The MIT licensed program is written in Turbo-BASIC XL and allows computers such the 1200XL and 800XL to not only render the image on screen but output it to an attached plotter.

[Drygol] borrowed an intact Atari 800XL case from a friend, and used that to create a mold of the missing sections from his own case.

If you were born in the 1970s and early 1980s I need you to summon your 10-year-old self to the computer. Go ahead. I'll wait. All here? Cool. Welcome to ...

Tech Culture Hardware diy atari A full Atari 8-bit computer has been recreated on a stamp-sized FPGA module It even outperforms the original, despite the size By Zo Ahmed June 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM ...

Atari's 1200XL should have been a success of the 8-bit home computing era: modern, compact, designed to compete with the breakout Commodore 64, and good-looking to boot. But it was a fiasco ...

The XL line also had brushed aluminum accent trim. The unit you showed was the first Atari computer offered to the public, and was followed by the 400, 1200XL, then finally the 800XL and 600XL.

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer Hobby project shrinks 1980s computer platform that pierced the Iron Curtain.