Nathan Strum

BTW - if you change the font to Courier, you can preserve your original spacing:

And adding a spoiler tag - so people can show/hide it.

Will there be an upgraded Harmony as well, for those who'd just rather have a new cart?

But if the data were licensed or purchased by Atari and made available to the Stella team, could you recreate the output then? (Yes - this is all hypothetical, and yes - it has a snowball's chance in Arizona of actually happening, but just wondering out loud, in case Atari is looking to make a magnanimous gesture towards the homebrew community. )

Are the bungee cords VESA-compliant?

I think there should be a point of clarification for those not as familiar with the AtariVox and Stella: While Stella can't internally generate AtariVox voices, Stella can drive an actual AtariVox plugged into an interface like a re-flashed 2600-dapter II (you can order them already flashed for the AtariVox). You still need to plug an external speaker into the AtariVox to hear the voices, but it will work fine. I use this setup with Stella on my Mac all the time. Whether the 2600+ could eventually drive an AtariVox is a different question. So Stella does support the AtariVox, but it cannot emulate it. As an aside, the SpeakJet chip used in the AtariVox is no longer in production. However, according to this post (confirmed here by the SpeakJet's developer), the SpeakJet is internally a PIC18F1320 which is still in production. So more chips could certainly be made (I don't know if this is an issue or not - I'm unaware of what sort of stockpile AtariAge has). The SpeakJet is one of those IPs I'd love to see Atari acquire so that the AtariVox could (potentially?) be emulated, and have them (or Plaion) design and sell a new AtariVox that has its own built-in (magnetically shielded) speaker, designed to aesthetically to go with the 2600+ (and of course, original 2600s).

That set is - but I have yet to collect the Sunday strips.

I have most of the Tiny Arcade series from Super Impulse. It looks like they're no longer selling most of the titles now... When they're all switched on and running in demo mode it's quite the arcade-like cacophony! Unfortunately, they only stay on about a minute or so to preserve batteries. Super Impulse also makes a Tiny Atari 2600 (which I also have), so they've licensed some Atari games too. Sadly, they haven't made any Tiny Atari arcade cabinets. I'd love to see a series of those. All of my Tiny Arcade games are in storage now. I suppose I should unpack them and dig the batteries out of them before they all corrode. (I may have done that before packing them... hope so.) For portables, I have my original Entex Space "Invader" (apparently, they could only afford one), Sears (Coleco) Electronic Touchdown, and a Mattel Auto Race that I bought a few (okay... 13 ) years ago on eBay, that I blogged about here. Never did write "part 2". LEDs seemed like magic back then.

I didn't see the show - but I've found that rechargeable batteries are often slightly larger than their non-rechargeable counterparts, and won't always fit.

What sort of power supply are you using? It looks like you've bypassed the jack and hardwired something in. That would be the first thing I'd check. Looks like it's had a rough life... lots of hot glue and... toothpicks?

That was my immediate reaction. Battlefield is a much more common term than Battlezone (former Atari IP notwithstanding). Paddlezone sounds just like a pun on Battlezone for the sake of being a pun. That would be okay, but it tends to tie the two games together, when they have nothing in common. The name Paddlefield is unique. Just try to get this song out of your head now: This is also a really good point - I hadn't considered the vastness vs. zone comparison before: The other reason I like Paddlefield (now that it's already been settled ), is that the game makes full use of the playfield, so it's a nice nod to that. - Nathan

Well, you don't have to worry about Paddlezone infringing on any Atari IP. Paddle Battle would be another (surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet).

Kinda digging that one. Could go with the early Sears naming conventions, like: Ball Ball II Ball Plus Ball Fun Ball Plus II Ball Fun II Ball Plus Fun II Ball Combat Ball Combat Plus Fun II Arcade Ball Video Ball Video Arcade Combat Ball Plus Fun II Space Balls (you just knew we were going to get there sooner or later... ) /nothelpful

I like these two: How about Pixel Wars? Or that.