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Revision as of 16:00, 3 December 2024
Nowadays, the Atari brand belongs to Ex-Infogrames.
Used to build 8 and 64 bits consoles (Atari 2600/5200/7800, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar), 8 bits computers, the famous Atari ST (16 bit) and less famous Atari Falcon (32 bit)
8 bit
Atari 8-bit family on the other WIKI
16 bit
The Atari ST were released in 1985-86...
They were famous for being :
- Inferior to the Amiga yet still better (the war still rages on nowadays).
- A hardware Midi Port : this spawned a generation of Musician Geeks.
- used widely in Amstrad CPC software developments (mostly games ?).
Its use in CPC development (Cross Development) had many advantages :
- Quite similar Video Resolutions : 320x200x16.
- Possibility of a good GUI : easier, really.
- Same Sound Chip : almost.
- Quite powerfull to calculate sweet Data Compression (used in Xyphoes Fantasy)
Links
- Atari Mania Games database of everything Atari
- Atari at the English-language Wikipedia
- https://atariwiki.org Atari 8bit wiki
- Altirra Hardware Reference Manual Latest (09/2024!) Atari XL hardware documentation
- https://www.atari-wiki.com Atari ST Wiki
- Media:Atari ST - Hardware Specification.pdf
- Atari STE Service Manual
- Atari Documentation Archive
- Atari image file formats documented
- Motorola MC68000 CPU User's Manual
- Yamaha YM2149 SSG datasheet
- Western Digital WD1772 FDC datasheet
- Motorola MK68901 MFP datasheet
- Hitachi HD6301 IKBD datasheet
- 6850 ACIA chip
- Atari ST forum
