Atari 2600

1.1 Mechanism of a “musical” floppy drive The floppy drive itself is musical in a certain way depending on what people may perceive as musical such as the sound of friction. In my project, the floppy drive makes sounds through pitched notes due to friction between the read-write head and the diskette. It produces notes since the diskette has contact friction with read write head, in revolution. Recall that sine waves can be viewed as the progression of a circle over time, or a revolution. Spinning

Backing up your registry files can be extremely important when dealing with modifications to your registry. Why would someone want to tamper with these files if by doing so can mess up your precious computer, well it 's the same as people who shorten computer part 's lifespan by overclocking, to gain better and faster performance. By backing up or saving these registry files before modifying the registries content you insure all the changes to your system can be reversed in case your computer doesn

The descendant of the highly successful Atari 2600, the Atari 5200 was intended to compete with Mattel's Intellivision, and shortly after its release, Coleco Industries' ColecoVision. With superior graphics to its predecessor and the competing Intellivision, Atari was clearly poised for market dominance once again. Unfortunately for the company, what they thought would be a hit, turned out to be one of the major turning points for the company; Atari would fall apart a mere two years after the console

carts released by Magnavox all served the same function as the switches and allowed gamers to choose from the Odyssey 's built-in games. The Odyssey only initially sold about 100,000 units,[3] making it moderately successful, and it was not until Atari 's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry. By autumn 1975, Magnavox, bowing

carts released by Magnavox all served the same function as the switches and allowed gamers to choose from the Odyssey 's built-in games. The Odyssey only initially sold about 100,000 units,[3] making it moderately successful, and it was not until Atari 's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry. By autumn 1975, Magnavox, bowing to

was gone an a newcomer by the name of Mattel created their own console called “Intellivision” in 1979, which “actually intimidated the Atari 2600”. Coleco was still pushing out new consoles to try and out sale Atari 2600, “Coleco had consoles for playing shooting, car racing and pinball games”. through all of the new consoles between 1978 and 1980, the Atari 2600 stayed at the top, mainly for it’s “cartridge-based

The first known coin-operated arcade game was called “Galaxy Game”, an arcade version of the “Spacewar” computer game. Although the “Galaxy Game” was fairly advanced technology at the time, arcade games didn’t become popular until the new company “Atari”, formed in 1972, releases “Pong” the same year they were formed. It was popular among the public, but many companies created clones of the game, stopping it from dominating the market. In 1978, the most popular arcade game to date was released by

TV sets. Things stay quiet until 1976. With the success of Atari (the makers of Pong), many game companies arise and try to release their

1975, Atari decided to try and put their game on a system for the home. Even tho the game system Odyssey had not done well. They partnered up with Sears and released a home version of Pong. Also for one hundred dollars. Unlike Odyssey the Sears gaming system was a huge success during the 1975 Christmas season, with sales of more the $40 million. Atari would be king over the game industries for the next decade. A few companies like RCA and Fairchild channel F tried to break in during Atari reign

wasn’t many reliable sources for game information. The market was overwhelmed with lackluster and poorly made games and no one was being informed as to which games these were. So eventually people just stopped buying games. All of this mixed with Atari manufacturing too many console units and games led to a market crash many call “The Video Game Crash of ‘83” causing many to label video games as a dying fad. Several years had passed and a Japanese company by the name of Nintendo decided it wanted