Do you remember my last post about Atamon? Mark Guttenbrunner saw it and scanned the cover and the original documentation!
A huge thank you to him. The Atamon entry has, of course, been updated. 😎

Directeur commercial, puis bras droit de Jack Tramiel pour l’Europe, Jean Richen est l’un des rares témoins directs de toutes les grandes heures d’Atari France : les années Warner, le séisme Tramiel, le triomphe de l’Atari ST dans les salons français, et le crépuscule de la Jaguar.

Il était là quand Tramiel a lancé son célèbre « One ! ». Il a porté les négociations qui ont mis un Mega ST dans les mains de chaque musicien du concert de Jean-Michel Jarre à La Défense. Et il a traversé avec Atari toutes les heures — les plus glorieuses comme les plus difficiles.

Dans cette interview exclusive, Jean Richen raconte sans filtre les coulisses d’une époque où Atari faisait la loi sur le marché européen — les batailles commerciales, les décisions qui ont tout changé, les erreurs stratégiques, et la fierté intacte d’avoir vécu de l’intérieur l’une des aventures industrielles les plus folles des années 80-90.

Un témoignage unique, pour ceux qui ont connu cette époque… et pour ceux qui auraient voulu y être.

→ Lire l’interview complète

Six years after the original preservation post — and over 40 years after its publication by Atari Germany in 1983 — the ATAMON page has received a major update!

When ATAMON (DXG 5724 – Atari Germany) was first published here in 2020, no documentation existed anywhere — no manual, no reference, nothing. The utility was largely unknown even within the Atari community.

That gap is now filled :

• A complete analysis of the binary has been carried out — a full 6502 disassembly — allowing a detailed reference manual and the commented source code to be written from scratch. Every command is documented with its exact syntax, behavior, and verified examples. The manual is available in French, English, and German.
• Along the way, a long-standing bug was identified in the C command, broken since the original 1983 release. Its cause has been pinpointed in the code, and a patch is now included — a patched .ATR image is available alongside the original.
• Finally, since no box or packaging of any kind has ever been found for Atamon, a cover has been created from scratch as an original design.

ATAMON remains one of the most obscure titles published by Atari Germany. Hopefully it’s a little less mysterious now 😎

If you have any original documentation or packaging, please get in touch.

I hope you enjoy it!

Utilitaires de debogage pour assembleur et macro-assembleur – Hex a bug et DDT  : This French version is another rare piece of software that you won’t find anywhere else, as usual with the french documentation.

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GEST – FATT – ABS Soft System per Atari computer system is a “rarity 10” saved for the first time, including the documentation !

Ora potete gestire i vostri clienti e le vostre fatture su Atari! Non è una vita fantastica? 😎

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Calcul Algébrique – TXF 53001 C (cassette version) is a “rarity 8”, so don’t look anywhere else, you’ll only find the cassette version here 🙂
Another Atari France software saved and preserved for eternity ! 🙂

“Connaitre le BASIC Atari”, the French translation of “Inside Atari Basic” by William Carris is now available for download here.