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  1. Atari Systems

    1. Atari General

      A general discussion for Atari-related topics that aren't covered by a specific Atari console or computer forum.

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    2. Atari 2600

      The Atari 2600 is the system that started it all for Atari, and is by far the most popular classic gaming console. This forum covers all 2600 systems produced by Atari, as well as 2600-compatible consoles produced by third-parties.

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    3. Atari 5200

      The Atari 5200 was Atari's second cartridge-based game console. Based on the Atari 8-bit computer line and labeled the "SuperSystem", the 5200 was Atari's answer to growing competition in a market they were losing control over.

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    4. Atari 7800

      The Atari 7800 ProSystem is a contemporary of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. Based on extensive feedback from Atari customers, the 7800 features a streamlined design, backward compatibility with the 2600, a powerful graphics processor, and simplified controllers.

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    5. Atari Lynx

      Lynx was Atari's first portable game system, and world's first color handheld. It was designed by Epyx and the engineers who created the Amiga. Ahead of its time, the Lynx sported a backlit color screen, stereo sound (in model 2) and an impressive range of games. Check out our rarity guide or explore many games listed on Atari Gamer.

       

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    6. Atari Jaguar

      Atari's last game console, the Atari Jaguar represented a huge leap in technology from previous offerings. Featuring a 64-bit architecture, the Jaguar had great potential, but its power was difficult to tap. Even then, many great games were released and the Jaguar has an avid fan base today.

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    7. Atari VCS

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

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    8. Dedicated Systems

      Before Atari produced the famous 2600, they created many standalone consoles such as Pong, Speedway, and Stunt Cycle. Recently, Atari has been creating new dedicated consoles, such as the Atari Flashback.

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    9. Atari 8-Bit Computers

      Atari's original 8-bit computer line, featuring the Atari 400, 800, XL, and XE series of computers. Powerful and well-engineered, the Atari 8-bit computers are still popular with fans today!

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    10. Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers

      Atari's next generation computer line, the Atari ST computers were based on the Motorola 68000 series chips, the same as the Macintosh at the time. The ST would also be followed by the TT and Falcon.

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    11. Atari Portfolio

      The Atari Portfolio is a palmtop, IBM PC-compatible portable computer released by Atari in 1989, the world's first palmtop computer!

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  2. Classic Consoles

    1. Classic Console Discussion

      Discussion of classic gaming consoles outside the Atari realm.

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    2. ColecoVision / Adam

      Coleco launched the ColecoVision in 1982, with the console quickly becoming popular due to its library of arcade ports. The ColecoVision has a large homebrew following today.

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    3. Intellivision / Aquarius

      This forum is for discussion of the Mattel Intellivision, Atari's primary competitor against the 2600, as well as the Mattel Aquarius computer. Intellivision systems include the original Intellivision, Intellivision II, INTV III, and the Sears Super Video Arcade.

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    4. Bally Arcade/Astrocade

      Discussion forum for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade console.

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    5. Odyssey 2 / Videopac

      Discussion revolving around the Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000/G7400

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    6. Vectrex

      Discuss the world's only vector-based video game console here!

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    7. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's first cartridge-based system, the NES, here!

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    8. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) / Super Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's second cartridge based system here!

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    9. Sega Genesis

      Sega's popular fourth-generation 16-bit system, would ultimately compete head-to-head with the Super Nintendo.

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    10. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

      Discussion forum for the 3DO console and the unreleased Panasonic M2

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    11. Dreamcast

      Discussion for the SEGA Dreamcast console.

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    12. SMS High Score Club

      Join the Sega Master System High Score Club today!

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    13. TG-16/PC Engine High Score Club

      Compete for high scores on the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!

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  3. Classic Computing

    1. Classic Computing Discussion

      Use this forum to discuss the plethora of classic computers outside of Atari 8-bit offerings. These include the Apple II, Commodore 64/128, Amiga, TI 99/4a, MSX, TRS-80 and others.

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    2. Apple II Computers

      Discussion for Apple's 8-bit computer line.

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    3. TI-99/4A Computers

      Discussion for TI-99/4A Computers

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    4. Commodore 8-bit Computers

      Discussion for Commodore PET, Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and other 8-bit Commodore systems.

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    5. Commodore Amiga

      Discussion for Amiga Computers, CDTV, and CD32

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    6. Tandy Computers

      Discussion for Tandy computers, including the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, and 4, Color Computers, and Model 100.

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  4. Modern Consoles

    1. Modern Gaming Discussion

      This forum is for discussion of all modern game systems, including gaming on consoles and computers.

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    2. Sony Playstation 5

      Discuss Sony's Playstation 5 console here!

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    3. Xbox Series S/X

      Discuss Microsoft's latest Xbox Series S and X consoles here!

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    4. Atari VCS (Redirect)   (8,600 visits to this link)

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

    5. Nintendo Switch

      Discussion about Nintendo's latest game console and games.

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    6. Microsoft Xbox One

      Discussion forum for the Xbox One.

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    7. Sony PlayStation 4

      Talk about the Sony Playstation 4 here.

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    8. Microsoft Xbox 360

      Discussion about the Microsoft Xbox 360 (not including the original Xbox).

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    9. Sony Playstation 3

      Please discuss the Sony Playstation 3 and games here.

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    10. Nintendo Wii / Wii U

      Discussion forum for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U consoles and games.

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  5. Gaming General

    1. Gaming General Discussion

      Gaming discussion not covered by other specific gaming forums.

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    2. Arcade and Pinball

      Many of us grew up pumping quarters into arcade games, and here's where you can discuss all your favorites. From Pong to Pinball to the latest arcade games, if it has a coin slot, then you're at the right place!

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    3. Emulation

      Emulators allow you to experience classic games on modern PCs (and other devices!) Discuss the latest emulator developments and ask questions about emulation here!

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    4. Hardware

      This forum is for discussion of hardware at a more technical level than you'll find in the other forums. If you have a hardware question you'd like to ask or have some interesting knowledge you'd like to share with others, post it here!

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    5. Prototypes

      Ever wondered about all those games that were announced but never released? Or games that have been discovered over the years that no one even knew existed? Or have you discovered a new prototype that no one's seen yet? Here's the place to talk about prototype games, led by Tempest of AtariProtos.com.

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    6. Gaming Publications and Websites

      This forum is for discussion of gaming related magazines, books, websites, and other publications.

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    7. International

      Internacional - Internazionale - Internationaal - Internasjonal - This forum is for discussion of classic and modern gaming in languages other than English.

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  6. Marketplace

    1. Buy, Sell, and Trade

      Please use this forum as a tool to buy, sell, and trade games and hardware.

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    2. Auction Central

      Use this forum to discuss auctions on eBay. Have something up for auction you'd like to share? Post it here! You can also highlight amusing, off-the-wall, or interesting auctions that others may want to hear about!

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    3. Wanted

      Use this forum to post a list of the gaming hardware and software you're looking for!

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    4. Free Games and More

      Spreading the Love with Free Games and other items.

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    5. User Feedback Forum

      Please use this forum to leave feedback about other users on AtariAge that you've had good and/or bad experiences with. Please read the sticky at the top of this forum before posting!

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  7. Community

    1. Events

      Use this forum to discuss gaming events of all types, including expos revolving around classic gaming, events catering to modern systems, arcade expos, and local gatherings of collectors getting together or a day of gaming.

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    2. Show Us Your Collection!

      If you're a repeat visitor to AtariAge, it's likely you also collect classic games and systems. Here's your chance to show off to the rest of the community your collection!

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    3. Member Blogs

      As members update their Blogs, messages will be posted in this forum so you can more easily keep tabs on who's writing what!

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    4. High Score Clubs

      Participate in high score contests for your favorite systems!

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    5. Poll Forum

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    6. Contests

      These forums are for discussing and participating in contests started by AtariAge, contests run by forum members, and of course, the weekly High Score Contests!

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    7. User Groups

      This forum and its subforums are for classic gaming and computing user groups. Find people in your area who share your love of this hobby!

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    8. AtariAge News Discussion

      Discuss news posted on the front page of AtariAge!

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    9. User Submitted News

      Please submit classic gaming news here!

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  8. Game Programming

    1. Homebrew Discussion

      Here you can talk about homebrew games that don't have their own forums allocated (which will be most of them). Have an idea for a game that you'd like to see someone program? Are you programming a game and want some feedback? Discuss it here!

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    2. Programming

      The programming forums are technical discussions of programming various classic gaming consoles. The more popular consoles have their own dedicated programing forums, so please only use this forum for topics that fall outside of those forums.

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    3. Hacks

      A hack is an existing game that has somehow been modifed in terms of graphics, colors, sounds, and/or gameplay. If you've modified a game and would like to share it with others, or have an idea for a modification you'd like to see done to an existing game, you can discuss it here.

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    1. Announcements

      Important site or forum-related announcements will be posted here. If you see a new announcement, please stop by to read it!

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    3. AtariAge Store Discussion

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      Do you have suggestions for how AtariAge can be improved? Please post them here, as well as criticisms, and kudos about the web site!

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    5. Rarity Guide

      The AtariAge Rarity Guide is a living, breathing document! If you have feedback regarding rarity guide values and the database in general, please discuss it here!

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    6. Archived Forums

      Resting place for forums that have have run their course and are archived here for reference.

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  • Recent Status Updates

    • dudeguy

      dudeguy

      Every time you start to get ahead in life, someone comes along and kicks you in the nuts as hard as they can
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        Chris+++

        And yet they're made of steel, so you'll overcome this, whatever it is, while he's nursing his broken toes.
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      2. moycon

        moycon

        You're preaching to the crowd dude. Your synopsis is shared by millions and millions. Suck it up, it isn't all about you. LOL J/K Hope you get over whatever hurtle in front of you. If it makes you feel any better, there are bigger hurtles you probably and hopefully won't ever have to jump, so there is that. 
    • shane857

      shane857

      Fate pulls you in different directions...
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      bent_pin

      8-bit Pump up the Jam to celebrate the new well pump:
       
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    • SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      Electric Night by Dune:
      Power of Vintage on the Atari Falcon 030:
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      Enjoy!
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    • Charlie Cat

      Charlie Cat

      Garfield, Beware of Dog...What the?!
       

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  • Recent Posts

    • Airwolfman
      Custom firmware for Atari Gamestation Pro

      By Airwolfman · Posted

      Do you think you also might be able to, while you are at it, open the GSP firmware in MiniGUI and edit it a small amount to change the buttons and add some libretro cores to its database for us GSP gamers? I could mock up some visual ideas for modifying the GUI.
    • Pitfall Harry
      unknown famicom games? SOLD

      By Pitfall Harry · Posted

      Oh, this is fantastic, and at such a low price.  Thanks for the link!     -Ben
    • phaeron
      Looking for MP3 of Atari Booting Sound? Anyone have?

      By phaeron · Posted

      Like the others, I also thought that Atari800 used to emulate this but couldn't find any older builds that did so. I took a look at the Atari800 SIO and sound code and it looks like the existing SIO sound approach would need to be reworked. Fundamentally, the characteristic Atari SIO sound comes from the way that POKEY's serial port interacts with timer 3 and 4, particularly in asynchronous receive mode.   This is a scope of when the Atari is transmitting a command frame over the SIO bus, specifically a type-3 poll. This is the farting you hear after DOS 2 boots or when no bootable devices are connected. CH1 (yellow/TX) is SIO DATA OUT, CH2 (cyan/RX) is SIO DATA IN, CH3 (purple) is audio out.     During a send -- SKCTL=$23 -- timers 3+4 are continuously counting to provide the transmit clock for any bytes that are queued to send. It runs continuously regardless of whether a byte is actually being sent or not. Timers 3+4 are configured for a period of 1/38400th of a sec for 19200 baud and the OS configures channel 4 for square wave output ($A8), so the output tone is 19200Hz. This is inaudible, so the primary component heard is the change when timer 4 starts and stops, and not the tone output itself. This is also why the tone starts a little bit before and some time after the actual command frame bytes, since it depends not on the end of the last byte but when the SIO routine in the OS gets around to reconfiguring the serial port.   Each command sent produces a single "putt" of sound. The farting noise comes from the OS SIO routine retrying the type 3 polling commands 27 times, with a timeout driven by OS timer 1. This is VBI-based with a timeout of 2 vblanks, so the puttering occurs at 30Hz for NTSC and 25Hz for PAL.   During a receive, SKCTL is changed to $13 to enable asynchronous receive mode:     This mode sounds a lot different than transmit because of the way asynchronous receive mode affects timers 3+4. In this mode, POKEY has to synchronize to the device's transmit clock, which is out of phase with POKEY's serial clock. Therefore, in this mode, POKEY holds timers 3+4 in reset while waiting for a start bit, and those timers don't run. At the leading edge of the start bit, timers 3+4 are started, and then count off half-bits in phase with the transmit clock so POKEY can sample in the middle of each bit. Upon sampling the stop bit, timers 3+4 are stopped again to wait for the leading edge of the next start bit.   This process causes timers 3+4 to underflow and fire a pulse to the audio circuit 19 times -- which crucially is odd. This means that the output bit is toggled at the end of each byte, which you can see above in the gaps before and after the ACK byte ($41). The result is that the audio output has a fundamental square wave at half the byte rate of the transmission, with bursts of inaudible 19200Hz on top of it. The fundamental frequency varies based on the device, a bit higher or lower than the nominal 960Hz depending on the device. 810s, for instance, produce a slightly higher pitch than a 1050. Note that the byte rate is not the same as 10 times the bit rate, as devices often have a bit of a gap between the stop and start bits. It also means that the tone doesn't depend on the computer's clocks, which means that it is invariant to NTSC/PAL.   What Atari800's SERIO_SOUND appears to be doing is rendering the 10 bits for each byte at channel 4 volume -- 1 start bit + 8 data bits + 1 stop bit. There is often a component of this in the audio output due to the SIO data leaking into the audio output, but it's faint and not subject to POKEY volumes. It's what you sometimes hear when a loader shuts off the main SIO sound and you hear still hear tinny buzzing during the sector loads that varies a bit in timbre depending on the data bytes being received. That's not the same as the stronger transmit/receive effects above, which are independent of the data bytes being sent and received. As far as I can tell, the sio.c/pokey.c/[mz]pokeysnd.c don't implement timers 3+4 being held for asynchronous receive mode, which is a main requirement for emulating this effect.   Probably the simplest starting point would be to override the connection from timer 4 to audio channel 4 and drive audio channel 4 at 0Hz/960Hz when asynchronous receive mode is enabled, running it only when bytes are being received. It's an approximation but would go pretty far towards something representative. More importantly, it's compatible with cheaper asynchronous audio, so it's easier than the next steps of either properly starting and stopping timers 3+4 during async receive mode or driving audio channel 4 with machine synchronized timing. AFAICT Atari800 isn't set up for the latter anyway because it doesn't actually emulate device transmit timing -- it instead sends bytes at the rate that POKEY is set up to receive them, which is not accurate but works most of the time (though it allows some bogus configurations like receiving at the wrong baud rate). The majority of SIO devices send bytes back-to-back at a consistent pitch, though, so it's not necessary to emulate at that level to attain representative pitch. The nominal pitches for receiving from the 810 and 1050, based on the controller clocks and firmware loops, are 943.4Hz and 910.75Hz.  
    • big_guitar
      Custom firmware for Atari Gamestation Pro

      By big_guitar · Posted

      [Windows App Supplemental : Folder-based file triggers] If you want to optionally use folder-based file triggers to run alternative libretro core libraries, without needing to create database trigger records, or in addition to using database triggers, see the documentation include with this zip file.   runme-056b.zip
    • Rhomaios
      Help On A Trip To Japan For Retro Gaming Info

      By Rhomaios · Posted

      A highlight of visiting a new city is when the wrong way turns into an unexpected treat. I still fondly remember wandering around a deserted part of Naples only to end up at the best dinner and service I had the entire trip through.
    • NewcomerTI
      HRD 4000B

      By NewcomerTI · Posted

      I need help determining a graphic on the schematic. I’m using the schematic diagram here and I found a lifted pcb feed to one of the 74LS156 pins tied all together so I’m checking other pins but can’t determine what the open circle is at pins 1, 14 & 15. Thanks for the help, that pin 14 of U7 goes off and should trace to pin 12 of U12 but I’m uncertain about the open circle and my boards don’t seem to trace to that pin.    
    • nanochess
      The mystery of Monkey Moon ;)

      By nanochess · Posted

      The mystery deepens with the companion Space Raider.    
    • r_chase
      vcsbeatbox - an Atari 2600 drum machine

      By r_chase · Posted

      Alright, but what if I want to use this in a live performance improv setting? Can I at least mute drum and synth sections and whatnot? Another thing I should note is that I'm probably gonna test this on a RetroN 77. The BW/COL button is in the back in that design and I might need an alt button to play sequences, like the RESET button for instance.
    • Bikerbob
      Atari TT030 SCSI resistor blocks

      By Bikerbob · Posted

      Did you get it to work? The bluescsi V2 is it internal? 50pin or external DB25. I am trying to get my external Bluescsi V2 working on my TT and no luck so far.. Term out or in.   James
    • visrealm
      Cherry MX compatible upgrade for Mitsumi 99/4A keyboards

      By visrealm · Posted

      Nice work. Thanks for the update.   The keycap adapters are always going to be the trickiest part to get right - the tolerances are very small. Mine worked well in PLA. I've since tried PETG and have found the retaining bumps on the adapter stem do seem to wear down.   Is the main issue the connection of the adapter to the switches? or the keycaps? It sounds like the switches, but if it is the keycaps, the spacebar-specific adapter might work better. The only difference is the retaining bumps on the stems are 0.1mm larger.   I might try and pick up a few different brands of switches to try as I've only tested the Akko switches linked in the repo.

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