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That os awesome!

I would recommend buying the DE-10 Nano directly from Terasic. They're usually in stock, unlike other vendors. The shipping was $35 but it arrived in 2 days. It isn't necessary to "have everything" to enjoy MiSTer. Besides the DE-10 Nano you need SDRAM, so buy the 128MB SDRAM 3.0 from a reputable vendor. It should be around $60-70. At this point you will have spent $310. Plug in the power supply and a USB hub. Flash the MiSTer software and ROMs to a µSD card. You can now enjoy most of what a MiSTer offers simply by plugging it into a HDMI display and using a USB keyboard, mouse, and game controller. If you decide later that you want the other stuff to make it a "full MiSTer" setup, you can buy it at your leisure.

I'm regularly impressed by the accomplishments on classic hardware. This GUI project is high on the list.

I would ask Microsoft.

And?

I bought a MyIDE-II cart from Steven Tucker/AtariMax many years ago and it's still my favorite flash cart. I've got a lot of other cool modern peripherals but the MyIDE-II is the one I love and use the most.

Are you sure about that? (Sorry, couldn't resist. You set yourself up for that one, LOL.)

Where did you get yours?

LOL, for some reason that didn't cross my mind. Classic gaming stores makes a lot more sense, I thought "glassing gaming stores" was some kind of new term I wasn't familiar with. The best 7800 controller I've ever had at any price is a Genesis controller with an adapter. I love the Mega 7800.

I've been using eBay for decades. Never have I found a 7800 controller for literal pennies, not even 20+ years ago. I'm not familiar with the term "glassing gaming stores." A couple of different searches didn't reveal anything, either. What is a glassing gaming store?

I would love to do that. Where do I find this grey market?

Thanks, that all makes sense. Still, these are very different markets than the original systems. All of these recent emulated systems are running ARM boards without a lot of technical hardware differences between them — the differences are in presentation, i.e. the cases and software. There could be 100 different product versions, all with the same or similar ARM hardware, each running a different emulator in the appropriate case resembling a classic system. If Retro Games (or another manufacturer) continues with that approach we might see a ST mini.

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Yes. I don't understand your reasoning. Why do the A500 products prevent a ST product from being released? Sure, they won't be released this year, but there's nothing to stop them from being release down the road. The only reasons I could see Retro Games LTD *not* releasing a ST product would be: Licensing. If there was some licensing issue, that would obviously prevent a ST product. However, licensing is very likely *not* an issue because Atari is clearly already working with Retro Games. Demand. *This* is the real hurdle. Is there enough demand for a ST product to produce one?

These days there are many handhelds for $200 or under that can emulate Saturn. That hurdle was cleared a while back. The new Retroid Pocket 4 is good, the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro is even better. The Anbernic RG556 is about the same performance as the RP4 Pro. These newer handhelds can emulate GameCube and PS2. Everything earlier than GameCube and PS2 is easily emulated. I have a RG503 from a few years ago that plays Saturn fine at 30FPS. Even my 2017 GPD XD running Black Seraph's Android 9 can emulate most Saturn games at 30FPS.