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Probably a dumb question but can it be sold along with Zaku together or is that game being handled/sold via different folks?

I don't remember arcade Atari Basketball using Trak-Balls but I certainly remember arcade Atari Football using them. Now that would be a definite improvement to the 2600 version... Retroactively suck it, George Plimpton!

Yeah, but who didn't use their thumb on top of their CX40 joysticks? Of course, if you started out with the CX52 joystick or the 7800 ProLines, I could see such an issue...

Pics or it didn't happen. And if a wire is supposed to be soldered for audio, I wonder how that's worked with Atari 8-bit computers that already had the Dual POKEY mods performed on them. Is your 5200 a 2-port or a 4-port? If a 4-power, has it already been A/V and power modded?

The Silver and Gold chips are definitely of interest but they wouldn't have been used in an A8. From what I gather, the Amiga's graphics chip was more powerful than RAINBOW was but Curt can comment on that authoritatively. My question would be whether RAINBOW was less powerful than Atari Corp's/Shiraz's SHIFTER which ended up in the ST. Leonard Tramiel has expressed a lot of disappointment [on Facebook] in how the AMY turned out, bogged down in that legal case with Sight+Sound apparently trying to steal/creatively acquire it.

QUAD POKEY! The arcade folks certainly need them and that chip is long overdue in being connected to A8s, 5200s, and 7800s... Atari Inc should've at least slapped a Dual POKEY into the XL line back in the day. Granted, Commodore ruined everything with their price war.

For the record, the 3D Printed Ones that are available are not actually scanned from the Real McCoy. They are estimates of what they should've been.

I'd definitely vote for Space Invaders and Galaxian for Paddle versions. Spider Fighter. Maybe Mega Mania.

The Atari 5200 had the sales momentum and was projected to outsell the Colecovision at the time Warner order Atari to discontinue the 5200 in favor of the 7800. Had Atari Inc. stayed together and not been broken up into pieces in July 1984 and had released the 7800 at Christmas 1984 as originally intended, it would've killed off the Colecovision outright and prevented Nintendo from gaining any ground outside of Japan. They would've then followed up with the 16-bit Amiga Lorraine chipset based console - codenamed "Mickey" - at Christmas 1985. It would've been a completely different outcome. As for pontificating on the Atari crash, a lot of folks in here should read Atari Inc - Business is Fun instead of rehashing discredited info and legends.

Arcade video games were a strong force from 1972 to the late 1990s when economics killed it. That's almost 3 decades. Not a fad there, home slice.

You'd have to turn it sideways then so the buttons are basically on top of each other. We had a Wico for the 5200 modified like that at one of the local shows a few years ago; certainly made it better...

How much ST RAM does the HxC software occupy, or is it running off the drive's own memory? Goteks are definitely cool. I'm surprised people haven't sampled the sounds of a real Atari disc drive to add to it so it plays them when the drive is accessed through the optional external speaker... On second view, the load time on that seems slow. Then again, that hardware is from 2010. I guess the more modern Goteks are faster than the earlier HxC hardware...

So, is the kernel to Crossbow too busy to, say, add native Trak-Ball support to it?

I think even though there were more Atari 8-bits and 5200s sold than the Jag, the idea of collecting consoles was firmly established by the time the Jag died so there might be more "preserved" and out in the wild today than there are 5200s, or even some of the older Atari 8-bits. But homeslice is beyond being high thinking a commercial homebrew game on cartridge for the Atari 8-bit computer line would outsell the same title on cart for the 5200. The 5200 is a console; consoles for cartridges will always outsell cartridges for computers. By his logic, one would think there'd be a ton of homebrew game cartridges released for the C64 because it allegedly still has a larger active retro user base than A8, yet hardly any carts are released for it...

I'm having problems finding it on the net. They do rave about it over in the Apple II group over on Facebook; it appears it's built in Russia based upon the cyrillic lettering of the person's name who posts there... Here's a readily-available 4MB upgrade from a different vendor: https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/ramworks-iiii/ I wanted to distinguish the 6502 based Apple II line versus the 65816 Apple IIgs because it's rather "easy" to have 16MB upgrades for 65816 based systems in comparison...

Hmmm.... my Lite Sixer from Christmas 1980 couldn't run any copy of Air Sea Battle. Does that count?

IBM Power 8 isn't dead. It's just not coming to a desktop anytime soon. ARM is ultimately going to crush everything unless China embraces, I dunno, MIPS or Power 8, and then in an effort to control their entire domestic market, adopts it in order to spite Intel/AMD and ARM... Hell, China could go BSD for the very same reasons mentioned above. You just don't know, especially with perceived inevitabilities.

Perhaps it was covered by Atari Explorer Online back then... I think that's how I found out about the ICD CatBox, monitored its development process, and successfully purchased and received one before ICD met its inglorious end...

It seemed pretty weird to me why they'd stick a port on there and not write a driver for it unless Apple hit them up with a C&D over alluding to potential AppleTalk compatibility. I think it would be a worthwhile project. After all, a lot of Atari ST/TT/Falcon enthusiasts also ended up with Macs due to Atari Corp's demise. Getting them all to work together over an AppleTalk network would be pretty cool.

Go for 8MB because the Apple II scene is getting way too uppity ever since they got their 8MB upgrade solution*. *Only counting 6502-based Apple II models, not 65816-based IIgs models....

That's the one!

True, but they'd be so much better with native Trak-Ball support... Alien Brigade-TB and Crossbow-TB...

Those would've been fighting words with Sam Tramiel back in 1995. You should've seen his eyes pop out in anger at me at the Shareholder's Meeting when I questioned him about how much of a true Highlander fan he was for having licensed the rights to the relatively unknown-and-unloved animated series instead of the mega popular live-action tv series at the time... Good times!

Not to stir the pot but everyone's least favorite online living example of a walking personification of pathological lying and weaponized autism attacked all of these conversions, AtariAge, and Cyrano Jones in multiple postings in one of the Atari 8-bit groups on Facebook last week. The other moderators kindly removed the lying individual's moronic comments. It was most unfortunate to not have grabbed screen captures of the hilariously stupid comments but in summary, they spoke to how *all* ST-to-Jaguar conversions are [allegedly] piracy, how the Jaguar scene is a waste of time [because Atari 8-bit is where it's at!], how Sloth himself called out Cyrano Jones, how there's far more demand for commercial Atari 8-bit game cartridges than there is for commercial 5200 game cartridges, and how Video61 *totally* outsells AtariAge... Seriously, how hard is it for a third-party to get someone institutionalized in the UK? Do we need to set up a Kickstarter/GoFundMe/Patreon to get this done?

I wonder what Jimmy Hotz thinks about that other company that appears to be using his ideas and selling their own keyboards... forget their company name but I've seen their videos on Facebook and billing their tech as "revolutionary" nearly 30 years after Jimmy Hotz did it first.