The Atari 7800 was finally released in 1986, but it may have been too late. For backward compatibility with the 2600, it retained the same TIA chip. To reduce costs, it used that chip for audio as ...

The Atari 2600 was an extremely popular yet very simple ... The circuit board was a tiny thing with a shrunk-down 6502, a 6532 RIOT chip, and a custom chip called a TIA. If you are familiar ...

Sitting on the Baffatari board are two chips essential to the Atari 2600’s architecture: the 6532 RAM I/O Timer (RIOT) that contains the RAM and joystick interface, and the Television Interface ...

According to Atari 2600+ specs on the official product page, the console wields a Rockchip 3128 SOC microprocessor, 256MB DDR3 RAM, and 256MB eMMC storage. However, the company’s choice of chip ...

And the chip could play just two voices of audio simultaneously ... Jamie Lendino is an executive editor at PCMag and the author of Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming ...

The Atari 2600 Plus is a shrunken version of the 2600 that works with both 2600 and 7800 cartridges, and it’s coming in November. The Atari 2600 Plus is a shrunken version of the 2600 that works ...

From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

If you read about Atari issuing a new cartridge of a new Atari 2600 game and your first thought was, "What am I supposed to play this on?" there's an answer for you. Today, the company announced ...