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June, 11 2011
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Neighboring Events:
- Decipti-Kon
Celebrating the fusion of Japanese and American Animation, April 16-17, Sacramento (near Davis!) - Pin-A-Go-Go
Pinball show, May 13-15, Dixon (near Davis!) - Maker Faire
Celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset, May 21-22, San Mateo (south of San Francisco) - California Extreme
Arcade and Pinball show, July 9-10, Santa Clara (south bay, near San Jose)
Nearby Museums/Archives:
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
- The MADE: Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, coming soon to San Francisco, CA
Nearby Atari User Groups:
- ABACUS: Atari Bay Area Computer Users Society, San Francisco, CA
Atari Emulators:
- Atari800 - is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for Windows, Mac O X, Linux, BSD, Unix, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon and WinCE. Its main objective is to create a freely distributable portable emulator (i.e. with source code available).
- Emulators, Inc. - creators of PC Xformer (Atari 8-bit) and Gemulator (Atari ST and Mac) emulators, and more.
- Stella - an Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS) emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and which runs on Linux, AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, MacOS, Unix and Windows.
- Hatari - an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows and other systems which are supported by the SDL library.
- STonX - an Atari ST Emulator intended primarily for use with Unix and the X Window System. Ports to MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows 95 have been released by other people or are being worked on. STonX is distributed under the GNU License, meaning that source code is available as well - and, of course, it's free software.
More Atari Links:
- Atari, Inc. - What became of Atari Corp.
- Atari Games (article at Wikipedia) - Once part of Midway games, part of Warner Bros.; what became of the arcade division in 1984.
- 'comp.sys.atari.8bit' Usenet newsgroup FAQ
- AtariAge - News and game info.
- Atari Users Network - Your Atari News, From Atari Users
- A-ONE Magazine: Atari Online News, Etc.
- Atari Today
- Atari8.info (English version)
- Atari Museum - run by the Atari Historical Society since 1997
- Atari.org - News
- MyAtari Magazine - Defunct monthly magazine (Oct. 2000 thru Feb. 2005)
- Atari User - World's only Atari magazine
- Atarimania - A complete historical tour to the new or experienced Atari user
In and Around Davis:
- DavisWiki
An interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis, California.
Of particular use to Atari Party attendees and volunteers: - City of Davis website
Official City of Davis website. - Davis Community Network (DCN)
A non-profit organization that provides internet-related services and support to local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, schools and individuals. - Dimple Records
They have some classic video game systems & software for sale.
212 F Street
Davis, CA 95616 - Bizarro World: Comics, Cards, Games
They have some classic video game systems & software for sale, and a small collection of arcade games to play.
223 E Street
Davis, CA 95616
Have any ideas of other links we can share here? E-mail Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net>!
