The Atari ST is a home computer released by Atari Corporation in June 1985.

The Atari ST was part of the 16 / 32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU noted for 128 kB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½ " microfloppy disks as storage.

The source code for 13 games, as well as the OS and development tools ( for the Atari ST computer system ) were discovered in a dumpster behind the Atari building in Sunnyvale, California.

AMOS is a descendant of STOS BASIC for the Atari ST. AMOS BASIC was first produced in 1990.

Perhaps AMOS BASIC's biggest disadvantage, stemming from it Atari ST lineage, was its incompatibility with the Amiga's operating system functions and interfaces.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

* Parasol Stars ( 1991 originally released for PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16, converted for NES ( Europe only ), Amiga, Atari ST, and Game Boy ( Europe only )

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It has undergone numerous revisions for various platforms ( including Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, PlayStation, N-Gage and Super Nintendo ) and now exists in several versions.

Category: Atari ST games

In July 1984 he bought the consumer side of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications which allowed him to strike back and release the Atari ST earlier in 1985 for about $ 800.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

Initially developed ( though not publicly released ) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary.

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

* Hex ( video game ), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

Flare's prototype system was Z80 based but featured four custom chips to give it the power to compete with peers such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

It could move sprites and block graphics faster than an Atari ST, and in 256 colours under conditions when the ST would only show 16 colours.

MINIX 1. 5, released in 1991, included support for MicroChannel IBM PS / 2 systems and was also ported to the Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures, supporting the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation computer platforms.

In the years immediately after the 1983 ratification of the MIDI specification, MIDI features were adapted to several early computer platforms, including Apple II Plus, IIe and Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, and PC-DOS.

* AtariAge – Comprehensive Atari 5200 database and information

Engineering Notes list Tempest as a game that was between 15 – 20 % completed for the Atari 7800 ; no code to date has been found.

* AtariAge – Comprehensive Atari 7800 database and information

* Atari Museum – Technical files archive

* Atari Museum – Full History of the Atari 7800

* 1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

Trackballs have appeared in computer and video games, particularly early arcade games ( see a List of trackball arcade games ) notably Atari's Centipede and Missile Command – though Atari spells it " trak-ball ".

* June 26 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney co-found Atari.

* Colourspace ( Atari 2600, 1985 ) – A light synthesizer.

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Although the exact details of the transaction were not disclosed in the announcement, it was later reported that Atari had paid US $ 20 – 25 million for the rights, a high figure for video game licensing at the time.

* Atari Teenage Riot: 1992 – 2000 ( DHR 2006 )

* Revision A – First Atari BASIC cartridge.

* Atari – first console market leader ; now defunct.

* Intellivision – the alternative to Atari 2600 in 1979, Intellivision offered voice command modules and Tron ; now defunct.

* Atari – revived by Infogrames and now a third-party game publisher

However, the review noticed that the game's code came from the Atari ST version, which, as noted in the other reviews, has resulted in choppy scrolling and a shrunken gameplay area – something which " the Amiga could do all this perfectly smoothly with one hand tied behind its back ".

* Boulder Dash Construction Kit ( 1986 – Apple II, C64, Spectrum, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST ) – This release included a small number of levels, but was titled Boulder Dash IV – The Game for the Spectrum re-release.

* Rockford ( 1988 – Arcade, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Arcade, Spectrum, Amstrad, C64 )-Rockford was originally a licensed arcade game produced by Arcadia Systems, and later converted to various home computer formats

Although the Atari 5200's internal design was extensively based on that of the 400 / 800 home computers, the differences were sufficient that games designed for one would not run directly on the other.

Although it was innovative and unique for its time, gamers found the Atari Lynx to be quite large and bulky, even the 2nd version of the unit.

Although used in the early days of the personal computer ( on the Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and Atari 400 ), they have been supplanted by the more tactile dome and mechanical switch keyboards.

Although the game managed to sell well in terms of absolute numbers, Atari had grossly overestimated the number of sales it would generate.

Although Atari planned an upgrade to allow dealers to install the blitter chip, this plan was later dropped.

Although this was LJN's first foray into the video game business, it was not for MCA who had previously started MCA Video Games, as a joint venture with Atari, Inc., to create coin-operated and home games and computer software based on various MCA properties.

Although licensing for this region was exclusive to Atari, a number of Cinematronics machines were also available from suppliers mostly via a gray import.

Although versions of Infection were programmed for Amiga, Commodore 64 and Atari ST, none saw a commercial release.

Although it would run on a color screen, the best resolution was achieved by using the Atari SM-124 monochrome monitor, which gave, for its time, an impressive resolution of 640x400.

Although Atari has shown no interest in reviving the TA franchise, the company has nonetheless held on to it.

Although several manufacturers produced these devices before 2002, such systems became better known following the release of Jakks Pacific's Atari Classic 10-in-1 TV game.

Although more feature filled than ATARI BASIC, Microsoft BASIC never had the popularity that Atari BASIC had.

Although ports for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and PC-9801 platforms exist, the primary development was for the IBM PC platform.

Although most commonly associated with NES and SNES, multicarts, both legal and otherwise, have appeared for many cartridge-based systems, among them the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and Super NES.

Although the core features of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 are based on the previous games, Chris Sawyer, the developer of the first two games, acted only as a consultant, as the game was developed by Frontier Developments instead, and published and advertised by Atari.

Although, considerably more powerful than the then-dominant Atari 2600, the Arcadia 2001 wasn't released until just before the more-advanced Atari 5200 and the ColecoVision, in mid-1982.

Although there is one high-level compiler available, batari Basic, most development for the Atari 2600 is still done in 6502 assembly language.

" Though the two companies reached a tentative agreement, with final contract papers to be signed at the 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Atari refused to sign at the last minute, after seeing Coleco, one of its main competitors in the market at that time, demonstrating a prototype of Donkey Kong for its forthcoming Coleco Adam home computer system Although the game had been originally produced for the ColecoVision and could thus automatically be played on the backwards compatible Adam computer, Atari took the demonstration as a sign that Nintendo was also dealing with Coleco.

Although the game was prompted by a verbal description of the arcade game Canyon Bomber ( Atari, 1977 ), it was not until many years later that Peter Calver saw the original game.

Although Dragonshard is billed by Atari as " the first Dungeons & Dragons real-time strategy experience ," Stronghold ( 1993 ) precedes it by over a decade.

Although superseded by Atari Macro Assembler ( AMAC ), the Atari Assembler Editor continued to be used by programmers.