Video Game Gazette
The XE Game System was released in 1987 and was Atari's last 8-bit computer. It was somewhat out of date for its time, and most gamers opted to purchase the NES. Thus, few XEGS were produced making it one of the more desirable Atari computers. The system has a classic design adding to its desirability.
Like the 5200, the XEGS has a 6502C CPU running at 1.79 MHz. It also has the same graphics and sound chips. The maximum resolution is 320 x 192. It has a palette of 256 colors and has five text modes and 11 graphics modes. The XE has 4 sound channels. It has 128 kilobytes of ram. Like most game systems of the time the XEGS has the standard I/O ports including composite video output, cardridge port, expansion port, and 2 joystick ports. In addition it has a SIO peripheral port for a tape drive, printer, disk drive, or modem.
