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Here's one for the Linux crowd from that same site. The first time I saw this was on a T-shirt.

It didn't quite make it to final release stage, but Joe Musashi's DK VCS is still quite the achievement for 2013.

The original Atari Flashback was styled like a miniature ProSystem and included five 7800 games with 15 2600 games. It was developed by Curt Vendel using a NOAC design and ported Atari games. It proved that there was a market for these kinds of devices, and led to the development of the Flashback 2, also a Curt Vendel design, which was done "the right way" using a reproduction of true Atari 2600 circuitry, such that the 40 included games (plus two "hidden" games) were simply ROM files of the original games. It was also designed to be hacked, with locations in the circuit tracings for adding a cartridge reader to allow it to play original Atari VCS games.

Flashback 2 had some Activision games. They pulled them out for the Flashback 2+ and replaced them with Atari sports games...

Thank you. Your corrected data improves on my original premise that the historically high prices of Apple computing products has left a huge portion of the global population out of havng the opportunity to experience these break-through technologies during their heyday. So how about it, Apple? You're the wealthiest, most successful corporation in the history of the planet now, so you could afford to take a chance that it won't be a big seller or make a big profit for you. Develop an under $200 Macintosh Classic Flashback. You could bring back some memories for all of the people who were kids in Jr High and High School and were lucky enough to get to use Macintoshes in the school computer lab back in the day. You could remind all of today's desktop Windows users that your company had figured out so many of the desktop metaphor UI elements way before Microsoft finally got their act together with Windows 95. Hell, Apple engineers wouldn't even have to design it. They could turn it over to Chinese engineers at Foxconn and simply give it their blessing with copyrights and trademarks and have final say before the production units went out the door.

I've often wondered... ...If Apple were to create a Mac "Flashback" with a monochrome LCD screen, and similar form/function as the original Mac... 1. How inexpensive could they produce such a device and still sell it for a profit? 2. Would there be enough interest in such a device as to make it worth it? 3. Assuming it would be done by emulation (hardware or software), what Apple copyrighted software could they/would they include with it? 4. To make it a viable product, would it have to be integrated/dual-boot with iOS, the Internet and iTunes/iStore, or could it stand alone as a pure reproduction? See, the thing is, I've never had a spare $2,500 to spend on a computer... ...any computer. And it seems that with Apple, starting with the Mac (...well, really, an entire Apple II system with floppy drive and monitor, with prices adjusted for 2013 dollars, would cost about that much as well), the cost of entry has always been around at least $2,000 for whatever new system was introduced. I remember walking through computer stores in the mid-90's and seeing Macs priced at $3,000; $4,000; $6,000... ...and thinking, "Who's buying these"? In those days you couldn't get into a new PC for less than $1,500 and there were plenty of "state of the art" systems in the $3,000 - $4,000 range as well. But there was also a healthy used market, and some of the Atari ST line and Amiga gear still around. My first three PCs were left-over machines from work that were either given to me, or sold to me for like, a hundred bucks. But I am curious about all of the fervor over the original Macintosh line, back in the day. I mean, that's when the "Cult of Apple" really got going. Sure, I could hit eBay and find a beat-up old Mac Classic for a few hundred bucks, and then try to assemble some software for it. But if I could get a shiny brand-new bona fide Apple Macintosh Flashback product with carefully selected fun and interesting software, running from a 16Gb solid-state hard drive, for under $200, that's something that might interest me. Anybody else see it this way?

Saw some of these at Walgreen's today along with FB 4's. A little pricey in my opinion, but we'll see how well it does. (...sorry about the photo rotation... ...it was right-side-up on my PC before I uploaded it!)

That's an awesome collection! Pretty amazing that you've managed to keep them in working order after all these years.

Is anyone happy with their C64 Forever purchase? I've played with the shareware demo version, which has some features disabled (full screen being the most significant). I do like the "click and play" convenience of it, and it isn't a lot of money for the full version. I'm just curious if anyone has bought it and been really glad they did.

The sounds and graphics are amazing. The game play looks really hard though!

You might get better results in your search if you try different terminology. As others have suggested, you're looking for an analog NTSC TV tuner. The trouble is that unlike audio, the idea of separate television components never took off. And to make matters worse, with the change to digital NTSC broadcasting over the past few years, the focus has been on tuners that can convert a digital RF signal into a composite analog one.

Are you looking for screen capture to video software, or video editing software? I've tried CamStudio from this list: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/win-screen-recording-softwares/ , but I find that at any screen resolution higher than 320 x 240 it misses frames and adds screen artifacts. I haven't tried any of the others so maybe they work better. My PC is an i3 Core with 4Gb memory running Win 7. Lately, I've been getting better results by just putting my Canon Power Shot SD1200 on a tripod and pointing it at the monitor screen, but then the audio picks up a lot of keyboard noise. I can record the system audio through Audacity at the same time and then try to synchronize them later. I use Windows Movie Maker Live to do my editing.

I find the absence of "DOOM" somewhat surprising. Ever play it in the dark at 3 o'clock in the morning?

Thanks for all of your replies. My Linux PC dual-boots Windows, so that's always an option if I can't find a way to run it under Linux.

This is great news Joe! Thank you so much for sharing the development of this game with us. This is one of the things that makes Atari Age my favorite Internet site.

I'm able to run Stella on Linux by installing the binaries or even building it from sources, but for 7800 games I don't have that option. Has anyone been successful in running the ProSystem emulator using WINE? Is it difficult to set up the Windows environment in Linux to run Windows programs under WINE? Would it be easier to build MESS from the source files? Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have to offer.

Wasn't Pac Man the 2600 "pack-in" game for awhile?

Do you mean this one? It was called "Starship 1".

Another vote for Hack' em...

Yes, that post, and this one, were made from Chrome...

Oh, that's right. I remember you hid that hint in giant bold type on the front page... ...I'm so dumb...

Hey, I've been unable to post here using Chrome in Linux (an Ubuntu derivative). I'm trying it again now with Firefox...

Whatever the latest homebrew is... ...lately, it's been the Beta for Star Castle. Before that, it was Donkey Kong VCS; and Space Rocks before that...

Thanks again for all you do, Al. This site is top-notch.

No, only the Flashback 2 can be modded to add a cartridge slot. All others are emulators or ported games...