Atari's Best Console

[Kitsunexus]

Wan't the Atari XE just a computerized 5200?

[offsidewing]

Don't know.  But the 5.25 in floppies rocked!

[guyjin]

The XE was a line of 8 bit computers (the successors of the atari 400 and 800 computers); what the original poster was probably thinking of was the XEGS, or XE game system, which is a consolized version of the XE computers. which is kinda funny, because that's what the 5200 was too. so you can think of the XEGS as a less sucky version of the 5200.

[kenomac78]

well actually what i meant by home computer line  is the 400 800 XL  TT falcon, or 'jackintosh'  but i can see the confusion as the line between pc and game system arent well defined when they share each others chips and have near identical games for it.

but the atari 16 bit home PC line has way too many models to list in a poll so i put that there.

tramiel never wanted atari to get back into games, but saw some money to be made after '86 and  put out as little as possible. shame they didnt try to  go full throat on apple, they might still be around, the TOS in atari computers beat  the old macs hands down! and they always offered a cheap and powerful computer. shame they stopped  computers altogether for the jaguar,  an area they were ill prepared for.

theoretically if atari was still around* and stuck to computers, an area  the tramiels knew well, we could see  the atari version of OSX or vista, firefox or even atari's version of the ipod. its fun to dream !


*atari does still exist  but many atari die hards dont fully acknowlegde this due to a few years of defunction and being passed around then being used to renamed infogrames. tought if you want to debate what qualifies a company continuing after change of ownership, atari home division traded hands in  78, 84, 96, 98, 03! and the arcade division traded hands on a few occasions but i dont even know what years those are.

[Kitsunexus]

ST/Falcon FTW!!!

Not as good as Amiga though...