What's New at atariarchives.org

Current Status:

My computer book and magazine archiving work has transitioned from this site (and AtariMagazines.com) to Internet Archive. My sites will remain online, but we are not really adding new material to them. Instead, material is being upload to Internet Archive.

When I started AtariMagazines.com and AtariArchives.org, it made sense for technical reasons to convert the scans to text using OCR, then convert that to HTML for display the web. It was a LOT of extra work to do those conversions, but at the time, most people just didn't have the bandwidth to download large PDFs of scans. (Really! In the earliest days of the sites many people didn't have PDF viewers or even know what a PDF was.) But over time people got more bandwidth, and automatic OCR for searching PDFs improved, so we moved to upload our scans to Archive.org. There, people can view the full page scans of the magazines and books right in their web browser — or download PDFs of the material — rather than just the extracted text.

So, these sites aren't going anywhere, and we still are scanning donated Atari newsletters, magazines, and books. As always, you can send questions and comments to Kevin.

Check out the amazing computer history scans at Internet Archive:


July 8, 2014
AtariLeaks has moved to AtariArchives.org
Interesting stuff uncovered by a FBI Freedom of Information Act Request


May 3, 2013
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2 is now available as a Kindle book!!
125+ articles from Creative Computing Magazine issues


December 13, 2013
Terrible Nerd
new book from the creator of this site (also Kindle)


April 6 2012
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3 is now available as a Kindle book!!
120+ articles from 1978 Creative Computing Magazine issues


Jan 6, 2010
The full text and all of the software from the wonderful book
The Creative Atari
published by Creative Computing Press in 1983


Jan 3, 2010
All of the software from Machine Language For Beginners is now available for download as an Atari disk image (ATR file)


July 22 2005
We have launched FlightSimBooks.com, which features the full text of 11 classic flight simulation books.


May 14 2005
full text of the classic book
Computer Graphics Primer
cutting-edge computer graphics in 1979


April 24 2005
full text of the classic book
BASIC Computer Adventures
type-in BASIC adventures with a travel theme


April 22 2005
full text of the classic book
Artist and Computer
profiles of 35 pioneering computer artists


April 22 2005
full text of the classic book
Compute!'s Second Book of Atari


February 12 2005
Atari In Action!
unfinished, unpublished book about the Action! programming language


April 30 2004
full text of the classic book
The Epson Connection: Atari XE/XL


April 19 2004
full text of the classic book
Master Memory Map for the Atari


April 16 2004
full text of the classic book
SpeedScript - The Word Processor for Atari Computers


January 9 2004
full text of the classic book
Assembly Language Programming for the Atari Computers


December 6 2003
full text of the classic books
BASIC Computer Games
More BASIC Computer Games
& Big Computer Games


December 5 2003
full text of the classic book
Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC


November 25 2003
full text of the classic book
Digital Deli
(The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu
of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy)


September 4 2003
full text of the classic book
Colossal Computer Cartoon Book


August 23 2003
full text of the classic book
Atari Basic - XL Edition


August 18 2003
full text of the classic book
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3


July 1 2003
full text of the classic book
The Second Book of Machine Language


June 30 2003
full text of the classic book
Atari Roots


June 16 2003
full text of the
Atari Program Exchange Program Author's Handbook


June 7 2003
full text of the classic book
Best of Creative Computing Volume 2


April 7 2003
full text of the classic book
Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer


April 5 2003
full text of the classic book
Compute!'s First Book of Atari


March 16 2003
full text of the classic book
Machine Language For Beginners


February 24 2003
full text of the classic book
Computer Controller Cookbook


January 27 2003
full text of the classic book
Electronic Computer Projects
for Commodore and Atari Personal Computers

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