Asteroids has been ported to multiple systems, including many of Atari's systems ( Atari 2600, 7800, Atari Lynx ) and many others.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

Category: Atari 7800 games

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.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a video game console re-released by Atari Corporation in January 1986.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

The project was originally called the Atari 3600, though was later renamed the Atari 7800.

In response to the criticisms of the Atari 5200, the Atari 7800 could play almost all Atari 2600 games out of the box, without the need for an adapter.

The Supercharger does not work on many Atari 7800 systems ( which is typically backward compatible with the Atari 2600 ), although it does with some early models of the system.

It does not add any functionality and is mainly intended to be used with Atari emulators, such as Hatari.

* Its use does not infringe on Atari's ability to sell the game, which is old and hasn't been sold by Atari in decades.

Thundercats shows a common problem of many Atari ST games: because the hardware does not support scrolling and the relatively slow CPU of the ST, games used large borders or frames around the actual playfield to reduce the amount of data that needs to be copied.

It has a much lower memory footprint compared to the original SpartaDOS and does not use the RAM under the ROM of XL / XE machines, allowing it to be used on the older Atari 400 / 800 models.

The Flashback 2 does not come with paddle controllers, so these games cannot be played unless the user has an original set of Atari 2600 paddle controllers.

While the original Atari 2600 consoles had a cartridge slot, the Atari Flashback 2 does not include one.

The 1982 game Crossfire for the Apple II and Atari platforms is often considered a port of Targ, though it does bears some differences ( most notably, the ability of opponents to fire ).

While the 7800 can actually play hundreds of titles due to its compatibility with the Atari 2600, there was limited third party support for the 7800 and fewer than 100 titles were specifically designed for it.

Realizing that Atari had firm support from Namco ( the creators of Pac-Man and many other hits ), Coleco entered into contracts with companies such as Sega, Konami, and Universal.

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.

The 1993 multi-processor Atari Jaguar console used a 68000 as a support chip, although some developers used it as the primary processor due to familiarity.

Though originally designed for the Apple II, the Koala eventually broadened its applicability to practically all home computers with graphics support, examples of which include the TRS-80 Color Computer, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit family.

For instance, both the Bally Astrocade and Atari 8-bit family ( originally intended to be a console ) included HBI support.

Atari felt that they needed to expand the language to add better support for the specific hardware features of their computers, similar to what Apple had done with their Applesoft BASIC.

Atari Teenage Riot toured in support of bands such as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beck, Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang Clan.

Jack Tramiel left to run Atari Corp. Pacific Tri Micro continued to support PLUS / 4 users until 1988.

Cubase VST was only for Macintosh and Windows — Atari support had been effectively dropped by this time, despite such hardware still being a mainstay in many studios.

Cyclone however has taken over Alive Diskmagazine from ST Survivor to support the Atari scene.

The Falcon was released in late 1992 and subsequently cancelled in late 1993 as Atari Corp restructured itself to focus completely on the release and support of its newest product, the Atari Jaguar video game console.

Besides many technically-impressive features, such as digital sound, sync-scrolling, overscan, and full 2-player support, all original copies of Lethal Xcess featured dual format, which allowed the Amiga and Atari versions to boot from the very same disk.

The Game Boy's victory is generally attributed to its greater battery life, cheaper price tag, smaller size, and wider third party support over the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, despite the Game Gear and Lynx's having color screens.

( Two guys from the London region started to program a full version for the Atari ST, but it was never released, because of the limited graphical support.

While its main competitor, the Commodore Amiga, had better hardware support for games, the Atari ST's aggressive pricing and a head start in the marketplace insured that the ST still had a large selection of games during its prime years.

Atari also acted as a publisher in the early years, but as third party support became stronger they focussed solely on hardware.

With the Joyport, a game could support twice as many players as a standard Apple game port, but game designers had to specifically modify their code to take input from the Atari side of the Joyport.

In addition to bug fixes, DOS 2. 0S featured improved support and the ability to automatically run an Atari executable file named.

Sierra's Srini Vasan and Sierra UK fought for continued Atari ST development but unfortunately Sierra Online discontinued Atari ST support entirely shortly afterwards.

It had simple digital joysticks and was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules.

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

However, unlike VFAT, OS / A + 4. 1 disks were not backward compatible with earlier systems ; Atari DOS or OS / A + 2. 1 could not read disks formatted by OS / A + 4. 1, breaking backward compatibility.