New Atari 8-bit Article on Gamasutra - Loguidice and Barton

Gamasutra has released the last in the series of book excerpts from the future Hiive Books publication, this one on the Atari 8-bit computer series, from their "A History of Gaming Platforms" series from authors Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton. The link to the Gamasutra cover feature:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3750/a_history_of_gaming_platforms_.php
The link to the posting on Armchair Arcade that shows the unused images and captions: http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1905

Nice article. Too bad you (or the editor?) got a few typos about the 64 MB Atari XEGS and 128 MB Atari 130XE. ;-)

Yep, that is a bad one. One of the earlier articles had "Motorola" instead of "MOS".

I enjoy reading articles like this one. Thanks for linking it Bill.

I have yet to see a 400 or 800 in the flesh here, but my recent re-reading and scanning of the first NZ computer magazine, New Zealand Bits & Bytes showed they were indeed sold here at the retail level.

My Atari 800XL has one of the best keyboards of the 8-bit home computers I've experienced thus far. It's feel is similar to that of the TRS-80 Model 100.

Tez

tezza said:

My Atari 800XL has one of the best keyboards of the 8-bit home computers I've experienced thus far. It's feel is similar to that of the TRS-80 Model 100.

Tez

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The 1200XL is even a bit nicer. I've found the best 8-bit keyboards have been on the Apple II series. Outside of the original IBM PC keyboard, those are the best early keyboards you'll find in my opinion.