When you looking at the Atari 8-bit computers now, it is hard to image how much more advanced they were than the other personal computers available in late 1979. Sure, the Apple II was the one to beat, but the Atari 800 certainly did so, in nearly every way.
Atari graphics obviously blew away everything else out there with its 128 colors (updated to 256 …
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