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The Mini PC category looks better for set top boxes ... https://www.aliexpress.com/category/70803003/mini-pc.html

Does anyone think the Console Wars movie is still coming out? I think the story and the author have had their time in the sun. Haven't heard anything about it for years now. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3561990/

Also, it will run cartridges (with save, suspend, rewind functions) so you can bring your own games, too. Seems like a good list to me.

If someone buys a product name but sits on it for a long time, is it dead? Or just sleeping?

What forums? MoneyAge? AdvertisingAge?

Then you'd like this NYT review of it, it's hilarious: But it’s not, sadly, a heck of a book. The reconstructed dialogue can be stilted and phony. When Mr. Harris isn’t unfurling clichés (speed is blazing, a woman is doe-eyed, go-getters are scrappy), he is falling prey to the language of public relations. A dud of a robot that came with the original Nintendo Entertainment System is described as “groundbreaking.” A new Nintendo advertising slogan is “paradigm-shifting.” Sonic is compared to Michael Jordan, Bill Clinton and Kurt Cobain. Mr. Harris is also too beholden to his sources. Mr. Kalinske almost never makes a mistake nor acts out of spite or anger. When Sega stumbles, the Japanese side of the company — which controlled research and development as well as the design of most of the company’s hardware and software — is routinely blamed while the Americans are absolved. It's particularly terrible in the audiobook, where the narrator puts on little voices for everyone and pronounces the director of Nintendo's name as "yaMOUTCHee" Blake Harris feels his style makes the action seem more real, and immediate. Too bad he's not very good at it, right?

Android runs on Linux, and people piss on the awesome Play Store for being loaded with crap. I suggest to you that the best games on the AtariBox won't hold a candle to the quality and quantity of the offerings in there. Atari is too late to the game, they have no software to offer other than warmed-over Flashback stuff, not to mention asking $300 for the privilege of being tethered to a television. Ouya runs on Android (which runs on Linux) and has a bunch of big names (seriously, their lineup is great -- and it's all made for the big screen and a controller), and we all know how that turned out. It's a big joke, but unlike Atari, they have the excuse that at least they were first. P.S. Here's a link to my full-throated defense of Ouya. I served with Ouya. I knew Ouya. Ouya was a friend of mine. Ataribox, you're no Ouya.

Hm. I don't want to contribute to your funky feelings, but I would like to impart a sanity check: 1. I don't think this sounds like the "world's first" anything. It's completely derivative and it's the opposite of "major." It wouldn't need crowdfunding if it were "major." 2. Linux is great, but anyone with the minimal skill required to set up and maintain a Linux computer can do this themselves. Seriously, it's click-to-run for most tasks nowadays, easier in many ways than Windows or Mac OS. These people do not have to wait for Atari to access what you call *far more content* -- check out https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/for just one easy to use repository. YOU don't have to wait for Atari, unless you trust them to deliver the "curated, optimized apps and games" that Bill references a few posts up. 3. Consoles are just little, locked-down, single-purpose computers. There's nothing particularly special about them, apart from the software ecosystem created around them. Something else occurred to me recently ... you know how popular things like the NES get cloned, scalped, hacked, imitated and copied? And how unpopular things like RETRO Magazine can't even be given away, and no one bothers to pirate it? NOT THAT I'M SAYING ANYONE SHOULD DO THIS, but it seems to me that Atari has given away enough proprietary-type information that someone could easily register a spoof AtariBox with the frankly bargain-basement IndieGoGo system with their logos and press material. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS, but such actions would harm the credibility of both the Atari company and the AtariBox project, and force their lawyers and public relations staff to waste resources on damage control. SERIOUSLY DON'T DO THIS, THERE IS ENOUGH DICKAGE ON THE INTERNET ALREADY. If Atari approached this with a bit more professionalism, this would be less of a risk, but that's a danger of attempting a "major" product launch on a 2nd-string crowdfunding platform. I think that's part of what bugs me about this. They've failen so very far. Also, speaker hat.

Radical Space Invaders was on the right track as well.

Sure, as long as your Atari 800 is blue and shaped like a trucker hat.

Because Speaker Hat, thats why.

Doh, the boss in Arkanoid Ray Force, Ray Storm, Ray Crisis Me, a terrible Windows release Fa, how youll go for this So-so mediocre turds LAN parties for big nerds, T for old tube television That will bring us back to DOH none of this rhymes or scans well because I lack patience and skill! This old song is big in my house since my kid recently saw a live performance of Sound of Music. If we look around Ill bet someone has already done My Favorite Things.

Exidy Flashback!

Popular, non-violent, long-playing games that don't require a ton of hardware to hold a kid's interest for a long time? Why not? Oh, except for the fact that they're already ported to every system in the universe, including portables like Vita/3DS and mobile like Android/iOS. I want a nice German noun that literally translates into "solution in search of a problem." I'm sure that exists!

Bill, you're such a tease. Maybe they will, maybe they won't ... in the meantime, their Sega and Atari handhelds have SD slots and TV out RIGHT NOW, and a person can run ROMs on computers and stuff.

They can just go on down to The Core Store!

There isn't going to be an SD card slot on the AtGames TV consoles, just the portables. The Sega one has a cartridge slot.

Now I'm confused. I thought you were talking about memory, in GBs, but you're talking about speed, in GHz?

YEAH They're recycling games, they're recycling the operating system, they're passing the cup to even fund this thing. Why would they write emulators from scratch?

That looks to be the PAP-KIII (mentioned by me a few posts up, with USA shipping link) in a different shell/box. I like the extras you received. Everything with a screen should come with a little carry pouch. Great review as always.

In the recent case of the GPD Win, the early adopters got early versions of the hardware, which were improved for the general retail release. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Not until Episode 9 of That Ataribox Saga. This is seriously funny stuff. Is that a video capture card I see in there? It had better. Retroarch runs on a potato. Here's my favorite RetroArch machine at the moment. RetroArch also runs nicely on the Raspberry Pi 3. How old is your computer, and WT actual F are you running Kaspersky? In my humble opinion, just based on what you've said, I suspect hardware is not the main problem there. 2GB is plenty for a machine like what Atari is proposing, but 4GB is more likely. The Raspberry Pi 3 has 1GB of memory. Retro games aren't particularly RAM hungry in my experience.

Ah, it's in the Revo line after all. I'm sorta-kinda keeping an eye on the Revo Cube, which seems like the same kind of thing a few years later. More power than a Raspberry Pi but smaller than a big-ol' PC, just like what it seems Atari wants to deliver.

How gross is the sideloading? If it's just click and run (like Android's option to allow other sources), it's no big deal, but if it requires hassle equivalent to softmod or jailbreak, ecccchhhh

Amstari, what is that and how old is it? Acer has a new thing called Revo coming, aimed at being a media center, but it looks like EVE from WALL-E, not a wifi router or Discman like your thing. They have so many products, it's hard to find info on older ones. I know of the Vivo minis, but they look different. Does it have a fan?