+kheller2 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 (edited) I noticed that the FAQ on www.faq.org and the first returns from Google point to an older one. In case folks need to locate the "Current" one: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/atari-8-bit/faq.html And the link to the comp.sys.atari.8bit one with links to other FAQs http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/atari...it/welcome.html Edited April 10, 2007 by kheller2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Is there anyway we could get this as a sticky, or perhaps even the FAQ posted here and updated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Is there anyway we could get this as a sticky, or perhaps even the FAQ posted here and updated? I don't know how things become sticky here, but... I've always preferred people link to or mirror the latest versions of the FAQs, rather than posting standalone copies of them elsewhere. Static copies get old and obsolete fast. As you know, nowadays my preferred web mirror for the 8-bit Atari FAQs is at http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/atari-8-bit/.html . That Utrecht University site still reliably mirrors the mother Usenet FAQ FTP archive at MIT, which keeps the latest comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup FAQs in several locations: - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.sys.atari.8bit/ - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarch...sys/atari/8bit/ - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/atari-8-bit/ The advantage of the Utrecht University site over the source MIT site is that web addresses are turned into hyperlinks. And it's over http rather than ftp. More than you wanted to know, probably? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 To go along with Atarimania's new site design, we are now mirroring the A8 FAQ: http://www.atarimania.com/faq.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 To go along with Atarimania's new site design, we are now mirroring the A8 FAQ: http://www.atarimania.com/faq.php Thanks again for doing this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldelsarte Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Dear fellow Atari 8-bit computers fans, the new FAQ has just been published. PDF versions in A4 and US Letter size are available, for printing or reading on a tablet. It's amazing to think that next year it will be 30 years since this FAQ was first published! You can get it here: http://www.atari800xl.eu/faq/atari-8bit-faq.html 7 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 6/16/2007 at 8:53 PM, hunmanik said: I've always preferred people link to or mirror the latest versions of the FAQs, rather than posting standalone copies of them elsewhere. Static copies get old and obsolete fast. I've primarily been referencing the copy on your own site for the latest and greatest - are other sources actually updated sooner? https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 3/30/2021 at 11:48 PM, Nezgar said: I've primarily been referencing the copy on your own site for the latest and greatest - are other sources actually updated sooner? https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt Thanks! https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt is indeed always the very latest latest posted version. There is only a brief delay between when I post a new edition and when nicely-formatted, content-identical versions of it appear at http://www.atari800xl.eu/ . 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldelsarte Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 And the latest version of the FAQ (June 28, 2021) is here: .TXT format https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt (from Michael's site, author of the FAQ) .PDF A4 & US Letter format http://www.atari800xl.eu/faq/atari-8bit-faq.html (from my site) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 24 minutes ago, ldelsarte said: And the latest version of the FAQ (June 28, 2021) is here: .TXT format https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt (from Michael's site, author of the FAQ) .PDF A4 & US Letter format http://www.atari800xl.eu/faq/atari-8bit-faq.html (from my site) OMG! 500+ pages?! ?How did I miss this one all these years? I'll have to start reading through this. I'm sure there's tons of great information in there. Thanks for the links to the most recent versions. Edited July 28, 2021 by bfollowell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Is the vendor FAQ still maintained anywhere ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 9 hours ago, orpheuswaking said: Is the vendor FAQ still maintained anywhere ? Yes, here: https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/vendev.txt Is it still useful in 2021? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 51 minutes ago, hunmanik said: Yes, here: https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/vendev.txt Is it still useful in 2021? I would say it's very much a useful thing, because in some ways we're spoiled for choice these days. There's a ton going on on both the hardware and software fronts, and a good chunk of our traditional vendors are still in business. It's a good snapshot of where things stand currently, and may help in the future with figuring out who sold what. It's also a good way to quickly be able to locate alternatives if a preferred vendor is out of stock or unable to locate an item. Keep it going 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 12 hours ago, hunmanik said: Yes, here: https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/vendev.txt Is it still useful in 2021? If it's still maintained and updated it's very useful. On several occasions I've been going through it and realized there was something new I missed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 bump 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldelsarte Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 The latest version of the Atari 8-bit FAQ (June 26, 2022) is here: .TXT format https://mcurrent.name/atari-8-bit/faq.txt (from Michael's site, author of the FAQ) .PDF A4 & US Letter format http://www.atari800xl.eu/faq/atari-8bit-faq.html (from my site) And, yes, it takes a couple of days (this time, 1 week) to create a new nice-looking PDF based on the updated TXT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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