Rarity 10 and above up to impossible#


This chapter is intended to make an outlook for programs which must exist, but seem to be lost over the decades. If you have any hint, idea or whatever else to help us to digitize this for generations to come, please let us know.

•) Atari OS Rev. B (PAL) for Atari 400/800 from 1981 ; PRINT PEEK (65528)  <RETURN> => 34

There are more than rumors about this OS type, please see here:

Atari XL OS full searchable size: 14.8 MB

Page 31 in the PDF-file or page 28 in the manual itself.

If you own an Atari 400 or 800 in the PAL version, please do us a favor and enter:

?PEEK(65528)

in BASIC. If the result is 34, then you own the most expensive Atari in the world, which has an OS we do not have up to today. It is only a little step for you, but would be a giant leap for the Atari community. Everlasting fame is sure for you in that case.

Further we are looking for:

•) OPERATING SYSTEM 255 for Atari 400/800 ; PRINT PEEK (65528)  <RETURN> => 255

Many thanks to kr0tki who found the trace, that the OS 255 is for real! In page 8 of:
All about Cassette Tapes from 1979.pdf(info) ; size: 741 KB we find:
Page 8 of: 'All about Cassette Tapes from 1979'

•) * The Atari Accountant Series

•) * Atari The Dow Jones Investment Evaluator
Atari Dow Jones Investment Evaluator CX8124
Atari Dow Jones Investment Evaluator CX8125
Atari Dow Jones Investment Evaluator CX8127

•) McStuff Co. OSS BUG/65 revision 1.1

•) OSS BUGV4FIX.COM - file needed to patch BUG/65 to work with DOS XL 4

•) OSS Newsletters
We already have:
OSS Newsletter - Summer 1983
OSS Newsletter - January 1984
OSS Newsletter - Spring 1984
OSS Newsletter - Fall 1986
OSS Newsletter - Fall 1986
OSS Newsletter - Winter 1987

•) Action! - Graphics Utilities Library and Shape Editor

•) Synapse Software: SynMail; was finished according to Steve Hales, but after SynCalc und SynFile+ never sold to the public. So, somewhere out there, it may exists

•) Synapse Software: SynText; was finished according to Steve Hales, but after SynCalc und SynFile+ never sold to the public. So, somewhere out there, it may exists

•) Synapse Software: SynTax; ever shipped? Status, as of 2015, is complete unclear.

•) Assembler Editor Cartridge Source Code

•) MAC/65 Source Code

•) BUG/65 Source Code

•) Calculator Source Code

•) Daimond GOS Source Code

•) Charles Marslett-Fast Math Routines

•) Turbo Basic XL-Source Code

•) Forth Compiler from Frank Ostrowski

•)* Phoenix for Atari 800

•) Silent Butler 80 ; never shipped, but finished

•) Pole Position II (title by Namco; never shipped, but exists!)

•) Atari Editor CX8105 (maybe replaced by the Atari Program Text Editor?) •) Atari States and Capitals as .wav-file with sound (does it exists?)

•) German ATARI SOFTWARE:
Super Sort
Terminkalender
Biorhythmus DXG 5727 ; just the 8K-version!
Super Biorythmus
Disk Fixer
Diskettenbibliothek
Fehler abc
Bonbonglas/Chaos

•) WWF-Club-Spiel - A cartridge used by German Television in the 80's for a call-in game via telephone - programmer has lived in Hattingen/Germany

•) Atari Learning System Software (complete)

Images of the lost things:#

The Atari Accountant Series

Atari Home Finance or Personal Finance

Phoenix (Original)

Phoenix - fig. 1

Phoenix - fig. 2

Phoenix - fig. 3

Phoenix - fig. 4