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SAP (file format) (199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

SAP is a file format that stores music data from Atari 8-bit computers that uses the POKEY sound chip. Most popular tunes were written between 1981-1987

Controller (video game) (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

a simulation video game published in 1982 for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers by The Avalon Hill Game Company and developed by its division Microcomputer

Games Computers Play (166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

became America Online. The system was primarily accessible with Atari 8-bit computers, with a minimum of 48k of memory. A version for the Atari ST was

Spitfire Ace (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on the heel's of Meier's Hellcat Ace, also from 1982 and for the Atari 8-bit computers. The game puts the player in the pilot's seat during World War II

Doug Neubauer (402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

POKEY chip is one of three custom coprocessors created for the Atari 8-bit computers. POKEY handles potentiometer (paddle) controllers and the keyboard—the

Marin Computer Center (190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on the programming language BASIC. Later, it added Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, for a total of about 40 systems. The Foxes left MCC in 1981, turning

Lemonade Stand (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

part of bundles of children's software for Apple computers and Atari 8-bit computers. Kellner's source code was released, and has since been ported to

Atari MMU (208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Atari MMU is a custom memory management unit chip for the Atari 8-bit computers. It enables access to the hardware registers on ANTIC, GTIA, POKEY and

Spellbound (video game) (680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

computers. Versions for the Commodore 64 (with Richard Darling) and the Atari 8-bit computers (with Adrian Sheppard) and an enhanced 128K Spectrum version with

Star Fire (1,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

II, with fixes. It was then ported by Epyx to Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers in a bundle with Fire One, another Exidy game. The player flies

Interactive Picture Systems (178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1984) allows users to build elaborate animated sequences for the Atari 8-bit computers which can then be distributed as standalone files. It was initially

Winter Olympics (1986 video game) (260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Olympics is a 1986 sports video game published by Tynesoft for the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4, and MSX. The game features six

Star Raiders II (1,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name as part of its plotline. Versions for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were developed in 1984, although those were never released. Later

Jumpman (video game) (2,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

released on cartridge as Jumpman Junior. It was available on the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision. According to the story, the base

KoalaPad (834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1983) and Atari 8-bit computers (1983) PC Design for the IBM PC (1983) Micro Illustrator for the Apple II (1983), Atari 8-bit computers (1983) and Commodore

Composite artifact colors (3,393 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

IBM PC (with CGA graphics), TRS-80 Color Computer, Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, and used famously by the Ultima role-playing video games. Software

The First XLEnt Word Processor (364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

protection in 1986 for $29.95 (equivalent to $83 in 2023). It runs on Atari 8-bit computers with 48 kB of RAM. Contemporary word processors for the Atari platform

Happy drives (1,341 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

cable for 1 drive that allowed converting Mac disks. faqs.org, "Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions", Reytrieved 10-23-2009 faqs.org, "What

Synapse Software (1,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

friend of Ihor Wolosenko. Synapse's first releases were for the Atari 8-bit computers, starting in 1981. Some of their early games were based on elements

Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, Thomson MO, TO computers, and IBM PC listed at a price of $29.95. It was released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit

Kick Start (TV series) (807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

It was also released for the Commodore 16 / Commodore Plus/4 and Atari 8-bit computers. According to the game's programmer, Shaun Southern, "The C64 version's

List of Atari XEGS games (328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-313-33868-7. "ClassicGaming.com's Museum: Atari 8 Bit Computers - 1979-1987 (Officially discontinued 1992)". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment

Lunar Lander (1980 video game) (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

game was part of a series of arcade game clones for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers, which, though featuring differences from the Atari version of Lunar

Snake (video game genre) (917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in 1980. The single-player Snake Byte was published in 1982 for Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, and VIC-20; a snake eats apples to complete a level,

Chuck Peddle (626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commercial products, including the Apple II, Commodore PET and VIC-20, Atari 8-bit computers and arcade video games, Oric computers, and the BBC Micro from Acorn

The Art of Computer Game Design (346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

series of technical articles in BYTE on developing games for the Atari 8-bit computers. The articles were collected into De Re Atari. In December 1982

Compute! (1,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the type-in program listings were dropped, as was coverage of the Atari 8-bit computers. In 1990, Compute! was out of publication for several months when

Vertically scrolling video game (924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horizontally-scrolling Scramble arcade game released earlier in the year. The Atari 8-bit computers have hardware support for vertical, as well as horizontal, smooth

Bank Street Writer (1,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its shortcomings, BSW is the easiest word processor program" for Atari 8-bit computers and that it "has almost everything going for it—it is up to the

Cc65 (397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

based on a native C compiler that was originally adapted for the Atari 8-bit computers by John R. Dunning in 1989, which originated as a Small-C descendant

Lunar Lander (video game genre) (2,989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

wrote Retrofire, a more elaborate version of the lander concept for Atari 8-bit computers in 1983; it uses a 3D isometric view, so there are three velocities

Spy's Demise (646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

confused with Electric Dreams Software) for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers. Reviewers for Zzap!64 magazine were extremely critical of the games

Super Pac-Man (1,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Commodore 64 versions were released. Ports for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were finished in 1984, but not published. In 1996, Super Pac-Man

POKEY (2,804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

machines Major Havoc, I, Robot, Firefox, and Return of the Jedi. The Atari 8-bit computers map POKEY to the $D2xxhex page and the Atari 5200 console maps it

Bill Williams (game designer) (1,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

published game was the vertically scrolling Salmon Run for the Atari 8-bit computers, published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982. The player controls

Montezuma's Revenge (video game) (1,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

5200 consoles, and for the Apple II, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and Atari 8-bit computers. To reduce costs, Parker Brothers released the Commodore 64 and

Amidar (1,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

TRS-80, Atari 8-bit family, and C64. Kid Grid was published for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1982. Windmill Software produced Rollo and the Brush Brothers

Sprite (computer graphics) (2,247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Graphics was a term used by Atari, Inc. for hardware sprites in the Atari 8-bit computers (1979) and Atari 5200 console (1982). The term reflects the use

California Games (1,156 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

to Epyx inquiring about the XE conversion of California Games". Atari 8-Bit Computers Public Facebook Page. Retrieved 2020-12-05. "Console Wars" (PDF)

CTIA and GTIA (8,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pins that are used in different ways depending on the system: In Atari 8-bit computers, three of the pins are used to read state of the console keys

Ballblazer (1,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

July 1984 buyout of Atari, Inc.; the cartridge version for the Atari 8-bit computers in December 1987, packaged for their new XE Game System; and the

Rescue on Fractalus! (2,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

July 1984 buyout of Atari, Inc.; and the cartridge version for the Atari 8-bit computers in December 1987, packaged for their new XE Game System. The Atari

Lunar Lander (1979 video game) (2,769 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Lander as part of a series of arcade game clones for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers, which, though featuring differences from the Atari version, was

Oric (computer) (2,300 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

are the Atari 1020, 1025, 1027, and 1029 Printers?". faqs.org (Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions section). Retrieved 2015-03-22. = Commodore

Battlezone (1980 video game) (2,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

similar to the official port of Battlezone. Encounter! (1983) for the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 is also similar to 2600 Battlezone, with solid

List of game controllers (1,327 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

University of Toronto. p. 2. Retrieved September 8, 2020. "Subject: Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions". Utrecht University. June 11, 2015

Demon Attack (3,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also ported to several home computers, including the TI-99/4A, the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, TRS-80 Color Computer and IBM PCjr

Temple of Apshai (2,653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were sold for $24.95 on cassette and $29.95 on disk. A port to Atari 8-bit computers was advertised by retailers from winter 1981, while Epyx announced

Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness (2,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

game earned $300,000. Sierra Online re-released Ultima for the Atari 8-bit computers. In 1986 Origin Systems completely re-coded the game in Assembly

Mario Bros. (3,897 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lendino, Jamie (August 17, 2023). "9: Games M-P". Breakout: : How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation. Steel Gear Press. ISBN 978-1-957932-04-0.

Video games in the Czech Republic (2,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the time were ZX Spectrum, Czechoslovak computer PMD 85 and Atari 8-bit computers (mainly Atari 800XE). Hobbyists could come explore computing and

MOS Technology 6502 (10,857 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instead of 2 MHz. The B was used in both the Apple III and early Atari 8-bit computers each running at ~1.8 MHz. 6502C The “official” 6502C was a version

Microchess (2,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

TRS-80, as well as version 2.0 for the Apple II, Commodore PET, and Atari 8-bit computers—which included black-and-white graphics of a chessboard. Other features

The Assassin (cancelled video game) (1,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

but they later reassured that it would still be released for the Atari 8-bit computers after Hasbro Interactive released the patents and rights to the

Hex (board game) (4,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Dolphin Microware's Hexmaster, published in the early 1980s for Atari 8-bit computers. Until 2019, humans remained better than computers at least on big

Graphics processing unit (8,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1977 used a video shifter called the Television Interface Adaptor. Atari 8-bit computers (1979) had ANTIC, a video processor which interpreted instructions

PC game (7,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Invaders clone TI Invaders. That same year, Pac-Man was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, while Donkey Kong was licensed for the Coleco Adam. In late 1981

Platformer (10,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Moon Patrol. The same year, Snokie for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers added uneven terrain to a scrolling platformer. Based on the Saturday

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (5,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to support a 48K Atari 800 even though four models of 64K/128K Atari 8-bit computers had been released, and one 64K-upgradable model, starting two and

MOS Technology VIC-II (4,526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allowing NTSC artifact color in high resolution bitmap mode as the Atari 8-bit computers did, but that idea was quickly dropped. Because it was necessary

Commodore 64 peripherals (10,420 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

are the Atari 1020, 1025, 1027, and 1029 Printers?". faqs.org (Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions section). Retrieved 2015-03-22. = Commodore