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Atari's packaging style from the 400/800 era Many pieces of software were available for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers （the 400/800, XL, and XE series）.
Software was sold both by Atari, Inc.
（then Atari Corporation starting in mid-1984） and third parties.
Atari also distributed software through the Atari Program Exchange from 1981 to 1984.
After APX folded, many titles were picked up by Antic Software.
Atari, Inc.
published two assemblers.
The Atari Assembler Editor cartridge is a friendlier, integrated development environment on using line numbers for editing source code similar to
Atari BASIC. The professionally targeted Atari Macro Assembler shipped at a higher price on a copy protected disk without editor or debugger.
Third-party assemblers include SynAssembler from Synapse Software and MAE （Macro Assembler Editor） from Eastern House.
Optimized Systems Software published an enhanced disk-based assembler mimicking the structure of Atari's Assembler Editor as EASMD （Editor/Assembler/Debug）.
It followed that with MAC/65 （first on disk with BUG/65 as a companion product, then as a 16KB bank-switched cartridge）.
MAC/65 tokenizes lines of code as they are entered and has much faster assembly times than Atari's products.
Dunion's Debugging Tool （or DDT） by Jim Dunion is a machine language debugger originally sold through the Atari Program Exchange.
A reduced version is included in the cartridge version of MAC/65.
Atari magazine ANALOG Computing published the machine language monitor H:BUG as a type-in listing.
followed by BBK Monitor.
Atari shipped Atari BASIC with all their machines either as a cartridge or in ROM. It also sold Atari Microsoft BASIC on disk.
Optimized Systems Software created a series of enhanced BASICs: BASIC A+, BASIC XL, BASIC XE. BASIC compilers were also available, from 1982's ABC （Monarch Data Systems） to ...