ATARI Links (mainly for programmers)


I'll put here a special mention about Timo Tiihonen and Mikko Larjava, of which the former is a friend of mine keeping the best Atari BBS (02 235 5892) in Finland. Currently the STafia-BBS runs on Timo's new Medusa Atari-compatible and has two modem lines over ISDN. The UOY BBS system is programmed by the latter fellow, a friend of Timo.

The BBS system is unique one because it's programmed in GFA Basic! Before you'll raise your eyebrows, let me add a couple of facts. Mikko would gladly convert it to C, but the program has grown too large (20k-lines) for doing that by hand, has quite a few things written in assembly language and works only under MiNT because it uses it's services quite a lot. From the BBS user's point of view it works like MBBS systems.

Other things Mikko has programmed (in C) are a fileselector and fully GEM (supports AV-protocol, drag&drop etc.) compliant file viewer. I don't know whether they are publicly accessible though. I had put link here otherwise :-). He's also programming a new GFA compiler.



Atari is GO terminology and means 'threatened' (a group which has only one liberty left and hence is about to be captured), in case anybody needed to know :).