1997 Atari Times Awards
In order to pay tribute to those people who have supported the Atari scene over the last year, the Atari Times launched the Atari Times Awards...
After a month of voting we are now pleased to announce the winners of the 1997 Atari Times Awards...
| Award | Best Programmer of 1997 | |
| Winner | Tony Greenwood | Comment |
| Other Nominations | Peter Rottengatter, Alexander Clauss, Anthony Jacques, Doug Little, Mark Wherry, Matthew Bacon, Matthias Jaap, Tat, Thomas Much | |
| Award | Best Commercial release of 1997 | |
| Winner | CAB 2.5 | |
| Other Nominations | MagiC, Papyrus 5, Homepage Pengiun 2.0pro, TOS2Win | |
| Award | Best Shareware release of 1997 | |
| Winner | The Running | Comment |
| Other Nominations | Thing, Start Me Up, CixComm/CixRead, Conquest of Elysium II, Everest, Freedom, Gemjing, Graoumf Tracker, LED, M Player, MIDPLAY, OLGA, PaCifiST, POP Watch, Resource Master | |
| Award | Best PD/Freeware release of 1997 | |
| Winner | STiNG | |
| Other Nominations | H.E.R.O 2, Godboy, Aniplayer, Appline, ASCONV, Diamond Ice, HS Modem, KP Flash, Newsie, Okami, XURL | |
| Award | Best TOS game of 1997 | |
| Winner | H.E.R.O. 2 | Comment |
| Other Nominations | Crown of Creation, Mole Mayhem | |
| Award | Best Jaguar game of 1997 | |
| Winner | Iron Soldier II | |
| Other Nominations | Tempest 2000, Towers 2 | |
| Award | Best Demo of 1997 | |
| Winner | Sonolumineszenz | Comment |
| Award | Best hardware add-on of 1997 | |
| Winner | Nemesis | Comment |
| Other Nominations | TUS Internal STE HD, PAK 030, Afterburner 040 | |
| Award | Best Atari supporting company of 1997 | |
| Winner | Titan Designs | Comment |
| Other Nominations | TUS, System Solutions, ASF, ASH, Computer Direct, Falke Verlag, Floppyshop, Goodmans | |
| Award | Best non-profit making Atari organisation of 1997 | |
| Winner | STOSSER Software | Comment |
| Other Nominations | ACG, Maggie, Croft Soft, CyberSTrider, InterActive, Portfolio Club, SHAG, WAG | |
| Award | Best Disk Magazine of 1997 | |
| Winner | ST+ | Comment |
| Other Nominations | Maggie, Atari Times, AtariPhile, ATOS | |
| Award | Best paper based magazine of 1997 | |
| Winner | Atari Computing | Comment |
| Other Nominations | ST Computer/Atari Inside, Dream, ST Magazine | |
| Award | Best Atari supporting web page | |
| Winner | The Atari Launchpad (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/8745/) | Comment |
| Other Nominations | STOSSER Software, The Zone, ASH, Elysium, Mille Babic, InterActive, Jo Vandeweghe, STAG, ZMOe COOLeR THAN Yee | |
| Award | Best Internet Service Provider for the Atari range | |
| Winner | Zetnet | Comment |
| Other Nominations | CIX, Pacifier.com | |
| Award | Special award for services to the Atari community | |
| Winner | Jeff Minter |
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