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When I started the series Atari I had no intention of doing anything too elaborate.
The Atari had nothing very elaborate everything was simple and fun.
It was really cool to join the two most fun things of my childhood Lego and Videogame, You will now be forever immortalized here on Flickr.
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A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency.
Made larger by request. This image was made with the help of MattyD90.
This was part of Atari's second series of home computers, following on from the 400, 800 and 1000XL. I still like the futuristic styling.
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 ™ 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.
Check out Chocolate-Milks Version
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.