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You're right, I forgot all about this page. It doesn't make much sense to have a separate section nowadays and I'll ask our webmaster Franck to remove it when he has time.

The interviews listed are those that exist, not the upcoming ones

I didn't check with Kay and don't want to tread on his toes as he's the one doing the interviews of the big guys. I have MANY names of former programmers, owners... but have not done much yet. I'm all for sharing information, getting in touch with these people, maybe having some sort of group where everything is centralized but this would need to be done properly and seriously. As I said, I don't want to step on anybody's territory so maybe it's just a matter of having people speak up if they're interested in this larger project?

I'm not sure what to make of the MindWare series. IIRC, Datamost went bust in 1984 and the ad is from 1986. This may have been an attempt to relaunch the company that didn't succeed.

BTW, does anybody know whether this series was ever released?

I was going to say "no exact source, I had this on hand-written notes from years ago" but just found this: https://archive.org/details/dorsettcoursewarecatalog Additionally, both Basic Army Skills and Reading Development - K-1 (as a set of 30 programs) are listed in The Software Catalog - Summer 1985 published by Elsevier. About 99% sure there's a demo cassette as well.

It seems VM - Vocational Math is also called VM - Selected Mathematics. It takes different cassettes from the MF / MG / MP / MR series to make a 16-tape package. Also, there are two items not listed on the page: Language Arts - Reading Development - K-1 on 14 tapes (not 16) which is actually the continuation of the T series (code: TT) Basic Army Skills (reference: AR)

I believe I saw this title once in 20+ years, just to tell you how rare it is.

Did you ask Sherman Rosenfeld if he still had anything from the days he headed Edunetics? According to his résumé, he became the CEO of the company in 1985. Edunetics developed programs for the Atari in 1984 so he might have been involved in these titles: The ABC of CPR Animal World Pilots The ABC of CPR appears in catalogs but was never released as Atari's educational division was closed down: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-abc-of-cpr-_12807.html The other two were canned entirely but still exist as prototypes (I believe it was Nir Dary who managed to rescue them). It would be great to know what happened to this software and whether any other titles were written or planned.

Thanks Luis, I was just thinking about this one the other day!

You're right, I typed in the list without even thinking I could get in touch with Markus directly.

Thanks for the information, I forgot about WASEO and found Labouratorium (weird spelling?) here: https://www.waseo.de/en/?ATARI-XL%2FXE/Software/WASEO-Labouratorium

Thanks Joachim!

Another request for some missing programs before they are lost to time. These games were released in Germany and I couldn't locate them anywhere. Ariola Softlearning English - Aufbaukurs Softlearning English - Grundkurs Compysoft Atari-Socoban (original version, not the freeware release from the author with small text file on the disk) Fritz der Bombenkiller Grab des Pharaoh (Das) Hela-Culture Kalle Yahze David, Ralf Master Pak Osten, R. Quest XL/XE Plenio, Johannes Treasure-Hunt Powersoft Labyrinth Money Manager Mysterious Stones Space-Eater PPP Final Battle (The) (?) Laboratorium (?) Shogun Master R+E Software Sherlock Holmes - Criminal Cabinet Ravensburger Bilderregen Fratzenschneider KinderComp Sag's der Shildkröte Springteufel Schütz, Michael Crownquest Thanks!

Do you mind posting the tape file? I don't believe some of the programs have been typed in / dumped yet and I'd like to add them to our database. Thanks!

Thanks for reporting this, I can confirm the first side of the disk was faulty. Not sure how that happened. Our bad...

Fandal is really a class act. Modest, too.

Just added this small title: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-football_2037.html

I lowered the rating to "9" (consider it a low "9"). I believe nobody had located an original when that "10" was assigned but several copies have appeared these past years.

Thanks a lot! The cassette file is out there but needs to be verified against a second copy so recording the data would be perfect.

Fantastic! Though the first tape is just an audio tutorial and not software, it would be great to have it archived. Alchemist is completely unknown but Aim Software titles keep turning up year after year. If you can't dump it as an original .wav file for the moment, can you CLOAD the game and save it on disk as a BASIC program?

The "Preliminary Monty" reference stuck because the crackers who first "distributed" the game added that to the intro and shortened "Montezuma" to "Monty" so it could fit on a single line of text while the game was being loaded. As a title, not only does Preliminary Monty mean absolutely nothing but it's misleading as well. The big version with the animated intro is the prototype and the so-called Preliminary Monty is the same as the commercial edition of Montezuma's Revenge by Parker Brothers.

For the record, I just added all three Computer Quarterback data disks to our database and cleaned up the main entry: - added original .atx version (thanks to the Atari Software Preservation Initiative) - corrected year to 1984 - converted manual to .pdf format (sorry about the watermark and resolution, this is a very old file) BTW, only the "Second Edition" exists, the first one was for the Apple only.

Looks incredible, would be fantastic as a loading screen!