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Really mad weather here in Germany. Two weeks ago we had high temperatures at about 23 °C (73°F), now the snow is back (low temp of today at 3°C = 37°F). Not only did I put summer tyres on my car already (you'll be fined when the police meets you with summer tyres in snowy conditions), but the bloom has already been there for many plants, and many orchards now call it a total loss. All fruit frozen on the trees. Again, the weather forecast warned of snow some minutes ago.

I'm still in my 40s (just), so maybe I'm still a baby (🤣) but I thought that the update process was a piece of cake. My only suggestion was that instead of having to read a website or PDF file the instructions could be in the app itself and prompt you along the way, but really, it was easy. Surely anyone who wants to play a games console, even a 2600 is into tech in at least a low level way, it is tech! So I can't see many people struggling to update the console, maybe I'm underestimating my own technical ability and I'm a genius... But I don't think so.

If you'd list some games or genres you like, then people could make some intelligent suggestions. As is, this is a list of consoles and then asking for more, and everyone's gonna just list their favorite consoles.

Any way this could run on the 400 mini? Even just as a demo?

@newtmonkey I like that, not sure the later ones do that. The only one in the franchise/spinoffs I ever truly committed to and finished was Last Bible's US-GBC release as Revelations the Demon Slayer and it's fantastic. I had SMT4 on3 DS but it got ot where 1/2 in it really really dragged and I stopped, then SMT5 just didn't last long with me as it seemed to drip feed the game at a crawl, liked the mechanics but the last of progress put me off to where I traded/sold it whatever I did. I think the mechanics of the franchise are fun, but some stuff depending on the game how they execute it gets old or not pretty fast. THe older NES/SFC stuff I've wanted to do, even more so, english patched Last Bible 2 but never had the time.

What are your criteria? What kinds of games are you into? Are you trying to collect physical copies of games, or are you good with SD solutions? Judging from what you already have, I'm guessing you're primarily into the 16/32/64-bit era, in which case you have most of the bases covered already. There are certainly other interesting platforms from that era as well, but they come with a lot of caveats. But if you're interested in 8-bit systems, the NES is essential. Post-'90s, PlayStation 2 checks a whole heck of a lot of boxes, as well. If you're looking at handhelds, the Game Boy Advance is a slam dunk. I personally prefer the Game Boy Color's style and form factor, but GBA plays all original GB and GBC games on top of its own excellent library. Either way, you'll want one with a new IPS screen, whether you do the mod yourself or buy a pre-modded unit. Naturally they're a bit spendier than unmodded systems, but so worth it. (Same advice applies to NeoGeo Pocket Color, Game Gear, and Lynx.) If you are interested in early '80s gaming but find the consoles of the era too esoteric, there are several computer platforms that essentially double as game consoles, with substantial cartridge libraries (and disk and tape, if you want to mess with that) that are fun to collect. Most of these have SD-card solutions available for them, as well. Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800/XL are arguably the best of these; the TI-99/4a and Commodore VIC-20 are a little more niche these days but have some great stuff. (VIC-20 cartridges are particularly fun to collect, IMO!)

Swapping dozens of floppy disks was my thought too. Though I remembered doing backups that way. Some should do the math for the 2600+ based on 128K carts.

Microprose, maybe?

This sums it up for me as well. I'd also take either over the PS3 or 360 (or later systems) any day of the week.

The folders are (most probably) alright. But even if the server is responding with a not chunked HTTP/1.1 response, every hub between the server and the client might chunk the response, because a HTTP/1.1 client is supposed to parse a chunked response. That's why v2.3.20 is only a workaround. We need the server to response with a HTTP/1.0 response to a 1.0 request, or we have to be able to parse a much more complicated 1.1 response.

I haven’t played XEVIOUS in the 7800 for a while (couple of years, actually) but isn’t that controlled by the difficulty switch setting?

I just played and wow!!! It's fantastic. I don't have a real trackball, just the old Wico one, but I played with a stick and it worked great. One note based on my NTSC/VBXE 800XL - per your list, the display is cut off on real hardware - at least on my JVC Broadcast CRT. Amazing game. Always one of my favourites.

2600 might have been my first but the NES did so much more. I love the 2600 but the NES really is the better overall gaming experience for me.

Ha! Very smooth!! 😀

I shall call him "Spaceballs." The satellite and cable companies would sometimes set up shop near the entrances of places like Walmart and Sam's Club. I was happy to talk to them because these youngsters could not process my situation. "Hi! What TV service do you have?" "I don't have a TV." (I actually had a TV, but I watched, when I watched, OTA.) "What? How do you not have a TV?" "Well, I mean, I have a TV, but I only watch DVDs or Internet. I was a beta-tester for Hulu and only watch that, now" "What's Hulu?" Bruh... I was cuttin' the cord before cuttin' the cord was cool! On a side note, I am deeply saddened by what they did to Hulu. Did you know Hulu was profitable even on its free model? It even had original content (I highly recommend "The Booth at the End.") I did not mind watching shows with commercials, like on TV, as it gave me opportunities for breaks without pausing. Sometimes, it would offer a two- or three-minute commercial at the beginning, after which you would watch your show commercial-free. For a time, Hulu promised it would never charge for its service. Then the major investors came. Maybe they thought the advertisement gravy train would not last long. Maybe they just wanted to squeeze more money out of customers. I stayed on the free plan, which meant new show episodes were delayed a week. No problem. Then new episodes went behind the paywall. Then recent seasons, then all seasons, then everything good went behind the pay wall. In the midst of this, companies like ABC took their content away to start their own platforms. I was pissed, as the new "V" (Visitors) was taken from Hulu for the second season to ABC's new service. A friend signed up for a Hulu Plus subscription, and his account got him even more commercials than my free account! I had had enough. Free Hulu was turning into a D-movie and obscure boring TV show wasteland. Hulu Plus was $10 or $15 a month and gave you even more commercials. So I canceled my account. Very sad. I took my role as a beta-tester seriously, and offered quite a bit of feedback and new ideas. Ah, well. https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/why-hulu-succeeded-as-other-video-sites-failed/

I thought it might be because the NES hardware was so good at that game style, that it caused it to become popular? IDK. At some point, even the arcades started to get filled with side-scrollers, and seemed like the kids didn't want to play anything that wasn't. That's the other thing I didn't like- Not every game should be a 10-20 hour affair! I missed the pick-up-and-play games. If a game is going to require a time commitment like that, it had better hook me within 10 min or I'm not likely to ever pick it up again. But there was also the social aspect. With the 2600, the etiquette became you played your turn and when your game was over you passed the joystick to the next person. Starting with the NES, "turns" went on forever. So one person tended to dominate the console while everyone sat around and watched.. Hanging out with your friends playing videogames became dull and not fun like it was in the 2600 days.

Hi All, Here is the completed board (V3.0), I will be checking it for problems over the next few weeks before I get a bunch of other boards made including this one. Regards Arto.

Hi, is it me being stupid? 🙈. I seem not to be able to start a game of Frogger. Any ideas? 😳

I always liked that game and never new I actually own an NTSC cart... it worked so well on my PAL machine. Recently I put it in my 2600+ and the experimental debug load prints 60 fps😅

HAVE YOU PLAYED ATARI TODAY! Todays Game DEADLY DUCK! I love this game. These Crabs are difficult to shoot and the levels get progressively harder. This is one for the collection! Objective: Deadly Duck’s job is to score points by blasting his enemy the crabs, their Bricks and the Dragonflies. Deadly Duck can keep shooting as long as he avoids getting bonked by a falling Brick or hit by a Dragonfly’s Bomb.

Any hints about future announcements? And I do not mean like "we about to purchase Pixel Games UK." I mean like "we might have another announcement in the near future which might be of interest to old school Atari fans, stay tuned." I know you cannot be specific.

Thanx so far very happy with Mad studio, MAC/65 is my favority assembler I started with that decades ago being able to code that in mad studio would be awesome.

I did this intro back in the day and i can assure you there is no music in it. The music is surely from the YT video edit. The only intro with music we released was Laserhawk (music stolen from Warhawk 🙂 ) Laserhawk [intro].xex

I did it plenty of times up and down, it works very well and is quite easy to do🤙 The only critical moment is the windows driver installation, which could cause problems, especially if an Evercade was upgraded on same machine. Once you got the driver installed, it is a piece of cake😊 Almost 53 but I feel like I am 60😉