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They actually paired up with a company from Japan, and the new platform is a sexbot. On a more serious note, these are indeed strange times we live in. Like I said in the other thread, technically speaking the Xbox One and PS4 are 'PC based technology.' That could literally mean anything. But if Valve partnered with Atari on a Steam Machine that wasn't a generic one, but the 'official' one, that'd be kind of cool. Especially with how many games I have supported under Linux. Build it in with emulation of all their old systems, and good times had by all. Someone should sign up as a dev for them

From my understanding of things, it's the main reason why Valve released Steam for Linux and is pushing SteamOS. They saw the writing on the wall as soon as MS opened their own app store. They knew that eventually MS would make a walled garden version of Windows. Which is so against everything that the computer stands for. It was always supposed to be an open system that you could run whatever software you wanted on. Not what is in essence a game console, where you are limited to just games. As long as I have my Debian, I'll be happy. Debian 9 was just released, so 51,000 packages just a command line away!

20 bombs? Don't think I've ever seen that many. In theory the number of bombs should tell you what error it is having. My old Mega STe didn't even give me that. Gave me a lovely white screen, so power was working, and even video output worked, but I couldn't get it to do more than that. I think even the sound was working.

You know they have already released or are very close to releasing Windows 10 S that only allows apps from the MS Store, right? It is the reason we have Steam on Linux, Gabe saw it coming from a mile away. Ha, I doubt we would ever see the source code being left out in the wild. Too much code written for three letter agencies to have backdoors.

Ha, blast processing. A friend and I were discussing that the other day. We couldn't decide if that was just random marketing blah, or if it was the Sega equivalent to a blitter. Edit: Apparently it's something to do with the DMA controller. https://segaretro.org/Blast_processing Also, I find this interesting. One of the specific DMA programming techniques he was referring to was the mid-frame palette swap, where the color could be changed every scanline, increasing the colors displayed on screen, a technique that was used in Sonic 2 Isn't that basically what the ST's shifter can do? And how some of the crazy things I've seen recently (like huge color scans of the covers of games inserted into the boot up for the HAGA conversions?) are done? Or even Spectrum 512 for that matter.

So I figured I'd try to dig to see who the current 'Atari' is. https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/15574845-frederic-chesnais This shows that he was already with Atari, S.A. (ex Infogrames) He's been CEO of various Atari named things, UK, Interactive, etc. Now it's just 'Atari' again? Either way, looks like it's the same 'Atari' that has been around since it passed off from Hasbro. I guess the question would be 'what beyond just the IP of Atari games did they get?' I could have sworn that I'd read the actual hardware plans were still with Hasbro (those that hadn't already leaked). Anyone know for sure? Like who actually owns TOS? More a curiosity than anything. I do kind of think this is going to be a '40 year anniversary of the 2600' spin somehow.

Because of my lost copy, I think I am only lacking Primal Rage, BD13 and Dragon's Lair. At least I have the 'After the Fall' ones of Iron Soldier 2 and Robinson's Requiem.

Ha ha, Microsoft's Xbox logo does kind of have the colors of the Joker, just needs more purple, the Green/White is there.

Did we all get sucked into an old Doctor Who episode, where the Atari makes a comeback? Weird times to be alive. A few of the news articles do point out what I was saying. In 2013 they declared chapter 11 Bankruptcy and were bought by someone who is based out of New York. So Atari (at least this part of it?) is no longer owned by what used to be Infogrames, right? Or Atari, S.A.? Is this now an Atari, N.Y.?

Except that wouldn't really be "based on PC technology". And also a terrible idea. There have already been a few Android based game systems that have failed. Not to mention, why would it take years to develop, when I could take a Raspberry Pi l, stick it in a cool case and sell it as a gaming console... if they are indeed putting the teaser on TV, that is pretty huge. I mean even the Jaguar got very little TV time.

So it seems to me a few years back that Atari had declared bankruptcy (like 2013?) And they were being auctioned off. Is it possible that they were bought by someone hige and they have been in hiding until now? Kind of like how I also read recently that Vivendi was trying to do a hostile takeover of Ubisoft because the owners wanted to get back into the video game industry. Far too many times, the names have changed hands (I think Commodore is owned by someone in China at this point). Granted, I think the only company I could think of that could decently compete with the big three would be Samsung. This is all made up though and probably I am full of crap.

It does... if you're in Utah!

Ha, not quite sure how that's 'elaborate'. So they take some fairly generic hardware, slap it into a case with a logo and some usb/hdmi/ethernet ports, package up a controller with it and have a proprietary operating system on it (probably a FreeBSD mangled with a subset of OpenGL/Vulkan) and you'd have an equivalent to Sony's PS4. Makes porting PC games easy for the most part, especially if it were Linux games, and they used a Linux kernel instead of BSD. Any of us could make a Steam Machine. If this is to be a new console, yet PC based... what other choices do they have, basically a SteamOS machine, or (as I think they said) a 'new console'. Let's just pray it doesn't just run Windows 10 S.

Agreed, I don't get how someone can drink that crap. I'd much prefer to drink the coke with real cane sugar in it.

I figured that was a given. Honestly... how cool would it be to have it boot up with just the old Fuji with the memory test... that goes up to 32gb? Would be interesting if it was kind of a Steam Machine, but at this point it sounds like they're doing the same thing PS4 and Xbone did, PC hardware in a box with proprietary OS and games.

Ha, I have a bit of a different story. I managed to get Rayman for a dollar because the store I bought it from was going out of business and the cashier left off a zero. I didn't notice it until I got home. I think I bought a few other games at the same time for 5. The Jaguar/JagCD were bought new though when the JagCD came out. I think it was after the first price reduction of the Jag, so 100 for it, and 150 for JagCD. Sadly, at some point I think I lent out Primal Rage and never got it back, so I still have the box, but don't have the CD anymore, so will have to track that down one of these days.

The funny thing is, I remember maybe a year or two after the Jag came out (may have even been when the JagCD came out and I bought mine) I was talking to a co-worker and he literally said 'what's Atari'. Dude was probably only 5-7 years younger than I was. A lot of people of a specific age grew up only knowing Nintendo and Sega, sadly. They don't remember when Atari was the fastest growing company in the world, and then suddenly the tables flipped and they were losing money the fastest out of anyone.

Combat, I'd agree with. Not sure I ever played Maze Craze. Demon Attack was pretty damned good, but I think like the others there was a superior 8-bit version. Joust was definitely much better on the 8-bit and was terrible on the 2600 (yay for flying eggs!). Still one of my favorite games on the 2600 is Armored Ambush. But I have a RetroPi setup connected to my 55" TV for any of the 2600 stuff. I wouldn't mind collecting some specific cartridges again, I just don't have the room with all my other retro systems.

Was just looking at the picture again, and it kind of looks like a badyard child of an alienware steam machine and 2600.

Homebrew I can agree with. A lot of the homebrew stuff is "look at what crazy crap I can make this old thing do!" which is absolutely amazing! Hell, even patching older games like OIDs on the ST so that it runs smoother is amazing work. What I'm saying is there is a large percentage of 2600 games that were rather horrid. It would have been much better if they'd done more of an 'all in one' thing, or at least made something with the widest base of cartridge... and by that I mean the slot.. then you could build up adapters, so we could have an old Genesis/Mega Drive style pancake stack! Imagine a 5200 slot (I think the widest?) that could have an 8-bit cartridge or 2600/7800 cartridge plugged into it. Sadly after the 8-bit era the only other cartridges released by Atari would be the Jaguar ones.. which would also be cool. I was kind of hoping they would announce something actually new... like "Look at this, we're coming back with something epic!" And why not? Most game platforms out there are just commodity PC parts slapped onto a board and put into a 'cool' case. Why couldn't Atari had put in the time and effort and made a new console? Retro things are huge, as Nintendo found with the NES classic. And if the Switch can sell enough to be out of stock everywhere....

Maybe it's just me.. but most 2600 games are better left in the past. I mean they show off pac-man, which is notably one of the worse conversions for the 2600. My fond memories are Combat, Adventure, Space Invaders, Armor Ambush. I think after not so long, I got into the Atari 8-bits, which to me was far more epic. Having Hyperkin make up a 2600 wannabe system? I'd probably rather just pick up an old original one. Then again, i guess this thing will probably have better than RF out?

I got close to buying a second one, even with the insane prices... talked myself out of bidding more. You almost have to have two in case one expires... or you solder something a little too much...

Didn't they also do some sort of bankruptcy? Anyhow, these trademarks are for the Logo, and even an Atari Games, but Atari : codebreaker? Would be an interesting name for a hardware release, I guess? Unless that's a new game? Also, Atari Games was filed by Atari International UK, whereas the other two were from Atari Interactive. I thought Atari SA was French? Those images just make me think they're missing a memory test bar.. like TOS 2.06+ has...

For what it's worth, I got the email that the OP is talking about with a link to 'ataribox.com' from the Atari Newsletter (which I probably subscribed to way back when Neverwinter Nights was released). It basically says "A brand new Atari product.. Years in the making..." has some images of the Atari logo with the wood finish and shiny bars. some 'about to announce something new.. excitement..." and a nice "new product that is an evolution of our past, and core to our future." Since the email is sent out from [email protected] though looking at the headers, it's a bounce through a mailing list hosted @bluehornet.com. From all of this, I knew that it wasn't something from AtGames, since I'm sure they don't own that mailing list. Bluehornet is apparently an email campaigning company (so makes sense). Atari.com's registrar is ascio. Funny thing is, there is ZERO mention of this thing on atari.com... So if it is 'years in the making'; I'm going to vote for the JagVR finally being released so I can play Missile Command 3D like it was meant to be played!

Seriously... so we have 520/1040 with external only. Then you have Mega ST (not sure, don't own one) and Mega STe and TT, both with external ACSI, and internal SCSI. Then Falcon, internal IDE, external SCSI, and internal SCSI if you are lucky enough to have a c-lab one.