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Atari Gains Enterprisewide Visibility And Improves Corporate Performance With Integrated Planning, Forecasting Solution
White Papers Atari is a leading publisher and distributor of video games for all consoles, as well as PC and Apple computers. Thanks to tight integration between Oracle Order Management and Oracle Financials, Atari gained unprecedented visibility into inventory...
[February 4, 2005, 23:00]
UK Developer Hits Atari With Massive Lawsuit
News A Scottish software developer is suing computer games publisher Atari Interactive for nearly £3m, it was announced on Tuesday. Chris Sawyer, the software developer behind Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon, claims that Atari owes him unpaid...
[November 10, 2005, 12:05]
Atari Games Built Into Mobile Device
News For video-gaming enthusiasts who don't wish to shell out hundreds of pounds for the latest console, there may be an alternative in the form of an upcoming $20 (£14) device for playing classic Atari 2600 games.
[May 15, 2002, 14:04]
Atari Arcade Games To Reappear On Mobile Phones
News UK developer iFone has signed an exclusive deal with Infogrames, which now owns Atari. Mobile users could soon be playing classic arcade games such as Asteroids and Frogger on their phones by the start of next year.
[June 21, 2001, 16:17]
The Lessons Of Experience
News His crack at the PC market, the Atari 800, was steamrolled by former Atari employees Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and their early Apple systems. The classic Atari games still show up on phones and other gadgets.
[March 16, 2005, 11:40]
An Era Of High-tech Toys, Part 2
News Atari VCS console However the multi-billion dollar gaming industry started properly just 23 years ago, with the launch of that symbol of the '70s, the Atari. But of course there were gadgets before 1999, and some things retain their charm no matter...
[December 24, 1999, 6:05]
The Week In Review: SCO Reloads Linux Attack
News The Matrix sequel made a tidy £30m for Atari -- formerly Infogrames -- which sold more than a million copies of the video game Enter the Matrix. Atari makes $50m from Matrix in a week This week is likely to be remembered by many companies because...
[May 23, 2003, 16:26]
KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
Talkback By contrast, Gepard and Sinclair, Atari and Amiga all failed, and Acorn's Archimedes, though by far the best machine in this list, has never risen to more than a shadowy existence among freaks. Ever seen Signum II on an Atari ST?
[February 9, 2005, 12:58]
Xbox Uncovered
News Since the success of the Atari 2600 of the 1980s, American companies have tried to jump into the video game console market with limited returns. But Microsoft has something 3DO and Phillips never had -- a seemingly bottomless pit of money to...
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
Special Report: IBM's Team Remembers The Task
News We didn't have any expectation that we were going to change the world," said Bill Lowe, the executive responsible for proposing that IBM build a personal computer and establish a beachhead in a nascent market then dominated by brands such as Apple...
[August 12, 2001, 8:30]
MXI: Run Any Desktop Program On Your Handheld
News The same iPaq also ran a Pac-Man game for the Atari OS and a Linux version of StarOffice. Two Singapore programmers claim to have created an operating system that can run programs written for different platforms such as Windows and Linux.
[June 17, 2002, 10:16]
News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux Gobbles Microsoft
News Speaking of retro gaming, it has apparently lost none of its appeal since the mid-1980s, with a software vendor using Atari classics as a selling point for new phones. The Linux operating system may pose many problems for competitors such as...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
Eidos Faces Lawsuit From Columbine Parents
News Other companies named in the lawsuit include Atari, Sega of America, Virgin Interactive Media, Activision, Polygram Film Entertainment Distribution, New Line Cinema, and GT Interactive Software. Eidos, the UK company that created Lara Croft and the...
[June 6, 2001, 16:49]
Hutchison Performs Successful 3G Test
News This includes a partnership with iFone -- which has created mobile phone versions of several popular Atari console games. Amid growing scepticism about third-generation mobile phones, Hutchison 3G appears to be making good progress towards...
[May 20, 2002, 13:19]
The PC's Alternative Universe
Leader Nobody can say how IT history would have changed, but it's worth remembering that while the PC world was working its way slowly through moderate competencies such as the VGA adaptor and the early years of Windows, the 68K world had the Macintosh...
[August 14, 2006, 17:40]
Palm OS Gets Midway Games, Discounts
News In June a UK company called iFone announced it would port several Atari games to mobile phones. Palm OS handheld users can now turn their PDAs into gaming machines with the release of a suite of classic arcade games for the platform.
[September 28, 2001, 17:34]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part IV
News Naughton's first PC was an Atari 400, which he bought in 1980 with money he had earned from odd jobs. See also Part III Tall and well-presented, with square geek chic glasses and a pointy chin, Naughton is a far cry from the stereotypical pasty...
[March 21, 2000, 13:58]
CCIA Vs Microsoft - The Core Issues
Talkback Of course we also compared it with other systems that we saw, which had "drop down menus" (even our childrens' Atari had them which Windows did not), and asked each other how Bill Gates could be so silly!
[October 14, 2003, 11:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One's choice of computer is a personal matter, and I do not seek to judge -- how could I, a chap who once nearly bought an Atari ST [Ed -- And who has been letting the office know how much he wants a Mac mini.
[February 11, 2005, 17:30]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News Currently, a market is developing for "retro" games -- from the Atari 2600 era -- that can be easily implemented on the current generation of colour-screen mobile phones. Gaming on mobile phones will not take off until the experience is on par with...
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
