MyAtari magazine: March 2002 Forward

Issue 17: Mar 2002

Features
-	Foreword
-	ACE: World Exclusive
-	Have Atari users got a future?
-	I want my AEX!
-	Tip of the day
-	Get Calamus Fonts Without Selling the House
-	The Current State of the Desktop Publishing Art
-	Reader Profiles: Markus Binder
-	Atari GmbH

Review
-	Atari Emulation - Part 2

News

Vote today in the MyAtari 2002 Awards!

Welcome to the March 2002 issue of MyAtari magazine. Last month, I asked you to send us your nominations for the MyAtari 2002 Awards... It is therefore, with great pleasure, that I announce the launch of the MyAtari 2002 Awards.

I am pleased to say that in under two weeks, we received over three hundred and fifty nominations for the categories below.

Best Atari web site of the year
Best Programmer of the year
Best Commercial release of the year
Best Shareware release of the year
Best PD/Freeware release of the year
Best Game release of the year
Best Hardware upgrade of the year
Best Atari supporting company of the year
Best Atari magazine of the year
Outstanding contribution to the Atari community

The short-lists have now been drawn up (in no particular order) and you can now cast your vote in the MyAtari 2002 Awards. All you need to do it complete and submit the forms below. Please note that you only have until 7th April 2002, so every vote counts!

Best Atari web site of the year
	Atari.Org http://www.atari.org
	AtariAge http://www.atariage.com
	Little Green Desktop http://www.atari.st
	Atari Source http://pikachu.atari-source.com
	Dead Hackers Society http://www.dhs.nu


Best Programmer of the year
	Carl Forhan (Songbird Productions) http://songbird.atari.net
	Didier Méquignon (Aniplayer) http://aniplay.atari.org
	Roger Burrows (Anodyne Software) http://www.anodynesoftware.com
	Erik Hall (MyMail) http://www2.tripnet.se/~erikhall/index.htm
	Leon O'Reilly (Reservoir Gods) http://rg.atari.org


Best Commercial release of the year
	MagiC 6.20 by Application-Systems Heidelberg http://www.application-systems.de
	Porthos by invers Software http://www.dsd.net/prod/atari/porthos.php
	Calamus SL2002 by MGI http://www.calamus.net
	Papyrus 9.0 by ROM Logicware http://www.rom-logicware.de
	CyberVirus by Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net


Best Shareware release of the year
	Aniplayer by Didier Méquignon http://aniplay.atari.org
	AtarICQ by GokMasE and Baldrick http://aicq.atari-users.net
	PhotoTip by Durs Locher http://home.sunrise.ch/dursoft/
	MasterKEY by KickBox http://www.kickbox.de/masterkey/
	Eureka by François Le Coat http://eureka.atari.org


Best PD/Freeware release of the year
	Steem Engine by Anthony and Russell Hayward http://steem.atari.org
	AtarIRC by Lonny Pursell http://www.q1.net/~atari/
	GEM Graph 2 by Bernard Le Tirant http://perso.club-internet.fr/letirant/index_e.html
	zBench by Zorro http://the.zorro.free.fr/zbench.html
	EasyMiNT by Marc-Antón Kehr http://mico-mint.atari.org


Best Game release of the year
	Chu Chu Rocket by Reservoir Gods http://rg.atari.org
	CyberVirus by Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
	Allia Quest by Ebvision http://www.ebivision.com
	SCSIcide by Joe Grand http://www.mindspring.com/~jgrand/atari/
	Castle Blast by Ronen Habot http://members.bellatlantic.net/vze2j83t/public_html/MyGames.htm


Best Hardware upgrade of the year
	CT60 by Czuba Tech http://www.czuba-tech.com
	ROM-port Adapter by Elmar Hilgart http://www.asamnet.de/~hilgarte/
	Eclipse PCI Adapter by Istari Software http://www.uni-mainz.de/~heuno000/ECLIPSE/welcome.html
	EIFFEL PS/2 Adapter by Laurent Favard http://eiffel.atari.org
	JAMMA Joystick by Goat Store http://www.goatstore.com


Best Atari supporting company of the year
	Electronics Boutique / GAME http://www.eb.uk.com http://www.game.uk.com
	Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
	Hozer Video Games http://www.hozervideo.com
	invers Software http://www.dsd.net
	Best Electronics http://www.best-electronics-ca.com


Best Atari magazine of the year
	st-computer (German) http://www.st-computer.net
	alive! (English) http://alive.atari.org
	FLOP (Czech) http://flop.atari.org
	Atarimagasinet (Swedish) http://www.sak.nu
	2600 Connection (English) http://2600connection.atari.org


Outstanding contribution to the Atari community
	Randy Crihfield at Hozer Video Games http://www.hozervideo.com
	Matthias Jaap http://www.atariuptodate.de
	Carl Forhan at Songbird Productions http://songbird.atari.net
	Rodolphe Czuba at Czuba-Tech http://www.czuba-tech.com
	Anders Erikson at Dead Hackers Society http://www.dhs.nu

I'm off to start counting your votes! I hope you enjoy the issue, see you next month with the results ;-)

Matthew Bacon, Editor

Note

P.S. In the interests of being unbiased, we have decided not to include ourselves in any of the categories this years Awards. However, thank you to everyone who nominated us ;-)

P.P.S. As you can imagine, we received far more than five nominations per category. Consequently, a short-list of five were created for each category based on the number of nominations received.

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