> Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Chad Hendrickson. I live in Hoffman Estates, IL. I spent my childhood in the '80s where my parents bought my brothers and I an Atari 2600 for Christmas in 1980. Of course, I was hooked, playing such classics as Adventure, Combat, Missile Command, and Kaboom. A few years later, I got an Atari 800 computer and eventually ran a BBS called The Dark Side of the Moon between 1985 and 1989. The Atari 800 was upgraded to a 130XE somewhere along the way. I also bought the Atari Mega ST2 around 1989.
You too, tell your email program to stop sending looooong lines of text :)
Also tell it to stop sending your messages as HTML.
> So far, I have gone though the guide that I got from the Atari
> Documentation Depot (http://members.xoom.com/atari_docs/) and have
> been slightly cleaning it up using the suggestions given on that page.
> I also have spell checked it, reformatted it a bit, and fleshed it out
> a bit. I also wouldn't mind taking on the role of maintaining the
> document and hosting it on my web site. I want to make this the
> ultimate and most complete reference document for the Atari 2600.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1) Is this a good idea?
Having another document available certainly can't hurt, and your
converting it from a badly scanned bitmap to real text is certainly
helpful. That said, though, this document is written from a technical
documentation standpoint, not really a "how to program" viewpoint. And I
think we're already covering most of this ground in the developing FAQ.
I think you'd be better off putting your resources into a great FAQ,
rather than trying to update a document that doesn't really need it.
Well... Shout out to the guys who'd be using this stuff (hi Pete Holland)
- would you rather see this guide expanded, or a concentration on making
the FAQ comprehensive?
> 5) What would be the best (most universal)
> format for the document? Right now I am using Microsoft Word 97.
The most universal format is of course simple plain text. Unfortunately,
that loses all the diagrams in the document - in particular, the "TV
Picture HERE" diagram really helped me when I was starting. I'd suggest
making both Word 97 and .PDF versions available, if possible. (I can
convert Word to PDF if you can't.)
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