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• MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That RAM upgrade must have been significant back then for game developers to store game state.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right? Quadrupling the RAM isn’t a minor upgrade. I’m not sure what OP is ranting about.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They seem used to current gigabyte memory values without knowing historically RAM was Kb and, in the 70s, it wasn’t cheap.

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• BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sixteen kilobytes on the 5200. Sixty-four on the XEGS

  Actually, RAM was the most limiting factor back then. Everyone wanted more, so Atari delivered

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• nawa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  wtf is this post

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At least half of it sounds chatgpt.

    “Its not;it is” pattern being repeated all over is one of its signatures.

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    • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was gonna say it reads it reads like one of those obnoxious LinkedIn posts

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  • Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Post is post. It is made of post. Wtf is this question?

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Question is question. It’s made of question. Wtf is this comment?

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• TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love the shitpost energy you brought to this community.

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Jesus, how old are you?

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• troed@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  IIRC when Tramiel bought Atari their vision was all about the 16/32 bit computers but did quite a few things to bring in cash based on the existing Atari designs - and chips. That's the Atari 65 and 130XE too just being rehashes of older 8 bit Bushnell computers.

  I'm all Tramiel-Atari era myself so never even reflected on the 8 bit re-releases though so I might be misremembering something.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was big into gaming and computers back then and this is the first time I’ve heard of this.

  On paper, it sounds great… A 5200 with more memory and no shitty joysticks?

  Compatible with the Atari 400/800 software?

  Shit, I would have bought one just for Star Raiders. Of course this was also 2 years after the Amiga and Atari ST battles as well. Why would anyone want an 8 bit experience in that era?

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Users: Doesn’t matter, had Xegs.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wrong community?

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• Transform2942@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did ChatGPT write this post?

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ok

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  • HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    69 yo. And the sleep issue is more prostate related than Atari business model.

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You speak as though Atari is known for making sound business decisions…

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Internet points aren’t real but nice try at juicing yours upward

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought that was about ET

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