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Zerothis# 1 year and 5 months ago (updated 25 days and 12 hours ago)CX-52xx (no product number). 0 players only. This demo showcases the 5200's sound capabilities with boogie-woogie tune. It also showcases the usual humor of Atari's programmers as the checksum is 34DD.
I don't get it about 34DD ...
Ahem. Why is a little sound demo in the database? It's not a game or did I miss something?
When the Atari was developing hardware the male employees would give them nicknames. So used were these nicknames that they became official code names, even being recorded in internal company documents and in two cases were used publicly. The Atari 2600 was "Stella," the 400 was "Candy," the 800 was "Coleen," "Sylvia" was the unreleased Atari 3600, the Atari 1200XL was "Sweet-16", the GPU of the 7800 was "Maria," the graphics system of the ATW-800 was "Blossom," the graphics co-processor of the Falcon030 was "Videl," an unreleased 68000 based machine (in 1982) was "Mickey," the unreleased Atari 1000 was "Liz," and the Atari STACY was, uhm, "Stacy". The rumor, often confirmed by Atari insiders, is that all but one of these code names were the names of female employees at Atari. There was apparently, only one requirement to receive the honor of having Atari hardware name after you. I intend no disrespect, but shall speak in simple English for the benefit of those who speak it as a second language, the requirement was, big boobs.