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The Atari 2600 went on to become the first incredibly popular home console system, paving the way for Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft. This prototype is from 1975 and was built by Steve Mayer and Ron Milner.
With the secondary Legendary Ikea Jerker â„¢ assembled at work, I am now able to unbox all the Atari hardware. Here it is in working order. Yes, that is Star Raiders running on a widescreen LCD directly off off the Atari 800 on the left using the APE SIOtoPC.
Based on the 1982 Clint Eastwood action film, Firefox comes Atari's first and last laserdisc game, named the same.
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When designing the postcards advertising our 2012 Atari Party, we realized we wanted a picture of a bunch of atari cartridges on end. Unfortunately, all the Creative Commons ones we could find disallowed commercial use.
So we dug out some of our Atari cartridge collection and took some photos.
We intended to do two photo shoots - one to do the general planning, one to get the exact right photo. This was the best alignment photo we had but was annoyingly blurry. Testing on the postcard, we realized that the blur actually helped by making sure the text overlaid on top of it was more readable, so we ended up not doing a second shoot.
Maybe someone else will find it useful as well!
This was technically an Atari 65XE converted into a console - to the extent that it shipped with a keyboard, could use the same peripherals as the rest of the Atari 8-bit line, and it could run the same software. It was sold against the Atari 7800 and 2600jr - it didn't exactly go well.
My wife and daughter think it looks ugly, but I really like the pastel buttons. :)
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
Atari's 8 bit computer were never really famous in Sweden. As far as I can recall the first time I really heard about Atari and their home computer was probably in 1988 or something, and then it was the Atari ST.
The Atari XEGS was released in 1987 and is basically an Atari 65XE with detachable keyboard. The main purpose was as a gaming console being able to Atari XL/XE-games.
I got this one mainly because the keyboard of the 600XL was broken and I was a bit curious on Ataris 8-bit computers.
One day I’ll get round to re-commissioning my Atari 800. It was made in 1982. It was bought by my parents with some inheritance money in 1983. It was an expensive machine in it’s time, costing over £500. All my mates had ZX Spectrums, they were much cheaper and they would copy games on their twin cassette stereos. It would be a considerable amount of time before the PC became the standard computer for home and office.
If it will work remains to be seen, but I hope the floppy disks and cassettes are OK. It would be great to see programs that I’ve created some 40 years ago.
Photo of Atari 400 8-bit computer video games console, taken from TV Cream Toys www.tvcreamtoys.co.uk - more photos, plus write ups, at the web site.
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Part of the videogames exhibition in Museum Of The Moving Image in New York City.
I like how they picked one joystick with an orange ring and another one without.
The full-sized image is available for download at my website.
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Coleco enjoyed putting out shitty games for the 2600, then doing great versions of them for the Colecovision. The company released two games for the Colecvision based on the Cabbage Patch Kids property. One of them was on its way to the 2600 when the game world crashed, and the project was canceled. no one has ever played the 2600 version.
And now I own what I believe to be the only collection of prototypes for the game.
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
Atari's 8 bit computer were never really famous in Sweden. As far as I can recall the first time I really heard about Atari and their home computer was probably in 1988 or something, and then it was the Atari ST.
I've might have spotted an 8bit Atari at a computer party around that time, but I never saw one close up or played around with one until the end of 2011, when I got this one from a Swedish auction-site.
This is the Atari 600 XL, a 6502 based 8bit computer from the early eighties with Swedish characters. Unfortunately the keyboard is broken on this one, the circuit board got a crack in it and several of the switches for the keys are broken and would need repairing. Apart from that it seems to work OK, I got it with a cartridge game and that one runs nicely on it.
This one is now sold as I was lucky to get an 800 XL for free. It will have a new life with a new keyboard.