Editing Atari 5200 (section)

===Technical specifications===
[[File:Atari-5200-4-Port-Motherboard-Flat.jpg|thumb|right|A first revision 5200's motherboard]]
[[File:Atari 5200 Joystick schematic.png|thumb|right|Joystick schematic from patent]]
* [[Central processing unit|CPU]]: [[SALLY (microprocessor)|SALLY]] @ 1.79 MHz (Custom [[MOS Technology 6502]])
* [[Video display controller|Graphics chips]]: [[ANTIC]] and [[CTIA and GTIA|GTIA]]
* Support hardware: 3 custom [[Very Large Scale Integration|VLSI]] chips
* [[Display resolution|Screen resolution]]: 14 modes: Six text modes (8×8, 4×8, and 8×10 character matrices supported), Eight graphics modes including 80 pixels per line (16 color), 160 pixels per line (4 color), 320 pixels per line (2 color),<ref name=modes>{{cite web|url=http://gury.atari8.info/card_graphics_modes.php|title=Atari 8-bit Forever by Bostjan Gorisek|access-date=January 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701190029/http://gury.atari8.info/card_graphics_modes.php|archive-date=July 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> variable height and width up to overscan 384×240 pixels
* [[Palette (computing)|Color palette]]: 128 (16 [[hue]]s, 8 [[Luma (video)|luma]]) or 256 (16 [[hue]]s, 16 [[Luma (video)|luma]])
* [[Color depth|Colors on screen]]: 2 (320 pixels per line) to 16 (80 pixels per line).<ref name=modes/> Up to 23 colors per line with player/missile and playfield priority control mixing.  Register values can be changed at every [[Scan line|scanline]] using [[ANTIC]] [[display list]] [[Raster interrupt|interrupts]], allowing up to 256 (16 hues, 16 luma) to be displayed at once, with up to 16 per scanline.
* [[Sprite (computer graphics)|Sprites]]: Four 8-pixel-wide sprites, four 2-pixel-wide sprites; height of each is either 128 or 256 pixels; 1 color per sprite
* [[Scrolling]]: Coarse and fine scrolling horizontally and vertically. (Horizontal coarse scroll 4, 8, or 16-pixel/color clock increments, and vertically by mode line height 2, 4, 8, or 16 scan lines.) (Or horizontal fine scroll 0 to 3, 7, or 15  single-pixel/color clock increments and then a 4, 8, or 16-pixel/color clock increment coarse scroll; and vertical fine scroll 0 to 1, 3, 7, or 15 scan line increments and then a 2, 4, 8, or 16 scan line increment coarse scroll)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue67/338_1_Atari_Fine_Scrolling.php|title=Atari Fine Scrolling|first=Karl E.|last=Wiegers|access-date=January 1, 2017}}</ref>
* Sound: 4-channel [[Programmable sound generator|PSG]] sound via [[POKEY]] [[sound chip]], which also handles keyboard scanning, serial I/O, high resolution interrupt capable timers (single cycle accurate), and random number generation.
* [[Random-access memory|RAM]]: 16 [[Kilobyte|KB]]<ref name="converting" />
* [[Read-only memory|ROM]]:
** 2 KB on-board BIOS for system startup and interrupt routing.
** 32 KB ROM window for standard [[ROM cartridge|game cartridges]], expandable using [[bank switching]] techniques.
* Dimensions: 13" × 15" × 4.25"