OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20208/Atari_s_History_1971-1981 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:33:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Atari was awsome. http://www.osnews.com/thread?327735 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327735 I have only owned the game systems, and all that know me they would tell you that i prefer Amiga and BeOS above all other so far. But I would like to try out the Falcon fully upgraded with the 110mhz 68k chip. Some people say its very enjoyable. So if anyone in Norrbotten read this and have a 68k falcon please let me know, then i can visit you for a demo. I can even bring my monstro Amiga to compare with your Atari. Its a 1200 amiga with blizzard ppc and a sbc intel M 1.8ghz intel. Would sure be interesting. I can also settle for some video footage or video of said Atari machine. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments Comment by Kroc http://www.osnews.com/thread?327759 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327759 He also felt that the incipient Atari computer line needed to embrace outside developers, but the record company execs from Warner -- who were used to completely controlling IP and the delivery medium for it -- wanted to make the new computers completely closed to outside developers.

30 Years on and no change there, then. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments Comment by flanque http://www.osnews.com/thread?327764 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327764 My God, the memories.

A very enjoyable article. Thanks Thom! Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flanque) Comments Nostalgia http://www.osnews.com/thread?327767 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327767 I still own my Atari 130XE, everytime I see it inside its old box, a lot of memories and nostalgia come back.

I give my very first steps learning BASIC in such computers and I loved every new "PEEK" and "POKE" I learnt in such machines...

Ave Atari computers! Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE: Nostalgia http://www.osnews.com/thread?327779 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327779
I still own my Atari 130XE [...]

Ave Atari computers!


Profundantur et omnia Atarium est. :-)

Allthough Atari wasn't my first computer, I liked the experience (different to the MS-DOS stuff at this time). Sadly, I don't own any of the cool gaming equipment anymore, but I still have this fully working stuff:

- Atari 800 XE with cassette drive
- Atari 800 XL
- Atari 1040 (x 2)
- Atari Mega-ST
- Atari STM-124 monitor (x 3)
- Atari Megafile hard disk drive (x 3)
- Atari Megafile exchangable hard disk drive with media
- Atari Mega-ST keyboard
- Atari mouse (x 2)

So many Atariae. =^_^= Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE[2]: Nostalgia http://www.osnews.com/thread?327782 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327782 Not bad!

My Atari collection (all fully working):

- 600XL + 1064 RAM expansion unit + XC12 cassette drive
- 1040 STFM
- 2600 VCS
- Jaguar
- Lynx II Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Governa) Comments memories http://www.osnews.com/thread?327804 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327804 Boy sure brings back memories. Those are great Atari machine

Hope one day, Atari machine will be back !!! Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Different) Comments RE: memories http://www.osnews.com/thread?327810 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327810 For Atari to make a comeback they'd have to move into new territory.

Personally, I'd make iPhone ports in the short term to recoup some money, and then invest it in new R&D. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments Missile command http://www.osnews.com/thread?327822 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327822 Me and my buddies played missile command till the wee hours of the night.. on of my friends ended up getting the actual arcade of it (disabled the coin op) and still toys with it today.

Biggest thing I remember about the Atari tho was we must have had unusually bad luck, because I went through controllers faster than my parents would buy them for me. So the new, I cant move left strategy made gaming harder. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hollovoid) Comments RE: Comment by flanque http://www.osnews.com/thread?327823 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327823 Seconded! Great memories for me as the 2600 was my first intro to a 'home' video game system.

A long time ago, in a land not so far far away....I was once a 'Combat' master! Doop...doop-doop...doop...doop.....*ksshhhhhh*... Loved that game ;) Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wakeupneo) Comments Amiga was better! http://www.osnews.com/thread?327830 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327830 Let the flame war begin. ;o)

I bet in the 90s, that would have started at huge flame war about which computer was the best. I always voted on Amiga. Despite no Galaxer i Dina Braxer, Grabben! But nowadays I use OpenSolaris and ZFS. :o) Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments Comment by Kroc http://www.osnews.com/thread?327835 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327835 "Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!" Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments RE: Atari was awsome. http://www.osnews.com/thread?327857 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327857 god, judgen, I still want your Amiga ;) Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments It was definitely a different time http://www.osnews.com/thread?327865 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327865 I cut my teeth on 6502 assembly language programming with an Atari 800, thanks to the technical documents Atari published, as well as the source code listings of the ROM.

The 8-bit systems had a reasonably sophisticated operating system to which you could add (and remove) device drivers on the fly. Of course, there was only 52 KB available at any time, but you could switch the top 4 KB and keep data available, but out of sight until you needed it. Shepherdson, later Optimized Systems Software, did a great job on the DOS and 8 KB BASIC interpreter.

I always thought it said a lot about the hardware to see the same application or game title for Apple II and Atari machines but the 48 KB requirement of the Apple II diminished to only 16 KB on the Atari machines. Of course, the Amiga developers enjoyed a similar jolt from the hardware's ability to manipulate graphics on the fly and more.

Too bad development is so boring these days. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments I remember a time.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?327876 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327876 I remember a time when you could go into a computer store and had the choice of (at the time) new PC computer along with Amiga 500, Atari ST, Apple II/GS and Mac and in the corner you still had the Commodore 128 that was still on sale.

So many choice, one was good for gaming (Amiga) but the Atari had more business software and could also game for less money. The Mac was cute but SO monochrome and costed too much.

And side by side, the lonely IBM with MS-DOS Text looked so ugly that (at the time) I wondered how could this thing sell.... Amiga/Atari/Mac all had nice GUI.

Nice memory. Today, we don't have that kind of choice. It's all about Intel/AMD and Windows/Linux/OSX. That's all.... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (truckweb) Comments RE: Atari was awsome. http://www.osnews.com/thread?327891 http://www.osnews.com/thread?327891 I've got a (standard) Falcon, it's better than a ST, plugs straight into my flatscreen modern monitor, but the OS is still total TOS. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments