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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Atari published the Atari Program Exchange, a quarterly mail-order catalog of software written for Atari computers by external developers which Atari...
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Galahad and the Holy Grail (category Atari Program Exchange software)
action-adventure game for Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed and programmed by Douglas Crockford and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982. Influenced...
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Atari Program Exchange, Atari 8-bit Entombed, U.S. Games, Atari 2600 Frenzy, Stern, arcade Garden Wars, Commodore, VIC-20 K-Razy Antiks, CBS, Atari 8-bit...
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then increasingly by third parties. Atari also distributed "user written" software through the Atari Program Exchange from 1981 to 1984. After APX folded...
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Getaway! (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
multidirectional-scrolling maze game for Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed by Mark Reid and published by the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1982. In Getaway!...
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Typo Attack (category Atari Program Exchange software)
game for Atari 8-bit computers designed to improve keyboard skill. It was written by David Buehler and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982...
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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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Deep Blue C (category Atari Program Exchange software)
Deep Blue C is a C programming language compiler for Atari 8-bit computers distributed by the Atari Program Exchange (APX). Deep Blue C is based on Ron...
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My First Alphabet (category Atari Program Exchange software)
video game for Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed and programmed by Fernando Herrera and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1981. My First...
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Caverns of Mars (category Atari Program Exchange software)
the Atari Program Exchange in 1981. Caverns of Mars became the best selling Atari Program Exchange software of all-time and was moved into Atari, Inc...
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Excalibur (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
earlier Eastern Front (1941), Excalibur was released through the Atari Program Exchange. The object of the game is to unite all of Britain under the rule...
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Kangaroo (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
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 Exchange...
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Chris Crawford (game designer) (category Atari people)
work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front (1941) for Atari 8-bit computers which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later...
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Avalanche (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
port of Avalanche for Atari 8-bit computers was published through the Atari Program Exchange in 1981 instead of official Atari channels. It requires the...
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the Atari 8-bit computers in March 1982. Atari Pascal was published through the Atari Program Exchange as unsupported software instead of in Atari's official...
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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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Eastern Front (1941) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
is a computer wargame for Atari 8-bit computers created by Chris Crawford and published through the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1981. A scenario editor...
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Atari 8-bit computers written by Harry Stewart and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1981. In addition to supporting turtle graphics, it adds a number...
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Dandy (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
Dungeon) is a dungeon crawl maze video game for Atari 8-bit computers published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1983. It is one of the first video games...
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book written by Atari, Inc. employees in 1981 and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982 as an unbound, shrink-wrapped set of three-holed punched...
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Salmon Run (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
Run is a 1982 video game for Atari 8-bit computers created by Bill Williams and distributed via the Atari Program Exchange. Salmon Run was the first game...
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Gossip (video game) (category Atari Program Exchange software)
created for Atari 8-bit computers by then-Atari, Inc. employee Chris Crawford. The documentation indicates that Gossip is an Atari Program Exchange title,...
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architects' fraternity Australia Pacific Exchange APX Group, an Anglo-Dutch energy exchange Atari Program Exchange, an early computer software publisher...
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through mail order. Atari, Inc. launched the Atari Program Exchange in 1981 to publish user-written software, including games, for Atari 8-bit computers....
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Lemonade Stand (category Free software programmed in BASIC)
package for Atari 8-bit computers. Another Atari 8-bit version, programmed by Bob Polaro, was published through the Atari Program Exchange in 1981 as Lemonade...
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Aztec Challenge (category Atari Program Exchange software)
2018-04-12. I got my first non-exclusive agreement with Atari's APX (Atari Program Exchange) in 1981 for 'The Bonifas' a game that almost within the...
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Antic Software (category Atari 8-bit computers)
8-bit games, applications, and utilities from the recently defunct Atari Program Exchange. Original submissions were later added, as well as public domain...
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Atari Calculator (or Calculator) is a proprietary software program developed by Atari, Inc. for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1979. It incorporates...
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edit, assemble, and debug 6502 programs for Atari 8-bit computers without the need for additional tools. It was programmed by Kathleen O'Brien of Shepardson...
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