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Home Computer |
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U.S.A. |
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| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
Atari Basic |
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| KEYBOARD |
Full-stroke keyboard, 57 keys, 5 function keys (Help, Start, Select, Option, Reset)\
ESC, TAB, CONTROL, SHIFT (x2), DELETE, BREAK, RETURN, CAPS, GRAPH MODE |
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MOS 6502C |
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1.79 MHz |
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| CO-PROCESSOR |
GTIA (video), POKEY (Sound, I/O), ANTIC (Video), FREDDY (memory) |
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130-XE : 128 kb\
65-XE : 64 kb |
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| TEXT MODES |
Five text modes, maximum : 40 x 24 |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
11 graphic modes, maximum : 320 x 192 |
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| COLORS |
16 colors with 15 intensity level each |
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| SOUND |
4 channels, 3.5 octaves |
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| I/O PORTS |
Composite video output, Cardridge port, Expansion port, SIO peripheral port (tape, disk, printer, modem), 2 x joystick connectors |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
External power supply unit (1A, 5v cc) |
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| 65 XE MODEL |
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The 65-XE is compatible with old peripherals of the Atari 600/800 XL machines: Atari 1010 Program Recorder and Atari 1050 5.25" floppy drive for example... |
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| 65 XE #2 |
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| THE 65 XE GAME CONSOLE |
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It has exactly the same characteristics as the 65-XE. A few peripherals were available: a light gun, tape recorder, floppy disk drive and keyboard. |
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| INSIDE THE 130 XE EXPLAINED |
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**The art of doing better and cheaper**
The 130XE design reflects Jack Tramiel's basic concepts : reduce the manufacturing costs, offer powerful computers to the largest audience, and compete with the best established home computers brands like Commodore and Apple. The 130XE was the first Atari system to be manufactured in an entirely automated factory.
**(1)** The ROM cartridge connector allows the 130XE to take advantage of the most significant games collection which has made the world-wide reputation of Atari.\
**(2)** This serial interface (SIO) allows to connect in chain a large part of the Atari peripherals : printers, cassette recorder and disk drive units.\
**(3)** Two joystick connectors using the Atari standard, of course.\
**(4)** PIA 6520 chipset in charge of inputs/outputs management (keyboard, interfaces, peripherals).\
**(5)** Sound circuit called POKEY, responsible for the good sound features of the 130XE.\
**(6)** As in every 8 bit Atari computers, the cpu is a 6502 microprocessor, here in a C-MOS low power consumption version.\
**(7)** The two graphic chpset, called ANTIC and GTIA.\
**(8)** The only new specialized chipset of 130XE, called FREDDY is in charge of memory management and 64 Kb blocks switching.\
**(9)** 128 Kb. RAM hold in 16 chips.\
**(10)** RF modulator (american standard). An additional external adaptor is necessary for european standards.\
**(11)** The length of the expansion connector is shorter compared to the previous Atari systems, there again for production cost reasons. |
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| BOX #1 |
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Special offer with Tape recorder and Joystick |
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| FRENCH ADVERT (JULY 1985) |
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"128k=2000f\
Better know it before buying a 64k" |
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| NEW-ZEALAND ADVERT (OCT. 1985) |
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from Bits & Bytes magazine |
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| GERMAN ADVERT (AUGUST 1986) |
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| INDUS GT |
5''/14 disk-drive |
The Indus GT Double Density Drive is considered by many the best floppy drive available for the 8-bit Atari's with its digital readouts and smoke plexi cover. |
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| ASTRA 2001 FD UNIT |
Dual 5.25 |
Dual 5.25" FDD unit using single side, single or double density floppy drives |
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| PERCOM DISC DRIVE |
Advert |
March 1983 Advert said:
The Percom Data AT-88 offers 88 Kbytes (formatted) in single-density, with plug-in ease of attachment to your Atari. The AT-88 has integral power supply, "no-patch" to Atari DOS and critical constant speed regulation.\
Take advantage of this low introductory price of $488... |
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| CORVUS SYSTEMS HARD-DRIVE |
10Mb hard-drive |
This is a 10Mb hard-drive. With up to 8 multiplexers with 8 ports each it's possible to connect up to 64 Atari 800's up to a single 10 or even 20 megabyte Atari system. Still in use Today at the Fordham Prepatory School in the Bronx, NY is a 64 Atari 800 computer network hooked up to a single Corvus Hard drive system !
The Corvus hard disk system also sported a unique and innovative back-up system called "The Corvus Mirror" which was a VCR interface system that allowed you to plug a standard Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) up to the Corvus Hard Drive System to save back-ups of the hard disk onto actual Video Tapes!!! |
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| TOUCH TABLET |
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The touch tablet was the best tool for drawing and painting. It shipped with the AtariArtist cartridge. |
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| CARTRIDGE PORT |
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**1** - S4\
**2** - A3\
**3** - A2\
**4** - A1\
**5** - A0\
**6** - D4\
**7** - D5\
**8** - D2\
**9** - D1\
**10** - D0\
**11** - D6\
**12** - S5\
**13** - +5v\
**14** - RD5\
**15** - CCTL
**A** - RD4\
**B** - GND\
**C** - A4\
**D** - A5\
**E** - A6\
**F** - A7\
**H** - A8\
**J** - A9\
**K** - A12\
**L** - D3\
**M** - D7\
**N** - A11\
**P** - A10\
**R** - R/W\
**S** - B02 |
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| JOYSTICK CONNECTOR |
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**1** - Up\
**2** - Down\
**3** - Left\
**4** - Right\
**5** - Pot AY\
**6** - Button A\
**7** - +5v\
**8** - Ground\
**9** - Pot AX |
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| POWER CONNECTOR |
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**1** - +5v\
**2** - Shield\
**3** - Ground\
**4** - +5v\
**5** - Ground\
**6** - +5v\
**7** - Ground |
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| EXPANSION PORT |
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**1** - S4\
**2** - A3\
**3** - A2\
**4** - A1\
**5** - A0\
**6** - D4\
**7** - D5\
**8** - D2\
**9** - D1\
**10** - D0\
**11** - D6\
**12** - S5\
**13** - +5v\
**14** - RD5\
**15** - CCTL
**A** - RD4\
**B** - GND\
**C** - A4\
**D** - A5\
**E** - A6\
**F** - A7\
**H** - A8\
**J** - A9\
**K** - A12\
**L** - D3\
**M** - D7\
**N** - A11\
**P** - A10\
**R** - R/W\
**S** - B02 |
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| MONITOR CONNECTOR |
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**1** - Lum.\
**2** - Ground\
**3** - Audio output\
**4** - Video\
**5** - Chrom. |
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| PERIPHERAL (SERIAL) PORT |
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**1** - Click input\
**2** - Clock output\
**3** - Data input\
**4** - Ground\
**5** - Data output\
**6** - Ground\
**7** - Order\
**8** - Remote control\
**9** - Exec.\
**10** - +5v / ready\
**11** - Audio input\
**12** - +12v\
**13** - Interrupt. |
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| Atari++ |
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/atari++/ |
Unix / Linux |
Unix based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console |
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| Atari800 |
http://atari800.sourceforge.net/ |
Multiplatform |
Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for Unix, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon, SDL and WinCE |
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| ATARI.ORG |
http://www.atari.org/ |
Looking for something on any Atari machine ? Follow the links ! |
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| ATARIARCHIVES.ORG |
http://www.atariarchives.org/ |
Wow! This site is preserving and archiving information about & software for Atari and other classic computers. Everything here is available with the permission of the copyright holders. |
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| The Atari Historical Society |
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The complete history of Atari Arcade and Home games and computers. Complete site with pictures, commercials (streaming), and full text articles. Amazing site ! |
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| www.ataricave.com |
http://www.ataricave.com |
Atari 8-bit Games reviews, original manuals, music, maps and more! |
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| 130xe |
Sunday 26th November 2017 |
The different colors are the result of a bad video connection to you monitor. Try changing out the interface that connects to your monitor |
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| joseph (New-Brunswick Canada) |
Saturday 27th February 2016 |
I am a owner of a 130XE since new in 1985, it was in the box for over 20years when decided to see if it still works.\
I was surprise to see it did but after a hour I had it running as I was doing the self test, the video started to show and different colors...and still even after I turn it on and off...\
Anyone has any idea what is happening? |
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| zozo (france) |
Thursday 30th October 2014 |
i have one in 1988 but i do anything with it |
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| Joe (USA) |
Thursday 16th January 2014 |
The 800XE was actually a 130XE with half the RAM, and not a modified 65XE. The 130XE and 800XE both used the same motherboard with the ECI port next to the cartridge slot. The 65XE did not have this expansion port so it is not the same machine as the 800XE. |
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| Kelly R. (Kenai, Alaska USA) |
Tuesday 27th March 2012 |
A cousin owned one of these, with the Amy chip, and I have to agree that this chip did sound better, but not by too much.
Also, there were ROM and other hardware differences which made it incompatible with some games and other software on diskette, necessitating the use of a special DOS patch.
Still, this was an interesting and fun system to program and use. |
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| James |
Monday 28th July 2008 |
I spent my youth on atari & commodore. Started on Atari 2600, had commodore 64 for a while and when that died I had an 800xl which I soon upgraded to a 130XE which I still have. Now I've been using Atari computers for 20 years straight and have a decent collection now. I still have the same 130XE and it's still used alongside its 600XL and 800 brothers. And I'd like to say Hello to any members of TAF (Toronto Atari Federation) who happen to visit this page. |
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| Stormtrooper of Death (Europe) |
Thursday 21st June 2007 |
The 65XEM machine did have the AMY chip, but nobody at Atari knew how to program the Amy soundchip, so the machine was abandoned before it was released. The specs of the chip were indeed very interesting. It was very powerfull, with several polyphonic channels and also the ability to play samples, without slowing down the main 6502C CPU. |
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| Thomsonicus (Poland) |
Tuesday 7th November 2006 |
yeah, and people still modify it too! Even today on allegro.pl (Polish ebay :) you can find a 65XE with 4 MB of RAM, dual pokeys (stereo), a ~1GB HDD, and an RGB output. |
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| Stormtrooper of Death (Europe) |
Sunday 5th November 2006 |
My first Atari was an 600XL with 1064 ram extension, later i got an 800XL and finally an 130XE. I made several demos and games for this machine in assembly language with Atmas II. After all a very good and reliable machine, that always worked (not unlike MS Windows machines...). Even today, some people make games for this machines, like Jurasic Park II and Robocop. |
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| Kiril (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) |
Tuesday 26th September 2006 |
Like Thomsonicus, my first home computer was Atari 130 XE with XC12 tape recorder. I had nothing else so I started to make a useful OS, cyrillic driver, cyrillic fonts and some functions of graphic user interface. Was a great time!\
Then the PCs ate everithing...\
By the way I keep my system yet and some times I enjoy to play with it :) |
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| Thomsonicus (Poland) |
Tuesday 8th August 2006 |
65XE was my first computer as well. I had a XC12 casette recorder too and, just like Kamil XXL, I also had the Turbo2000R installed. It featured a cartridge and a modification to the XC12 thanks to which it could run both the turbo and the normal version cassettes. Once I've read that the Turbo2000R cassette player was able to read data at the speed of 5 kbods (whatever that meant, maybe 5kbps?).\
I also had a memory upgrade to 128kb RAM and in tests the computer was recognised as a 130XE system! Great stuff, still 100% working in 2006 :D\
@Ashley: sure I remember! Joust was the first trackball game (woman made) |
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| Salvo (Potenza (PZ) [ITALY]) |
Saturday 22nd July 2006 |
Hi, I'm looking for a power connector for ATARI 130XE.\
Somebody can help me to find it?\
Thank you...I'm sorryu for my language.... |
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| Ashley Powell (Guelph, ON, Canada) |
Thursday 20th July 2006 |
I had an Atari 600 XL and for some reason we upgraded to the 130XE. It was superior to the 600XL and 800XL in all aspects until the ST came out. Ran some great games until it fried one day playing Summer Games. Anyone remember: Spelunker, Murder on the Zinderneuf, Spy vs Spy, Infiltrator, SWAT, Mule, Decathalon, Ghostbusters, Gauntlet, Karate, Karateka, Boulderdash, and all the other usual ones like Joust, Frogger. I've been looking to buy a replacement off of ebay but they are rare now. |
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| Kamiil XXL (Poland) |
Friday 14th April 2006 |
My first computer ;-) I got it also with two joysticks "Quickjoy", cassette recorder CA-12, cartridge called Turbo 2000 which sped up and made easier operations on tapes and also had a build-in BASIC interpreter and cable to connect computer to TV. Great stuff... I still have this machine and it still works... But off course I'm using PC now... |
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| James Cronin (UK) |
Saturday 3rd December 2005 |
I had an Atari 64 XE which I believe was the european version of the 65 XE. I dont have much to add apart from the fact it NEVER went wrong, and I had a small device that allowed it to connect to a standard centronics parallel port. The bable had the tape drive plug one one end and a centronitcs plug on the other with a chip and a set of dip switches inside. I also had a number of cartridges for it icluding Atari Writer which was a word processor wor it and allowed you to save your work to tape. However trying to find stuff again in the middle of a tape was always interesting. |
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| Blake Patterson (Alexanadria, VA) |
Saturday 8th November 2003 |
I have both an Atari 800XL and a 130XE - the video output on the 800XL is much superior than that of the 130XE. The fidelity of the image is far more presentable. An interesting thing to note. |
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