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My newly purchased Atari Portfolio, one of the first pocket computers made. Bidded SEK 205 on a Swedish auction site. No accessories unfortunately. Another Atari item for the collection though. :)
Hand-held camera, no flash, ISO400.
This unit was much smaller (almost half the size) than the original 800. What i don't get is why they called it the "XL" when it's smaller and lost some features the original had. You only get one slot, and it's now 2 controller ports instead of 4.
Found at a junk shop in south Sacramento. I had never heard of this particular device, but was very excited when I spotted "Atari." It cost me $10. The table is also a thrift-store find--I refinished the surface.
The Atari 7800 came out at the wrong time and the joysticks were tiring to hold for a long time. The only cool thing was it was able to play 2600 games.
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Forth is a programming language. This book (obviously a product of the 80s) is apparently trying to attract programmers to use Forth to program Atari games with some hardcore woman on man futuristic bondage thriller imagery. The safety word is 'FORTH'.
You gotta be shittin' me. Sure, that comes out as about a dollar per cartridge, but most of them aren't worth that. However, to be fair: there were five in the box that I did want pretty badly because they're uncommon to fairly rare. They're not parting this out.
Atari Elektronik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Bebelallee 10, Hamburg, Germany
HQ from 1981-1985
Now empty, photo taken in 2008
Atari 800XL vu de droite, avec les touches de fonction et les deux prises pour manettes.
©2009 Oldies collection
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Even Atari's Battlezone needed some competition. Rather than just roaming around shooting tanks and saucers, Activision's take had environmental conditions (similar to Enduro) like night, fog, and snow, plus the tank could be damaged if strafed, putting the shields or the ability to turn in jeopardy. Atari 7800 owners know this game is one of the few that doesn't play on all systems... works on mine.
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