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    The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979...
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    arcade game Super Breakout which had already appeared on the Atari 8-bit computers and Atari VCS in 1979 and 1981 respectively. The CPU and the graphics...
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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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    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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    The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit fourth-generation hand-held game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe...
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  • Atari 8-bit computers, BBC Micro, PET, VIC-20, and in home video game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System. 8-bit processors...
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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. Atari had been facing...
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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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  • 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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  • Atari Games, Arcade Lord of the Orb, Antic Software, Atari 8-bit King Tut's Tomb, Antic Software, Atari 8-bit Maze War, ANALOG Computing, Atari 8-bit...
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    Jerry – in addition to a Motorola 68000, Atari marketed it as the world's first 64-bit game system, emphasizing its 64-bit bus used by the blitter. The Jaguar...
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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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    ZX, CPC, Atari 8-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, PC) 1990 Blinky's Scary School (C64, ZX, Atari 8-bit, Amiga, Atari ST) 1990 Cavernia (Atari 8-bit) 1990 Santa's...
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    went on to develop a number of games for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, and Atari ST which were marketed by word of mouth and magazine advertisements...
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    Apshai was soon ported from the TRS-80 to additional systems, such as the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64. Apshai spawned a number of similar adventure...
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  • Gauntlet (1985 video game) (category Atari arcade games)
    by Atari Games. It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The core design of Gauntlet comes from 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit...
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  • Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During...
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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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  • DOS 6.0 by Novell OpenDOS, a successor of Novell DOS by Caldera Atari DOS, from Atari, Inc. DOS XL, from Optimized Systems Software MyDOS SmartDOS SpartaDOS...
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    including VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit, MS-DOS, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis). He has demonstrated the development...
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  • Extermination (Global VR, 2006) Area 51 (Atari, 1995) Area 51: Site 4 (Atari Games, 1998) Area 51 / Maximum Force Duo (Atari Games, 1998) Bang! (Gaelco, 1998)...
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  • Choplifter (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    Broderbund in 1982. It was ported to 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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  • Centipede (video game) (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    followed in 1982. Centipede was ported to Atari's own Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, and Atari 8-bit computers. Under the Atarisoft label, the game...
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  • Missile Command (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    modern remakes followed. Atari's 1981 port to the Atari 8-bit computers was reused for the Atari 5200 (1982) and built into the Atari XEGS (1987). The player's...
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    ATASCII (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    character set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is a character encoding used in the Atari 8-bit home computers...
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  • Challenge (1989, Atari 8-bit family) Xenophobe (1989, Atari 8-bit family) Ninja Golf (1989, Atari 8-bit family) Klax (1992, Atari 8-bit family) Superman...
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  • widespread development of 'turbo' loaders for Commodore computers. The Atari 8-bit computers use a system based on consultations with recording engineers...
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  • Montezuma's Revenge (video game) (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    Montezuma's Revenge is a platform game for the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC (as a self-booting...
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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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    (1976) Atari Video Music (1977) Video Pinball (1977) Atari 2600 (1977) Atari 8-bit computers (1979) Atari 2700 (cancelled) Atari Cosmos (cancelled) Atari 5200...
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