When operating in “ 2600 ” mode to play Atari 2600 titles, the 7800 uses a Television Interface Adapter ( TIA ) chip to generate graphics and sound.

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

When the original digital signature generating software was turned over to the Atari community, development of new Atari 7800 titles began.

When the video game market recovered by, the leading player was Nintendo's NES, with a resurgent Atari battling Sega's Master System for the number-two spot soon after.

When asked by Ross what he thought about making an E. T .- based video game, Atari CEO Ray Kassar replied, " I think it's a dumb idea.

When not running a BASIC program, the Atari is in direct mode or immediate mode.

When in 1981, Video Out-Takes co-owner Lance Lawson ( a name that comes up repeatedly in Avary and Tarantino's films ) left to open the now famous Video Archives Avary went along, writing the store's database program with fellow 6502 programmer Andy Blinn on an Atari 800 computer.

When software is no longer sold or supported, the product is said to have reached end-of-life, to be discontinued or obsolete, but user loyalty may continue its existence for some time, even long after its platform is obsolete — e. g., the Atari ST and Commodore's Amiga.

When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. ( which included the video game divisions ) to Jack Tramiel ( who named his company Atari Corporation ), Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division ( Atari Coin ), renaming it " Atari Games ".

When Hasbro Interactive bought the remains of Atari Corporation, the console manufacturer, and resurrected the Atari name in the home software arena, Atari Games was renamed Midway Games West by parent company Midway Games to avoid confusing two Atari brands.

When Coleco unveiled the Adam Computer, running a port of Donkey Kong at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois, Atari protested that it was in violation of the licensing agreement.

When Atari Games wanted to enter the console-game market, it needed to create a new label that did not use the Atari name.

When Primal Rage II was cancelled, Atari allegedly felt it necessary to somehow present the story for the sequel in one form or another.

When the Atari XF551 drive came out, not only was it Atari's first drive that could read double-density disks, it was also double-sided.

When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the X was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology.

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

When collectible card games arrived in the 1990s, the gaming market became even more competitive.

When that failed, the defense then looked to procedural delays ( and gaming the usual format of a Roman extortion trial ) until after a lengthy and upcoming round of public holidays, after which there would be scarce time for the trial to continue before Glabrio's term was up and the new and more malleable judge would be installed.

When his favorite game was sold along with Avalon Hill to Hasbro, Schilling joined the small gaming company Multi-Man Publishing which maintained ASL and other Avalon Hill titles.

When gaming company The Valar Project, under former Wizards of the Coast brand manager Anthony Valtera, attempted to publish the d20 Book of Erotic Fantasy ( BoEF ), which focused on sexual content, Wizards of the Coast altered the d20 System Trademark License in advance of publication of BoEF by adding a " quality standards " provision that required publishers comply with " community standards of decency.

When The Computer Channel was relaunched as. tv in 1998, other shows began to start covering the gaming scene.

When asked by the gaming media about his thoughts on the deal, Smart stated " I'm paying for everything.

When DisneyQuest was first opened it had a lower admission fee but each attraction and game required a player to swipe a card to pay " credits " for it, and the card could be " recharged " by putting it and some money into a recharging station, similar to Dave & Buster's gaming restaurants.

When he demanded meaningful regulatory control over casino gaming and took decisive action to purge the industry of its mob connections, the establishment's resistance stiffened.

When communicating with members of the Garden of Light, he turns into what looks like a gaming console and everyone can hear what is said and communicate openly.

When double sided floppy drives became common on gaming platforms this technique soon disappeared.

When Pelit, that concentrated solely on gaming, was founded by the same publisher, Nirvi joined its ranks as an editor, and has written a regular column for each issue.

When soon after that the Bristol branch of Sperry Gyroscope closed, Malcolm made a decision to concentrate fully on computer gaming.

When playing a game on a device that uses a touchscreen for gaming -- such as the Nintendo DS -- users touch the stylus to the screen as input.

When Harris ' accomplice, Reid Errol McNeal, attempted to redeem a high value winning keno ticket at Bally's Atlantic City Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino executives became suspicious of him and notified New Jersey gaming investigators.

When Make-A-Wish first approached gaming companies-their requests to help create a cancer-fighting video game were denied.

When Clarke left Megazone and the title became defunct, he was asked by Next Media publisher, Phil Keir, to start a new multi-platform gaming magazine.

When the new Interactive division debuted in late 2010, IGT's separate mobile-and internet-based gaming groups, known as Million-2-1 and WagerWorks, merged and formed one team with 18 years combined experience.

When applied to video gaming and evaluated within our own gaming experiences, realism can be directly related to the enjoyment of a game by the game player.

When working together with Minh Le on the first Counter-Strike version, Jess Cliffe quit working for the " Silo X " website and was followed up by Tom Konings known as HaLf-DeAd in the Half-Life gaming community.

When Decipher acquired the rights to create the RPG, they also acquired most of the gaming studio from Last Unicorn Games.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.

When the system is arranged for automatic leveling, the platform angles respond to any horizontal components of acceleration acting on the accelerometers.

When the system is on automatic leveling, the gyro drift is canceled by the output of the leveling system ( amplifier Af ).

When a Java technology-enabled web browser processes a page that contains an applet, the applet's code is transferred to the client's system and executed by the browser's Java Virtual Machine ( JVM ).

When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

When AppleNet was cancelled in October, Sidhu led an effort to develop a new networking system based on the AppleBus hardware.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

When gastric hydrochloric acid reaches the nerves in the gastrointestinal mucosa, they signal pain to the central nervous system.

When a cartridge was inserted into the system, the 7800 BIOS included code which would generate a digital signature of the cartridge ROM and compare it to the signature stored on the cartridge.

When alcohol consumption is stopped too abruptly, the person's nervous system suffers from uncontrolled synapse firing.

When the system is idle, the CPU clocks itself down via lower bus multiplier and selects a lower voltage.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

When the serving side loses a rally, the serve immediately passes to their opponent ( s ) ( this differs from the old system where sometimes the serve passes to the doubles partner for what is known as a " second serve ").

When a backplane is used with a plug-in single board computer ( SBC ) or system host board ( SHB ), the combination provides the same functionality as a motherboard, providing processing power, memory, I / O and slots for plug-in cards.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

When a program needs memory, it requests it from the operating system.

When the cache client ( a CPU, web browser, operating system ) needs to access a datum presumed to exist in the backing store, it first checks the cache.

When a transition between user mode and kernel mode is required in an operating system, a context switch is not necessary ; a mode transition is not by itself a context switch.

When one or more output variables of a system need to follow a certain reference over time, a controller manipulates the inputs to a system to obtain the desired effect on the output of the system.