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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all made rash and impulsive online purchasing decisions at times. For [Drygol] the moment came when he was alerted to an Atari 1040STe 16-bit home computer with matching monitor at a very ...

In context: The list of improbable devices running the iconic first-person shooter Doom continues to grow. Although porting it to a PC released in 1985, eight years before Doom, might seem tame ...

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 ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Most people know Atari for its line of famous home game ...

Although the PlayStation and Xbox generation might find it difficult to believe, Atari is one of the most important names in video game history and the news of its recent bankruptcy marked a sad day ...

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.