The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 with an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at ...

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch lacks Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. But it will let you play four retro games with physical controls, right on your wrist.

A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess.

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

Augsburg-based indie developer Jonas "indyjo" Eschenburg recently began sharing early work on a native Doom port for the Atari ST. Although early clips reveal significant compromises, continued ...

News ChatGPT gets ‘wrecked’ by a simple 1977 Atari chess program The popular AI chatbot repeatedly made embarrassing mistakes, misread moves, and lost track of its own pieces.

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 "Atari’s humble 8-bit engine just did its thing." ...

In a unique experiment, an engineer pitted the latest ChatGPT 4o model against his Atari 2600's chess engine on the beginner difficulty level, and ChatGPT got handily defeated, eventually conceding.

The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece Doctors said he'd die by 13, but Bill Williams turned long odds into iconic art about endurance.

Missile Command Delta is the latest in a line of Atari reimaginings that includes titles such as Lunar Lander Beyond and Yars Rising. The storied retro game has been reinterpreted for a new ...

Last week, we examined a Doom port for the venerable Atari ST. As is so often the way with this thing, one netted another, and [Steve] wrote in to inform us about a different version under the name… ...

Has anybody heard of the ATW800 transputer workstation? The one that used a modified Atari ST motherboard as a glorified I/O controller for a T-series transputer? No, we hadn’t either, but t… ...