Greyfox

We are now even getting some of the best Atari 8-bit developers commenting on our twitter page. One such awesome comment from none other than the classic "Bruce Lee" creator Ron Fortier and went on to say. we were incredibly humbled to see this first thing this morning

Hello everyone, Just wanted to say many thanks to you all for supporting the Kickstarter of the Atari Visual History book. It has been an absolute labor of love forth mostly during its production and many many hours of designing and remastering the artwork in the book from the box art to games themselves to a standard found nowhere else on the internet guaranteed! So to address and answer some questions here. The target amount set for the project was to cover the costs of the book production shipping and taxes. This is a (hardback only book), there is no softback version of the Atari: a Visual History, it is also 420 pages from the outset, no stretch goals been used as other kick starters do to get people to back it, the perks been designed exclusively for the project are been produced by another vendor who themselves will be handling the shipping of those goods, all of this costs money and the amount needed by the Kickstarter, covers all of this. We do agree, it is a high amount based on the user base support which we hope we are proved to be incorrect about, it is a gamble, as the book is completed and its simply needs the funding to go straight to the printing and shipping process, but the amount needed is unfortunately mandatory to allow it to happen, so the only way we can continue to make this happen is word of mouth and sharing the project anywhere you can, social media? Twitter, snap chat, Instagram, Tumbler and so on. So please please share the project even to those that don't have own Atari as the book covers the history of the machines within the book and main software houses that made the Atari 8-bit sing at its loudest Again many thanks to all that have contributed to the project, I can guarantee you thing? There is nothing like this out there especially for the humble Atari 8-bit machines

Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying your Easter weekend and are possible cramping as many easter eggs down your neck as possible . I just wanted to let you all know that my very first Kickstarter campaign has been launched and would be truly appreciative if you would check it out and hopefully support the project. A lot of blood, sweat and tears have been put into this publication and a great deal of care for the grammar of the book by a professional technical proofreader as this was a great concern for me that this is paramount to its production values of the reader, so all has been catered for here. So with that, a little about the book? Welcome to our very first Kickstarter campaign to create the first unofficially-licensed coffee table book on the Atari® 8bit Home Computer. The book pays a huge tribute to this incredible home computer, its product design and its amazing catalogue of third-party software associated with this iconic 8-bit system. The book is an unofficial publication created by myself Darren Doyle and is my first publishing outing under the Greyfox Books™ label, the book is the very first book of this kind to be released for the Atari 8-bit home computer enthusiast in a visual compendium, ever! I have spent many months on its development and acquired some incredible content along the way. The amazing amount of support and contributions I have received from private collectors and review contributors has been fantastic, making the Atari: A Visual History book a reality. I am a self-employed Graphic Designer based in Dublin, Ireland. Features of the book include:  162 third-party Atari 8-bit games covered  Premastered box art only found in this book  Exclusive and new interviews  Atari 800 – Atari 800xl and Atari 130xe systems profiled  A visual compendium presentational coffee book  Full hardback publication. And much more… With the Atari: A Visual History book, the visuals are the main focus, with roughly 210-220 word sound bites of text accompanying each game spread. The review of each game has especially been given a lot of research and thought during the writing process from myself and all contributors involved. Within the book, you'll also find a series of larger features and interviews with developers and software house profiles and much more ensuring a great mix of visuals and words. Overall, the book will contain around 50,000 words and hundreds of iconic images; each one is given its own unique flair in presentation and professional preservation which will make it the perfect coffee-table Atari book. The premise of the book is to cover a huge majority of classic third-party Atari 8-bit software from such amazing software houses as Datasoft™, Broderbund™, First Star Software™ and the likes. A selection of commercial and non-commercial home-brew games will also be covered in the book, giving these games the exposure in a visual compendium never seen in a format of this type before. The Book will also deliver a selection of interviews with game designers who worked on the Atari 8-bit. Also, the three, and most popular of the Atari 8-bit computer range will receive their very own profile coverage, these are the Atari 800, Atari 800XL and the Atari 130XE home computers, with additional photography of these computers exclusively photographed by Roberto Rogel throughout the book, as well as a choice selection of Atari related peripherals. The Book will measure 170mm x 230mm (6” x 9”) standard book size and will only be available in Hardback for maximum durability and with a whopping 420 pages of content. It will be some tome of a book. So please visit here : http://kck.st/2VWXiNo if this is something you guys would love to support. Thanks, Everyone for the ongoing support and just to mention, if this book is successful then I can announce now that the Coin-Op: Arcade Guide book will follow later on in the year. Kind regards Darren

Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying your Easter weekend and are possible cramping as many easter eggs down your neck as possible . I just wanted to let you all know that my very first Kickstarter campaign has been launched and would be truly appreciative if you would check it out and hopefully support the project. A lot of blood, sweat and tears have been put into this publication and a great deal of care for the grammar of the book by a professional technical proofreader as this was a great concern for me that this is paramount to its production values of the reader, so all has been catered for here. So with that, a little about the book? Welcome to our very first Kickstarter campaign to create the first unofficially-licensed coffee table book on the Atari® 8bit Home Computer. The book pays a huge tribute to this incredible home computer, its product design and its amazing catalogue of third-party software associated with this iconic 8-bit system. The book is an unofficial publication created by myself Darren Doyle and is my first publishing outing under the Greyfox Books™ label, the book is the very first book of this kind to be released for the Atari 8-bit home computer enthusiast in a visual compendium, ever! I have spent many months on its development and acquired some incredible content along the way. The amazing amount of support and contributions I have received from private collectors and review contributors has been fantastic, making the Atari: A Visual History book a reality. I am a self-employed Graphic Designer based in Dublin, Ireland. Features of the book include:  162 third-party Atari 8-bit games covered  Premastered box art only found in this book  Exclusive and new interviews  Atari 800 – Atari 800xl and Atari 130xe systems profiled  A visual compendium presentational coffee book  Full hardback publication. And much more… With the Atari: A Visual History book, the visuals are the main focus, with roughly 210-220 word sound bites of text accompanying each game spread. The review of each game has especially been given a lot of research and thought during the writing process from myself and all contributors involved. Within the book, you'll also find a series of larger features and interviews with developers and software house profiles and much more ensuring a great mix of visuals and words. Overall, the book will contain around 50,000 words and hundreds of iconic images; each one is given its own unique flair in presentation and professional preservation which will make it the perfect coffee-table Atari book. The premise of the book is to cover a huge majority of classic third-party Atari 8-bit software from such amazing software houses as Datasoft™, Broderbund™, First Star Software™ and the likes. A selection of commercial and non-commercial home-brew games will also be covered in the book, giving these games the exposure in a visual compendium never seen in a format of this type before. The Book will also deliver a selection of interviews with game designers who worked on the Atari 8-bit. Also, the three, and most popular of the Atari 8-bit computer range will receive their very own profile coverage, these are the Atari 800, Atari 800XL and the Atari 130XE home computers, with additional photography of these computers exclusively photographed by Roberto Rogel throughout the book, as well as a choice selection of Atari related peripherals. The Book will measure 170mm x 230mm (6” x 9”) standard book size and will only be available in Hardback for maximum durability and with a whopping 420 pages of content. It will be some tome of a book. So please visit here : http://kck.st/2VWXiNo if this is something you guys would love to support. Thanks, Everyone for the ongoing support and just to mention, if this book is successful then I can announce now that the Coin-Op: Arcade Guide book will follow later on in the year. Kind regards Darren

For those of you interested if you visit our website and sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of the holding page, you will be automatically be notified when this project goes live for funding with your help of course Please visit us @ www.greyfoxbooks.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/greyfoxbooks Twitter: @greyfoxbooks For updates as they happen. Thanks everyone for your support so far. Kind regards Darren.

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Hi everybody, with working like a horse on the book, I also take the time out to keep an eye on a great many things Atari, and have come across a new unofficial product produced by a guy based in Wales in England. there website cover not just this,m but pretty much anything you could want or if it's not there they can make it for you. I have mention their website in the starting thread of my Atari visual history book project and reached out to them in help get awareness for this new and exciting looking 2019 calendar. The Calendar is printed paper stock weight is 170 GSM with a carded back and silk finish, promoting the best quality with a gloss front cover, at present there is a limited supply of 50 to which I believe with about 22 or so left, they may get more done if they warrant enough orders for the Calendar. So how much and where?, see below and you can order yours from www.rhayadercomputers.co.uk don't delay, I'd hate for you all to miss out on this. Kind regards Darren.

I will just leave this here ?

Just a brief update for those you following this wonderful project in production, I thought I'd give this a new update. So well into the 200+ page count so far and doesn't seem to be slowing down and I'm incredibly humbled by those that have contributed to the book so far and to those that have been so supportive of the project, this is going to be amazing to hold in your hands and to be able to have an Atari 8-bit of majestic proportions So here is some recent pages created in the Gumball factory.

I'm sure this book will surface at some stage, I've seen development of books take years to create, even with my own publication of working on a coin-op on sand off for 6 years and although 99.9% it still needs one last element or two added, but have taken on a vastly new venture in the form of a visual history book of the Atari 8-bit and its third party games. So I'm assuming that this could become a museum piece for the moment until all things standing in this way have been addressed or overcome, but as Lost Dragon has stated some 4 years, memories are getting vaguer and vaguer or we have the sad opportunity of hearing of key people passing away and can never hear their perspective on the subject. I do think they should even make a small announcement that the project is on hold or not in production for there foreseeable future, I think that's a fair request?

This isn't a magazine-style approach and will not cover any form of bias rating of the games and was personally a huge regret for myself incorporating these with my Atari Gamer magazine, as it labels the games under a ranking and potentially stopping those that never experienced them cast a shadow of doubt based on somebody else's opinion which could in turn, they've either never played the game on real hardware at the time of the original games release or watched a youtube video of gameplay to make up there mind if the game was worthy of a high or low score based on viewing, this to me is simply slandering the game with a bias rating and it's even worse when it's completely inaccurate too after you've played the game only to discover it is a lot better than you were led to believe. So NO! there will be, thank god!, nothing like this in the book.

These are all in here too fella, leaving nothing out for the true Atari 8-bit fan. Enjoy

Thanks fella really appreciate your praise

Yes, it's starting to pile up now, so going to be headlining the submissions for now late August and early September to have content then submitted for grammar and proofreading by my guy. So I will try and get everything in

Hey, thank You Lost Dragon, this would be wonderful thanks, I've been so busy putting together spreads for the book, getting a ton of writing done and then formulating questions for the many interviewees I have have contacted me when they've seen what the book will be, it's incredible that I am now talking with those that made games I adored as a kid. It's all surreal.

Many thanks for your time out for asking on my behalf. Again amazing that so-called prolific freelancers and self-proclaimed writers miss stuff like this? Why is this? And why try to portray yourself as knowing the facts when in fact they can't tell their elbow from their arse?. You seem to grab these fact hunts like a sponge till every last drop, drips into the electronic history books!

Just a brief update guys, it's been a busy week with work, as usual, interfering with my real passion of working on this book, but have had great progress , a first wave a exclusive interviews coming in, as well as making great waves with some really key people to allow even more exclusivity to the book. I am off for a couple of days and those of you wishing to help, if you could private message me with your emails , I can start assigning tasks. And those that have already I'll be in touch More soon Kind regards Darren

No problems Lost Dragon, I have acquired a vast amount of content in the last couple of days and really seeking out the rare to which I've never seen covered before and as you've mentioned, these individuals not having much to say, but I feel the Atari 8-bit has so much more to offer its audience than people give it credit for. I penultimately intend to change this. Again anybody viewing this thread wanting to make history? You want in? Get in contact. Kind regards Darren.

Many thanks for your support here, I welcome everything that can go into the project and have great respect for those willing to share exclusive insights and unreleased content been seen for the first time. Thank you for your efforts here, You've got some incredible contacts and reach within the retro gaming communities.

Already hopefully taking shape with a wealth of talent on the project ,

Many thanks for your input, I've opened this project to the community to get in contact and get involved as variety is the spice of life and really wish to here many different perspectives from my own inside the book feel it would be fresh and insightful of the experiences from the contributors. I will be investing in a professional proofreader and editor to handle duties of written works within the book, I will also be picking the minds of multiple sources for material research and will have some great extra in there for good measure if all goes to plan. I do have Arkanoid in the book, although it wasn't great I remembering tearing my hair out of my head as well as my father playing the bloody thing purely for nostalgic posterity is why I have included it

I would whole heartily love to include all these games, I even have a two page for star raiders done and everything but can't take the risk against Atari coming after this venture, so unfortunity it can't go in the final product.

Please head over to this thread for more... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/279853-atari-a-visual-history-book-concept-project/ for more information. many thanks Darren.

Hello everybody, Many of you may know me and many of you may not, I was the creator of a couple of Atari digital publications a few years back. The Atari Gamer Magazine and the Atari ST Gamer Series found over @ http://www.Atarigamer.co.uk and the AtariCrypt Atari ST Magazine which can be found for free here: https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2016/12/ataricrypt-magazine.html I had decided that I had given the Atari community some great product to enjoy and decided I wouldn't produce anymore Atari conent in the near future, but reecently had seen some products that completely fit the bill in a direction I wanted to go in for quite some time and have returned and began work on a new book pubication I am very passionate about and just knew this had to be done due to the complete lack of the Atari 8-bit computer range and its incredible software, so with that I present to you all a new Atari pubication in the works. The Sales Pitch The books premise will be to cover a huge majority of classic third-party Atari 8-bit software from such amazing software houses, like Datasoft, Broderbund, First Star Software, English Software and a selection of commercial homebrew games plus many more for the first time giving these games the exposure in a visual compendium never seen in a format of this type before. The Book will also deliver a selection of Interviews with Game designers who worked on the Atari 8-bit computers and other unannounced additions to the book that you will see when released. I will also be profiling three Atari 8-bit machines the Atari 800 - Atari 800XL and the Atari 130XE home computers with additional photography of these computers throughout the book as well as a choice selection of Atari related Peripherals. With the completed publication completed, I will be taking the product to a crowdfunding platform in order to allow this publication to become a physical book for all Atari 8-bit fans and vintage computer enthusiasts that share an interest in the Atari 8-bit Home computer. Also to help the project meet its goal I will be working very closely with http://www.rhayadercomputers.co.uk in order to create some very unique and fantastic perks to add to the book that will not be available anywhere else so there is a lot of stuff in the works for this project. The Book Previews When creating something like this I am all about the visuals of a product and want to give the best experience in seeing these wonderful pieces of art and code and gameplay become one, so with that each game covered in the book with include on the left a remastered image of the Box or cassette inlay art work with a 200 word write about the game and a single screen shot of the games in action, I have chosen not include any Offical Atari branded games in the book due to facing a possible Cease and Desist violation order against the book that could prevent the book being released and will be going through under fair usage and investigative journlism allowing this to be successful as an Unoffical Visual History of the Atari 8-bit. This was something I decided I would do after what Atari had placed against Marc Oberhäuser and his Atari related publication. So please enjoy the previews of the some of the games that will be included in the book. How can YOU help? With this project been a very serious undertaking, I decided who better to make this truly happen then the Atari community itself? I am looking for contributors to the book, whether it be a contributing game review of 200 words for games that will be included in the finished book and have your name credited and mentioned in the contributors section of the book, as well as an seasoned photographers with Atari hardware that would be willing to contribute photography of physical Atari hardware to be included throughout the book with full accreditation given for all imagery used. I wanted to open end this project to my fellow Atarians to help produce the best Atari 8-bit publication ever created, I'm also on the look-out for exclusive interviewees willing to share their thoughts and experiences creating for the Atari 8-bit platform, I have a few leads at the present, but the more the merrier for inclusion in the book. I wish to personally thank you all for your time here, and hopefully we can make history with this book, I truly wish to go all out in a blaze of glory with it and with your help we can, so please get in touch with me via PM here @ Atariage or support@atarigamer.co.uk if you can help with this project, all will be included within the book as the main contributor. Thanks everyone for your time Kind regards Darren.

As Lost Dragon a superb read and great honest insightful interview, many thanks for bring these stories and antidotes to us all here. Great work fella