Atari 8-bit computers

series of home computers introduced in 1979

video game console

POKEY (Pot Keyboard Integrated Circuit) is a digital I/O chip designed by Doug Neubauer at Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was first released with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 in 1979 and is included in all later models and the Atari 5200 console.

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Datasoft, Inc. (also written as DataSoft) was a software developer and publisher for home computers founded in 1980 by Pat Ketchum and based out of Chatsworth, California. Datasoft primarily published video games, including ports of arcade video games, games based on licenses from movies and TV shows, and original games. Like competitor Synapse Software, they also published other software: development tools, word processors, and utilities. Text Wizard, written by William Robinson and published by Datasoft when he was 16, was the basis for AtariWriter. Datasoft initially targeted the Atari 8-bi

custom chips used in the Atari 8-bit family of computers and in the Atari 5200 console

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home computer model

American video game-developing company

proprietary peripheral bus and related software protocol stacks used on the Atari 8-bit family to provide most input/output duties for those computers

joystick by Atari