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  2. Posted

    9 minutes ago, DragonFire said:

    They were never unsafe, a few just have minor issues that are easy to fix. Based on this thread, it seems that the original controllers have the same issues, so they’re just quirks of the original design. 
     

     

    How many production runs have there been? Are there plans to produce more if these run out?

    Yeah, I bought two of these.  They aren't quite as nice as my original one (like the plastic feels a tad cheaper) and one of them had an issue with one of the buttons, but like you said, an easy fix. 

     

    They are definitely worth it.

  3. Posted

    2 minutes ago, TwentySixHundred said:

    It has no place in the current market. It's a modern system and i will say 'modern' loosely, as it's under powered compared to everything in the current generation of consoles. Then you need to look at what the AA community is all about. There is basically two interests around here, and that's collecting or developing. The majority of us developers are just not interested in coding for modern hardware, otherwise we would be, for many of the other options out there. Our passion is within developing for classic systems that we grew up with.

     

    The Ataribox, i will call it, as personally i don't think deserves to wear the VCS badge, doesn't even know what it wants to be. Not one major third party software company has even shown an interest, as it doesn't fit the build. It's a 'console' of hopes and dreams that really doesn't deliver anything special. Other then the Atari logo what does it really have to offer besides indie games? Nothing, because if you're going to just load Windows onto the system, there is many other rigs you can buy at that price and they will run rings around it.

     

    Im not trying to slam dunk the system but you really need to take off the rose tinted glasses and look at the reality here. The system is slow once using Windows which has the highest software compatibility. Im fairly sure the only reason they decided to keep the system open to other OS's is so people could load emulators on it. Even still you're limited to what emulators you can run with a system of that power. bsnes would grab the Ataribox by it's balls and make it choke like you wouldn't believe, so what's the point...

    Not sure about Windows on it, but it runs Linux quite well.

  4. Posted

    11 hours ago, Mazzspeed said:

    Steve Jobs left Apple in September '85, development on the IIGS started in January '85, Steve was totally focused on the Macintosh and as a result gimped the IIGS with a slower clock speed so it wouldn't conflict with Macintosh sales. The IIGS was released in September 86, by which time Steve Jobs had left, with a substantially lower clock speed that the up to 14Mhz than was originally claimed.

     

    As a result the IIGS wasn't as good out of the box as people had hoped.

    The alt story had it that WDC couldn't produce enough chips at the higher clock speed.  sadly, they never did release the 65832 chip, that would have been a 32bit cpu fully compatible with the 6502.

     

    Would have been an interesting alternate universe where Apple was the only company that didn't screw over their users by forcing them to rebuy their library of software.

  5. Posted

    40 minutes ago, CyranoJ said:

    Ok, thought this would come up. Lets do this just once and move on.

     

    There are many packs of many of my binaries out there unapproved, or modified with wrong or random headers and filenames, with or without correct .mrq settings, bundled without asking for my permission - nothing I have released is PD, for example ... so with that said.

     

    IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT FROM A DOWNLOAD LINK PROVIDED BY MYSELF, I AM NOT OFFERING OR PROVIDING ANY SUPPORT.

     

     

    All good, carry on :)

    Hey, I pirated all your things!  Why do they not work, and why is my desktop covered in Furry sites now?

     

    All kidding aside, that is pretty funny there is an Everdrive pack out there with Jag roms, seeing as how they don't have a Jag cart yet.

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  6. Posted

    2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    There was an explanation and interview saying just that...

    Yeah, I should find the post again, pretty sure it was on this forum that someone said the story about Jobs' killing off the IIGS wasn't accurate.  I still wish the IIGS version of Bard's Tale Trilogy was finished.  Apparently the third one was basically done before it got canceled.

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, Mazzspeed said:

    I think the IIGS was deliberately sabotaged by Steve Jobs in favor of his new Mac. IMO the IIGS was a really good machine.

    Yeah, there was someone somewhere that was saying that wasn't the case, as he wasn't with Apple at the time?  But then it sounds exactly like something he'd do, so not sure what the truth is.  I kind of favor the 'ego' causing it's death.  It was, in general, a better system than the mac at the time it came out.

  8. Posted

    22 minutes ago, Mazzspeed said:

    To quote myself:

    The C128 was not a successor to the C64, both weren't even compatible with the C128 running in it's native mode. Compare the amount of software available under the C64 to the amount of software under the C128 and it's obvious the idea of C64 mode while the C128 software library builds up was a total flop.

     

    It was too little too late, basically.  The Amiga was the next big thing that developers went to.  Had the C128 / 130XE been released in '84, maybe they would have gotten more developers on board.  Kind of the same story with the IIGS, it came out after the black and white mac, was far better than it as well, and actually would allow people familiar with the Apple II develop awesome new things for it... but it was too late to the game, and Apple wanted to push the Mac and people having to re-buy software for the new platform.

  9. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Tuxon86 said:

    About the same price of the machine. It was an investment back in the day and the 80's weren't all that great for the working class in North America with the transition from heavy industries. As I said in another thread, back then my father made $300 per week as a boilermaker and once every bills and groceries were paid up he had about $45 left. Not enough to by a C128 + 1571/1541 + rgb monitor or any electronics... We got our first color TV when I was 14, that's in 1979 and we got it because he won it in a draw...

    Yeah, both of my parents worked throughout the 80s.  We mostly all scraped by.  I'm pretty sure (though was too young to remember right) that we sold off all our 2600 games (the 2600 was won in a contest) that we'd bought over for a few years to get the 800xl+1050.  I think it was later that we got the composite monitor for it.  Early 90s were a bit better though, as we got a Mega STe with hard drive and monitor.

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  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, Tuxon86 said:

    Some may've used the C128 in 80 columns if they were rich enough to get the rgb monitor with their machine, which wasn't cheap at the time. Most used it with a TV or composite monitor and were limited to 40 columns, negating one of its biggest selling point... This would've applied to the 130XE also if it had an 80 col mode. 

     

    Both of these came out in 1985, by which time the RGB monitors were standard with the 16bit machines... so how expensive were they?

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, kheller2 said:

     

    Now I'm derailing the topic :)

     

    https://rclassiccomputers.com/c128software/

    Seems like a lot of dedicated 128 software... but not because of RAM.

     

    Thanks for the list!  (Just bought a C128 off ebay).  Yeah, unlike the 130XE, the C128 actually was a new machine with new capabilities.   sure, some people may have just ran it in C64 mode, but with built in 80 column mode, some would have been using that, no? 

     

    That would have been a killer feature for the 130XE.  Also if we had gotten a 800/1200xl keyboard for the 130XE, it would have made a great / cheap word processor.

  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, Matt_B said:

    They'll probably just blame the chip shortage again. 😀

    Let's face it, AMD are going to have bigger priorities at the moment than supplying Atari with what would be, for AMD at least, relatively modest quantities of one of their cheapest SoCs. They can't keep up with the demand for graphics cards, desktop CPUs, and the APUs for the popular games consoles as it is.

    Well it is a perfect storm of nonsense.   Shit time to try to buy any components.

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  13. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Stephen said:

    No - the Incognito does not have any of the video circuitry on it.  If you installed a UAV into the 800, yes.  Or, if you are using one of the Super Colour Cards, which implemented the UAV circuitry, it also has the adjustment.

    Yeah, sorry, my 800 does indeed have a SCCC in it.

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  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, mytek said:

    The UAVs have a trim pot for adjusting artifacting. Might be nice to try turning that with the kaleidoscope program running to see if you can match the 800 results.

     

    In theory I should be able to do the same on my Incognito, right?  (Not that I want to take it all apart again)

  15. Posted

    56 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    rf out jack was repurposed for audio and another rca placed nearby... left and right out for stereo pokey... I think that's been pointed out though. lol by me

    Yeah.  This thing is a mess.  Like someone almost knew what they were doing, but were afraid to take a direct route and wanted instead to take the back roads...

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, godslabrat said:

    I'm a tad insulted you'd suggest I can't find two projects useless at the exact same time.  Heck, I can laugh at the Amico and the VCS and STILL have time left over to call the Polymega a waste of space.

     

    A model of efficiency, I am.

    I like the idea of the Polymega, but the fact that it is just an emulator box makes it 'meh'

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  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Saldo said:

    🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗.  No posts here in almost a month and the last few pages were about Linux and the Raspberry Pie. The VCS is really setting the world on fire!  I guess it will really take off once it hits the retail selves.....oh wait, that is never gonna happen.

    Or you know it could be that issues have been fixed and the mad rush of hacking around with things has worn down.  I have been too busy with work to even play anything lately.  

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  18. Posted · Edited by leech

    From my understanding the mylars don't actually go bad, you generally need to just lift and clean and remove the crappy spacer.  I am trying to remember if I ended up needing to use my pens to redraw the circuits on one of them...

    But I would suggest, if you can, to go into the self test and look at the keyboard one.  As you press on keys, try to roll yiur finger around on it and see if that helps create an initial connection.  I know on the second one I have, I ended up doing that until all the keys worked.

     

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PB69R7Y

    These are awesome for fixing mylar keyboards.

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  20. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Mazzspeed said:

    I think there was a 1701 and a 1702, not too sure if there were any substantial differences however. Both look identical and the colour of the actual unit as well as the aesthetics actually suit the Atari 800.

     

    I've spent ages tweaking my 1084S, right down to tweaking the focus on the flyback to perfection when replacing it (do not do this is you're not familiar with safety around HT transformers!). The resulting IQ is actually very impressive connected to a C64 using separately shielded chroma/luma.

     

    When I get my 600XL, I admit I'll probably run a 17" Dell IPS LCD - But only because CRT's are simply becoming so rare now. A 1701/2 here is worth $500.00 easily no matter what the condition.

    Yeah, I've been looking for 1702s... Really would like one to go with the 800.  Considering modding the 400 to have composite out, but probably won't (it is a tad fuzzy on my TV).

  21. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Mazzspeed said:

    I must say, it's refreshing to see a CRT!

    Yeah, I prefer hooking my Atari's up to my Commodore monitors :P  I've been looking recently at getting one of that model as well... 1702?

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  22. Posted

    7 hours ago, DrVenkman said:

    Flight Simulator II was released significantly before the XE machines were introduced. My copy has (c) 1984 on the box, during the XL era of machines. Here's a pic of what it looks like running on one of my 800's with stock composite video.

     

    IMG_5255.thumb.JPG.4ca8f2041897218e49d98aadd5b50a0c.JPG

     

     

    I do believe the disk version is for the 800 color scheme, the cart was for the XE era machines.  Ah artifacting, seems to really just keep coming up, I've started many threads on it myself :P

  23. Posted

    11 hours ago, gilsaluki said:

    Apocalypse Now (Colonel Kurt). "The Horror, the horror".

    Every time I watch that movie, I think "I should quote this line more."

     

    I know there is a different system already called the Medusa, but this really is an Atari Medusa...

  24. Posted

    16 hours ago, Albert said:

    Here's a photo of the Atari 8-bit labels I'm having printed.  Two of these are for Adventure II and Scramble, plus I'm having the Castle Crisis and Beef Drop labels printed as well (up to now I've always printed those myself--the main visual difference is these will be nice and glossy). 

     

    imageproxy.php?img=&key=f4dcc336a70d5c68label_proofs_800.jpg

     

    These haven't gone into production yet as we're fixing some minor issues with four 2600 end labels.  The printer sent me new proofs last week, and they should have been here on Saturday.  But everything with FedEx Ground is behind schedule right now, so they didn't show up until Monday.  I was gone most of the day, and when I did arrive home, someone had stolen the package.  So that's great.  The printer is sending out another batch this week.  Always something!

     

     ..Al

    Time for some glitter bombs?

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