I showed up kinda late on Sunday, so everyone was packing up to leave by the time I started taking pictures. I think these photos were taken over about 90 minutes. I need to go to bed now, so I can't tell the story of all this yet. I'll come back and edit this later…
From left to right, those buttons are 'power', 'start', 'select', 'option', and system 'reset'.
The start button was used for starting games, and the option button for setting options (like one or two player, or accessing menus in certain applications). I also recall something about holding down the option button when booting the machine to cause it to not load BASIC to free up a little more RAM. I used to have an Atari XEGS, but it's been a couple of years since I used it for anything other than the odd boot to play Ballblazer (and show off the case mods).
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Date: 2006-12-05 03:01 am (UTC)The start button was used for starting games, and the option button for setting options (like one or two player, or accessing menus in certain applications). I also recall something about holding down the option button when booting the machine to cause it to not load BASIC to free up a little more RAM. I used to have an Atari XEGS, but it's been a couple of years since I used it for anything other than the odd boot to play Ballblazer (and show off the case mods).
The keyboard has a 'help' button, also.