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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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 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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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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Jeff Minter (section Commercial 8-bit games)
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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Atari 8-bit, Atari 5200 Minotaur, Sirius, Apple II Pulsar, Sega, Arcade Route 16, Tekhan/Sun, Arcade Thunder Island, ANALOG Software, Atari 8-bit Treasure...
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The Atari Lynx is a fourth-generation hand-held game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe and Japan...
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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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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 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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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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John Harris (software developer) (section Atari 8-bit)
the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. His love for the Atari 8-bit computers led him to creating several popular games, perhaps most of...
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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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of Atari 8-bit computer games List of Atari arcade games List of Atari 2600 games List of Atari 5200 games List of Atari 7800 games List of Atari ST games...
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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 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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Atari marketed it as the world's first 64-bit game system, emphasizing the blitter's 64-bit bus; however, none of its three processors have a 64-bit instruction...
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Composite artifact colors (section Atari 8-bit)
the IBM PC (with CGA graphics), TRS-80 Color Computer, Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, and used by the Ultima role-playing video games. Software...
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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 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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Astrocade did not support hardware sprites. The ANTIC chip used by the Atari 8-bit computers includes display list interrupts (DLIs), which are triggered...
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M.U.L.E. (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
M.U.L.E. is a multiplayer video game written for Atari 8-bit computers by Ozark Softscape. Designer Danielle Bunten Berry (credited as Dan Bunten) takes...
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Atari Logo is ROM cartridge-based version of the Logo programming language for the Atari 8-bit computers published by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It was developed...
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the Atari 2600 Video Computer System BASIC XE (Atari 8-bit) – An enhanced version of BASIC XL, by Optimized Systems Software BASIC XL (Atari 8-bit) – Improved...
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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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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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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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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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