Question - FB2 Portable?

[Question - FB2 Portable?]

I can't think of anything that's really modern though? Could he be talking about a 2600jr with Activision/Imagic/Parker Bros games?

 

While there are many Atari consoles more modern than the Atari 2600 (5200, 7800, Lynx, Jaguar, etc.), I'm guessing he means "modern" as in "something new to compete with the DS and PSP"...not that it would be very hard to compete with the PSP at this point in time

 

That Gameport looks promising, but they're awfully vague on it. They say that it won't emulate, but that it will synthesize using downloadable software? Also, I'm not sure why they bothered posting screenshots of all those games when they're clearly not in-action shots. Seems kind of fishy to me, but if they're really planning on getting ALL of those consoles to work on it, that'd be pretty sweet.

 

Of course, I'm still looking forward to the FBP to handle all of my 2600 needs

 

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=68980

[Question - FB2 Portable?]

I thought the Gameport looked suspiciously close to Ben Heck's work. Turns out that he did the case design. Even named it.

 

That Gameport looks promising, but they're awfully vague on it. They say that it won't emulate, but that it will synthesize using downloadable software?

If I were to take a Wild Ass Guess, I'd say that it's probably an FPGA-based product. Especially given their comment, "RetroGames has decided to take a radically different approach and provide synthesized versions of the original hardware for all the popular 8 bit classic systems." Thus the "software" for the different systems will probably be the circuit layout files that would be uploaded before the game gets played.

 

Their constant references to the iPod do not suggest good things about the final price of this unit.

 

This is what was confirmed during an IRC chat (I brought that up in another thread, FPGA+CPU). BenHeck shows one of the early prototypes on the gametrailers show on MTV, it was supposed to air last week but I think it has been pushed to tomorrow evening.

[Flashback Portable VS GamePort ?]

you really have no electronics background do you? i only ask because this rom box has no resemblance to the work curt has done on the flashback portable, nor can you who even think it could be.

 

 

the flashback portable has the flashback on a chip cpu. this rom box has a cpu that runs a emulator. very much different devices.

 

im not attacking you or calling you stupid. just when you get hardware designed for the purpose of runing 2600 carts/bins you get more true representation. emulation falls short in stuff like refresh rates and other stuff.

 

There was a discussion on IRC about the gameport, it has a CPU and a FPGA and the consoles are running off the FPGA, they are not emulated in software. I will look for the log and post it.