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Atari 7800 — Wikipedia (en)

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The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console released by Atari Corporation in May 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it the first console with backward compatibility. It shipped with a two button controller, instead of the 2600-standard Atari CX40 joystick, and with Pole Position II as the pack-in game. The European model has a gamepad instead of a joystick. Most of the early releases for the system are ports of 1981–1983 arcade video games. The final wave of 7800 cartridges is closer in style to what was available on other late 1980s consoles, such as Scrapyard Dog and Midnight Mutants. Designed by General Computer Corporation, the 7800 has custom graphics hardware similar to early 1980s arcade video games and is a significant improvement over Atari's previous consoles. The same Television Interface Adaptor chip that launched with the Atari VCS in 1977, included for compatibility with cartridges for that system, is used to generate two-channel audio for 7800 games. In an effort to prevent the flood of poor quality games that contributed to the video game crash of 1983, cartridges had to be digitally signed by Atari. The Atari 7800 and an initial batch of games were first announced by Atari, Inc. on May 21, 1984, but general release was shelved after the purchase of Atari by Jack Tramiel who re-established the company as Atari Corporation. Support for the 7800, along with the 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers, was dropped in 1992.

Tema degli esploratori: fiducia digitale e crittografia (deposito sistematico; ricerca «digital signature»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Atari 7800» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800
Wikidata Q753600 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q753600
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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