The
Atari 2700 (also referred to as the
Atari Remote Control VCS) was an unreleased console by
AtariAtari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA ....
. Intended for release in 1981, its main standout features were wireless controllers that featured a combination of a joystick and paddle. The fire button was touch-sensitive, as were the buttons on the console. The Reset and Select buttons were relocated to the controllers themselves. The 2700 also featured a storage bin at the top of the console to store the controllers.
Focus groups used to test the system noted that the controllers were comfortable, sleek, responsive, and very easy to use, but design problems caused the console to be withdrawn just as it was about to be released.
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The
Atari 2700 (also referred to as the
Atari Remote Control VCS) was an unreleased console by
AtariAtari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA ....
. Intended for release in 1981, its main standout features were wireless controllers that featured a combination of a joystick and paddle. The fire button was touch-sensitive, as were the buttons on the console. The Reset and Select buttons were relocated to the controllers themselves. The 2700 also featured a storage bin at the top of the console to store the controllers.
Focus groups used to test the system noted that the controllers were comfortable, sleek, responsive, and very easy to use, but design problems caused the console to be withdrawn just as it was about to be released. The controllers had a working radius of 1000 ft; this meant the 2700 could affect nearby 2700s, as well as other remote controlled devices, such as garage doors and TVs. It is unclear how many of these systems exist today. Despite the 2700s failure, Atari released wireless controllers in 1983. However, to correct the interference problem, the controllers became bulky, hard to control, and had less battery life, which is why the controllers never became huge sellers.
The basic case design for the Atari 2700 was later used for the
Atari 5200The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, or simply the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a replacement for the famous Atari 2600. The 5200 was created to compete with the Intellivision, but wound up more directly competing with the ColecoVision shortly after its...
.
Technical specifications
- CPU: MOS Technology 6507
The 6507 is an 8-bit microprocessor from MOS Technology, Inc. It is a "cut down" version of their popular 6502. To reduce costs the 6507 included only thirteen address pins instead of the 6502's sixteen. This allowed the 6507 to address 8 KB of memory, which at the time was considered to be a lot...
@ 1.19 MHz
- Audio+video processor: TIA
The Television Interface Adapter is the custom chip that is the heart of the Atari 2600 game console and was created by Jay Miner of Amiga fame....
. 160 x ~192 pixelIn digital imaging, a pixel is the smallest item of information in an image. Pixels are normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares. Each pixel is a sample of an original image, where more samples typically provide more-accurate representations of the...
, 128 colors (121 of them actually different from each other on NTSCNTSC, named for the National Television System Committee is the analog television system used in most of the Americas, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Burma, and some Pacific island nations and territories . is also the name of the U.S. standardization body that developed the broadcast standard...
, 114 on PALPAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is an analogue television encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. Other common analogue television systems are SECAM and NTSC. This page primarily discusses the colour encoding system...
), 2 channel mono sound.
- RAM: 128 byte
A byte is a unit of information storage representing the smallest addressable element for a given computer architecture. It often designates a sequence of bits whose length is determined by the architecture...
s (plus up to 256 bytes built into the game cartridges)
- ROM (game cartridges): 4 KB
The abbreviation KB or kb can refer to:*Kilobit , a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity...
maximum capacity (32 KB+ with pagingBank switching was a technique common in 8-bit microcomputer systems, to increase the amount of addressable RAM and ROM without extending the address bus...
)
- Output: B/W or color TV
An RF modulator is a device that takes a baseband input signal and outputs a radio frequency-modulated signal....
picture and sound signal
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