It also includes a new VIDEL graphics chip which greatly improves its graphics capabilities, offering even a 16-bit truecolor graphics mode. And like the Amstrad CRTC chip, the characteristics of the display can now be defined precisely.
The sound system consists of 8 voices (four stereo) 16-bit DMA playback and record channels.
It sports a realtime clock, a LAN port, a 1.44MB HD floppy drive and an optional internal hard drive. Atari adopted the IDE bus in addition to the SCSI bus for connecting hard drives and CD-ROM drives.