** The Atari 7800 is backward compatible with almost all Atari 2600 games.

** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game

** Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx.

** The Atari 2600 game system is released.

** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

** Circus Atari, a spinoff of the above game for the Atari 2600 console

** Atari DOS

** Atari TOS

** Atari TIA, combined sound and graphics chip, used in Atari 2600 and Atari 7800.

** Atari POKEY, used in Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, and certain Atari 7800 cartridges.

** Atari AMY, intended for the 65XEM, but never released.

** Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum computers ( same as General Instrument AY-3-8910 )

** Yamaha Y3439-F, used in the Atari Falcon, Atari STBook

** Atari 2600 homebrew

** RGB output can feed either RGB monitor or TV, old Atari SM124 monitor or a VGA monitor

** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.

** 8-bit CPU, 16-bit address space

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

** Commodore 128 ( or C128, CBM 128, or C = 128 ), a home / personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines

** Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer announced in 1980

** Indexed register indirect with 8-bit signed offset e. g. 8 ( A0, D0 ) or 8 ( A0, A1 )

** Relative with 8-bit signed offset with index, e. g. 8 ( PC, D2 )

** Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1. 79 MHz

** 8-bit data bus

** 8-bit instructions

** 8-bit single channel ( no DMA ), 16 kHz max using BIOS routines.

** Single precision – 36 bits: 1 sign bit, 8-bit characteristic, 27-bit mantissa

** 8-bit audio resolution

** 8-bit data bus

** Modern 8-bit and 16-bit Microcontroller chips, such as Atmel AVR and TI MSP430 chips, support JTAG programming and debugging.

** In Atari 8-bit computers, three of the pins are used to read state of the console keys ( Start / Select / Option ).

** NCR 5380 " SCSI Controller " — 8-bit asynchronous transfers up to 4 MB / s.

** MOS Technology 8500 ( the 6510 / 8500 being a modified 6502 with an integrated 8-bit I / O port )

Category: Atari 8-bit family games

This would eliminate the need for more ports on the back of the machine, and allowed for the elimination of expansion slots for supporting more complex devices ( the Atari 8-bit family used a similar solution, known as SIO ).

Much of the technology in the Atari 8-bit family of home computer systems were originally developed as a second-generation games console intended to replace the 2600.

* Atari 8-bit family

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.

On January 1, 1992, Atari Corp. formally announced that production of the Atari 7800, the Atari 2600, the Atari 8-bit computer line, and the Atari XE Game System would cease.

The most substantial difference, however, is a graphics architecture which differs markedly from either the Atari 2600 VCS or Atari ’ s 8-bit line of computers.

The Atari 8-bit family had their own Atari BASIC that was modified in order to fit on an 8 kB ROM cartridge.

Reading Atari 8-bit 130kB or 180kB disks was possible as well with special software, but the standard Atari 8-bit 90kB format, which used FM rather than MFM encoding, could not be handled by the 1571 hardware without modifying the drive circuitry as the control line that determines if FM or MFM encoding is used by the disc controller chip was permanently wired to ground ( MFM mode ) rather than being under software control.

* Atari DOS, which was used by the Atari 8-bit family of computers.

* Gauntlet ( Donald R. Lebeau video game ), a 1984 shoot ' em up video game for the Atari 8-bit computer

In the Atari 8-bit game Rescue on Fractalus !, published by Lucasfilm Games in 1985, the graphics depicting the cockpit of the player's spacecraft contains two window struts, which are not anti-aliased and are therefore very " jagged ".