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They're the same, it will work. I have one power adapter hooked up and would switch between them for these exact two devices. Haven't played with them for a while, but I remember that the timing on the ColecoVision emulation is wrong. It generally runs a bit too fast.

Probably referring to Atari Flashback collections on Xbone and PS4 ... ... and later on, Switch and Vita. They seem to have moved on to big arcade machines now.

I think it depends on how badly you feel you "need" it. I have some stuff like that which could fetch some money on eBay if I bothered to fish it out, test it, clean it, and list it. Or actually use it. In my case, I would be better off without it. Emulation/FPGA is good enough for me, because I'd rather have nice new hardware to play the old games. In your case, I would pick the nicer of the two for actual use, then clean/test the other one and wrap it up nicely in storage. After a reasonable amount of time, you'll have a better sense of whether or not you "need" to keep a spare. Or maybe even the first one. I think there's such a thing as getting this stuff out of your system if you want to make room for new things (either physical things, or other ways to spend limited time/attention/money).

Thanks @nurmix These are for using the 2014 Flashback controls on old consoles, right? If I wanted the FB controls on USB, I'm looking for something different, correct? Either way I appreciate you making more of these things!

Yes. Also the same as the Atari Flashback 5 from the same year. I'm pretty sure they all run on the same hardware.

I'm glad other people are preserving old hardware, because I sure don't want to. I like looking at it, learning about it, and if I had unlimited space and time (and love for the old hardware) I would get into flash loaders and stuff. I'm the worst.

Oh, I'm not sure about that. CDs maybe. Floppies would need compatible hardware. Is there something in particular you want to try, or is the goal just "run a whole bunch of stuff on my beige boxes?" Loading stuff over a network might be easier than futzing around creating media. Old-time Mac networking is quirky but simple, especially if you have an Ethernet port.

Yes you can (and should) use an emulator. They're just files. This should tell you enough to get going. https://macintoshgarden.org/guides

But a gaming ready PC, with its own screen, and sufficient storage would not have the ATARI name on it. The beloved iconic brand is BACK, baby. Making an UN-CONSOLE for the first time in almost 25 years. They were the BEST and it's in their DNA, man. Only ATARI will bring the real WOOD and if you don't SUPPORT them (and their MOM-friendly Netflix app), you're just a HATER. Just wait til e3, they'll show us how it's done! Pong! Breakout! ALL THE HITS. A passion project with retro style but not retro specs! You'll be happy you waited! Bomb-diggety! Stay tuned! They really want this to happen!

Still cheaper than the "other guy's" t-shirt, even after 25% discount.

Do you think they'll show something that one couldn't play on the Switch?

Those early computer stores dried up decades ago, GameStop is lucky to have lasted this long. They need a unique draw (events seem like a cool way to do it), but they also need to bring in some money. What does GS offer that the box store doesn't?

From back in the days when it was a comfort to play for a long time, since the arcade demanded money from you: SPACE HAWK, just like you. It was fun until it wasn't. It becomes a snooze quickly enough.

It takes patience and stamina to rack up high scores in Astrosmash. I like the little sticker, that's a cool idea. I don't remember my high score, but you can definitely run that game until you don't want to play any longer, through many different background colors. I don't think the score rolls over like Atari Asteroids (apparently it just gets corrupted) but I'm not completely surprised someone kept playing until 1990. I should look for my USENET selloff of my Intellivision collection which was some years after then. I think I only wanted like sixty bucks. Doh. That overlay makes me a little uncomfortable. I kept my stuff in very nice shape. Think Bert crossed with Felix Unger. But the one time I had an acquaintance over, his LONG FINGERNAILS just wrecked my Cloudy Mountain overlays. SO PISSED. I wouldn't have had much patience for a teething baby at that age, or for a long time to come. You were smart to keep your distance.

Next time you post a stool sample, can we get a spoiler/NSFW tag, please? That one had nuts in it and everything. 😸

GameStop's Concept Stores Of The Future Are Very Sad and

That was the defining moment but it would take a while for the tipping point to happen. Microsoft and Blackberry and Palm were still in the game at that point, and people like Steve Ballmer were saying people wanted physical keyboards. Early Android devices had hard keyboards. Even the Kindle e-reader did for several years.

That's overly facile. 2007 iPhone sucked in many ways, especially with its EDGE (2G) data and limited browser. 🤓

Remember how rare it used to be to see someone on a PDA out in public? Much less playing a game on something like that? I remember when Blackberry users had to be a bit discreet so as not to come off as a douche. There's probably a dividing line in time somewhere in the last 14 years or so where it became perfectly normal for everyone, from every walk of life, to be staring at a phone in public. It was at that point that we started to live in the future. 😸 Yet many of my neighbors still get newspaper delivery. Dead trees, thrown from a truck. Somehow that seems even more backwards to me than the limited-by-today's-standards Palm and PocketPC PDAs.

I'll probably get one once they're not a hassle to find. Hardkernel says next shipment in May. This guy, whose opinion I respect, says it's the one to beat. https://obscurehandhelds.com/2020/02/the-odroid-go-advance-has-a-long-journey-ahead/

GP32 was a handheld game, like the Dingoo, Canoo, PocketGo, ODroid, GameBoy, Lynx, etc. I would group Ngage with game players even though it had a phone on it. I would define PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) as something that: - has a business function as primary reason to exist (calendar, address book, calculator) - Doesn't have a cellular voice function - Needs to sync with a bigger computer for updates and content, usually over a wire/dock or sometimes with a slow archaic method like infrared - Uses an obsolete, small capacity external storage like compact flash - Does not have native internet capability without an expensive add-on and/or a metered plan that at best only shows WAP versions of websites - generally does not have dedicated game controls except by accident, uses stylus or keyboard for data entry (Zodiac is an exception here) Crossovers exist.The old data-only Blackberry would be a PDA, but they later added voice functions, making it more of a crude smartphone. I always thought it should be able to play text adventures, MUDs, or Nethack, but nope! I think PDAs have been dead since the smartphone came along. When was the last non-phone Palm or PocketPC device? Well before 2010 I would think. iPhone and Android were not fully untethered from a computer at first; they needed to sync a lot too. It was an interesting transitional time but I don't miss that old tech at all. It has a certain charm, like a big-wheeled pennyfarthing bicycle, but not something I want to use.

Or simple incompetence.

Yellow on top, white on the bottom. Like the nerdiest Coppertone ad ever. I wouldn't expect it to be worth much, especially if it is missing a part.