The people behind the magazine websites like ST Format, ST Review, Zogging Hell and Exxos who also develops new hardware add-ons.
Plus dozens of others who celebrate the Atari ST gaming in a way or another by making videos (Gears of Games, Joy of STicks and Wasabim for example), writing blog entries (AtariCrypt), finding out old developers to talk about the lost games and clear the Atari gaming myths (Lost Dragon), people who write Atari gaming articles for the commercially published magazines. Then there are older sites like Klapauzius' and DBUG's ones for HD solutions aswell. Not to mention patching them to run on a faster hardware like Mega STe or Falcon030! And the fact he actually wrote his own hard disk driver to squeeze all the juice out of our modern hardware add-ons is just a piece of art! Like Peter Putnik's hard disk patched games website, which not only offers gaming solutions for SD card devices, but in many cases also enhances old games with STe support. Then there are as important websites who has pushed the envelope by bringing the Atari ST / Falcon gaming to the current era. Without their hard work many rare releases would have been vanished already! I remember that every time i click a download link from one of these websites. Thankfully we have an active premium ones like Atari Legend, and DemoZoo's ST / Falcon030 section who are doing a fantastic job in preserving and documenting the scene history from the end user's point. There are dozens of websites offering hacked ST game downloads already. Having something to download is just an extra. In many cases people don't realize that we are trying to be a bit more than a usual "gimme all the games.NOW!" website.Ītarimania ST's primary purpose is what the title says: to be a database which tries to give an accurate tour of Atari ST software history from 1985 to 2018 and beyond as long as the internet and the members of ST database are alive. Thanks Sorry for a bit long post but i've realised not everyone seems to have an understanding of what we software preservation people do with our lives, so here we go. Your hard work has not gone unappreciated.
Atarimania has been an invaluable resource to so many of us.
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