ABBUC Magazin – Overview of All Disk-Magazine Issues

Short description of every disk magazine issue (no. 1–166). Details are in NNN/index.en.html. Dates before about magazine 44 are estimated.

1 – ca. 1985

First issue of the "Atari Bit Byter" club magazine with pure BASIC programs such as poker, music box, calendar generator and unit converter. The info text introduces the club with about 20 members. Details

2 – ca. 1985

Contains music theory drills, a jackpot slot machine, graphics demos and a prank program. The info shows a trick for mixing GRAPHICS 0 and 1. Details

3 – ca. 11/1985

Brings 3-D graphics, an autorun generator, a Bond Street adventure, Morse and sound programs. The info reports on the founding of the association on 19 October 1985 and the club history. Details

4 – ca. 1/1986

With a window routine, appointment calendar, hardware connection tester, globe and a multi-part crown-collecting game on side B. The info offers games for sale. Details

5 – ca. 1986

Psychological test, lotto, poster printing, Reversi, sprite generator, Mastermind and hardcopy programs. Also a list of construction plans and ads from Don't Copy Software. Details

6 – ca. 10/1986

The issue appears in a new look with Air Hockey, the Zauberschloss adventure, Towers of Hanoi and utilities. The texts report 277 members and a book survey. Details

7 – ca. 12/1986

Supercolor pictures, a talking program, 3-D shapes, address management and Turbo-BASIC tools. The info reports on recognition by Atari Germany and US club contacts. Details

8 – ca. 2–3/1987

Scrolling-text generator, memory game, disk disassembler, typing trainer and sound demos. The info mentions 382 members and a program that prints eight pictures on one A4 page. Details

9 – ca. 6/1987

First issue on coloured disks with battleships, Game of Life, Mandelbrot and DOS patches. The texts include a questionnaire, classified ads and a test of "Super Cheater". Details

10 – ca. 9/1987

Anniversary issue for issue 10 and 600 members with a partner-choice test, a Winter Olympics game and printer tools. Texts on tips, data transfer and the planned mailbox. Details

11 – ca. 11/1987

Terminal program, Spirograph, player/missile demo and currency converter, plus SuperDOS for Happy/Speedy. Test reports on "Replay" and "Resident". Details

12 – ca. 1–2/1988

Contains the searchable magazine index "Easyfind", digitised portraits and a rice-grain program. The texts evaluate the members' survey and describe the XF551. Details

13 – ca. 3–4/1988

With parquet patterns, utility-bill accounting, a sector splitter and a distance calculator. A Pascal course begins, plus a CeBIT report. Details

14 – ca. 9–10/1988

The game "Die verflixte Vertretung", brain teasers, an adventure and tax calculation. New "PD-Ecke" column and Pascal course part 2. Details

15 – ca. 11/1988

Morse code receiver, CS-Editor, address manager and cryptogram. Test reports on DOS XE and PrintPower, Pascal course part 3. Details

16 – ca. 3/1989

MyDOS issue with a puzzle, fog game, archive unpacker and hardcopy routines. Reports on the search at Mathias Koester's home and the XEP-80 test. Details

17 – ca. 6–7/1989

ALFER packer, 1020 hardcopy, TV test patterns and a dragon animation. Invitation to the first beginners' programming course and tips on DOS 2.x. Details

18 – ca. 9–10/1989

Games "Rowly" and "Take", lotto system, tax program and RAM-disk installer. Texts on the end of Atari Magazin, contacts abroad and the XFormer. Details

19 – ca. 11/1989

Multitasking operating system MOS, Batman picture with digitised sound, map drawer and a stock-market game. Texts on multitasking, QUICK and regional meetings. Details

20 – ca. 1/1990

Anniversary issue with multitasking demos, a birthday demo and an Easter-egg painter. Bank-switching article, multitasking course part 1 and a paper supplement. Details

21 – ca. 7–8/1990

Character editor, software blitter, Alfred E. Hacker and games. 720 members, IBM adapter and multitasking course part 2. Details

22 – ca. 10/1990

Mouse driver manual (MOS), Speedy 1050 report and XF35 kit. The multitasking course ends and a contest is announced. Details

23 – ca. 11/1990

Magic Menu 2.6A, disk catalogue package, sphere graphics and the PC picture converter ART. Construction-plan list, rhythm-composer manual and a note on "New Atari User". Details

24 – ca. 2–3/1991

BASIC course, Yahtzee, GIF viewer and Garfield print. Survey evaluation, Graphics Forth test, Megaram and Floppy 2000. Details

25 – ca. 6/1991

Anniversary issue with the game "Bighouse", Magic Menu 3.0A and, for the first time, compressed texts. Includes an extra source-code disk. Details

26 – ca. 9/1991

Tron game, PSC Charts, an unpacker for texts and a crows board game. Texts on Hobbytronic, hardware projects and the TOP magazine. Details

27 – ca. 12/1991

Christmas issue with a Tron editor, batch-file enhancement and touch-tablet text entry. Obituary for Mathias Koester and a report on the Munich regional meeting. Details

28 – ca. 3/1992

Soundmonitor pieces, laser duel, TurboGrafik and a thermometer logger. Texts on TurboGrafik, jargon, trigonometry and tests. Details

29 – ca. 6/1992

Directory editor Wizard, 3-D Tetris, 130XE bank switching and fractals. Fair report, POKEY meeting in Arnhem and the Mega Magazine. Details

30 – ca. 8/1992

Joytype for the disabled, Copy 2000 and demos. Texts on networks, an NMI hobby article and several test reports. Details

31 – ca. 12/1992

Fractal generator, 1029 driver and the "Unriagh Adventure Maker". Hardware texts on Bibomon, ARGS and a 1 MB expansion. Details

32 – ca. 2/1993

Micro-SpartaDOS, game creator and Pixel Box II. Report from the Chaos Communication Congress, construction-plan list and postal-reform notes. Details

33 – ca. 4/1993

Bowling game, golf, an 8-channel logic analyser and contest programs. Tests of Depot Plus and Fampy. Details

34 – ca. 7–8/1993

Vector scroller, Bombdown, a comet game and finance databases. Test reports, Munich regional group and a programming task. Details

35 – ca. 11/1993

Micro-SpartaDOS 2.2, Sisyphos and fractals. Texts on Strange Invasion, the Koala format and the Stuttgart ARGS. Details

36 – ca. 2–3/1994

New viewer program with picture display, Disk Communicator and sector editor. Texts on ARGS, HDI and solutions to the programming task. Details

37 – ca. 4–5/1994

The magazine officially becomes a periodical (press mail). Super Packer, virus scanner, Deskjet driver and a Datasette RAM disk. Details

38 – ca. 8–9/1994

Copy programs, Polish games, a disk editor and the ARGS real-time clock. The text supplement grows to 32 pages. Details

39 – ca. 11–12/1994

XFormer Transfer, ARGS RS232 handler and a maths trainer. Texts on the XMM801 printer and member recruitment. Details

40 – ca. 2–3/1995

Mouse drivers for ST and Amiga mice, Stereo Blaster demo, roulette and much Chaos music. Texts on games, football tips and a legal dispute. Details

41 – ca. 5/1995

Planetary system explainer, SuperFractal and an interview with FTE. Report on the Hanau Atari fair and a mailbox report. Details

42 – ca. 8–9/1995

Morse program, a painting-contest entry from Poland and a BW-DOS update. Texts on hardware by Armin Stuermer, 5.25" drives and SIO2PC. Details

43 – ca. 12/1995

Disassembler, Movie Player with Christmas movies and ARGS extensions. Christmas greetings from Ol'Hackers and a printer test. Details

44 – ca. 3/1996

Turbo-BASIC compiler, video archive and a Terminator movie. Report on the hardware campaign and regional groups. Details

45 – ca. 6/1996

Wage-tax calculation, Sokoban, Colipri plotter printing and demos. Book list, XEP-80 group order and test reports. Details

46 – ca. 9–10/1996

Contest entries from Poland, B-Tape and a first demo. Texts on the EPROM service and the IDE controller. Details

47 – ca. 12/1996

HELP system, XL2 multitasking and SpartaDOS RAM disks. Texts on the mail-order catalogue and IDE update. Details

48 – ca. 3/1997

Light-gun games, Speedy HSS and a book list with reader. Reports on Schreiersgruen, the Berlin computer museum and the XF351. Details

49 – ca. 6/1997

Mega Player, 256-colour viewer, Dynakillers demo and a clock/stopwatch. Call for the anniversary issue and Demo Corner. Details

50 – ca. 9/1997

Anniversary issue with a kaleidoscope, Capital game, 3-D maze and character editor. Look back on 50 magazines. Details

51 – ca. 12/1997

Christmas issue with lotto, crossword, Yahtzee, Wumpus and poker. Side B has a damaged directory. Details

52 – ca. 3/1998

Focus on keyboards and cartridges, plus Dynakillers ABBUC edition and Protracker. Obituary for Armin Stuermer and conversion series part 1. Details

53 – ca. 6/1998

FunMusic, darts counter and Taifun. Texts on conversions, VAR and XFDVIEW. Details

54 – ca. 10/1998

Small utilities (password, copier, cassette log), digital voltmeter and Polish demos. Conversion series part 3. Details

55 – ca. 12/1998

Bembel Wo with light gun, RLE converter and a write-protect test. Texts on a CD-ROM, Elmshorn Computer Days and saving the Atari Magazin. Details

56 – ca. 3/1999

Hyper-XF tools, Euro utility and a MOD converter. Piracy discussion and conversion series part 6. Details

57 – ca. 6/1999

Text adventure "In the Land of Terror" with vampires and werewolves on side B. SCSI parity problem and lotto evaluation. Details

58 – ca. 9/1999

Radek Streba's demos, IDE utilities and PC freeware such as XFDVIEW. Focus on documentation files. Details

59 – ca. 12/1999

Best of Show of the 1999 annual meeting, Bewesoft Text Converter and Pokey stereo patches. Last issue of the millennium. Details

60 – ca. 3/2000

Magnetit, sound demos and Ol' Hackers tools; IDE and infrared remote-control programs. First issue of the new millennium. Details

61 – ca. 6/2000

Techno breakout, a maze game and a hard-disk browser. Comparison of IDE interfaces and GTIA correction. Details

62 – ca. 9/2000

HIP player, a Mario game and Unconventional 2000 entries. Atari preservation project and a warning about piracy. Details

63 – ca. 12/2000

JPEG viewer with sample pictures, Game Graph Utility and picture/font collection. Last issue of 2000. Details

64 – ca. 3/2001

Pong clones, Music Player TV and a "Home Security System" alarm. XLE sound CDs. Details

65 – ca. 6–7/2001

Forever 2E3 entries, MIDI tools and the "Pipeline" puzzle. Realtime article from the After Eight Party. Details

66 – ca. 9/2001

Multijoy games, demos and a SAP music archive. Game Clones vol. 3. Details

67 – ca. 12/2001

Movie-player demo, Christmas movie, Boulder Dash clones and OHRBLUT. Report from the 2001 annual meeting. Details

68 – ca. 3/2002

Game Clones vol. 5, Boulder Dash levels and a demo. Spring and Easter. Details

69 – ca. 6/2002

Chromatic, an educational game, a cryptogram solution and Forever 3 entries. World Cup fever. Details

70 – ca. 9/2002

Music entries from Lato Ludzikow 2002, Superhack and Syntron. ICD e-mail and the Computer Museum Kiel. Details

71 – ca. 12/2002

Sector copier, sheep and card games, Game Clones vol. 8 and a network racing game. Software idea pool. Details

72 – ca. 3/2003

Mr. Fish, a maths program and Wheel. Software idea pool part 1 and the SLIDE presentation format. Details

73 – ca. 7/2003

CC65 demos, Gravitar-style games and Atari Writer Plus Super Menus. The Wiesbaden Gaming Lab introduces itself. Details

74 – ca. 10/2003

Network games Multirace and Multi Worms. English article series on network games. Details

75 – ca. 12/2003

Breakdancer, Alien Encyclopedia and Game Clones. Programming contest 2004 extended. Details

76 – ca. 3/2004

Mahna-Malysz, Mental and Fairy. Back side with a selection of games. Details

77 – ca. 8/2004

RMT player, MyPDOS and contest entries. Late after holidays. Details

78 – Q3 2004

Jelly Beans, Atari Greed and a Beef Drop demo as contest entries. A "just in time" issue. Details

79 – 12/2004

RealDOS info, contest and music pieces and sports-car graphics. Minutes of the 19th annual meeting. Details

80 – Q1 2005

Lepix, SID Player and Culmins. Rules of the software contest in six languages. Details

81 – Q2 2005

Sniper, Hexxagon, ACrypt and a JPEG viewer. Extensive club info after the Norway holiday. Details

82 – Q3 2005

Cubico, Cervi 2, Laser Blaster, Monex and XUNZIP2. Preparations for the 20th anniversary. Details

83 – Q4 2005

MyPicoDOS 4.04, Loon Thu and sound files. Annual-meeting minutes and anniversary report. Details

84 – Q1 2006

Mega Player 2.0, Venus music, LOGO programs and games such as Stray Ball. Magazine in the World Cup year. Details

85 – Q2 2006

Sudoku, Jigsaw, Detonator and System Info. Side B is unreadable. Details

86 – Q3 2006

Classical and maths programs by Dieter Gretzschel, FDISK ROM and Fuji Run. Short info from the floppy service. Details

87 – Q4 2006

Christmas issue with Christmas Eve Nightmare, Sudoku and Simon. Sound files by Mario Krix. Details

88 – Q1 2007

Flowmae, Scorpio 2 and Klony with 21 levels. The 2006/2007 annual gift is enclosed. Details

89 – Q2 2007

Forever 8 winners, Mind Blast and pictures from Grzybsoniada. Info before the summer holidays. Details

90 – Q3 2007

Four-disk issue with Sprite Engine, Yoomp!, SID player and Speed Up Gold. Report from the Fuji-Jama Party. Details

91 – Q4 2007

Master Mind variants, DOC-Maker, Sniper and intros. After the annual meeting, before Christmas. Details

92 – Q1 2008

Atarivia, Knight Lore, Jet Set Willy 2007 and 3-D demos. Several surprises. Details

93 – Q2 2008

BAS2COM converter, a Euro 2008 game and Metagalactic Llamas. Euro 2008 mood in the editorial. Details

94 – Q3 2008

Unusual issue without menu: contest entries, XDOS 2.4 and Cook Monster. The info is a program on the disk. Details

95 – Q4 2008

Fireball 1k, BASIC games by Jason Kendall and Demo Maker. Christmas issue with CTB linker. Details

96 – Q1 2009

VolksForth, ALOGO and Dratewka the Shoemaker. AtariAge overview. Details

97 – Q2 2009

Click!, Space Arena and The Last Word 3.0. With annual gift and special magazine 41. Details

98 – Q3 2009

Isora, Snake It, Gorilla and E-Maniac levels. Shortly before the annual meeting. Details

99 – Q4 2009

Christmas Boulder Dash, Galaxian and Micro Environ. Turbo-BASIC course and LCD text output. Details

100 – Q1 2010

Anniversary issue with three-part title intro, a puzzle game and a Centipede conversion. The 100th info and a hardware test. Details

101 – Q2 2010

Super Pac-Man, Dr. Mario and Satellite. Second issue of the anniversary year. Details

102 – Q3 2010

Hex and jewel puzzles, Robix, Donny 2 and Star Protector. 2500 disk sides before the annual meeting. Details

103 – Q4 2010

Robbo, Chopin demo, Sudoku and clones of Snake, Sokoban and Tetris. With annual gift. Details

104 – Q1 2011

Intros and graphics entries from Silly Venture. Plus an XF551 HEX file. Details

105 – Q2 2011

Music Memory, Mission, New Year Demo and a BMP converter. Summer-solstice issue. Details

106 – Q3 2011

PDP-8 emulator, Sheriff game, Bits1600 and CRC32. Parts of side B are damaged. Details

107 – Q4 2011

Silly Venture 2011 entries and C-Drug. Annual-meeting minutes and year review. Details

108 – Q1 2012

Pac-Man, Worm, Fester's Quest and many Silly Venture entries. The editor retires. Details

109 – Q2 2012

Graphics compo entries of Silly Venture 2011 and Theta Music Composer. Late because of a bereavement. Details

110 – Q3 2012

Snakes of Atari Island, OGD and Order It+. Autumn before the annual meeting. Details

111 – Q4 2012

Michael Jackson demo, Ms. Bulimia and Bumpong. 2012 annual-meeting report. Details

112 – Q1 2013

Caterpillar, P-Basia, Robbo and Sudoku 1.3. Atari logo as a TIP picture. Details

113 – Q2 2013

IPC viewer, Magic Stone and Dynakillers unchained. Summer issue with 1-Wire source. Details

114 – Q3 2013

Ten-liners of NOMAM 2013, Dev War and the ATL viewer. Issue without info text. Details

115 – Q4 2013

Silly Venture 2013 entries, Mahjong and Balz. 2013 annual-meeting minutes. Details

116 – Q1 2014

Galaga, Piranha and Beep'em All 4 as an LZ4 music disk. 40-page text supplement. Details

117 – Q2 2014

Cave Blaster, Daffy and Padpal; side B with Turbo-BASIC ten-liners. World Cup and holiday time. Details

118 – Q3 2014

Joe Painter, Dimo's Quest and Ramp Rage; levels on side B. Contests in focus. Details

119 – Q4 2014

Mission, Xirius Defekt XXL and Wapniak 2014 games. 2014 annual-meeting minutes. Details

120 – Q1 2015

Silly Venture 2014 entries such as Penguins, Peace and The Lost Bytes. A particularly extensive text supplement. Details

121 – Q2 2015

Tapper, Forever 2015 mini demos and Zeppelin. With annual gift. Details

122 – Q3 2015

Gravity, Fujiama picture and ASC 2015 games on side B. Later than planned. Details

123 – Q4 2015

Bobby Bearing, Sprint 1 and Fairlight. 2015 annual-meeting minutes in the 31st ABBUC year. Details

124 – Q1 2016

E-Type, AtariNet 1.0 and a ten-liner contest. Side B is all BASIC. Details

125 – Q2 2016

Wolves, high-resolution graphics and Codeman. Summer issue after thunderstorms. Details

126 – Q3 2016

Tools of the 2016 software contest: Graphics 3 Planner, PMGMAKE, Title Studio GR15 and BGP viewer. 2700 disk sides to copy. Details

127 – Q4 2016

Silly Venture 2016 entries, 16K intros and Pokey music. Annual-meeting minutes and Atari Invasion 2k17. Details

128 – Q1 2017

Chimera Plus, Crazy Egon 2 and Turbo-BASIC ten-liners. Reprint of a Spiegel article about Atari. Details

129 – Q2 2017

Large collection of ten-liners with launcher. Side B contains the game "Laura". Details

130 – Q3 2017

Bomb Square Duel, Superfly XL, War Room and Citron 3kg. Invitation to Silly Venture 2017. Details

131 – Q4 2017

Platform Game Engine, Dictum Acerbum, Tensor 2 and Multris fix. 2017 annual-meeting minutes. Details

132 – Q1 2018

Silly Venture 2017 entries, Bosconian and Exploding Fist. Easter issue. Details

133 – Q2 2018

Ski-It, Black Bouncy Blob, Kowalsky's Fury and Millionaire as contest entries. Four disks, one of them unreadable. Details

134 – Q3 2018

Games of the 2018 ABBUC contest with documentation. Data disk unreadable. Details

135 – Q4 2018

Silly Venture 2018 entries and results of the hardware and software contests. Minutes of the 33rd annual meeting. Details

136 – Q1 2019

Sails of DOOM, Mage and Silly Venture graphics. New ABBUC logos by Holger Bommer. Details

137 – Q2 2019

Forever 2019 demos, My Home my Space my Planet and Mister Hoppe. Kyan Pascal programs. Details

138 – Q3 2019

ATFile, ATR Maker Deluxe, Block on Legs and Dungeon Hunt II; game collection on side B. Software contest and annual-meeting invitation. Details

139 – Q4 2019

Wolfgang 007, Joe Painter WB and Banknote (1983). First issue with the new editor. Details

140 – Q1 2020

Raycaster by Paul Lay, Silly Venture 2019 winners and the space RPG Star Vagrant. 52-page supplement in the Corona spring. Details

141 – Q2 2020

Angry Betty, Tutoris, Doodleman and a Turbo-BASIC collection. Thinner than issue 140. Details

142 – Q3 2020

The programs of the ABBUC Software Contest 2020. Short info because of the many entries. Details

143 – Q4 2020

Man Up Deluxe, Sector Wars, Timeslip 2020 and Big Mess Deluxe. Year review with a tribute to Sean Connery. Details

144 – Q1 2021

CC65 chess, Cross games and Major Blink 2020. CRC checksums of the programs. Details

145 – Q2 2021

Night Rescue 1941, Sokoban 2021, Xtended RAM Test and NOMAM 2021 ten-liners. A late issue. Details

146 – Q3 2021

Four-disk issue with sapemu, BrushUp XE 4.0 and XDOS 2.51 with manual. ASC 2021 entries such as Kooky Klimber and Robot Dungeon. Details

147 – Q4 2021

Alien Assault 2121, Atari 64, Kooky Diver and several 256-byte intros. Christmas issue. Details

148 – Q1 2022

FujiNet server news, video touch pad tester and Lovebyte entries. Many Silly Venture graphics and Winterland. Details

149 – Q2 2022

Isle of Zwarth, Hardware Detect and NOMAM 2022 ten-liners (Victor Parada et al.). Scorched Earth source. Details

150 – Q3 2022

Anniversary issue on eight disk sides: Hi-Res Transfer, Battle of Eris and a game collection with manuals. MIDICar Player and a 64-byte intro. Details

151 – Q4 2022

Controller test, Panther utilities and a Videopac racing game. After the first in-person annual meeting in two years. Details

152 – Q1 2023

ABBUC logo contest, assembler course example, Dungeoneer and Silly Lander. Club-register changes. Details

153 – Q2 2023

Full Scale Sector Copy 1.5, FujiAI, Chip-8 emulator and 2023 ten-liners. ABBUC logo back on the title screen. Details

154 – Q3 2023

Chip-8 emulator with assembler and programming article, Skirrid adventure, ADOOM. Hot summer, Fujiama. Details

155 – Q4 2023

ABBUC Wordle, uDOS 1.0, a reassembler and Rotor 2. Exciting soft-/hardware contest. Details

156 – Q1 2024

Tenebra puzzle games, A8CLibrary and Last Party intros. Assembler course part 5. Details

157 – Q2 2024

Mazezam 8k, Sudotris and ten-liners by Eric Carr and Victor Parada. Assembler course part 6. Details

158 – Q3 2024

Anti Air, Minesweeper, Soko64+ and Galagish. End-of-summer issue. Details

159 – Q4 2024

Tection, examples of a new BASIC variant and the text adventure YAS. Christmas issue. Details

160 – Q1 2025

Dangerous City, Go Tony Go, Cradle V3 and ug-BASIC examples; with special magazine 55. Start of the 40th anniversary year. Details

161 – Q2 2025

Showcase intro, Last Party 2025 entries and 2025 ten-liners. Written at the RENO meeting in Elmshorn. Details

162 – Q3 2025

Last/Lost Party 2025 and Fujiama intros, Jurassic Spark and Timberman; with special magazine 56. Late-summer issue. Details

163 – Q4 2025

BBC BASIC, Donkey.BAS and the Ool games plus the adventure Exodus. Released in the new year 2026. Details

164 – Q1 2026

AI-written games, Ditherlab and Forever 24 entries; with special magazine 57. Membership 533 and event calendar. Details

165 – Q2 2026

3D Monster Maze, Cold Fusion and the 2026 ten-liner contest. News about the shut-down forum and the cancelled Fujiama. Details

166 – Q3 2026

Castles, Drwal, Dungeon Disk and the ASC 2026 games; with special magazine 58 (14 contest games). Report on Summer Camp 2026 in Elkeringhausen. Details