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I got mine for Christmas in 1989, and I'm sure it was bargain priced by that time. At any rate, there used to be a store that sold 7800 cartridges fairly cheaply (a bonus for a college student income ). It would be nice to be able to pick up a keyboard; however, I understand that the keyboard was only a prototype so I suppose that the chances of that happening are next to zero. I wish Atari would have done more with the sound quality considering that 7800 still sounded like a 2600. But, I thought it was a rocking system regardless.

WINE not an emulator in that it isn't emulating any particular hardware. It doesn't provide a means of installing the Windows OS. Likewise, it is not an emulated system. Rather, it's a compatibility layer using open source "from scratch" coded libraries that allow for the ability to run some Windows software.

I really like ProSystem Emulator: http://home.comcast.net/~gscottstanton/ EMU7800 is also cool: http://emu7800.sourceforge.net/ A good site for emulators in general is Zophar: http://www.zophar.net/ Zophar emulator list for Windows: http://www.zophar.net/windos.phtml I hope this is helpful. There's all sorts of posts here at the forum for emulators and user opinions

These particular emulators I play with the keyboard. ProSystem Emulator doesn't have a selection for joysticks -- either that, or I'm missing something obvious. I haven't gotten around to trying a joypad with Virtual ColecoVision, yet. Emulators for other systems such as snes9x (GUI with snes9express), Sega Genesis (GUI with Gens), and others do allow for joypad configuration in Linux; however, those emulators have ports to Linux without the need for WINE. Anyway, the Stella and ProSystem emulators are simple enough to play simply using my keyboard.

Here are some screenshots: Ballblazer, emulator window Donkey Kong, desktop full screen Virtual ColecoVision (for fun), desktop full screen

For hardware, I'm on a Pentium 4 with x86_64 architecture, 3.2 GHz. I have 2GB RAM, and an nVidia GForce 6600 video card. My OS is SuSE Linux 10.0, and I'm using WINE build 20050725-3. I don't see any performance degradation between running it on Linux with WINE and on Windows XP. That includes graphics, sound, and speed.

Greetings all. The subject mostly says it all. There don't seem to be much in the line of cool 7800 emulators for Linux. So, if it's of interest to anyone, I am able to use ProSystem Emulator in Linux using WINE. I am also able to use WINE to run Virtual ColecoVision, as well. I still have my old 7800 console and games, and have started once again my hobby of trying to collect 7800 games and accessories. Luckily, collecting for 7800 should be easier than 2600 7800 has always been one of my favorite systems although it never really caught on.