SIO2PC is a godsend. That plus the APE software means anything disk-wise is usable right on your A8. You can save to and from it easily. I highly HIGHLY recommend it for any A8 user.

However if you get to the point where you want to try games... well you may end up stuck with Assembly for your programming needs. On 8-bit computers BASIC just doesn't have the speed or power to pull off much. Fun starting point, but when you want to get serious look up machine language.


atariarchives.org is your friend.