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2026 45

  1. New England RetroFest Recap
  2. Advice on using the Turbo-BASIC XL compiler
  3. THE 800XL
  4. APX Forth: A Surprise
  5. Atari 600XL
  6. Olivetti P101 and a Truncation Error
  7. New England RetroFest and the Maine Vintage Computer Society
  8. When Computers Were Magic
  9. Apple and Atari Connections
  10. Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals
  11. Remembering the Apple II and IIGS from High School
  12. The History of Swinth
  13. Let’s get physical
  14. Atari Legacy Magazine
  15. Write for Goto 10!
  16. Atari 2600 TV Ads
  17. I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64
  18. Atari ST Advertising
  19. An Atari Origin Story
  20. My First Atari ST
  21. Connecting Peripherals to Atari 8-bit Computers
  22. Compute!'s Atari ST Reference Books
  23. Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing
  24. Miner 2049er
  25. My 1993 Atari Mega STE Retro Battlestation
  26. My Retro Computer Collection
  27. Inside the Atari 800
  28. More Atari 8-bit Cartridges
  29. Inside the Atari 1200XL
  30. Mapping the Atari from Compute! Books
  31. An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline
  32. Paperweight, an April Fool's Prank from 40 years ago
  33. A Look at some Retro Desktop Graphical User Interfaces
  34. That's a paddlin': My Favorite Atari 2600 Paddle Games
  35. Mac OS X 25th Anniversary: The Foundation of Apple's Incredible Rise
  36. Atari ST BASIC
  37. Magnavox Odyssey 2
  38. Check out the new Goto 10 Store!
  39. Atari ST Software Accelerators
  40. Video: A Brief Overview of the Atari 800XL
  41. Introduction of the Atari 400/800 in 1979
  42. Modern Atari System Software Book
  43. Game Controller Designs Through the Years
  44. ST Business Magazine, Part 2
  45. Shortages Cause Sky-Rocketing RAM Prices

2025 53

  1. 2025 Year in Review
  2. Snowfall in BASIC
  3. The Atari Compendium, a Comprehensive Programming Book
  4. 30 Years Ago Windows 95 Changed Everything
  5. Weird Retro Computer Designs
  6. Inside Atari DOS
  7. Ranking the Atari 8-bit Computers
  8. Electronics Boutique: We Byte the Bullet
  9. I have a lot of freaking floppies!
  10. Stella, the Atari 2600 Emulator
  11. Public Domain Software Libraries
  12. Dungeon Master, the Premier Atari ST Game
  13. Atari + Queen = Magic
  14. Atari TT: The affordable workstation
  15. ST User / ST World Magazine (UK)
  16. When Computer Magazines Were Everywhere
  17. ST Business magazine
  18. Action! was the best 8-bit programming language
  19. Building a PC in 1995
  20. Recently found my original Palm IIIx, so let's revisit this retro pocket computer
  21. Shareware Registrations for Oracle
  22. 40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore
  23. The Atari 1050 disk drive and its unusual storage size
  24. Reminiscing About Retro (Don't forget about Atari)
  25. Video Chess on the Atari 2600
  26. I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
  27. Michigan Atari Magazine (MAM)
  28. The Texas Instruments TI-99/4a is a quirky early personal computer
  29. One of my early BASIC programs: Hi Card Wins!
  30. Tales of the C: Retro Thoughts on the Seemingly Eternal Programming Language
  31. Compute!'s Second Book of Atari
  32. Atari Means Business with the Mega ST
  33. Atari Addict Magazine
  34. About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
  35. The Unusual Atari ST Monitor Situation
  36. Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer
  37. 1980 Australian Personal Computer Review of the Atari 400/800
  38. The Atari 1200XL Fiasco
  39. Atari Trinkets and Baubles
  40. Atari Force DC Comic
  41. Looking Back at My Time as Current Notes ST Editor
  42. 1981 Atari VCS Catalog
  43. 10 Secrets of the Atari Mega STE
  44. Sublogic Flight Simulator
  45. Setting up my Atari 130XE
  46. The Coleco Adam: An 8-bit Personal Computer Failure
  47. 1988 Interview with Sig Hartmann, Atari Executive VP for Public Relations
  48. Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ Which Should You Get?
  49. Blaze Evercade Super Pocket Atari Edition
  50. New Atari computer games: FASTER and Bubble Bubble
  51. My Atari Origin Story
  52. Atari ST 40th Anniversary
  53. Newly Acquired Atari Stuff

2024 81

  1. Favorite Posts of 2024
  2. Stay Warm this Winter with a Retro Fireplace
  3. Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs
  4. Atari 130XE vs. Commodore 128
  5. Computer Shopper
  6. The "Modern" Atari VCS
  7. FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
  8. More About True BASIC
  9. What's so great about the Atari ST?
  10. The Most Important Program I Ever Wrote
  11. ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST
  12. Atari 8-bit Game Cartridges
  13. Inside the Atari 800XL
  14. Mega Atari ST Haul
  15. A Quick Look at the Commodore 128
  16. Giant Retro Magazine Collection
  17. Michigan Magazine Chaos, Part 2
  18. Looking at the Atari Mega STE Owner's Manual
  19. Michigan Magazine Chaos
  20. Tempted by the Dark Side, I now have a Commodore 128
  21. Arcade Crawl
  22. Inside the Atari 7800
  23. A Space Invaders Retrospective
  24. Radio Shack Pocket Computers
  25. Sounds of the Atari ST
  26. Star Wars Atari Games and Action Figures
  27. Retron NES Game Console
  28. Atari Corporation Goes Public in 1986
  29. Recreating Tank
  30. ST Informer
  31. Atari Computer Enthusiasts and User Groups
  32. Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing
  33. Creative Computing Magazine
  34. Atari 5200 Enhanced Games
  35. The Atari 5200: A huge misstep
  36. New Video Game Stuff
  37. Discover the World of Atari Home Computers
  38. Why Buy a Home Computer? Looking at an early Atari computer product catalog
  39. Modula-2 on the Atari St
  40. What ever happened to Modula-2?
  41. Populous on Other Systems and Modern Computers
  42. Populous for the Atari ST
  43. Some Atari BASIC Books
  44. Happy 60th Birthday to BASIC
  45. Talking Baseball, Part 2
  46. Talking Baseball
  47. Usenet, Part 2
  48. Usenet and Auctions, Part 1
  49. Pole Position, Part 2
  50. Pole Position, Part 1
  51. Introducing Current Notes, my new newsletter about electric vehicles
  52. Abacus Books for the Atari ST, Part 2
  53. Abacus Books for the Atari ST, Part 1
  54. More Atari 2600 Games, Part 2
  55. More Atari 2600 Games, Part 1
  56. Looking at the Atari 400 Part 2
  57. Looking at the Atari 400 Part 1
  58. More About the Atari Falcon030
  59. Atari Falcon030
  60. 20 GOTO 10 Book
  61. Retro Gamer Magazine and the Atari 2600+
  62. Atari Dune?
  63. Fort Apocalypse
  64. Early Printer were noisy, but they were also slow and generally expensive
  65. 1984: Big Changes at Atari
  66. Gadgets by Small: Mac Emulation on Atari ST
  67. Goto 10 Dedication: My Dad
  68. Atari (American) Football Games
  69. Comparing the Names of Various Retro Computers
  70. Fun with Floppy Disks
  71. Primordial USB on Atari 8-bits
  72. Pascal Cross-Reference Utility
  73. Atari Coding Fonts
  74. I was a guest on the Untitled Nerdy Chat Show podcast: Listen now
  75. More DeskCart Details
  76. Prospero Pascal for the Atari ST
  77. Turbo Pascal for the Atari ST
  78. NeoDesk, the Desktop Alternative for the Atari ST
  79. How did Piracy Affect Atari computers?
  80. Current Notes Magazine
  81. Your Atari Computer

2023 116

  1. 2023 Goto 10 Year in Review
  2. Retro Atari Resources
  3. Last-Minute Retro Gift Ideas
  4. Ode to Joust
  5. Atari Explorer Online
  6. Pac-Man Fever
  7. Suzy B's Software Atari Software Treasury
  8. Atari and Nintendo: Donkey Kong
  9. Atari Stacy vs. Macintosh Portable
  10. The Tandy 102 Portable Computer
  11. Thoughts on the Atari Jaguar
  12. Fast BASIC for the Atari ST
  13. I Picked Up an Atari Portfolio!
  14. A Brief History of Atari
  15. Commentary on an Atari ST Marketing Brochure
  16. Atari ST: What went wrong?
  17. My First Atari Computer: The Atari 400
  18. Atari BASIC Optimization Tips
  19. Using SIO2PC to Emulate a Floppy Drive
  20. Strange BASIC: DBASIC for the Atari ST
  21. Atari 8-bit Computer Breakdown
  22. REAL BASIC for the Atari ST
  23. Atari Sound with POKEY
  24. A Look at the Atari 130XE Manual and Bank Switching
  25. Frank Ostrowski and the Best BASICs
  26. A Recap of Atari ST Programming Languages, Part 1
  27. Digging into DeskCart! for the Atari ST
  28. A Bit About Byte Magazine: The Premier Technical Journal of Its Time
  29. True BASIC: An Attempt at Standardizing BASIC by its Creators
  30. Mini Micro and MiniScript: A Great Retro Programming Combination
  31. A Quick Look at SDrive Max for the Atari 8-bit
  32. The 8 Queens Problem
  33. A Digital Clock in BASIC
  34. Atari 130XE Setup and Modern Add-Ons
  35. Format an SD Card for the Side3 Cart
  36. Goto 10 Reaches 2048 Subscribers!
  37. A Recap of Atari 8-bit Programming Languages
  38. More Pascal Programming
  39. The Atari Ten Commandments
  40. Galaga Mini Arcade
  41. A Look at True Paint for the Atari ST
  42. More BASIC Computer Games
  43. Revisiting ST Log magazine
  44. Looking at Retro Apple Receipts
  45. Atari Computing, The Last Atari Computer Magazine
  46. Home Computer Playing Cards
  47. Crazy Catalog? DAK Industries Technology Catalog
  48. The Eiffel Keyboard Interface
  49. Confidential Atari Customer Database
  50. Invite your friends to read Goto 10 RetroComputing
  51. Anatomy of a C Program
  52. Battle of the BASICs: Atari vs. Microsoft
  53. Palm Programming Tools
  54. Microsoft and Atari
  55. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
  56. Looking Back at Compute! Magazine
  57. Compute's First Book of Atari
  58. 2009 Mac Pro with 4K Display
  59. Retro PDAs Aplenty
  60. Retro Joysticks and Game Controllers
  61. Atari ST Pascal Compilers
  62. Retro Photos: Atari Mega ST Setup
  63. As Apple Announces the Vision Pro, A Look Back at the Nintendo Virtual Boy
  64. Revisiting my Atari 800XL computer setup from 1986
  65. Book: 50 Atari ST Games You Have to Play
  66. The Kid's Guide to Home Computers
  67. How I Learned to Program and the Old Blue Binder of Programming
  68. Snow Blower BASIC Game
  69. London Science Museum T-Shirt
  70. Compute's Atari ST Disk & Magazine Pictures of the Month
  71. An LCD Display for the Atari Mega STe
  72. Upgrading the CPU in a 2009 Mac Pro
  73. Disks for Compute's Atari ST Disk & Magazine
  74. Star Wars Theme in BASIC
  75. Atari Explorer Magazine
  76. All the Atari ST models and peripherals
  77. Retro Video Game Systems
  78. Inside the Atari Mega STe
  79. Join me on Notes
  80. Replacing the Fan in an Atari Mega STe
  81. The Rare Atari Mega STe
  82. London Calling
  83. The UltraSatan Atari ST Hard Drive Emulator
  84. Only Wizards Code in Assembly Language
  85. Compute!'s Atari ST Disk & Magazine
  86. Understanding Atari TOS
  87. QuikDOS in Atari BASIC
  88. A Rare Find: Have you heard of 'Processor Direct Magazine'?
  89. Pi Day: Estimating the Value of Pi with BASIC
  90. Atari Book, Magazine, Catalog Haul
  91. Disected! - A disk sector editor in BASIC
  92. Using DOS on the Atari
  93. Inside the Sinclair ZX81
  94. Anniversary Sale Ongoing
  95. Learning About the Amiga
  96. Getting Started with Retro Computing I
  97. Goto 10 Anniversary Sale
  98. A Brief History of Atari 8-bit Computers, Part 2
  99. Goto 10 Anniversary Sale
  100. Paid Subscriber Perks
  101. Animal, The First AI?
  102. A BASIC Valentine
  103. A Brief History of Atari 8-bit Computers, Part 1
  104. My 40 Years of Computing — what’s yours?
  105. A Mac Origin Story
  106. Drawing a Spiral in GFA BASIC on the Atari ST
  107. Why Did Early Computers Use a ROM OS?
  108. Inside the Atari 1040ST
  109. Retro Calculators
  110. 10 Types of People
  111. The Terribleness of using Cassettes for Data Storage
  112. IBM OS/2 Warp was better than Windows
  113. Timex Sinclair 1000 (Sinclair ZX 81)
  114. BomBer: A BASIC Game
  115. Atari Prize Pack and Poll Results
  116. 1989: Atari ST and Music

2022 86

  1. Favorite YouTube Channels About Retrocomputing
  2. Before there was ChatGPT there was Eliza
  3. Goto 10 Year in Review
  4. Tower of Atari
  5. A BASIC Bonanza
  6. 17 Days Left in the Goto 10 Year-End Sale!
  7. Atari 2600 Video Game Brain
  8. Pig for Palm PDA
  9. Advent of Code 2022 in BASIC
  10. Asteroid Run
  11. Drawing a Spiral in BASIC
  12. 1024+ Subscribers!
  13. LCDs vs. CRTs
  14. Text Adventure Game Maps
  15. Goto 10 End-of-Year Holiday Sale
  16. I now have an Atari 7800!
  17. Atari 8-bit Cartridges
  18. Annotated Commentary about the 1986 Byte Atari 1040ST Product Preview
  19. Computing Costs in the Day
  20. 8-bit Wars: Atari vs. Commodore VIC-20
  21. Atari Book Haul
  22. Nashville Beercade HQ
  23. Pumpkin Man: A (Simple) BASIC Game
  24. Atari 2600 on a 55" LCD TV
  25. Animation with Player/Missile Graphics
  26. Atari 8-bit Computer Quiz Answers
  27. Atari 8-Bit Computer Quiz
  28. Returning to Retro Computing
  29. Change the Atari BASIC "READY" Prompt
  30. Collecting C Compilers
  31. Finding an Atari 1040ST
  32. STatus: Atari (March/April 1995)
  33. Going Online in the Early 90s, Part 2
  34. STatus Atari (Oct/Nov 1994)
  35. Going Online in the Early 90s, Part 1
  36. Welcome New Readers!
  37. Atari 2600 / 7800 Game Haul
  38. Atari's Best 8-bit: The 130XE with 128K
  39. STatus: Atari (Aug/Sep 1994)
  40. Atari Painter in BASIC
  41. STatus Atari (May 1994)
  42. Missing the Atari Mega STe
  43. Atari ST Multitasking
  44. My First BASIC Programs
  45. Support Goto 10
  46. Welcome Paid Subscribers!
  47. Squish II Review (Current Notes)
  48. Atari ST PC Emulation
  49. Atari ST Magazine Advertisements
  50. Houston Area Atari Computer Enthusiasts Newsletter
  51. STatus: Atari (from Current Notes April 1994)
  52. Dragon and Snowflake Fractal Sweeps in BASIC
  53. The Delphi Forum
  54. Trooper 2 Atari-style USB Joystick
  55. Current Notes: MouseBoot IV Review
  56. A Brief History of Atari, Part 3
  57. A Brief History of Atari, Part 2
  58. A Brief History of Atari, Part 1
  59. More About ANALOG Computing
  60. ANALOG Computing Magazine
  61. From Atari 8-bit to Atari ST
  62. Atari 130XE Video Problems
  63. Do the Math
  64. Inside the Atari 130XE
  65. The Computer Chronicles: Atari ST
  66. Removing Protective Film from SM124 Monitor
  67. Taking Screenshots in 1984
  68. Revisiting the Atari 2600
  69. Unboxing an Atari 130XE
  70. Welcome New Readers!
  71. Programming in Pascal on the Atari ST
  72. Current Notes, Redux
  73. 8-bit Baseball Games
  74. OSS 4-in-1 Programming Cartridge
  75. Learning to Type
  76. Archimedes Spiral in BASIC
  77. Understanding the Atari DOS 2 File Format
  78. The ANALOG Computing Pocket Reference Card
  79. Activision Hacker
  80. Happy Pi Day
  81. Antic: The Atari Podcast
  82. Programming the Atari with BASIC
  83. Unofficial Atari: Visual History Book
  84. Improving the 1050 floppy drive with SpartaDOS and US Doubler
  85. Upgrading to the Atari 800XL
  86. My Atari Origins