sumit@sftig.UUCP (06/06/84)
From InfoWorld,June 11: The 7800 Prosystem, which will sell for about $150, was unveiled recently in New York City, and brings Atari home-video games as close as they've ever been to coin-operated-game quality. It offers better graphics than does any video-game machine or Atari home computers. Using a new custom chip, Maria, the 7800 can generate 256 colors at once in 320- by 192-dot graphics. It also can generate more than 100 moving objects of any size simultaneously. Atari will ship the new machine in July. Before Christmas the company plans to sell an optional keyboard that will turn the 7800 into a 4K introductory home computer,expandable to 20k. ... All 7800 Prosystems will include the game Pole Position II, ... Other games to be sold when the 7800 is shipped include Rescue on Fractalus! and Ballblazer, the two Lacasfilm games... ... the 7800 version will have the best graphics. Another original work for the 7800 will be Desert Falcon, a Zaxxon-like game that shows off the enhanced graphics of the system. ... first-time translations of coin-operated games to home systems. ... Xevious,Galga,Food Fight, 3-D Asteroids,....
devine@asgb.UUCP (06/08/84)
One of the morning news shows (I forget which) had a spot on an Atari game that used 'feedback' to control a cursor. As you can guess, not much information was given. But the person doing the stand-up had a metal band over his forehead that measured "muscle tension". The game was a kind of "breakout" where you bounce a ball to knock out sections of a wall. The cursor was controlled through the metal band -- relax it moves to the left; tense up and it goes right. Or so it appeared. Does this mean we can forget mouses, trakballs, etc.? Bob Devine ...!ihnp4!sdcrdcf!bmcg!asgb!devine