What networking hardware is there for the Atari?
This section by Andreas Magenheimer. In the late 80`s and early 90`s an american “firm” called Dataque developed some networking-computer-hardware to link two or more Ataris together, so that multiplayer games are possible, where each user has its own computer and tv/monitor screen. The hardware was/is computer independant and will run fine on any Atari 8Bit computer (whereas most software for it will only work on XL/XE computers). During a 3-4 year period of development two different hardware add-ons were developed: a) Gamelink-1: This hardware was developed in 1989/90. It links two computers together via the joystick ports. It is limited to a maximum of 2 computers and thus 2 or 6 players, meaning one free port per XL/XE computer and 3 free ports per 400/800 computer. However, the few existing games for this hardware merely support 2 players, no matter, which computer you have… b) Gamelink-2: This hardware was developed in 1991/92. It links 2 to 8 computers together via the SIO-por
