The following are links to the actual Lynx developer documentation that Lynx developers used to write software for Atari's portable console. The files are all multi-page TIF images, so you'll need to use an image viewer/editor that will display images of this type (ACDSee works well). We've also zipped everything together so you can download it all in one shot.

• Creating Music for the Lynx
• Editing Sound Effects with HSFX
• Feedback Taps LUT
• Handebug - Downloading a Game Cartridge
• Handebug Doc
• Handebug Spec
• Handebug
• Handevelop Hardware & Programming Description
• Handy Appendix 2 Hardware Addresses
• Handy Appendix 5 System Bus Interplay
• Handy Release Notes
• Handy Schematics
• Handy Software Programmer's Guide
• Handy Specifications
• HandyASM Docs
• HandyROM Program Specifications
• HKCS Update Notes
• HSFX - Handy Sound Effects System
• Lynx Sound Overview
• Update History - F.Y.I.
• CartNote
• V1.35 Changes Doc

You can download this entire archive here:

• Lynx Developer Documentation (17.4MB)

We also have additional Lynx schematics online here:

• Atari Lynx Schematics

Thanks to Ray Ryland and Carl Forhan for getting this documentation into our hands.