Maybe you forgot to turn it off, and its been bootstrapping its way to sentience ever since. When you open the trap door in to the attic… it will be waiting…
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It is was Atari versus Amiga over here in the UK. I think that they were pretty much identical machines, except that Atari got the Midi Card, and lead to an explosion in electronic music, and the Amiga got the garphics card, and became popular for early CGI rendering.
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There must be a converter out there for that. But it would have to be some sort of analog to digital converter box I’m guessing… hm. A quick google search is pulling up a lot of stuff that I know is not right.
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Did the Atari 800 not have a monitor connector with composite and/or component video? That would just need a cable to connect to a TV with those inputs.
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That Comp-U-Grill could be powered by a Pentium 4.
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I don’t know about the Atari 800 in particular, but for a lot of really old equipment with only RF out you can solder a connector onto the leads going to the RF modulator and get a composite signal. It’s a pretty greybeard hack, but I’ve seen it done on old video game consoles.
An example: https://www.instructables.com/id/ATARI-2600-Video-Composite-mod/
Looks like all you need is a cable: https://www.8bitclassics.com/shop/av-cables/atari-xlxe-5-pin-din-to-s-video-composite-av-cable/
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Before that it was Sinclair versus Commodore. There was never a competitive 16 bit Sinclair though, as the QL wasn’t popular and Sinclair Research had been bought by Amstrad who were more interested in the PC market.
I know some people used the Amiga for making gabber during the 90s.
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