When did the Atari 65XE come out?
The 65XE shipped in April 1985 with 64K of memory. The 65XE has 64 KB of RAM and is functionally equivalent to the 800XL but lacked the 50-pin Parallel Bus Interface (PBI). The 130XE has 128 KB of memory, accessible through bank switching. The additional 64K can also be used as a RAM drive.
What is the Atari 64K computer?
The Atari 800XL was the third version of the Atari 8-bit line of computers introduced in 1983. The system contained a full 64K of memory, had all the standard VLSI chips (Antic, GTIA, Pokey, PIA) and was in a smaller and more compact design. The Atari 2600 hardware was based on the MOS Technology 6507 chip, offering a maximum resolution of 160 × 192 pixels (NTSC), 128 colors, 128 bytes of RAM with 4 KB on cartridges (64 KB via bank switching).While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600’s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales, especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.Faced with fierce competition and price wars in the game console and home computer markets, Atari was never able to duplicate the success of the 2600. These problems were followed by the video game crash of 1983, with losses that totaled more than $500 million.
What was the last Atari computer?
The Atari Falcon030 (usually shortened to Atari Falcon), released in 1992, is the final personal computer from Atari Corporation. The Atari XE Video Game System (Atari XEGS) is an industrial redesign of the Atari 65XE home computer and the final model in the Atari 8-bit computer series.
What was the best 8-bit computer?
By far the most successful home computer of the era was the Commodore 64. Often shortened to C64, it was also known as the “Brotkasten” (bread bin) in Germany (Figure 2). In the overall hierarchy of the day, it was Commodore/Atari, then Apple, then IBM. Kids of the day — programming kids of the day — adored the ’64 because it was a more thoughtful and downright fun machine to use and to program.