In a longish post over at Dadhacker, Landon Dyer tells us the story, in florid language, of the moment that the Atari ST very nearly ran Unix. Not Linux, mind you, but real, AT&T Unix. The license at ...

The Atari 520ST was Atari's first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by ExtremeTech Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both ...

It may seem strange today, but there was a time when Atari made cutting-edge computers. That’s right–the company sold modern computers with mice, MIDI inputs, hard drives, and high-resolution ...

Desktop environments are the norm as computer interfaces these days, but there was once a time when they were a futuristic novelty whose mere presence on a computer marked it out as something special.

In brief: FPGA circuits have enabled a new generation of devices that replicate retro game consoles and computers with near-perfect cycle accuracy. The latest example is Atari's 16-bit home computer, ...