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The older I get, the less I appreciate so-called AAA games. Indies are more my speed, now more than ever. Really digging Dead Cells right now. I can't tell if it's me changing, or the industry, but as games become services and lifestyles (Destiny, Fortnite, etc) maybe we should expect fewer big tentpole releases.

Fred is the fifth element!

I voted Odyssey 2. Glossy boxes, full color inside and out, consistent art style. Plus you could tell when someone looked at the game manual because they'd leave fingerprints all over it. That said, there's something charming about the variety and heterogeneity of Atari 2600 games once you have a bunch of third party games. I kept all my boxes until threw them all away to save space. Kept manuals and cartridges. Choose my punishment.

Do you have to unplug the modules every time you want to change systems?

I think I used Nero when burning a whole mess of 3DO images sourced from IRC. What a hassle that was! I'm tempted to just ship them to someone, as I've got better games to play now. 🙂 I had the most luck burning at slow speeds. I'm so over optical discs. Yuck.

They need to be on the same subnet with the same mask. DNS and gateway don't matter because you're going peer to peer. keep the Xbox on 0.15 set your PC to 0.1 they can't have the same IP or it won't work, but if they're on the same subnet it should. Filezilla is good, port 21 is standard FTP, and you could set it to open/anonymous if you're not putting it online. What are you loading into it? Emulators? I should haul out my modbox, it was a slick thing. At least I remember it that way. Maybe it seems slow and janky now!

That's probably the simplest way to do it -- manually set your PC to 192.168.0.1 after you disconnect it from the LAN. A regular cable would work then, not a crossover. Alternatively I guess you could scan your network and see if the xbox is on there? It's been a very long time since I had to do this but as I recall, the network part was pretty simple. It was getting the exploits installed and the new drive paired that was a bit of a hassle.

This story suggests that Sony's removal of "Other OS" was what inspired hackers to go after the encryption keys with such vigor. Revenge is a dish best served cold, etc etc. It's a shame we never got a video game console commercial from Montalban. Can you name a machine with rich, Corinthian leather on it? He DID do a Taco Bell commercial, at least.

@Gemintronic I love the Flashback Portable, but for your purposes, it might make more sense to use something with a well-documented emulator. The PocketGo is $40 from US sellers on Amazon and last I checked, came with Stella preinstalled. It's less from China but will take longer to ship. It has a bright and sharp IPS screen with a glass front and would be a good demo platform.

Make it an Atari 'Touch Me!'

Maybe it's a money/accounting thing. I would assume it looks better to lose money in research and development than through a lack of sales. Not that I am suggesting that "Atari" has ever been anything other than completely honest and forthright in everything they say and do.

Part of the reason the PlayStation 3 was so expensive out of the gate was because it used a unique "cell" processor that was much better at certain kinds of computing tasks than the commodity computer CPUs of the day. [email protected] was included and some people were clustering PS3s together to take advantage of its strengths. It was similar to how bitcoin mining caused shortages for certain Nvidia GPUs for a while. I don't think the hacking aspect was purely BS; as I recall, the people who found the encryption keys to the PS3 system did so using the "other OS" feature, even though it was designed to restrict use of much of the PS3 hardware. Once that happens and people stop buying games (PSP and DS were hit this way too, as you point out) the golden goose is dead. Someone at Sony did the math and figured paying out a class action suit would hurt less than continued damage to their software sales. I don't think they minded all the hype that went along with scientists using PS3s as cheap computing clusters. PS3's advantage was surpassed by Intel and AMD soon enough, and the money is in selling games and services. Nobody knows exactly what Fred Chesnais is playing at by selling hardware without a software ecosystem anyone wants. Maybe he's just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks (VCS will not stick), or maybe he's just trying to fill out the company's portfolio to make it more attractive to people with money who don't check the details. I hate that I just wrote more about "Atari VCS" than its creators have at the biggest consumer electronics show of the year.

@Paul Slocum that's because their attendance at e3 (who went? we don't know) wasn't for the mass audience, it was to tell the Atari SA board of directors and maybe their stockholders that they were there. It's just checking a box. It's not a meaningful milestone on the road to bomb-diggety limited edition Asteroid play.

That text in the manual sounds like a boilerplate tease. I'd check other HES-published games to see if they use it everywhere. "Try everything, you might be surprised!" I wouldn't take it too literally, like you must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance. Seems to be same code as the CBS version from USA. https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=219

It's on Steam. It could run on VCS if someone really wanted to buy it from a tiny fly by night digital store instead of Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/445210/Tiny_Knight/

Nice update. https://play.date/update-dec/

moot it's a funny word

I maintain that whether or not it's fake is moot at this point. They haven't started manufacturing. They haven't shown it in public. They haven't shown any unique software except for a half-baked selection menu that misspells two of their crown jewel properties. The fact that they made it to that hotel suite from the airport should be amazing enough.

Anyone at CES have a look at Rob Wyatt's gameboard? They have a booth and they're also going to PAX. Quote: For CES, you can find us in the AR/VR area at Booth 52831. CES is January 7-10 and this is your first opportunity to gets hands-on with the Gameboard-1. Then, in San Antonio, Texas, we'll be at PAX South January 17-20. We're thrilled to announce that we'll be sharing a booth with Carolina Game Tables, giving you an opportunity to see the Gameboard-1 in its natural habitat: on these gorgeous hardwood tables! Stay tuned for more updates as we countdown to CES and Pax South! Don't forget to follow us on our social media communities as we share daily updates.

" It seems almost destined to be the game system your weird techhead friend eagerly preorderes and either swears by as a very specific platform for exactly the types of games they like, or modifies it into a home theater PC/Plex server/bitcoin miner purely because they can."

I'm not a lawyer but a very quick search suggests to me that Third Party Legal Funding (TPLF) is alive and well in the United States. There's a white paper or two here. I agree that it seems slimy, because it seems like a way to exploit the public legal system for private gain. I also feel like that's the kind of thing that the US system ("money is speech, my friends") would tolerate. This seems similar to something I've seen. Some consulting firms will perform software piracy audits at large organizations in exchange for a slice of the "true-up" costs. Say your firm bought 20,000 copies of Microsoft Office at $300 a seat but an audit found 24,961 copies in use. You owe Microsoft $1,488,300 to come into compliance, and the auditor's bounty comes out of there. Win-win for everyone except for the infringer. The software house pays nothing if nothing is found, and the auditor is incentivized to go after target-rich environments. I would think that the lawyers that "Atari" have put on this case have a streamlined, efficient process for nailing infringers in the most lucrative way. I wonder what this means for their previous representation, the firm that represented hiphop artists against Fortnite for using their dance moves?

I'd buy the F~CK out of that game if I still had a Jaguar. Sounds like Al will take it back, happy ending!

Usually most folks want to go the other way around, that is, to use an old controller on a modern computer.