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In the vein of Cebus's suggestion, Atarimax also sells an SIO2PC unit and software that emulates floppy drives on a PC. Connect the (very sweet looking) Atari's SIO port on one and and your PC's USB cable in on the other. Then load disk images via the APE software and you're off to the races. You can even read/write files if you'd like. (I actually use my XEGS as a word processor and for a dash of programming, so this is useful.) Oh, and you can share your printer to your Atari, too. Very handy thing! You can find it by digging around on the Atarimax site.

Congrats, Mister VCS! I, too, recently brought a 7800 back into the fold after about as long a time. ($40 on Craigslist with a bunch of games, the joysticks and a trackball.) My 6-year-old daughter loves the old thing, and even my 2-year-old wants in on the act. Had to pick up a CX78 for the elder daughter because she hates--hates--the ProLines. Thank goodness for Best, eh?

I've been reading Assembly Language Programming for the Atari Computers. It's been a useful guide for the basics thus far. (I don't know anything about assembly language so this is nice.) Just grabbed Atari Roots from AtariMania. Thanks for the heads-up about that book.

Oh, you'd better be good to her! You've definitely found yourself a good woman, sir. Congratulations!

Cybearg, I'm making my first AtariAge post to tell you that Heartbreak is a tremendous game. I've had a chance to play Fixit Felix briefly and like it, too, but Heartbreak really seems like one of those games, you know? I've been seeing some of your travails over the last while and am thankful that you've stuck them out. Great fun!