There are FOUR Different Atari XE Computers

Behold, a text adventure 40 YEARS in the making! Because clearly, the world was holding its breath for this monumental achievement of digital procrastination. If you haven't yet lived an entire life since the Atari 800, now's your chance!
https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/ #textadventure #digitalprocrastination #gaminghistory #Atari800 #retrogames #40yearsinthemaking #HackerNews #ngated

I was reminded today of the ATARI 1200XL I had back in the day. It was my first computer, and I spent many hours programming graphics and games in BASIC, and eventually in Assembly with the ATARI Macro Assembler, and playing Alternate Reality: The City...

In 7th grade, I also built a voice synthesizer for it using a SP0256-AL2 sound chip, and then interfaced the ATARI with a Big Trak, allowing the computer to drive the programmable tank and have it follow people around. Good times!

#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:

https://fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNkVAhS6DH

- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.

- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.

- If you're watching embedded, click or to see next or previous videos in the playlist.

cc @atarist

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer https://arstechni.ca/5emQ #Vintagecomputing #Ataricomputers #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari8-bit #retrotech #Atari800 #Atarino #Atari #Tech

I inadvertently printed out two complete copies of "Mapping the Atari", 1985 revised edition, double-sided, in colour (as much as there is) scaled to A4.

I've bound them both (with those springy plastic things) and put a cardboard cover on the back and a plastic film on the front, like a corporate brochure.

I'm heading to #RetroFest2025. I have brought a copy, if anyone who's going would like it!

Well, well, well... It's M.U.L.E.'s 42nd birthday today! For anyone who didn't know yet, of course M.U.L.E. is the answer to life, universe and all the rest! Happy 42nd!!! #atari #atari800 #commodore #commodore64 #c64 #retrogaming

oh wow... the #fujinet guys were able to get the #atari800 emulator to talk netsio! i don't need to use altirra to test fujinet in emulation anymore. it's an option now. yay! :)

Il Tema di Star Wars in Basic per Atari 400 and 800!

il listato originale è del 1981, il Commodore Vic 20 non era ancora in vendita e il Commodore 64 sarebbe uscito solo 18 mesi più tardi.

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/star-wars-theme-in-basic

Felice star wars day a tutti!!

@computer

I did not consider the #Atari400 and #Atari800 are #NTSC machines. So I brought PAL monitors to the @vcfe ...

München? Wenn dir dieses Schild begegnet, fahr nicht einfach vorbei. Da lang geht´s ins Vintage Computer Paradies! VCFe this weekend!

Also: abbiegen, Vorfahrt gewähren, und dann straight zurück in die Zukunft, äh, Vergangenheit!

I'm going back through the @ataripodcast library and heard @savetz mention a fun interview with Mark Knutsen, who won first prize at a science fair with his simulation of the gravitational interactions between four stars, which he implemented in #ValFORTH on an #Atari800 after reading an article by A. K. Dewdney in the January 1986 #ScientificAmerican magazine, outlining how star cluster behaviour is investigated using computational models.

The interview with Mark Knutsen is on YouTube, where he demonstrates his program running in an emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwLgCPqi8FA

The same video on archive.org, if YouTube gives you the ick: https://archive.org/details/mark-knutsen

Mark's software as Atari disk images: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324288-marks-1986-science-fair-project/

The podcast episode on which I heard Kay's mention of the interview: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-81-whos-in-control-the-atari-or-the-pi

The ValFORTH documentation, if you're inspired to explore further: https://archive.org/details/ValFORTHDocumentation/mode/1up

Thank you @savetz (and @floppydays!) for your time and effort arranging, recording, editing and publishing these interviews. It's important social history of a unique time and circumstance.

The wonderful #ZafinnBooks¹ gave me this excellent haul of #Atari8bit equipment. All of it needs work and money put into it; none came with power supplies, for example. An #Atari800, an #Atari810 #FloppyDiskDrive, an #Atari130XE and an #AtariXG1 #LightGun.

¹ Ireland-based author of several self-published all-colour books about Atari: https://zafinnbooks.com/

My new Apple //e Platinum has replaced my older //e in the 8 bit activities corner of our retro lounge. The color composite monitor is absolutely beautiful! At least the old //e has a matching monitor now. And yes the Apples and the Atari get along just fine. #AprilApples #atari800 #apple2 #retrocomputers

I miss these visuals so much. You probably feel it for your respective system of choice. This is what they took from us.

#nostalgia #atari800 #atari
#retrocomputing #retrohardware

Deater's take on the first parts of the Atari XL/XE "Rewind 2" demo on the enhanced 128K Apple IIe with Mockingboard.

http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/rewind2/

Even in black/white there is so much FUN here, in the ATARI COFFEE SHOP and the ASSOCIATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS.

Found here, seemingly Italian:

- https://www.santellocco.com/atari/curiosita.htm

Thanks to Adam Markey for highlighting a conversions call from Codemasters in April 1987, we've created a set of new entries. Various conversions all currently lost for #ZXSpectrum, #Atari800, #MSX and #Commodore16/#Plus4:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/02/codemasters-early-conversion-entries-added/

«The Atari 8-bit Handheld Devices »
Atari 400P - Atari 600XLP - Atari 65XEP

Each is 256x400 pixels - 25 colours
#retrogaming #atari #atari8bit #atari800 #atarixl #atarixe #pixelart

Also in the collection… Atari 2600 (I believe a heavy sixer) and TONS of cartridges! #atari #atari2600 #atari800