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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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    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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  • 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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    could not easily compete with color machines like the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore introduced the color VIC-20 in 1980 to address the home...
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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 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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  • ProDOS, name for both ProDOS 8 for the Apple II and ProDOS 16 for the Apple IIGS Commodore DOS, for Commodore's 8-bit computers Cromemco DOS (CDOS), a CP/M-like...
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    Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit computers. The initial model, the Atari 520ST...
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    the company. Atari Corporation dropped support for the 7800, along with the 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers, on January 1, 1992. The Atari 7800 ProSystem...
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  • Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    Eric Ace, and Frank Svoboda III. It was quickly ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and MS-DOS. Like its predecessor, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein is a...
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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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    ventured into the home computer market with its first 8-bit computers, but its products did not fare as well as its competitors'. Atari lost more than US$530...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Astrocade did not support hardware sprites. The ANTIC chip used by the Atari 8-bit computers includes display list interrupts (DLIs), which are triggered as...
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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 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 Program Exchange (APX) was a division of Atari, Inc. that sold software via mail-order for Atari 8-bit computers from 1981 until 1984. Quarterly...
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    This is a list of notable 8-bit computer color palettes, and graphics, which were primarily manufactured from 1975 to 1985. Although some of them use RGB...
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  • consoles, and home computers. Examples include 8-bit systems like the Atari 8-bit computers and Nintendo Entertainment System, and 16-bit consoles, such as...
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  • Big Five Software (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    and Jeff Konyu. The company developed games for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade video games, such...
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  • of the game over the next decade for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, and Commodore 64 computers, before redesigning it as a graphical commercial game...
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    computers throughout the 1980s. MECC also offered the game for sale as a part of bundles of children's software for Apple computers and Atari 8-bit computers...
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    ATASCII (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is a character encoding used in the Atari 8-bit computers. ATASCII...
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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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