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I think I'd pointed something out about their DNS records previously as well. I've been too busy messing with my older Atari hardware to be worrying much about any newer stuff, at least until they actually announce something...

So you're saying Intellivision should sue Microsoft over a Design Patent? Like how Apple sued Samsung over rounded corners?

That was my guess as well. Granted these days you'd want something like a Steam Controller, 1 dongle can handle 4 controllers... It's not like the old days where you would plug in four controllers. Though this would follow Atari's old school stuff in putting the 'joystick ports' in weird places that were inconvenient!

I kind of would rather know what operating system they're going to have on it. If it's a generic Windows machine with some proprietary 'App' store, then I'd probably just turn it into a Steam Machine (in which case the hardware specs would matter to a point (would probably stream better than my Link, which I discovered finally the 'fix' for some games on that is to switch to Stereo instead of 5.1 surround sound!) We know that the only non-internet storage it has is MicroSD / USB (at least from the Renders, the final product might be different). Has anyone tried to guess what the purpose of the four white lights on the Woodgrain version are for? The black one didn't seem to have them.

What would be nice is an updated light gun that would work on LCDs. Not sure if that exists though, or if it is even possible. I started looking it up once upon a time.

I almost dove in and bought an Oculus as well, but then decided I didn't want to give any money to Facebook I have heard it's a little better if all you're going to do is sit down and play 180 degree games (I like playing Elite: Dangerous myself, it's phenomenal, but it doesn't really need the room scale.)

Whoa, same dude did an updated one back in 2009.

I have the HTC Vive and with that it is really dependent on the game and the way you move. Unfortunately they don't have support for resident evil 7 on the PC yet, but I do have Battlezone for it which should be the same on PSVR, and that game is phenomenal. Even has the classic vector version too.

I was looking over the picture you have on your blog of the STFM motherboard. Would it help you at all to have a picture of the STF, since you're going to not include an RF modulator anyway, it really shows how much empty space is there? Unless you already have said picture. This really is a 'new STf motherboard'

Ha, well you have a point. But if I can play them on a cartridge that sits in the Jag instead of having to wear down the Jag itself (especially the CD mechanisms) isn't that better?

I think for me, it isn't so much as Jag as a computer that is appealing, but it's the last hardware from Atari (well until the Ataribox? maybe? Even then, last from ST era). I would have LOVED to have seen where TOS 5.x would have gone. If we'd gotten a TOS with builtin TCP/IP, MiNT shined up for 100% professional use (and by that I mean it's awesome, but the occasional dump of crap out to the screen is pretty bad). Get a browser, and it'd still remain this nice light weight system without all the crap that Windows has. I actually tend to think it'd be somewhat MacOS like (except better, some concepts on that always were kind of weird (dragging a floppy to the trash to eject it... how is that intuitive?)) Anyhow, completely off topic, I mainly want this cartridge because pulling the carts out of the boxes adds wear and tear, and being able to just leave this cart in the slot also helps with wear and tear on the Jag itself. Can't remember if it was this thread I said this in, but I just got a used copy of i-war, and it was doing the red Jag logo (after I pulled out the CD-rom to make sure it wasn't that) and then when I tried putting the JagCD back on, it wouldnt' spin up the drive... had to go in and fix up some crappy solder work I'd done before so that it'd work again...

Ha, I love that audiophiles flipped their shit at the 'just buy bluetooth ones'. I think it was John Oliver that said "And Apple invents a new way to lose your headphones" when they came out with the little pod ones. I really have no love for Apple, I do find it funny that a guy I worked with was a huge Apple fan, and kept saying that VR was just a niche thing and would fail like 3D TVs. Yet now Apple is working on some VR stuff.

Samsung disproved the Waterproofing one. Granted, I don't see the feature of being able to draw on your screen underwater as all that useful, but it worked, even with the stylus hole and headphone jack. Then again, the Note 7 probably worked better under water, in case it caught fire. To be blunt, Apple killed off the headphone jack so they could sell their very own headphones, plus they can now insert DRM into the audio output.

Throw on some MIDI ports and keyboard/mouse (USB) and were in business! Though I wonder can it do any higher resolutions for desktop use?

Hmm, now normally I'd say that a console is a console, and pretty much modding things like memory on it would be beyond your typical console owner. But only hardcore nerds at this point probably own the Jaguar. You'd almost have to just provide any cartridge / CD that required the extra memory to have it included with the game. Nothing would suck more to get "Ultimate Jaguar game!" and then read that it required more memory than standard, and the person making the expansions had stopped years before. I guess there isn't a way like on almost all other consoles out there to do it via the Cartridge port? Like the FX chip and such on the SNES. I do kind of like the idea though, port TOS over to it with more memory too.

I told a guy I work with about the Speaker Hat, and we had a great laugh. Technically I can make/take phone calls from my watch, but I also feel like an idiot when I do so. Pretty sure if I was talking to my hat it'd be even worse.

Yeah, the real trick here is getting a functional interface to said PC to fit in such a tiny case. I've tried doing a few mini-ITX cases, but you always end up with something that gets overly hot or way too loud, or totally under performing. Getting something powerful crammed into a case without making it loud is a skill your average build a PC person lacks. Guess you can try water cooling, but that makes it very huge and non-console like again... Even the PS4 (I have the original, seems they made it better in the Slim) is really loud when it gets stressed. Ha, I am starting to think most companies that were founded around Silicon Valley tend to be this way. Oddly I think Atari was one of the companies that set the tone there in the 70s. Too bad most of them don't have Friday night binge parties like they did though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-Portfolio-16-bit-Personal-Computer-Rare-Discontinued-/232374583166?hash=item361a9abf7e:g:XnkAAOSwLsBZQ9-8 Ha, "Rare and discontinued." I tend to think usually something can't really be rare if it isn't discontinued, right?? I was never terribly interested in the Portfolio, but a Stacy or ST Book would/could be pretty cool. It's too bad they didn't produce a whole lot of either of them, or they didn't go with the Tablet one they were prototyping. If only they'd had the resources and the internet had been more prevalent, we could have Atari Tablets everywhere, wonder if they would have gotten into the smart phone arena too. Ha, a MiNT based phone would be quick as hell, need hardly any resources and of course people could skin/theme it with MyAES or XaAES, but then again, I think if they'd gone that route GEM/AES/VDI would have been dropped or at the very least tweaked a lot to be more touch screen friendly.

Ha, that's pretty close to true for the jag library. Though some were perfect conversions, like Syndicate and Cannon Fodder. I probably should have specified for 'Atari' owned licenses. Though I'm not even sure if Club Drive was owned by them or if it transferred to somewhere else. But I think the generalized 'it was on an Atari platform and could have been better' works for me.

Ha, would it be as simple/odd as sticking something over the 68k processor like people do on the ST? Something tells me it would not be.

Aren't those the 'direct support' type ones vs 'it is nice to have in' type ones. Like I believe the shoulder buttons are properly mapped so that you can strafe in Doom with them, though it may have been one of the other FPS games.

Ha ha, I want an Atari Falcon Book...

I always loved Towering Inferno. Done right, that could be a cool 'uplifted' game. I have not. That game looks amazing... may have to pick up a dreamcast, or see if I can emulate it to try it out.

Ha, and I just ordered an Atari hat, you mean I could have waited and gotten one with Speakers!?

You know, I read a story a while back that was saying Vivendi Universal was wanting to make another huge bid for Ubisoft so they could get back into the game making business again. I had kind of wondered when this was first announced if they had either helped fund Atari or had helped bail them out of bankruptcy. I think someone discounted that possibility though.