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Atarisoft titles are available for almost every popular computer and video game system from the early Eighties:

- Cartridges for the home computers Texas Instruments TI 99/4A, Commodore VIC 20 and Commodore 64
- Cartridges for the video game systems CBS Colecovision and Mattel Intellivision
- Floppy discs (5.25 inches) for the personal computers IBM PC, Apple II and IBM PC Jr
- Cassette tapes for the home computers Sinclair ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro

So Atarisoft produced software for ten different systems! Though it is not sure yet if the titles for IBM PC Jr ever have been released. They are stated on the Atari Master List but up to now I do not own any and I do not know any collectors that own them. And there is also rumour that Atari worked on some titles for the British Acorn home computers.

Not every Atarisoft title is available for every of the above systems. The more popular the system, the more titles are available. Please refer to the list lower down for further details.

Latest news as of April 2004: Atari released also at least one game title under the Atarisoft label for their own 400/800/XL/XE 8-bit computer series. Please check the "Specials" section for more info.

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The styling of the boxes is pretty different from the 2600, 5200, 7800 and 8-bit computer titles.

The major part on the front of the Atarisoft boxes is plain, with the title written in big letters diagonal (upper left corner to lower right corner) over the whole surface. In the upper right corner it looks like the plain surface is drawn of a bit and beneath it is the original artwork of the Atari title. The system name is written on the "backside" of the "drawn of" corner.

The backside of the boxes contains a big artwork of the respective game, surrounded by lots of text: a short description of Atarisoft and the game, the titles of the games that are currently offered for this system and copyright notes.

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I do not know exactly. The first titles were sold in those clumsy biiig boxes, measuring approximately 19 x 26 cm, that is 7.5 x 10.3 inches! This format had also been used for Atari's early 400/800 titles. Then they switched to handy small boxes, measuring approximately 14 x 19 cm, that is 5.5 x 7.5 inches. This is the same size they used for most of their 2600, 5200, 7800, XL/XE etc software.

Probably it was just cheaper to produce those smaller boxes ...

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An interesting fact is that each system had its own box colour. This makes it easy to separate the games for the different systems with a first view and also makes a nice picture on the book shelf ;-)

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For sure in the USA, Canada and Germany. Most likely also in some other European countries.

If you can confirm more countries in which Atarisoft titles have been sold, please contact us! 

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Games on cartridges have model numbers like RX85nn, where nn stands for an ascending 2-digit number. I do not know what the X means, but the R probably stands for "ROM cartridge". (Note: The game cartridges for the 400/800/XL/XE computers had model numbers like RX8nnn, where the highest known number is RX8114.) Games on diskettes have model numbers like DX55nn, where the D probably stands for "Diskette". The games on tapes for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum have model numbers like TSM953n, which probably stands for "Tape Spectrum".

The games for CBS Colecovision and Mattel Intellivision do not have the RX in the model number, they are just 5-digit numbers, Colecovision games starting at 70001, Intellivision games starting at 702551.

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Help needed! There are some titles where it is not sure if they ever have been released or not. If you know more, please contact us. Thank you!

R(arity): C = Common, U = Uncommon, R = Rare, ER = Extremely rare, UR = Ultra rare, PR = Prototype, NR = Never released.

Have (Atarisoft titles that I own): C = Cartridge, F = Floppy disc, T = Tape, B = Box, I = Instructions.

For our Atarisoft reference collection we still need all of the titles we do not have. These are marked with "/" in the "Have" column. So if you want to trade or sell yours, please contact us. Only complete titles with box and instructions please.

Click on a column header to sort by that column.

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IBM PC - Joust
One thing to note about Joust ... It won't work on anything newer than a 286 (due most likely to some odd undocumented opcode). On a 386 or 486 it either crashes or reboots the system when you try to run it. Also, on a 286, you actually have to use MoSlo to be able to play it, otherwise it runs way too fast :-). Pretty decent version actually. It looks and feels like it might have been a port of the Apple II version.
Thanks to Otter

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My Atarisoft collection as of 27-Jul-01, about 1/3 of all released Atarisoft cartridges, so not really a "reference" collection yet ... :-(

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IBM PC - Tempest 2000

Tempest 2000 is a hand-written addition to the Atari Master List. So it was probably the last title that has been added to the list. Regarding to the Atari Master List this game should have had catalog number DX5551 and should have been released 9/94.

In November 2001 Anthony Chapman from United Kingdom told us that he owns Tempest 2000 for the PC, but the box looks completely different from the other Atarisoft titles. In fact Atari had changed the label name from Atarisoft to Atari Interactive in the meantime.

Atari 400/800/XL/XE - Nostradamus

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Some notes from a TI 99 collector

- Brush up my English ;-)
- Include pictures
- Comparing the screenshots of the same game for different systems
- System requirements of the different systems