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  4. Posted

    34 minutes ago, Zippy Zapp said:

    Did yours ship?  When did you pre-order?

     

    I pre-ordered 9/8 and got the message about Dec-Jan estimated delivery.  Then a few days later I got a new date of 11/25.  11/25 it didnt ship and I got a new date of today (11/28) and of course it didn't ship and got a new "You must Approve the delay" message.  A call to Amazon was pointless as they know nothing.  Not a really great experience so far...  Of all the years and years of pre-ordering on Amazon this is the most delayed product so far for me.  Of course the world scene doesn't help.  There are reports on facebook that they were briefly in stock and reportedly some were able to order them without a pre-order.  If that is true then it sucks.

     

    Oh well life goes on and it is not a big deal in the grand scheme, it's just annoying.

    It didn’t ship...I’ve been holding out hope as sometimes they do one day stuff bc of a close warehouse.

     

    then...
     

    I got an email this morning saying they won’t be able to fulfill it :(

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    A podcast I co-produce called Arcane Carolinas (not the one I do for work that @Tommy Tallarico graciously came on) will be doing a special video episode today as a part of the American Sci-Fi Classics track at the one and only DragonCon.

     

    I made it a point to bring my Intellivision mug on for the episode to hopefully sow some seeds of "whats that?" among people that might not be aware of the Amico.


    Is product placement shilling if I'm not paid, and just do it as a someone that believes in the product 😆?

     



     

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  10. Posted

    All caught up!
     

    Finish: Matte woodgrain! Matte finish all day, every day.

     

    Delays: Delay was handled perfectly, consumers were kept in the loop for months on the possibility and the reasons are understandable.


    Teams: The people involved in this journey project a passion for the mission, and I think that is something special. It was cool to hear from some faces behind the journey.


    Games: Keep the sneak peeks and hands-on demonstrations coming! Not every game is going to be for every consumer...AND THATS OK! I didn’t have any surprise changes to my “top 5” after this, but it was cool to see new games.

     

    Im still excited for my VIP pre-order and look forward to watching the product’s journey to market unfold. 

     

    @Tommy Tallarico - thanks for including us along the way.

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  12. Posted

    8 hours ago, flickertail said:

     

     

    But let's say it is, 1/4 of a Teraflop per console. That gives them access to 3,000 Teraflops of compute power to process Atari Tokens... a 3 Petaflop volunteer computing system... and they don't have to pay for any of that power.

     

    Do you know you for sure that when you're playing updated versions of classic Atari games on the VCS, that you are not also running a crypto miner or something similar in the background? Be sure to read your license agreement when you open up the box that your VCS arrives in.

    I definitely agree that the potential for abuse of trust is there. I brought this idea up a couple pages back and one of the responses was something along the lines “what?! Atari up potentially up to shady practices?”
     

    I co-host an information security podcast at work and reached out the Atari PR people to try and get an interview around privacy and risk considerations surrounding the appliance/computer/tacobox, they declined. 
     

    One of the things I was going to ask was specifically about was around this topic...if anyone gets one when/if this comes out Im hoping someone wants to run a pcap to share. I think we could have a lot of fun seeing exactly what this box is up to.

     

  13. Posted

    to my point earlier:
     

    I’d love to do a bake-off between systems re: data privacy, security, and OS stability. Throw each system in the lab for traffic analysis, index CVEs with the respective kernels, test exploits, etc but I feel like that might be punching down a little bc of the point a few lines up - only one of the entities is a tech company, the other just licenses IP and has made hats with speakers in them.
     

    I think I’ll just stick with making mine Amico and not worrying the little PC with a half baked OS likely leaking data with it’s always online required  :)

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  14. Posted

    2 minutes ago, godslabrat said:

     

    However, mining crypto requires a level of technical competence that I haven't observed in l'Atari.  I would be more inclined suspect the OS was monetizing user data for demographic research.  

    Agree 100% on the monetization of user data!

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  15. Posted

    Catching up on all the “news” surrounding this project after getting that recent email re: pre-orders.

     

    After reading about the need for the AtariOS to have constant connectivity, I would love the chance to get a unit and observe what traffic comes and goes from the box. From a nefarious perspective it’s entirely possible that the AtariOS could just a potential botnet to mine coin. Speculative? Sure, outside the realm of possibility - nah.

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  16. Posted

    While we’re still on the topic of the company that crowd funded and hasn’t delivered yet, I think it would be interesting to run a pcap on the box when/if it is delivered to see exactly what info it sends and receives. I have this gut feeling that it’s potentially a combination of an off the shelf coin miner for the parent company, while having a system engineered to monetize user data. This is speculative, but based on the tidbit that it requires an internet connection to operate and the only thing we know about the proprietary OS is that is has “the vault” I see no good reason to require connectivity.
     

    I bring this up to highlight that Tommy has been really clear about what is NOT at risk regarding data exfiltration and the Amico. 


    Another reason I’m team Amico beyond the games.

     

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  18. Posted · Edited by themewsh
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    Hey everyone, I’m somewhat of a lurker here, but today I have something tangible to contribute to the conversation!
     
    In my professional life I work in information security, and recently Tommy came on the podcast we produce for our user base. It was an especially fun diversion for me during the quarantine because I was already a fan of the Intellivision Amico project (proud owner of a coffee mug and have preordered units for my whole family). After chewing my co-hosts ear off about it, he got to hear about the system straight from Tommy, and we were able to get down into the weeds about some of the ways Intellivision Entertainment is taking security and privacy concerns into consideration.
     
    On top of that, there’s even some super exciting news that I hadn't seen elsewhere about a day 1 launch game near and dear to my heart.
     
    The show is called “Data @ Rest” and is available via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify, iHeartRadio and directly on the web via https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/data-at-rest/id/14316407
     
    I hope you’ll check it out it and give it a go.
     
    PS - I bought my own mug, I’m a fan, and passionate about the values/mission behind the project.
     
     
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  19. Posted

    I circled back and grabbed a second unit for myself to play in the garage (woodgrain) after already having pre-ordered one for the family/kids, but now after reading the games list and talking to my folks I might be picking up a THIRD for the kids to have at grandma’s. 
     

    We were on the phone catching up and I brought up “remember Intellivision?” - after 5 minutes my mother says “well that sounds like something I’d like to play with the grandkids...” looks like it’s going to be an Intellivision Christmas for everyone in the family this year. 
     

    stoked!

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  22. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

     

    Intellivision® is proud to show off its exclusive version of Atari®'s Breakout® only available on the Intellivision Amico™ console launching 10.10 2020. Although the game will start off in original "vertical mode", it won't take long to utilize the full 16:9 aspect ratio and turn things sideways. Part "block buster" and part 2D side scrolling shooter, you’ll only have a limited amount of time to get to the goal and BREAKOUT! Will the player in the trailer make it to the end on time? They have 4 minutes to complete the task. Players can utilize the vertical touchscreen to control the paddle and (as seen in the trailer) can use motion controls (once a ball is hit) to angle, aim, spin and curve in the direction that you'd like the ball to go! And don't forget, we'll also be adding multi-player couch co-op and versus modes as well!

     

    I'm feeling pretty enthused about Amico after the Moon Patrol demo and the videos, awesome stuff!

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  23. Posted

    14 hours ago, roots.genoa said:

    I agree with you 120% but I'd like to point out that a Facebook page administrator can't encourage anyone with "fan badges" - Facebook gives them automatically (to people who comment and react a lot I guess).

    Gotcha, thank you for the insight. You know what? I learned something today!

     

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  24. Posted

    23 minutes ago, TankedThomas said:

    I also wanted to add that, as much as we make fun of people like John Phelan and co. (look at Shawndell Rivers or whatever his name is, always in John's comments), some of them seem to be legitimately slow. Not to be disparaging though - on the contrary, it bothers me that at least some of these hardcore VCS supporters just don't know any better and are being taken advantage of by Atari, something infinitely easier to do if said people are already a few quid short, so to speak. That's just morally wrong. Not that Freddy Boy has any morals to begin with but, you know...

     

    x100 this. It really bugs me to think about how the intellectually and developmentally challenged folks that are behaving in such a trusting matter are going to be emotionally impacted. I understand that business is business and anyone is welcome to order, but actively leading people on with disabilities with comments like "thanks @usernameofperson - we sure do love your support", and encouraging them with little social media "fan badges" screams to me that there is a lack of both corporate and personal ethics at play, and it is a real bummer. 

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  25. Posted

    10 hours ago, Matt_B said:

    Sure, it won't be unfinished. They'd need had to have actually started something to call it that. 😁

     

    Maybe their plan is to send out boxes of random loose parts and see if anyone can assemble them into a working machine?

    A HeathKit style product to build a 2600 clone with new components would actually be really fun, probably wouldn't move many units, but it would be fun.

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