The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

There were also many popular games officially converted to the Electron from arcade machines ( including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu ) or other home computer systems ( including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity ).

The Aster computer could use the software written for the popular Tandy TRS-80 computer while fixing many of the problems of that computer, but it could also run CP / M software, with a big amount of free memory ( Transient Program Area, TPA ) and a full 80 × 25 display, and it could be used as a Videotext terminal.

A conversion of the popular computer game was released by GCC in 2004.

* 1991: Sofmap begins its rise as a major seller of new and used Japan-market computer parts and software, including popular systems from NEC ( PC-8801 and 9801 ), Sharp ( X68000 ) and Fujitsu ( FM-Towns ).

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

In terms of current popular technologies: Any computer connected to the same Ethernet repeater or switch is a member of the same broadcast domain.

The System / 360 architecture was so popular that it dominated the mainframe computer market for decades and left a legacy that is still continued by similar modern computers like the IBM zSeries.

The common teleprinter could easily be interfaced to the computer and became very popular except for those computers manufactured by IBM.

Also growing more popular are ethnographies of professional communities, such as laboratory researchers, Wall Street investors, law firms, or information technology ( IT ) computer employees.

Sandy Petersen, now best known for his work on the Doom computer game, contacted them regarding writing a supplement for their popular fantasy game RuneQuest set in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

These portable devices first became popular with the wearable computer movement in the 1980s.

It was popular among wearable computer researchers and hobbyists.

In computer science, a popular notation for context-free grammars is Backus – Naur Form, or BNF.

The popular Commodore computer magazines of the era also entered the arena with type-in fast-load utilities, with Compute!

Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some of the more serious Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s.

This made it a popular service for both amateur and professional disc jockeys operating from a personal computer.

Another popular computer architecture that utilizes the 6U-160 Eurocard is CompactPCI and CompactPCI Express.

For example, a popular software program, Adobe Acrobat, can be used to create content for most computer platforms, under various operating systems.

For computer savvy do-it-yourself hobbyists CNC ( Computer Numerical Control ) machining is also popular.

In popular usage and in the media, computer intruders or criminals is the exclusive meaning today, with associated pejorative connotations.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

Another popular strategy is for the runner to attempt a steal while the hitter is instructed to swing at the pitch if it is at all hittable.

As with many popular arcade games, experienced players ( who can complete the game relatively easily ) become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score ( which involves a lot more skill and strategy ).

The game involves some strategy but is popular even among young children.

Renamed Turbo Pascal, it became hugely popular, thanks in part to an aggressive pricing strategy and in part to having one of the first full-screen Integrated development environments, and fast turnaround-time ( just seconds to compile, link, and run.

In the 1990s, translation into p-code became a popular strategy for implementations of languages such as Python and Java.

Skinhead culture became so popular by 1969 that even the rock band Slade temporarily adopted the look as a marketing strategy.

(), also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.

However, this strategy failed with Van Buren winning majorities of both the popular and electoral vote.

Another popular offensive strategy is the Horizontal Stack.

The strategy of sectarians taking Greek terms from philosophical contexts and re-applying them to religious contexts was popular in Christianity, the Cult of Isis and other ancient religious contexts including Hermetic ones ( see Alexander of Abonutichus for an example ).

Choosing fellow Southerner Gore went against the popular strategy of balancing a Southern candidate with a Northern partner.

It can be seen as a legitimate part of their marketing strategy, but is generally not popular with industry press.

His theory defied popular military thinking of the time, which was strongly in favour of victory in battle, yet World War I would soon demonstrate the flaws of a mindless " strategy of annihilation ".

Sidney K. " Sid " Meier ( born February 24, 1954 ) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably Civilization.

One popular strategy for constructing evaluation functions is as a weighted sum of various factors that are thought to influence the value of a position.

Axis & Allies is a popular series of World War II strategy board games, with nearly two million copies printed.

After discussion had turned to the Iraq crisis, she remarked that U. S. president Bush was preparing a war to detract from domestic problems such as the economic crisis at the time, and that this was a popular political strategy which had already been used by Adolf Hitler.

Scorched Earth is a popular shareware artillery video game, which is a subgenre of strategy game.

" Surprisingly, it is largely neglected by marketing textbooks, although not by the popular exponents of corporate strategy — indeed, it was perhaps the main theme of the book by Peters and Waterman, in the form of their " Superordinate Goals.

This strategy was chosen after Uchiyama and others on the design team spent time in the United States studying owners of earlier RX-7's and other sports cars popular in the American market.

Furthermore, ownership only made season tickets available in full-season ( 41-game ) packages, eliminating the popular six -, ten -, and twenty-game mini plans in a strategy largely designed to spur purchases from corporations and wealthier individuals.

Contrary to popular belief, table limits are not designed to limit players from exploiting a martingale strategy.

* In the first installment of the popular Starcraft real time strategy series, you play as a Magistrate working for the Confederacy, a cruel government.