What's brewing in Atari Bit Byter User Club e.V.

ABBUC e.V.

What is ABBUC

• Atari 8bit User Club
  • Focus on 8bit 6502 Atari Computer
  • (very) little Atari ST/PoFo/Jaguar/Lynx (on purpose)
  • Founded in 1985 (40y anniversary coming in 2025)
  • 568 Members (as of 4th Dec 2024)
    • approx 2/3 from Germany, 1/3 outside Germany

Membership

• Membership costs 31,20 Euro (in Germany) or 32,00 Euro (everywhere else)
• Membership fee stable since the start (October 1985, then 5 DM/Month or 60 DM/Year)
• Signup: write an email to vorstand@abbuc.de (Board)

ABBUC Magazine

• Quarterly full color magazine with Disk
  • 48-64 pages A5
  • German issue printed
  • English issue as PDF (printed english issue in discussion)
  • Virtual floppy disk as ATR download
  • Physical floppy disk on request (Opt-In)

ABBUC Magazine

ABBUC Competitions

• Early access to ABBUC competition entries (software and/or information)
  • Applications (Spring, new in 2025)
  • Creative works (Spring, new in 2025)
  • Games (Autumn)
  • Hardware (Autumn)

Member services

• Free "Membership goodies" like books, licensed commercial software, stickers
• Subsidezed hardware shop
• Repair Service
• Sponsorship for projects (Books, Hardware developments)
• Group-buys

Internet

• TNFS Server space on fujinet.abbuc.de
• @abbuc.de E-Mail address
• Webspace for personal website on ABBUC webserver

ABBUC is non-for-profit

• 100% of membership fees go back into Atari related projects
• Only volunteer staff
• ABBUC can't "sell" items to non-members (due to legal requirements)

Organization

• Board of directors (Alexander, Andreas, Carsten, Dirk, Thorsten)
• Regional chapters (RENO, AReWe, SAUG, AiB, …)

ABBUC meetings and parties

• NOMAM (2-3 days) in the North of Germany (March/April)
• HATZ (3-4 days) in Kellenbach (May)
• "Bitte 8bit" (2 days) in Göttingen (June)
• Fujiama: 6 day (Monday to Sunday) in Lengenfeld, Vogtland (August)
• AGM (annual general meeting) in Herten, NRW (October)

Fujiama

Outreach

• Various Vintage Computing Festivals (USA and Germany)
• Retro Computing Festival Paderborn
• GamesCon (Cologne)
• Sillyventure

Projects

Sally-1 restauration

• German ATR-8000 clone from 1982
• Shugart Floppy Adapter / Serial / Printer
• Full CP/M Computer
• Multiplexes drives for multiple Atari computer
• Restauration done by Roland Scholz (Chaos) and Mark Brings (Sleeπ)

Sally-1

Sally-2

• Modern recreation of the Sally-1
• Will be available in kit form 2025
• Fully documented
• Design done by Roland Scholz (Chaos) and Mark Brings (Sleeπ)

Sally-2

Atari 600 XL mainboard remake

• New and enhanced Atari 600 XL PCB
• By Janko Grewe (Kveldulfur)

Atari 600 XL mainboard remake

Atari 600 XL transparent case

• Plexiglas transparent case for 600 XL
• by Knot Goldberg (KGO) and Andre Motzkus (andymanone)

BW-DOS 1.5 refresh and handbook

• Updated version Sparta DOS compatible DOS from Jiri Bernasek
• Work by Holger Janz
• Version 1.5 upcoming
• Website https://github.com/HolgerJanz/BW-DOS
• New handbook (english/german/polish?)

FAT-16/32 driver/dos

• DOS/Driver for FAT-16/32 for A8 machines
• Sector based access to modern media (SIO2USB, Sally-1/Sally-2)

Support for Atari Preservation Project

• Creating Flux images from original disks and tapes
• Aim for preservation of magnetic media

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