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Yeah, my understanding of it was that the Psygnosis guys originally approached Nintendo with the Playstation hardware as an expansion to the SNES. When they turned it down, Sony outright bought Psygnosis and turned them into Sony Computer Entertainment (or whatever they're called now). Epyx had created the hardware for the Lynx and sold it to Atari. I can't recall who, but I think the 7800 was kind of the same way? Go figure that Atari of course did something dumb back in the day and wasn't the distributor of the NES.

By the way, a weird hint... Jeff Minter had popped into a thread talking about llamatron or something similar a while back, and mentioned he was working on a VR project. I have no idea if that actually pertains to anything to do with the Ataribox though.

I generally try not to quote the person that is immediately before me in a thread... But that last sentence needs to be bolded. While everyone knew about the Nintendo, and they never really went away, just kind of ended up having to do their own thing... Which if you think about it has been the case since the N64. I mean everyone by that time had gone away from Cartridge, but not them. On the other hand, for both Sega and Atari to be doing teasers like this? Very interesting times for gamers who remember back when they were great! Atari is a weird one because they seem to be the one who suffers the death of a thousand cuts, but still somehow survive. I was thinking this the other day.... they better not leave the name as 'Ataribox' that's terrible. They should follow their tradition of cats (Yeah, I know they only had two that launched and one that didn't) and call it the Puma!

Funny thing is.. even when the Jaguar was released, there was the SNES and Genesis, the CD32 was coming out, the Neo Geo for overly rich people, and CD-i then shortly after Sony stormed in with their giant cash cow with the PSX, which oddly was going originally be a Nintendo system at one point, but they didn't want CD-ROM based, so Sony plucked them up. Much in the same manner that the Lynx was bought by Atari. So with that in mind.... maybe we are thinking about this the wrong way. Atari probably didn't develop/engineer anything, some other company probably worked on their own hardware and wanted a famous name to lead it. Edit: I really should not reply from my phone...

Ha, I am considering finding a Neo Geo Pocket and getting one of the sdcards for that. The Lynx one is superb.

http://www.maedicke.de/atari/galerie/diverses/source/odingraka.htmnot working? weird... It is working right now...

Apparently something like this was available at some point? http://www.maedicke.de/atari/galerie/diverses/source/odingraka.htm One of it's features looks to be a 31khz output to VGA.

Ha, you are right, who also made Ultra Vortek... crap, what game by Rebellion on the Lynx was I thinking of? Edit: Apparently they never developed anything for the Lynx.

Hmm, did they lose the licensing, or did they just license it to Rebellion (who also famously made Alien vs Predator (Jag) and Battlewheels (Lynx)). VR Battlezone does have the old classic game in it too.

The new VR Battlezone is absolutely awesome! Holy crap, I can't tell you how awesome it is... I have it on PC/Vive. And while it is lame in the eyes of some due to it requiring to use a game pad instead of the Vive wands, it plays so well it doesn't really matter much, and it's not like you really need to interact with the controls. But it is pretty damned awesome.

I work in computer security... while I agree all antivirus software is terrible for one reason or another, leaving a system connected to the internet without something protecting it is a terrible idea. Vulnerabilities are discovered all the time, not to mention things like botnets, ransomware, etc. Hell, I remember a guy I worked with kept getting a message that basically asked for 10 dallars for an applicstion to disable the message... turns out Windows Messaging system was enabled by default on XP at one point, and peeple were broadcasting messages with over the internet to make money. Moron paid for it, even after I gold him to just disable the service....

Ha, isn't that back in the day when you had to close out everything or you'd lose files when you'd shut down? A friend of mine said he had to do that when he was doing the same on another friend's Amiga, and we were wondering why... Every piece of software has their own bugs and quirks, it really all comes down to 'does it do what I want it to without being a pain in the butt?' Linux and it's associated stack all the way up to Gnome-shell does that for me. Oh and with the latest updates to Windows 10.. wow Cortana is really annoying. If you want to see some serious amounts of 'wow this isn't terribly professional' thoughts, do a fresh install of the Creator's Update. Cortana literally mentions connecting to a network 'so you can get to looking at cat videos.'

Nice, I've really been a Linux user since around '96-'97. There was a guy on Reddit that called it a "Trash OS" because you "have to compile everything." Dude try using it 20 years ago or something? I don't compile hardly anything anymore, and I work with Linux professionally. Hell, even most of the things that are custom and compiled are done with a simple click of a button, and a yum or apt install.... Silly people. Oddly, my first Unix-y setup was on my Mega STe where I actually had managed to get X11 and Emacs running. Though time has made my memory fuzzy on if I had managed to get them to work both at once, I remember Emacs being a HUGE memory hog (considering 4mb of ram).

For sure, even MS supports it on Azure. Ha, It's been the year of Linux Desktop for me for..... what 10 years now? I only use Windows for games. Don't really trust it for anything else.

1) From what I had read, this was added to with terrible development documentation. 2) The reasoning for this is simple, they already had developed a 3 button controller+keypad for the STe. The Atari PowerPad was created before the Jaguar, from what I've seen. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/252546-wtb-atari-stjaguar-bluegray-power-pad-controller/ 3) Seems some of the 3D games looked much better early on than the ones on the PSX. Compare something like AvP with some of the launch titles for PSX. CD would have been a better decision if it'd been released with the system. 4) Wow, marketing for the Jag was terrible... from the style to the lack of seeing it outside of infomercial times. 5) Don't forget that they'd pissed off developers as well. 6) I think by the time the Jag launched, they had dropped support for Lynx and the computers, which literally meant they'd had the Falcon supported for less than a year. 7) completely agree. Last note about the 68000, I just recently read that a lot of the Jaguar releases were initially created for the Panther then 'forward' ported to the Jag, which also explains the lack of utilizing the hardware. This really left the Jaguar and Falcon to be horribly underutilized.

Ha, I have a Steam Link in my living room (stupidly they only included a 100Mb NIC on it) and I agree, it's pretty terrible. Oddly the control lag is pretty good on most games, but I do have the random time when it decides to make the audio off sync by about 10 seconds. Any sort of 'streaming' service would have to do a LOT of caching. Granted when you're talking older 8-bit on down stuff, you could cache the entire library in like a GB of space...

For licensing, I was talking more about how much Netflix pays. libhybris is the compatibility layer for Android apps I was talking about, and it's specifically Apache Licensed; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software) I'd agree with the streaming being near instant. 2600 in the cloud... My thinking of Yar's Revenge would be a 'reboot' since we all love those, right? Though a Yar's Revenge 2020 would be awesome...

We already discussed New Coke vs Diet Coke in this thread, why not discuss what we like getting drunk on?

Ha, not exactly what I meant.. I meant within SteamOS's big picture interface. Yeah, I watch Netflix all the time on Linux. Still can't figure out why hbonow refuses to play (it used to work fine, I figure I have something funky cached somewhere, meh.). But yeah, Netflix/Amazon Video both work fine under Firefox.

So I was just thinking... we know who the CEO is. But does Atari have any engineers (software/hardware) working for them that anyone knows about? They've just been a software publisher for so many years now, I'm not even sure if they do their own development. If we could find out who currently works for them, it'd give us a bigger hint at what they are planning. I still think it'd be great if they finally released the VR headset we were promised 20 years ago... who knows, maybe they finally paid their debt to Virtuality... haha! Netflix was mentioned. It's funny that SteamOS is the only gaming platform out there that doesn't really have it's own netflix/amazon/hbonow plugin. Yet it's definitely the closest to being a 'real computer' vs the xbone and ps4. But I'd agree that who cares? It's not like there aren't an abundance of smartTVs, Bluray players, etc that can't already play the streaming channels. All that crap costs licensing anyhow, unless they plan on having some sort of Android compatibility layer. Hell, this literally could be a platform for emulating all the old things that they still have rights to. Yar's Revenge HD/4k would be cool though...

There is your Atari 'Box'.

16) Nolan Bushnell buys back Atari with the resin in his Bong.

It prints out baby Atari 2600s.

They're partnering with Trevor from A-Eon, so that finally the Amiga can come home?

The funny thing is... a lot of the articles out there are assuming it's going to be a 'retro' platform. But clearly the words coming out about it are 'this is a new PC based platform'. so... do we start getting Defender 2020, Breakout 2020, etc?