An electronic floppy disk-based "magazine" for Atari XL/XE computers.
The magazine deals with various topics related to the world of Atari 8-bit computers. The textual part includes news, interviews with famous personalities, information about events taking place, descriptions of programmes and hardware, guides for games or matters of interest for programmers. Furthermore, FLOP includes demos, utilities and games. In the past, the magazine also contained offers and reviews of literature, adverts, etc.
Should you have an idea about some other interesting contribution or an already finished article or your own programming production, we would be glad if you share.
Starting with issue 57 (i.e. since 2014), FLOP is published by Atari klub - spolek příznivců historické výpočetní techniky (Association of Historical Computing Enthusiasts). You can find up-to-date contact details of the publisher at the club's website. See Short history for a list of publishers of the older issues.
Download
In general, the content of the FLOP magazine can be considered freeware, unless the author of a particular contribution states otherwise. The individual FLOP issues (starting with issue 28) can be freely downloaded as a ZIP file. After extracting, you will generally obtain two files in ATR format (i.e. images for side A and side B).
 Flop_67 December 2022 |  Flop_66 November 2021 |  Flop_65 July 2020 |  Flop_64 October 2019 |  Flop_63 April 2019 |
 Flop_62 October 2018 |  Flop_61 April 2018 |  Flop_60 June 2017 |  Flop_59 April 2016 |  Flop_58 April 2015 |
 Flop_57 April 2014 |  Flop_56 April 2013 |  Flop_55 April 2012 |  Flop_54 April 2011 |  Flop_53 April 2010 |
 Flop_52 March 2009 |  Flop_51 April 2008 |  Flop_50 March 2007 |  Flop_49 May 2006 |  Flop_48 May 2006 |
 Flop_47 April 2004 |  Flop_46 April 2003 |  Flop_45 April 2002 |  Flop_44 April 2001 |  Flop_43 October 2000 |
 Flop_41_42 (two disks issue) |  Flop_40 |  Flop_39 |  Flop_38 |  Flop_37 |
 Flop_36 |  Flop_35 |  Flop_34 |  Flop_33 |  Flop_32 |
 Flop_31 |  Flop_30 |  Flop_29 |  Flop_28 |
Furthermore, the website contains
- List of directories and online contents of all issues from issue 28 in form of a single page (useful for searching text through all issues)
- List of directories and online contents of all issues from issue 28 by individual issues
- ZIP archive of issues 28 to 60 (Prostějov editor's office)
- List of directories (i.e. list of files) of issues 1 to 27
- ZIP archive of issues 1 to 27 (Rožnov editor's office)
Note:
FLOP magazine also works under emulators, e.g. Atari800 or Altirra. The fastest way is to start the emulator directly with parameters including ATR filenames, e.g.:
Atari800 v Linuxu:
atari800 FLOP_60A.ATR FLOP_60B.ATR
Atari800 v MS Windows:
ATARI800.EXE FLOP_60A.ATR FLOP_60B.ATR
Altirra v MS Windows:
ALTIRRA.EXE /disk FLOP_60A.ATR /disk FLOP_60B.ATR
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