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Began using Atari computers in 1982 and I was hooked. Other than that I'm a Sci-fi / monster / horror movie fan.

[georgsyard]

For proper stealth gaming and robotics, you need an Atari and this book.

[georgsyard]

While everybody is scrambling for a hackable Switch, I’d prefer to get one of these.

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The Spectravideo CompuMate, released in 1983, was the answer to the need for ultra-budget computing. And boy, you get what you pay for. For $100, you got a keyboard that could ride on top of the ancient Atari 2600 VCS, and turn it into a very bare-bones BASIC machine.

The device uses the 2600 for most of its hardware, meaning it is driven by a weak 1.19MHz 6507 CPU (which is a weaker and cheaper variant of the 6502) and 128 bytes of base RAM. However, the CompuMate adds more RAM, giving it 2KB more RAM to work with. The software is stored in 16KB of ROM, with three modes for the user to pick from: BASIC, which was a port of Microsoft BASIC; MUSIC, which was a basic synthesizer that tried to squeeze out audio from the 2600’s two channels of 1-bit sound generators; and DRAW, a primitive drawing program with limited animation capability.

It is an interesting solution to budget computing. You could use your tape cassette player/recorder to store and retrieve your programs, music, and artwork with the audio jack built into the device. However, the Commodore 64 was only released the previous year, which quickly became a juggernaut that ate the competition. Combined with its weak capabilities, the CompuMate didn’t last very long.

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My collection of games for the Atari 2600

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/atariage/permalink/10156006144190255/

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AdVENture for aTaRi 2600

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The Book of Atari Software (1983)

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Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. Released in October 1985, Atari ultimately sold a total of 7,848 Gauntlet video game arcade cabinets.

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Atari Brings the Computer Age Home.

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ATARI

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UK 1990

[digitalpress]

An Atari XE Video Game System was just traded in. This was one of the last entries in the line of 8-bit computers by Atari & was designed to look more like a videogame system to compete with the Nintendo Entertainment System. The light gun produced for for the XE, the XG-1, is also the only light gun compatible with the Atari 7800 or 2600.

The XE received seven light gun compatible titles, while the 7800 only had four officially released titles, & the 2600 only had one. Which explains why Atari never released a gun stylized to match the other two consoles, but it would’ve been nice to have seen a black XG-1 with brushed steel decals to match the 7800 or better yet the wood grain to match the 2600. 2/6/18

[koney-scanlines]

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