Curt Vendel

This is exactly what I am hoping coders do is make games with both TIA and POKEY and when they see the POKEY in the XM they switch automatically to POKEY audio. This is great Perry!

I’d never forget you Walter, you’ll get one soon bud.

I never intended to breakout the paddle signals off the Pokey/PokeyMax... just the PIA has breakouts around it. if someone is going to want to use the Pokey paddles that means having to hardwire in controllers and some work inside. i think just using the front controller ports and using the TIA might be the best route but hey, I’ve marked every connection on the board and I see no reason why people can experiment and try ideas out.

You were one of the very early orders, I’ve got a good supply of POKEYs so pretty much most of the PreOrders will come with the old Atari made chips vs the new FPGAs

There is a POKEY or PokeyMax on the XM boards.

It'll be a bit, I'll do these in 20-25 pc batches to get the pre-orders out. Then I'll prepare units and can sell them going forward.

Let Bob, Perry, Mitch and others post photo's and video's of theirs, this way people can see other people kicking the tires.

Nope...when the pre-orders are in people's hands first.

XM = Expansion Module Shipped = it was shipped to Perry and he has it. Title matches what occurred... but thanks for your input.

Hi Shawn, The Dev's are getting the last of the deep test BIOS, so it has all of the standard control functions but has all of the deep tests still in it and the plain menu, nothing fancing. The End User version is going to have all of the deep tests removed and have a more user friendly menu and an embedded game since there is plenty of extra room. Thats what I'm gonna shoot for is having all of the SMD stuff on the board and just I'll add on the PTH components, this will make things much easier for me. I've been doing a lot of fine SMD work by hand, its been fun, but I sure as heck would'nt want to do this a couple hundred times LOL!

That’s right... pigs are flying and the dark one is wearing a parka in hell today... The first XM was dropped at the Post Office on its way to Perry Thuente.

Correct - I'm just taping a shipping label right to the XM cases and shipping them! LOL!!!

Boxes will ship later, people want their systems, so to cut down on any additional time, I'll worry about the boxes afterwards and send those out to everyone. I just want to get people their XM's, they've waited long enough between all of my health issues and development hurdles, so IMHO I think this is the best way to go just so people finally get their XM's and then the extra's that'll wind up on a shelf, in a closet or such can come later.

If you pre-ordered 7800xm.com These first 5 are going to developers, will start shipping out units to everyone else in batches of 10-20 at a time, you'll be contacted before hand for final shipping verification, names will be listed of who's units are shipping in each batch posted here and on the 7800 expansion module group on FB as well.

FYI... the video is just to show that the new 100 pin PLD code is working correctly and the XM is booting up. The units shipping out this coming week will be fully populated and fully function, just so anyone who might be confused understands.

Booting up of the 1st production shipping 7800XM, has the basic functionality on it just to show it booting and working in both 2600 and 7800 mode. This particular one is going to PacManPlus (Bob) and another to Perry Thuente next week and the other 3 are going to Mitch Orman, RevEng and Mark Ball so that they can start developing games for the XM and also to heavily stress test them. These I'm just hand building to make sure everything is good before I move to mass building. But lo and behold, the shipments are starting. As I ship (as Jinx suggested) I'll post up who's orders are shipping out, please don't start PM'ing me asking when yours is going out, I'll be contacting everyone, so when I contact you, yours is shipping. IMG_8859.MP4

I actually think that would be a great idea, then people will see who's receiving theirs and know theirs are on the way and it lets every know whats happening. Thanks Jinks!

These are truly beautiful !!! Okay, First batches going to: @PacManPlus @tep392 @Mitch @RevEng and of Course Mark over in the UK... This'll give some key people a chance to start coding on the real hardware and go deeper into compatibility testing as well, just to be certain. Mark is finishing up the End User version of the built in BIOS and feature selection settings and some other things. I'll get to work getting the 2nd batch of boards ready and start preparing emails to the 1st pre-order people...

Nope... this is brandy spanking new one. BTW, I was subpoenaed as a witness to help Hyperkin against FauxTari... I gladly overnighted 2.3Gbs of data to their lawyer ?

I wanted to do gold & beveled... cost was through the roof

So, just how pissed off do you think Walmart would be if Atari was hit was a restraining order in the next several days? (Not that some little birdy didn't just let me know via TacoMail that Atari is being smashed on the head with a lawsuit & restraining order this week...) Just being "hypothetical" with my question Anybody with Atari stock, you may want to put in your sell orders VERY early Monday morning...

Package arrived from PCBWAY tonight when I got home from my trip to Boston... The XM Bus Bridge PCBs have arrived. Now I'm just waiting for the XM boards to arrive next. I decided the production boards are all going to be done in 7800 Purple, I think they look nice.

Got an email from PCBWAYs... The orders for the XM main board and the XM bus connector board have shipped, yay! When they arrive I’ll post photo’s.

As long as he’s gone to 7800xm.com and provided that information for the transfer so that the order goes to him.

Money got dangerously tight for Corp in Oct 84 and all of the original "New" XL work was scraped. They were planning a lot of very cool new systems, also they had planned to originally retain the "XL" name on the line. Once I'm done with all of the updates on the XL section of my site, I'll be working on a complete rebuild of the XE section and the information I've uncovered from July 84-Jan 85 is amazing... One thing I will say, those who like their XE's are going to be very miffed when they see how shortchanged they were with what was eventually delivered. Oct 84 changed everything.