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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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  • 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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  • In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic...
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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...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    including VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit computers, MS-DOS, NES, Super NES, and Genesis). He has demonstrated...
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    The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS)...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Jay Miner (section Atari)
    known 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...
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  • assign 3 bits to red, 3 bits to green and 2 bits to blue, as the human eye is less sensitive to blue light. This creates a so called 3-3-2 8-bit color image...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    (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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  • 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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  • Happy drives (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    Happy drives are series of disk drive enhancements for the Atari 8-bit and Atari ST computer families produced by a small company called Happy Computers...
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  • Gauntlet (1985 video game) (category Atari 8-bit computer 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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    it is a true 64-bit system, because the data path from the DRAM to the CPU and Tom and Jerry chips is 64 bits wide. In early 1995, Atari announced that...
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    proprietary peripheral bus and related software protocol stacks used on the Atari 8-bit computers to provide most input/output duties for those computers. Unlike...
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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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    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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    Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    thicker material. This map can be found in the large boxed (8"x11") Apple II and Atari 8-bit versions of the game. Later production runs of the game featured...
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  • being written, for instance, six-bit ASCII codes, any unused bits were filled with mark at the end to fill out eight bits. The data was written using a slightly...
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