The best musicians have 8 bit ATARI 800S

The best reason for having at least a 16K 8-bit Atari with Cassette: PREPPIE!!! Just have to wait five minutes for it to load.

The second best game for 8-bit Ataris - PREPPIE II!!

The third best game for 8-bit Ataris - ARCKON! You can hack the program and change the UNICORNs to HORSEYs.

My first programming achievement back in 1981 on my high school days DIGITAL PDP 11 written in Basic - HANGMONK.BAS - JUST HANGMAN for monkees - Didn't care about hanging human beings - Used '@' for fur! Knew escape codes for clr screen and cursor to top of screen for terminals. Couldn't believe 3 people to 6 people out of 22 terminals were playing this game. Once I find my cabling for my ATARI 800XL with 256K RAM, I'm hoping to spend an afternoon when I find some time writing this same thing again in Atari basic.

So all you need is a 800XL, a 1050 disk drive, with ASSEMBLER EDITOR cartridge, 6502 DETAILS, the Atari Bible - DE RE ATARI - The Atari 8 bit memory map, and if you have enough time on your hands you can change the world!!!

Beck Hansen who wrote his most famous "Loser" nearly lost his shirt to a splat cluster problem with his Commodore 64, and if it weren't for Uncle Tom "Tom Petty" giving Bech Hansen his ATARI 800XL, he would have lost his account with Geffen.

MY BECK HANSEN LOSER COMMODORE 64 USER IMMITATOR VIDEO

LOSER by Carl Stephenson and Beck Hansen, 1993

It was edited by pReppieddie on atariusernut.com

THE REAL lyrics, found Becks ATARI 8-bit FILE LOSERTXT on the atariusersnuts.com site.

Saw both Carl Stephenson and Beck Hansen with an ATARI 800XL, 810 Drive on a B/W TV set, a C64 in the Toilet, with the seat up and this:

In the time of POKEYS, I was a monkey

ANTICS in my veins so I'll INTERRUPT the junkie

With the plastic GAME CARTRIDGES, spray paint the vegetables

DE RE ATARI stalls with the beefcake pantyhose

Kill the headlights and put it in neutral

Stock car flamin' with a ATARI 800 and the cruise control

Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D8:

Got a couple of couches sleep on the ANTIC seat

Someone keeps sayin' I'm got SIDS C64 to complain about

About a shotgun wedding and ATARI on my shirt

Don't believe everything that you read in DE RE ATARI

You get a C64 DISK SPLAT violation and a maggot on your sleeve

So shave your face with some VERTICAL BLANK in the dark

Savin' all your COOKIES stamps and SEX S:DRIVE down the trailer park

CHORUS:

Curses!!!, Got a COMMODORE

I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me? (double barrel buckshot)

Curses!!! Got a COMMODORE

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

The forces of COMMODORE in a bozo nightmare

Ban all the POKEY CHIPS with a phony gas chamber

'Cause one's got a DARTH NOP and the other's got a 6502 flag

One's got to shove it on the STACK the other in a bag

With the PRINTED CIRCUIT shows and the PUBLIC DOMAIN nose job

The daytime 6502 TRAP with the folksinger FLOPPY

He hung himself with a POKEY string

A slab of "Ld CRAP.BAS,8" and it's hangin' KEYBOARD and SCREEN

You can't get it right if you can't Delete it

Trade the C64, for the real ATARI 800 thing, not the hate

And my time is a piece of FAX fallin' on a termite

That's chokin' on the splinters

CHORUS:

Curses!!!, Got a COMMODORE