Basic on Atari 2600 - The Compumate from Spectravideo

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In 1983 Spectrevideo released the Compumate which turned the Atari 2600 from 1978 into a full fledged micro-computer, a very limiited one, but still good enough to learn the basics of Basic.

#retrocomputing #atari #history

0:00 Intro
1:29 Specifications
2:30 My traditional Basic program
2:58 The Drawing program
3:22 The Music composer
3:41 Saving and retreiving my drawing
5:31 Conclusion



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