# Readers Top Ten

## Internet Pages

By Ashley Seabrook

It was amazingly difficult to come up with the ten 'best' sites, I just hope I've made a reasonable job of it. I've tried to stick to English only, or at least mostly English, pages as Atari Times is an English language publication. However, as you probably know, there are loads of excellent Atari resources out there in German and other languages. I've also tried to make my choice reasonably generic and include sites that would interest most people. I have included my site, which is very egocentric of me, but I genuinely find it a useful resource myself!

1. TITAN/BSS Website
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TITANWEB/
Attractively designed and regularly updated pages with plenty of information on all the mouthwatering products being developed and sold by Titan Designs, Black Scorpion Software and other companies such as The Upgrade Shop and Gribnif, plus an Atari contacts page and downloads for software demos and utilites. You are sure to find something here to want to spend your money on!

Rating: 87%

2. InterActive home page
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~inactive/
Nicely laid out and up to date shareware support pages with loads of information on the wide range of quality shareware supported, plus downloads for each of the packages avaliable.

Rating: 86%

3. STiK
http://www.flinny.demon.co.uk/
Clearly and simply laid out with access to downloads of the very latest versions of STiK related net connectivity packages, plus programming information for STiK client programmers.

Rating: 85%

4. comp.sys.atari.st
news://comp.sys.atari.st
Dozens of messages arrive here daily, making it a resource not to be missed for the Atari user. It's the Usenet so it's not pretty and it's sometimes confusing, but an overwhelming amount of information and the interactive nature of newsgroups makes this a great place to discuss your platform.

Rating: 81%

5. Mille Babic - Very Welcome to my Homepage...
http://www5.tripnet.se/~mille/english/atari.html
Graphically impressive pages with information on net connectivity software, movie players, HTML editors, object linking and more, downloads of the latest software, plus plenty of attractive and colourful screenshots of modern Atari software in action.

Rating: 79%

6. The Atari Exhibition
http://www.best.com/~hmk/atari.htm
Attractive and interesting site with lots of information and photos about the history of Atari and Atari computers, including details of the launch of the very first Atari ST.

Rating: 77%

7. Technical University of Berlin FTP Site
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/
It's FTP so it's not going to be very attractive, but this is probably the most comprehensive and up to date FTP site currently avaliable (at least while CNAM is unaccessible). The amount of software here is enormous - the index alone is around 200kb uncompressed!

Rating: 75%

8. The Linux/m68k Home Page
http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/index.html
If you have an Atari with a 68030 or better CPU then have a look here for loads of up to date information on the port of the Linux operating system to Motorola 680x0 computers, with a FAQ and links to all the information you could wish for.

Rating: 72%

9. Atari on the Web!
http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~dlms/atari.html
The first regular port of call I had when starting out on the 'net, and, although it sadly hasn't been updated for a year, it still has loads of useful information - FAQs, documents, links, news, reviews, Q&As and more.

Rating: 70%

And unplaced...

Elysium Place of Ataridom - Atari & TOS Compatible Index Page
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/aseabrook/a_index.htm
Okay, it's my own pride and joy ;-) Bias aside, I honestly think that it hosts the most comprehensive set of links I have come across on the 'net, a resource that I personally find useful even if nobody else does! Hopefully the relatively simple layout belies a wealth of useful information.

Rating: that's up to you to say!