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 ...

Atari Computer has had more ups and downs than your thermometer, but lately it`s on a hot streak. At the Computer Dealers Expo (COMDEX) held here in Chicago last month, Atari created quite a stir by ...

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.

[Neil] from The Cave, a computer and console gaming museum in the UK, has a treat for vintage computing and computer gaming enthusiasts. They received an important piece of game dev history from ...

In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...

The current state of the Atari name and properties leads many people into a tangled web of confusion. It's not surprising, considering the amount of times the company has changed hands, and the ...

The world-renowned DJ and producer Fatboy Slim produced his biggest hits on 1980s hardware: an Atari ST 520. We look back. The song itself isn't entirely new: The Stones, fronted by singer Mick Jagger ...

On a semi-holiday like today’s Martin Luther King Jr./Inauguration Day, the story of a venerable brand like Atari filing for bankruptcy is making a decent splash all over the media. Many of these ...

An early personal computer series from Atari. Introduced in 1985 to compete with Apple's Mac, the ST was the first home computer to include MIDI musical instrument ports. Popular with musicians ...