Atari built a series of 8-bithome computers based on the MOS Technology 6502CPU, starting in 1979. Over the next decade several versions of the same basic design would be released, but the models remained largely identical internally.
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Atari BASIC — This was the original BASIC for the Atari 8-bit family. Came as a ROM cartridge with the Atari 400/800 models, but was built into the computer's ROM in later models.
Microsoft BASIC — A version of BASIC for the Atari 8-bit family released by Atari that was more like the industry standard Microsoft BASIC. This did not catch on.
Turbo Basic XL — An improved version of Atari BASIC released by a third party that is not only faster, but offers many more commands. There is also a compiler that makes Turbo-BASIC XL programs even faster by compiling them int machine-language binaries.
The original company Atari was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and personal computers, and its dominance in those areas made it THE major force in the computer entertainment industry in the early to mid 1980s.
Although the original Atari ceased to exist in 1996, a large amount of underground development remains for Atari's game systems and computers of the 1970s and 1980s, and much of the Classic Gaming Expo's attention, which has existed since 1997, focuses on Atari.
The Atari 5200 game console, released as a next-generation followup to the 2600, was based on the Atari 800 computer (but was incompatible with Atari 800 game cartridges), and its sales never met the company's expectations.
Atari develops, publishes and distributes games for all major video game consoles, as well as for the personal computer, and is currently one of the largest third-party publishers of video games in the United States.
The original Atari was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and personal computers, and its dominance in those areas made it the major force in the computer entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
Atari CEO Ray Kassar was furious, as Atari owned the rights to publish Donkey Kong for computers, and he accused Nintendo of double dealing with the Donkey Kong license.
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