Thank you for your positive feedback everyone - that's what keeps me working late every night continuing to build this site. There's lots more to come too!
Irrlichtproject, I'd like to address your concerns one by one, so you can get some insight into the progress and development behind this site and perhaps gain some understanding and perspective.
1) The layout of my site is flashy because I am a graphic designer. I have the ability to make it appear this way because that's what I do - it's my art - that's who I am. For a website that is only 4 months old, it has an incredible amount of content. You should also know that I am maintaining a Joomla and PHPBB3 system that requires constant upgrades and maintenance and problem solving. There are countless bugs and errors to figure out on a daily basis. Often, it can take an entire week to fix just one thing by fishing through thousands of lines of CSS code and HTML. I'm also building it by myself and staying up late every night to make sure it runs smoothly.
Additionally, in 2009, the site was hacked and everything was deleted. Someone must have been very jeoulous of what I was doing - I don't know. But I almost gave up because I was so devastated.
2) Again, AMN is only 4 months old - not "half a year". Please don't compare a new website to a huge, established one like DHS. Everyone has the right to a beginning - this is my beginning.
3) Whether or not a chiptune musician is "stupid enough not to realize that their machine has MIDI", as you say, is a terrible thing to project on me and accuse me of thinking. My intention is to bring these two very distinct forms of musical composition together in one place - they are not related in any other way except for being made on an Atari. There are also some musicians combining the two forms together and I think that is well worth showcasing. The "gap" is the gap between the two distinct electronic genres.
The synthcart for Atari2600 hasn't been ignored. You obviously haven't been to the site in a long time - I've had "Army of 2600" featured since Feb 18th and have even included this genre in the main menu. Right now, I'm also putting together another link section for 8-bit Atari computers.
5) There are far more than 50 Atari musicians out there. I wouldn't have built a site like this if there wasn't. The AMN Facebook group has attracted nearly 400 members so far. Again, all this in 4 months by myself is pretty impressive I think.
Why would you say such negative things? I always welcome constructive criticism, but this is outright mean. If you don't like something, why don't you offer to help add content to the site instead of criticize it in such an insulting way? I'm trying to give something useful and meaningful to the chiptune and vintage MIDI community.
Peace,
Donovan