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    The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
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    The Atari XE Video Game System (Atari XEGS) is an industrial redesign of the Atari 65XE home computer and the final model in the Atari 8-bit computer series...
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  • Atari 8-bit computer peripherals include floppy drives, printers, modems, and video game controllers for Atari 8-bit computers, which includes the 400/800...
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  • programs were available for Atari 8-bit computers. Atari, Inc. was primarily the publisher following the launch of the Atari 400/800 in 1979, then increasingly...
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  • personal computers, such as the Apple I, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, BBC Micro, PET, VIC-20, and in home video game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and...
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    already appeared on previous Atari home platforms. The system architecture is almost identical to that of the Atari 8-bit computers, although software is not...
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    This is a list of game titles released for Atari 8-bit computers, sorted alphabetically. Contents 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X...
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    the company. Atari Corporation dropped support for the 7800, along with the 2600 and the Atari 8-bit computers, on January 1, 1992. The Atari 7800 ProSystem...
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  • The Atari Microsoft BASIC and Atari Microsoft BASIC II variants of the 6502-version of Microsoft BASIC ported to the Atari 8-bit computers. The first version...
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    "Atari 8-Bit Computers FAQ". Archived from the original on August 28, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018. "The Atari "Graduate" Computer CX-3000". Atari Museum...
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  • Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit computers. Operating system extensions loaded into memory were required in order for an...
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    Atari BASIC is an interpreter for the BASIC programming language that shipped with Atari 8-bit computers. Unlike most American BASICs of the home computer...
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    the Atari VCS (1977), ColecoVision (1982), Famicom (1983), Genesis/Mega Drive (1988); and home computers such as the TI-99/4 (1979), Atari 8-bit computers...
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    Television Interface Adaptor (GTIA) are custom chips used in the Atari 8-bit computers and Atari 5200 home video game console. In these systems, a CTIA or GTIA...
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    POKEY (redirect from Atari POKEY)
    designed by Doug Neubauer at Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was first released with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 in 1979 and is included...
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    ATASCII (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is a character encoding used in the Atari 8-bit home computers. ATASCII...
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  • Rescue on Fractalus! (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    1985 for the Atari 8-bit computers and Atari 5200 console, then ported to the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Tandy Color Computer 3, and Commodore...
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    first to add hardware supported sprite graphics 1979: Atari 8-bit computers (N. Am.), first computers with custom chip set and programmable video chip and...
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    Jay Miner (category American computer businesspeople)
    primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers and as the "father of the Amiga". Jay Miner received his...
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  • providing computer access to the public it had classes on the programming language BASIC. Later, it added Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, for a total...
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  • generation of home computers. The company began with developing games for Apple II, and later expanded to the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, and IBM PC...
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    was led by Jay Miner, who continued at Atari expanding on the design of the TIA for the Atari 8-bit computers with the ANTIC,CTIA/GTIA and POKEY chips...
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  • Threshold (video game) (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    ROM cartridge: Atari 8-bit computers and VIC-20 in 1981, Commodore 64 in 1983, and ColecoVision and Thomson computers in 1984. An Atari 2600 adaptation...
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  • Choplifter (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    Broderbund in 1982. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers the same year, and also to the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari 5200 (released in February 1984), ColecoVision...
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  • Optimized Systems Software (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    primarily for Atari 8-bit computers. The founders of OSS previously developed Atari DOS, Atari BASIC, and the Atari Assembler Editor for Atari, Inc., and...
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    Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers. The initial model, the Atari...
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    ventured into the home computer market with their first 8-bit computers, but their products did not fare as well as their competitors'. Atari lost more than US$530...
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  • The Atari XEGS, released in 1987, is the final member of the Atari 8-bit computers. This list only contains games released by Atari Corporation during...
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  • Flight Simulator II (Sublogic) (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    1983 for the Apple II, in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64, in 1986 for the Amiga and Atari ST, the Atari XEGS as a pack-in title in 1987...
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  • Kangaroo (video game) (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    flickering. Atari published ports for the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. The 5200 version was ported to Atari 8-bit computers and sold through the Atari Program...
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