While perusing the forums, I keep hitting terms I have to look up, mostly related to hardware or upgrade options available for the system. Is there a list of all of these things to help figure out what does what and what they are for? Even better, if the lists describe how to use them or has examples of software that takes advantage of them. The best I've found so far is the Altirra manual, but it only has a limited list that doesn't cover a lot of what I keep seeing or running into. I had to do
A good place to start is the pinned newbies topic at the top of the AA forum:
also look at the Atarimania FaQ:
http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe.html
I could try and list things out in semi-detail but tbh a lot of reading is usually needed and all mods have plenty of info on them. As you can imagine for modern day upgrades (eg since the millenium) there are quite a few. (Hardware creators such as Tf_hh, Candle, Simius, Mytek and many others have cr