8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The architecture is designed around the MOS Technology 6502...
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with the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS or later branded as the Atari 2600) in 1977. To bring the Atari VCS to market, Bushnell sold Atari to Warner...
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The Atari 5200 SuperSystem or simply Atari 5200 is a home video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari, Inc. as a higher-end complement for the popular...
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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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Star Raiders (category Atari 2600 games)
1980 by Atari, Inc. Originally released for the Atari 400/800 computers, Star Raiders was later ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari ST. The...
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to the 1990s. It was originally introduced on the Atari 2600 in 1977 and then used on the Atari 400 and 800 in 1979. It went cross-platform with the VIC-20...
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their first home computers, the Atari 400 and 800. Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer...
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controllers for Atari 8-bit computers, which includes the 400/800, XL, XE, and XEGS. Because the Atari 400/800 8-bit computers were bundled with an RF modulator...
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language was distributed as an 8 KB ROM cartridge for use with the 1979 Atari 400 and 800 computers. Starting with the 600XL and 800XL in 1983, BASIC is...
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The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to...
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true virtual machine "MERA 400 wiki" (in Polish). Mera400.pl. 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2020-03-01. "Emulators Online - Atari 8-bit Emulation". See also:...
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Video game crash of 1983 (redirect from Atari Shock)
The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985...
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ASCII art (section Atari 400/800 ATASCII)
the website. Some strips have been translated to Polish and French. The Atari 400/800, which were released in 1979, did not follow the ASCII standard 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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Atari (/əˈtɑːri/) is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French company Atari SA...
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computers. November – Atari, Inc. releases the first two models in the Atari 8-bit home computer series: the Atari 400 and Atari 800. They feature custom...
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Atari, Inc. to Tramiel. Its chief products were the Atari ST, Atari XE, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx and Atari Jaguar. The company reverse merged with JTS Inc....
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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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The Atari VCS is a home video game console produced by Atari, Inc. While its exterior encasing design is intended to pay homage to the Atari 2600, the...
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Bob Whitehead (category Atari people)
together with the rest of the Gang of Four, of the operating system for the Atari 400/800 computers. It has been however clarified both by Al Miller and by...
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Larry Kaplan (category Atari stubs)
the Atari 400 and 800 home computers. He co-founded Activision in late 1979. Since leaving Activision in 1982, Kaplan has worked at Amiga,Atari Games...
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Commodore's 8050, 8250 & 8250LP PET disk drives. The Atari 850 Interface, which gives the Atari 400 and 800 computers an RS-232 interface, uses two 6532...
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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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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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Screensaver (section Atari)
change the activating time was released on Apple's Lisa, in 1983. The Atari 400 and 800's screens would also go through random screensaver-like color...
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Tempest (video game) (redirect from Tempest (Atari))
Tempest is a 1981 arcade video game by Atari, Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface divided into...
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ATASCII (category Atari 8-bit computers)
not fully compatible with it. The first computers in the Atari 8-bit series are the Atari 400 and 800, released in 1979, and later models were released...
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Miner 2049er (category Atari 2600 games)
in decline, the team refocused their attention to making games for the Atari 400 and 800 computer line. As the TRS-80 had graphics that were monochrome...
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United States, the greatest competitors were the Atari 8-bit computers and the Apple II. The Atari 400 and 800 had been designed to accommodate previously...
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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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