, here is what you can expect to see on our site in the near (and not so near) future:
- scans of rare catalogs, including international editions
- magazine scans, especially rarely-seen foreign issues
- scans of hard-to-find documentation
- tons of classic Atari game ads taken from magazines
- much, much more!

As if this was not enough, we also decided to give Atari 8-bit enthusiasts a run for their money: a HUGE section of the site will host the most complete and accurate games database ever devised for these computers! Based on months and months of research, this true encyclopedia will boast a scary amount of information on nearly all programs written for these mighty machines, including ads and box scans in easy-to-view format!

Our aim is to make this place the ultimate Atari games repository. Hopefully, this will also lead our community to take part in the "software preservation act" we want to promote, for the benefit of all Atari users. Also feel free to suggest anything as we want this site to be yours!

Right, enough talking! Take a deep breath and enjoy your visit!

--
Atarimania Team
http://www.atarimania.com

gamergary
02-04-2004, 05:23 PM
Nice site, but that zoom thing is annoying you should beable to see the task bar when you zoom in on something.

SoulBlazer
02-04-2004, 05:57 PM
The site has promise, but I would'nt have opened it to the public until you get some blurbs there to go with the pics. All it is right now is a shell.

oesiii
02-04-2004, 08:10 PM
The site has promise, but I would'nt have opened it to the public until you get some blurbs there to go with the pics. All it is right now is a shell.


There's a lot of ads already on there, choose the Atari 2600 or 5200 for example, then click on ads, the click ok. You should see several cool ads :)

IntvGene
02-04-2004, 08:26 PM
There are some awesome catalogs in there! Who cares if there are no blurbs with them.

My only nitpick is the filter on each one category. Sometimes there are only three or four catalogs, yet you have to click OK on the filter. It's a bit of a pain. But, well worth doing to see some of those scans. Great work!

SoulBlazer
02-04-2004, 09:24 PM
Ads? Who cares about ads? Sorry, but honestly, I love to read about the history of a system, the games made for it, what parts and accosories were available for it, sometimes the catalogs. What was released and what was unreleased and the impact of the system on our age as a whole. I could care less about the magazines or TV commercials or anything else like that. Must be the historian in me. :)

I DO have the site bookmarked, though. Even the pictures alone some of the stuff allready has me going 'Whoa! I want to know more about THAT!' and can't wait for the blurbs to go up. :D

Arqueologia_Digital
02-04-2004, 11:56 PM
Yeah, great site!!!, i´m in the forums also (i tried to post something in french, but it was difficult).

Best regards and good luck with Atarimania

Matías