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| | Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Although not formally discontinued, the 2600 was de-emphasized for two years after Warner's 1984 sale of Atari to Commodore Business Machines founder Jack Tramiel, who wanted to concentrate on home computers. | | | The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. | | | Atari 2600 games were originally limited to a maximum size of 4 kilobytes, while a CD-ROM, still the most common medium on which modern games are sold, can hold about 650 megabytes, or 162,000 times as much. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
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| | 2600 |
| | This is the Original / First 6 Switch Version 2600 System Atari Made! | | | This is the Second Generation Atari 4 Switch 2600A System! | | | This is the Second / Last Generation Atari 4 Switch 2600A System made! |
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http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/2600.htm
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| | ClassicGaming.com - The Museum: Atari 2600 |
| | Regardless of some of Atari's mistakes, the 2600 had become so popular and had such a large user base that competitors Coleco and Mattel both released add-on modules to allow their systems to play 2600 games. | | | Atari initially threatened clone producers with lawsuits, and actually sued Coleco over its 2600 module and Gemini clone. | | | That didn't stop Atari (because the 2600 had been steadily declining anyway), and they kept trying to push the 2600 with promotions and low prices, emphasizing the vast number of games available. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/2600/index.shtml
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| | AtariAge - Atari 2600 FAQ |
| | 2600 keyboard by Atari, called the Graduate or My First Computer. | | | The 2600 Connection is a bi-monthly Atari 2600 resource. | | | The TV Boy is a handheld-sized Atari 2600 (made by SystemA) with 127 built-in games that connects to your tv (it does not have its own screen). |
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http://www.atariage.com/2600/faq/index.html?SystemID%3D2600
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| | stuff.txt |
| | This is an Atari 2600 Emulator for DOS. | | | Activison recently released several Atari 2600 emulators in Win 3.1, Mac and Win 95 versions. | | | Since it was the first Atari 2600 game, I guess that also makes it the first 2K game. |
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http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/6058/stuff.txt
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| | Atari (2600) Game Development Still Going Strong |
| | The Atari 2600 was released in 1977, discontinued in 1984, and support was dropped in 1997, according to Machine-Room.org, a site tracking old computer systems. | | | According to Chris Larkin, developer of the Atari 2600 card game Kablamo! | | | Atari ROMs typically contained just 4 Kbytes of ROM memory for program storage, although programmers typically came up with a technique called bank switching, where the high-order address bits were used to select the bank of memory in which operations took place. |
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,857607,00.asp
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| | The Cuttle Cart for the Atari 2600 |
| | This is the specification of the adapter that was originally packaged with the Atari 2600. | | | There are LOTS of Atari 2600 games, and I have not tested them all. | | | When you want to switch games, simply turn off the Atari 2600, and turn it back on and it will be ready to load a new game. |
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http://www.schells.com/cuttlecart.shtml
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| | Atari 2600 CE - The Guts - Page 1 |
| | I purchased two 3-chip Atari 2600 Juniors, and am currently designing a slimmed-down schematic. | | | The Atari 2600 VCS has some special memories for me - when I was 11, I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, and was basically shut-in for over a year. | | | The Atari 2600 CE is my project to create a mass-producable Atari 2600 portable. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/2600ce/project.html
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| | Atari - Best Electronics Home |
| | What you should know before you buy a TV Switch box or direct connect RF adapter for your Atari 2600 / 5200 / 7800 Game System or Atari Computer to your | | | Check out our Best Electronics Money Saving Atari Information tips (and other common problems) before you doing anything else with your Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, | | | Includes a list of Atari OEM 2600 replacement parts. |
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http://www.best-electronics-ca.com
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| | The Atari 2600 Video Computer System |
| | Atari's shining star: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System, Model # CX-2600. | | | Another interesting feature about the Atari 2600 were its games. | | | The Atari 2600 version of Pac Man was written by Todd Fry who, although he was talented Atari 2600 programmer did not like Pac Man and did a sloppy half-effort of porting the game to the Atari 2600. |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/atari2600.html
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| | Atari Video Computer System |
| | Systems such as the Intellivision and Colecovision were graphically better systems, however the Atari 2600 won the hearts and minds of most video gamers and climbed to the top and stayed there for most of its existence. | | | Undeniably the world's most poplar video game, the Atari 2600 Video Computer System has in one way or another been in just about everyone's life. | | | The Atari 2600 was technically superior to most of the other game systems when it was released such as the Bally Astrocade, |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/A2600.html
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| | The Atari 2600 VCS Portables Site - "How To" Main Menu |
| | How do I run an Atari 2600 off batteries? | | | How do I cut down an Atari 2600 4-switch board to 4x4" and have it still work? | | | The Atari 2600 VCS Portables Site - "How To" Main Menu |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/HowToMAIN.htm
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| | 2600 |
| | This is the Original / First 6 Switch Version 2600 System Atari Made! | | | This is the Second Generation Atari 4 Switch 2600A System! | | | This is the Second / Last Generation Atari 4 Switch 2600A System made! |
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http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/2600.htm
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| | AtariAge - Atari 2600 History |
| | The games were very well received by the public, and revealed that the Atari 2600 was capable of better games than Atari themselves had been producing. | | | For the Atari 2600, 1984 was a much more subdued year and the price of the system had now dropped to $40-$50. | | | The Atari 2600, originally called the Atari VCS, is the godfather of modern videogame systems, and helped spawn a multi-billion dollar industry. |
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http://www.atariage.com/2600/history.html
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| | Atari Interactive Discussion |
| | Atari 2600 joysticks joel Muhlnickel 2600/5200/7800 03 Mar 2001 22:06:40 | | | Atari 2600 hardware problem Filip 2600/5200/7800 01 Feb 2001 13:40:35 | | | Re: ATARI 7800 Emulator someguy 2600/5200/7800 05 Dec 2000 09:03:48 |
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http://www.holyoak.com/aid
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| | Atari 2600 Peripherals |
| | As with all 2600 controllers, this also worked on all Atari computers as well. | | | Keeping with that notion, Atari licensed several manufacturers to create rec room type storage bins for 2600 users. | | | Intended for use on the Atari 7800, it was also compatible for the 2600 (since Atari chose to use standard 2600 controller ports on the 7800). |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/gamingmuseum/2600p.html
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| | Otaku No Zoku |
| | Atari 2600 VCS Emulator for Sony PlayStation 2 | | | This page has been moved to Atari 2600 VCS Emulator for GBA | | | The Art of 3D Computer Animation and Effects, 3rd Ed. |
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http://www.otakunozoku.com/gbavcs
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| | batari basic |
| | Although Atari 2600 BASIC is a viable development platform on its own, its real purpose is as a stepping stone toward 2600 programming using assembly language. | | | Atari 2600 BASIC is intended as a beginner's platform so that one may become accustomed to the intricacies of the system. | | | Atari 2600 BASIC "lowers the bar" so that others with limited programming experience can write games that can run on a real Atari 2600 or an emulator. |
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http://www.alienbill.com/2600/basic
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| | The Atari Times - 2600 |
| | Money they would put to use developing the next big thing: The Atari Video Computer System, later renamed the Atari 2600. | | | Developed by Atari and led by Nolan Bushnell, the Atari 2600 was released in 1977 after Atari merged with Warner Communications. | | | Interestingly enough, the Atari 2600 was sold in retail outlets until around 1991. |
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http://www.ataritimes.com/2600
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| | Atari 7800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to a 2003 interview with Leonard Tramiel, the Atari 7800 was essentially "a 2600 with some things put into hardware that were done in software on the 2600". | | | With this system, Atari addressed all the shortcomings of the Atari 5200: it had simple digital joysticks; it was almost fully backwards compatible with the Atari 2600; and it was affordable (it was originally priced at $140 USD). | | | The 7800 was the first game system from Atari which was designed by an outside company (by the General Computer Corporation, future consoles designed outside the company were the Atari Lynx and the Atari Jaguar). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Atari - Encyclopedia Article |
| | The Atari 5200 game console, released as a next-generation followup to the 2600, was based on the Atari 800 computer (but was compatible with Atari 800 game cartridges), and its sales never met the company's expectations. | | | While part of Warner, Atari achieved its greatest success, selling millions of Atari 2600 consoles, and at its peak, it accounted for one third of Warner's annual income and became the fastest-growing company in history in the United States (at the time). | | | But Atari owned the rights to publish Donkey Kong for computers. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/atari.html
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| | Salon.com Technology Atari lives! |
| | Long before the PlayStations and Dreamcasts and GameBoys ruled, the Atari 2600 (also known as the "VCS" for "video computer system") was king of the consoles. | | | During the so-called golden age of console gaming, from 1977, the year when the 2600 first appeared, to 1983-84, when the gaming market crashed thanks to a glut of lousy games and bad marketing decisions, Atari was preeminent. | | | The Atari 2600 certainly used to be the hippest console on the block. |
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/09/atari
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| | Welcome to the World of the Atari VCS at the Atari Museum |
| | Systems such as the Intellivision and Colecovision were graphically better systems, however the Atari 2600 won the hearts and minds of most video gamers and climbed to the top and stayed there for most of its existence. | | | The Atari 2600 was technically superior to most of the other game systems when it was released such as the Bally Astrocade, Magnavox Odyssey and Fairchild Channel F and took a far lead in first place. | | | In fact it was the Atari 2600's huge popularity that became its downfall with too many cartridges being produced and too many of them were lacking in game play and in graphics. |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600menu/2600menu.htm
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | But Atari owned the rights to publish Donkey Kong for computers. |
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http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/a/at/atari.html
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| | The Atari CX-2000 Prototype |
| | The CX-2000 is actually a low cost version of the Atari 2600 designed in 1982 at the WCI Atari New York lab by Gregg Squires, head of the Atari NY engineering lab. | | | Actually when the 2600jr project was being developed by Atari, Inc under Warner Communications, the project nicknamed "Bonnie" and at one point "Janis" was designated the Atari 2100. | | | The 2600jr was designed by Atari, Inc under Warner Communications, the 2600jr. |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2000/a2000.html
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| | Encyclopedia: 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. | | | 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. | | | As the fortunes of Atari's ST and PC compatible computers faded, consoles and software again became the company's main focus. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Atari
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| | Atari 2600 Tech Information |
| | Nick Bensema's Atari Programming Page - Contains much of the information you need to get started programming the Atari 2600. | | | Written by Steven Wright, this is the definative reference manual for programming the 2600! | | | I entered the values from a book and have not proof-read it yet, so use with caution! |
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http://members.cox.net/rcolbert/tech.htm
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