Atari Owners Club News and Reports Where you'll find weekly posts updating you on things happening and planned for the Club. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:12:44 +0000 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:12:44 +0000 Atari Owners' Club https://atari-owner.com/club/forums/atari-owners-club-news-and-reports.49/ Curt Vendel, You will be missed! Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:04:10 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/curt-vendel-you-will-be-missed.329/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/curt-vendel-you-will-be-missed.329/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
I'm absolutely shocked, like someone just punched me in the gut HARD!!

Need to process this... :sorry: :confused: :(

--Tim]]> 3 Speedbumps in Life Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:37:12 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/speedbumps-in-life.302/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/speedbumps-in-life.302/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Sorry for the absence this past week.

My available time has been compressed significantly as I fill in at a TV shop for now to help an old friend; one of the people who works there who was diagnosed with leukemia and has to take time off, so I'll be covering his responsibilities for the foreseeable future.

Once things are on an even-keel again, though, I will get back to recovering more of those lost Atari Sectors for everyone, among other things. They'll just be...

Speedbumps in Life]]> 4 Week of July 5, 2020 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:52:23 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-july-5-2020.288/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-july-5-2020.288/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Got distracted by offline life, but I was able to resume working on providing a mirror for the Z*Magazine archive here on the Club and as of this writing all of the 1986 issues are now available.

Z*Magazine Archive (mirror)

Once completed, I'm hoping to be able to generate an Index similar to what I did with the 3 magazines to make the Z*Mag archive more...

Week of July 5, 2020]]> 1 Week of June 22, 2020 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:11:08 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-june-22-2020.269/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-june-22-2020.269/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
The week is off to a running start, with newly-recovered Atari Sectors for those interested:


Week of June 22, 2020]]> 4 Z*Magazine: March 19, 1986 Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:20:40 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/z-magazine-march-19-1986.275/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/z-magazine-march-19-1986.275/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Z*Magazine: March 19, 1986 - Z*Magazine: March 19, 1986

Z*Magazine: March 19, 1986]]> Z*Magazine: March 4, 1986 Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:17:55 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/z-magazine-march-4-1986.274/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/z-magazine-march-4-1986.274/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Z*Magazine: March 4, 1986 - Z*Magazine: March 4, 1986

Z*Magazine: March 4, 1986]]> Week of June 7, 2020 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 23:00:33 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-june-7-2020.255/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-june-7-2020.255/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
I wanted to let you know that there are three more recovered Sectors, for those who may be interested.

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Week of June 7, 2020]]> 3 About Z*Magazine Sun, 31 May 2020 11:18:37 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/about-z-magazine.249/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/about-z-magazine.249/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
About Z*Magazine - Z*Magazine - the 8-bit Atari Online Resource

About Z*Magazine]]> 2 May 29, 2020: An early morning chat (BYOT / BYOC) Fri, 29 May 2020 11:27:10 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/may-29-2020-an-early-morning-chat-byot-byoc.247/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/may-29-2020-an-early-morning-chat-byot-byoc.247/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
]]> 1 Week of May 24, 2020 Thu, 28 May 2020 12:43:10 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-may-24-2020.246/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-may-24-2020.246/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
I thought I'd mention this week's restoration/preservation efforts now include:

Articles


Additionally, the following is now...

Week of May 24, 2020]]> 1 Week of May 18, 2020 Fri, 22 May 2020 21:14:27 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-may-18-2020.230/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-may-18-2020.230/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Been a stretch of time since the last official update post (I was updating the previous one as I went along).

I've posted the third in a series of topical indices of articles from the "Big 3" Atari home computing magazines: Compute!, Antic, and ANALOG— this time, covering the Atari POKEY and sound system. I'll also be curating a companion index to go with this one, covering the voice synthesizer projects offered in these magazines for the enthusiast who likes to...

Week of May 18, 2020]]> 6 Week of April 27, 2020 Thu, 07 May 2020 11:36:09 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-april-27-2020.194/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/week-of-april-27-2020.194/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline

I've started adding Articles based on information collected from a recently-defunct board, since the site owner preferred to simply remove or otherwise hide the board without recourse, costing untold hours of contribution from various individuals. While I certainly didn't preserve as much as I wish I had, I hope there's something helpful in the crumbs...

Week of April 27, 2020]]> 10 What in the world? Sat, 04 Apr 2020 10:10:59 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/what-in-the-world.69/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/what-in-the-world.69/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Atari-Owner was an idea that I struck ground on back in 2016— and it's just sat there, really. Most people can be found at already-existing sites like AtariAge, Atari Sector, AmiBay, and Atari-Forum, so another site coming on the scene always felt ... redundant and unnecessary, really. Why reinvent the wheel, after all?

The blog is still hidden and not-quite-finished behind the landing page to Atari-Owner.com, now four years on, the most...

What in the world?]]> 19 Wednesday, 26 February 2020 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 08:58:43 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/wednesday-26-february-2020.99/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/wednesday-26-february-2020.99/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Still working behind the scenes here, focusing on the blog portion of the site, and can finally say that the front-end is now set to public— although there remains much work to be done and some of the features may be too ambitious to keep; we'll see.

https://atari-owner.com (Or click the Home icon on the Club's menu)

In any case, I'll keep plugging away on it, keeping the content fresh and relevant, and begin drawing from the discussions here, as...

Wednesday, 26 February 2020]]> Wednesday, 19 February, 2020 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:29:26 +0000 https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/wednesday-19-february-2020.83/ https://atari-owner.com/club/threads/wednesday-19-february-2020.83/ invalid@example.com (Timothy Kline) Timothy Kline
Thanks again, Matt, for sharing the renovation process with us!

Be sure to have a look at the Rehoming section and if you're looking for something but haven't tracked it down, leave a mention in the Adoptions section.

Work has begun again on the front end of the Club, and a link has now been added to the landing page...

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