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ZuluGula

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  1. As much as I love my CRTs, I understand that most of the people now have only newer LCD as a display. Modern connectors would save you money and effort required to obtain legacy power supplies, video cables and adapters just to get the old machine running. Look at all those new retro mini consoles.
  2. I imagine that XE style case would be easiest and least expensive to manufacture, but on the other hand, the XE cases seems to be quite durable (except of some yellowing). What I would like to see is a new XE style case that still has SIO, Cart+ECI and joystick ports but replaces old connectors for power, TV and video output with USB-C and HDMI. Maybe add second Cart port on top like in XEGS and slot for SD card. This new care could be used for modern replicas and 576NUC+ style systems, EclairXL or other future FPGA Ataris.
  3. I think the CD with soundtrack would be considered as a quirky addition. But in my case, it would be useless since I down any device that can play optical disks. If I could have a choice, I would prefer audio cassette plus a code to download the soundtrack.
  4. Did you ever considered having some kind of voluntary donation system on your website? I know it would never pay for your time, but maybe it would help to cover some ot the prototyping cost.
  5. If that's not a secret, could you tell us where you live? Mainly to understand through what trouble people all over the world have to go, to enjoy their hobby.
  6. If you win, you will get 3D printed mini version.
  7. What type of TV set was the most popular in USA in late 70s and early 80s? What you used most to play your games? Was it a 25 inch console TV in your parents living room or small 14 inch black and white TV in your bedroom? I was too young and wasn't even living in USA back than to experience the early VCS gaming. My first contact was in late 80s in my friends house when we played his 2600 on small 14 inch b&w TV. My goal is to find early 80s TV to give me the most representative experience of early RF gaming. I would like to make a comparison how is to play VCS games starting from RF, going through Composite and end it with HDMI. I have couple of VCS/2600 with RF and UAV, than Flashback 2 and Flashback X. I have couple of crt TVs from late 90s and early 2000 (14 and 20 inch), but I guess that older TV would be more accurate in this comparison. I would like to see how or even if it's possible to connect original VCS to modern 40 inch LCD through RF and Composite (UAV or VCR) and how it looks compared to Flashback X HDMI.
  8. The pcbs has arrived. I'm still waiting for the parts.
  9. I wish if someone would start sending bacon instead of candies. Or at least kabanosy - thin polish sausages. Those are ok without refrigeration.
  10. Most Atari hardware sellers do that. Free diabetes
  11. Anyone can build FRUIT computers, but not many can make the necessary components to do it. The current chip shortage is good example of it.
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