Articles and information about Atari’s line of video game systems, and home and personal computers. From the VCS/2600, 5200, and XE systems, to the 8-bit 400/800/XL/XE, through the ST, TT and Falcon computers.
Steve Boswell has painstakingly recreated classic 8-bit Atari font modern formats, originally developed for Windows and Mac systems by Mark Simonson. Steve’s version has over a hundred variations, including for Adventure, as well as...
Representing the hierarchy of disks(volumes), directories, subdirectories, and files, presented a challenge when inventing graphical user interfaces for computers. Today, we’ve settled on the folder/sub-folder/file paradigm for Windows and Macs. Early GUIs had similar,...
In September 1984, Atari sent a team of its best engineers to the offices of Digital Research in Monterey, CA. The teams goal was to port Digital Research’s GEM graphical user interface to Atari’s...
“Art Of Atari“1 by Tim Lapetino is wonderful, and should be considered the definitive visual-history of, not just the artwork used on game cartridge boxes, but of Atari and its video game products (home and...
Continuing the run of the Atari ST’s clever icons in the TOS operating system, the ‘system busy’ state was represented by the Busy Bee. This downloadable ZIP file contains a 400×400 transparent PNG, and...
Released in June 1985, the Atari 520ST was designed to compete against the, at the time, still unreleased Commodore Amiga computer. Featuring a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8MHz, the 520ST, and later its...
There were several third-party operating systems available for the Atari 8-bit computers, and one of the most popular with enthusiasts was called MyDOS. Written by Charles Marslett through his company Workmark, Charles has released the...
1983 started out very poorly for Atari’s home computer division. The 1200XL, quickly thrown together to battle the Commodore 64 and launched in January of that year, was ludicrously overpriced and stumbled out the...
