MrMaddog

I remember seeing seizure warnings in NES game manuals back in the 80's so yeah they were known (in America at least).

Yeah, you used to buy those things in a batch but the pandemic & chip shortage screwed things up. I must have bought the last of them from Best Buy back in 2022, so now I'm using it as a multi-use computer by booting off different flash drives (think PC Mode on the VCS). Amazon now sells them but they ain't cheap... ;(

Not only that but the link in the OP repeated the Axios article word for word...does no one on the Internet care about plagerism anymore!?

Yes I know I shouldn't be reliant on closed off consoles but find anything else to use for Moonlight because RPi's are still rare to buy...

I was actually using my Xbox One as a Home Theater PC... In addition to console games I had video streaming, UWP apps (like AccuWeather) and used the web browser for watching local weather forecasts. But after MS dropped support for Cortana so Alexa can be used instead I switched to a Fire TV Cube instead. Better to have a mixed ecosystem where everything works together than to be totally dependent on a single company that eventually drops support on a whim... I planned on using Moonlight to stream PC games to my Xbox but they shut down support for unofficial apps, so now I have to use Dev mode assuming they won't also shut that down too. I'd actually considered replacing my Ubuntu PC with a PS3, use it to play moderen FPS games like Unreal Tournament III while switching to Other OS for desktop stuff. Glad I never gotten a PS3 after Sony's legal shenanigans, I would not even buy a current Playstation console from them now.

I already have a Steam PC (and Xbox) but might have to get a Switch just to be able to play Japanese games, because there's not many Japanese studios making PC games except for Capcom plus whoever makes visual novels. Oh, by Japanese style games I meant like retro type stuff (ie. Ninja Saviors) that's only available for Playstation or Switch.

I'm glad Atari is buying back the IP's they sold off when they were trying to get funds to make the VCS...because now they have more content for the VCS that they should have kept in the first place.

Hate to say it but Atari BASIC is a terrible way to learn BASIC for other systems. The fact you have to make DIM statements for every single string varable alone makes it a pain to translate to different computers that use the Microsoft BASIC dialect. I remember a student from my college programming course tell the teacher why he has a hard time running the examples in the book on Atari BASIC and she menitoned the sting DIMming. That's why Atari had to release a seperate MS BASIC on disk for the 8-bits and I even had to use ST BASIC for my first programming course in college which teaches structured programming in MS BASIC.

Is there a dump of the Mr. Camaro version? That would be the only way to play PQ Party Quiz on an emulator which doesn't "do" the original controllers. (Yes I know it's not a great way to play a party game with more than one person but whose gonna crowd around a laptop anyway?)

Looks like a 3D version of Paperboy.

So how do you explain the existance of the Donkey Kong (and Jr.) Super Game prototypes made for the Adam?

That's a man's body but Whittaker ain't got the balls to tell the truth... 🎤 Dropped...

I'm surpised Coleco hadn't tried to make 5200 games like they did for the 2600 & INTV, especially it's dead easy to bypass the Atari copyright screen. Hell even Atari made ColecoVision games under their AtariSoft label...

Even with quotes the search engine still uses a stupid form of autocorrect so that's why there's less results being return. Thanks Google, enjoy your ad revenue while forgetting about the very thing that made you exist in the first place...

Atari SA (*) has been doing this for a while and no surprise it's a huge loss for the company along with their crypto-schemes. What's sad is they were trying to get the same retrogaming collectors who spend hundreds of dollars on "rare" physical 8-bit/16-bit carts...always gonna be people who have more money than brains buy into this stuff. (*) - Thank goodness Atari is now under new and hopefully sainer management...

Any Zelda style game would have been nice to have on the 7800. And don't say Midnight Mutants cause that game's too complex...

The 400/800 carts can run on PAL systems but slightly slower and a more squat screen, much like European Mega Drive games Sega made. If you never played the NTSC version you wouldn't notice (except for NES games which were too slow). The Atari 8-bit games that were originally made by Europeans have to use PAL because they employ programming tricks that are only possible to do on 50Hz displays. On NTSC computers the display gets garbled up. Something to keep in mind when using emulators...

A five star rating for a case that was impossible to win!? Jane picked the wrong lawyer...

Update: Moonlight on Xbox only works in Dev Mode now since Microsoft banned "unauthorized" apps like emulators in Retail Mode (at Nintendo's bequest of course...)

Believe me, had money been no object I would have loved to get a Mega STe along with a Mac emulator. But I was still happy with my 1040 STe which got me through college...

Very good question! Especially when said native Linux games from the VCS can be played on Steam Deck w/o all that Proton malarky...

Yep! The programmer said he did the game for the 2600 first and then added improved graphics for the 7800 "remaster". Makes since since the ST based SKU makes both 2600 & 7800 games. Now to figure out why the same devs port 7800 games over to the XEGS, same 6502 code but the XE graphics are different from the 7800's. Same analogy as the current PC vs. console platforms?

I remember making something like once to see how a "VCS" inspired Xbox controller would look. Just wish there was a way to save and share the pics with others.

But will someone at Atari actually make the time and effort...?

Like I had said in that video's comment section... The "old" Atari SA games only run in Windows and unless Atari gets Valve's Proton layer working on the Linux-based VCS, then you have to run Windows & Steam on the VCS.