On October 11, 2008, Infogrames completed its acquisition of Atari Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

* Atari On Film-List of Atari products in films.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

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.

On obtaining an Atari ST they started exploring what they could do with this new hardware.

On March 24, 2010, the Atari 2600 port of Millipede was one of the launch titles for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows LIVE service, Game Room.

On November 1, 1982, Atari informed them that their contracts were canceled and that exclusive deals would be established with select distributors.

On 12 October 2010, Steve Aoki and Dim Mak Records announced the release of Atari Teenage Riot's new single " Activate ", with the full-length album Is This Hyperreal?

On February 13, 1996, JTS merged with video game console and former home-computer producer, Atari Corporation.

On February 23, 1998, JTS sold the Atari intellectual property to Hasbro Interactive for $ 5 million in cash ( the name had already been sold to THQ for home use and Midway / Williams for arcade use ).

On the other hand, in the handheld market, Yokoi's refusal to adopt a color display for the Game Boy in favor of long battery life is cited as the main reason it prevailed against Sega's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx.

On March 21, 1989 Schafer sent a job application to Atari, which was denied.

On January 31, 2011, Wham-O announced its arrangement with ICM, the company that represents Atari video games, to represent the Wham-O company in various media.

On March 10, 2009, the game was again made available in boxed form in stores, released by Atari.

On September 21, 2004, Atari released in stores the " Editor's Choice Edition " of Unreal Tournament 2004 which adds 3 vehicles, 4 Onslaught maps, and 6 character skins to the original game, and also contains several mods developed by the community as selected by Epic Games.

On the Atari 800, the player can key in the phone number on the title screen, followed by a level number to skip to that level.

On the Atari 2600, multicolor sprites – such as the duck in the game Duck Attack!

On the Atari 2600, the paddle controllers look very similar to the driving controllers.

On 7-bit connections, locking shifts provide efficient transfer of 8-bit data.

On computers and data links using 8-bit bytes this left the top bit of each Byte free for use as a parity, flag bit, or meta data control bit.

On February 19, 2009, Zilog announced that it had sold off their 8-bit Crimzon Universal Remote Control infrared microcontroller product line, as well as their ARM9 32-bit microcontrollers, including the Zatara security microcontrollers and 15 patents, to Maxim Integrated Products.

On the conversion from arcade to an 8-bit platform, Your Sinclair accepted the " disappointing " monochrome display for the sake of smoother play.

On the other hand, the competing 8-bit format EUC-JP, which does not support single-byte halfwidth katakana, allows for a much cleaner and direct conversion to and from JIS X 0208 code points, as all high bit set bytes are parts of a double-byte character and all codes from ASCII range represent single-byte characters.

On displaying that 8-bit image data, HP's color recovery technology produces in real time an approximation of the original 24-bit image based on the hints provided by the dithered data.

On the Commodore 8-bit machines, the < TT > RESTORE </ TT > key was hooked up directly to the NMI line on the 6510 CPU, but the reset would take place only if < TT > RUN / STOP </ TT > was also being held down when < TT > RESTORE </ TT > was struck ( this combination being the Commodore version of a three finger salute ).

On the Atari 8-bit family, for instance, the map was created out of a custom character set and presented in a low-resolution mode that allowed up to four colors.

On personal computers, the key can be used by software in several different ways, such as to switch between multiple login sessions, to terminate a program, or to interrupt a modem connection.

On the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 computers, the Break is accessed by pressing Space.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

On Windows computers, extensions consist of a dot ( period ) at the end of a file name, followed by a few letters to identify the type of file.

On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

On computers, the availability of code pages determines whether one can use certain diacritics.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

On 7 April 1986 Amstrad announced it had bought from Sinclair Research "... the worldwide rights to sell and manufacture all existing and future Sinclair computers and computer products, together with the Sinclair brand name and those intellectual property rights where they relate to computers and computer related products.

On meters that allow interfacing with computers, optical isolation may protect attached equipment against high voltage in the measured circuit.

On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system.

On shared computers, whether time-sharing, batch processing, or server systems, core dumps allow off-line debugging of the operating system, so that the system can go back into operation immediately.

On the other hand, laptop computers offer portability that desktop systems can not due to their small form factor.

On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers.

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property.

On computers running Mac OS X, disk images are now ubiquitous for software downloads, typically downloaded with a web browser.

On personal computers, SLIP has been largely replaced by the Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), which is better engineered, has more features and does not require its IP address configuration to be set before it is established.

On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers ( the prior day permitted only network attacks ), Charlie Miller compromised Mac OS X through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari.

On present-day computers, performance is determined more by cache and CPU pipeline considerations than by strict operation counts, and a slight difference in arithmetic cost is unlikely to be significant.

On September 4, 2008, Sony announced a worldwide voluntary product inspection and rework program for TZ-series notebook computers manufactured since June 2007.

On affected Vaio notebook computers, the cooling fan will start to make an unusual noise.

On the other hand, it is argued that as chess enters certain endgames, databases must be employed by computers to deal with added complexities.