x=usr(1536)

Expect the company principals to bail out at $1.02, at which point it should return to its approximate worth closer to nil.

Would someone be kind enough to re-seed this? There are a few people all stuck at the same spot (but close to completion) on this one.

OK, I'm intrigued. Any photos of that floating around?

Last night, stopping in at our local carneceria y supermercado, I noticed something on the shelves I hadn't seen there before: I bought them out. Come the apocalypse, we will still have delicious spicy tacos.

Don't forget to toss in a dash of umlauts, acute accents, and circumflexes for that International flavour! ÿTárî is gonna rock you!

All I know is that if they port it to the one shown below, I'll buy one just to be able to play it.

Checking the earlier-referenced article re: the debut of the Ataribox, it looks like the following statement wasn't too far off from something I was theorising about earlier: "The Atari blockchain platform, online casino games using crypto-currencies are the very first stones of a unique construction, at the crossroads of Technology and Entertainment". I wasn't 100% correct, but was evidently close enough to get the gist of one of the things they're aiming for. But being right wasn't the point: trying to figure out which cockamamie directions Atariboxcorp, Inc. might try to take this thing was. They seem to be doing a fairly good job of figuring out exactly what those cockamamie directions are. But who needs a solid game plan when you've got buzzwords and social media?

Besides, we already have a thread for Sexiest Old Computer... That's the one for just looks

"GameStop - We're not Radio Shack! Well, yet, anyway."

Swing from vine to vine Then swim, run, jump, and save girl Oh crap a lawsuit

Cross road, cross river Beware the cars and gators Flies in home give points

I seem to remember buying a US Doubler for my 1050 from them, and possibly an RTC cartridge for my ST later on. Always had an ad in either Atari User or Page 6, from what I recall. Never got to visit their shop any time I was in the UK, though. Would love to see some photos of it if anyone has them floating around, though I imagine it mostly looks like a late-1980s computer store on the inside

Be a TV star Shoot everything that moves for Fabulous prizes

Thank you for that, and I have to admit that I feel slightly dumb for not thinking of it earlier - I had been using Atari800MacX as my emulator of choice on my desktop machine, but wrote it off about a year ago after it became increasingly incompatible with later versions of OS X. That caused me to not even think of the Windows / Linux versions as a possibility. Cool. Now to get on with the project

As this relates to Atari: Atari lost against Nintendo in court because Atari copied the 10NES chip in its enitrety and included it in its games. Color Dreams had no such problems because they simply circumvented it, and there were no legal grounds (such as the DMCA) for Nintendo to effectively fight that approach in court at the time. Look at it this way: On a long enough timeline, virtually all protection methods will be broken. The idea is to make that timeline long enough that there will be no value in eventually breaking it because the system that it was implemented to protect has no commercial value by the time that the protection is circumvented. It's a form of insurance for the hardware manufacturer: it buys them enough time to recoup their hardware and software development investments, make money from software licensing, and turn a profit in the market. Regarding consequences against pirates, bootleggers, or those releasing unlicensed software: any legal action would have to be financially worth pursuing and have a reasonable chance of bringing a victory in court. If those two conditions aren't likely to be satisfied, then other avenues (such as a cease & desist letter, or threatening to pull supplies of the original hardware and software from retailers who also carry bootlegs) may take place. And, again, this is an issue that has changed substantially over the last three decades. In a lot of ways, it's still being dealt with today: see console hacking as an example.

This. I don't how many times I've run into a situation that falls into the category of 'but it works over there', only to later find that there was a secondary issue going on that was causing or exacerbating the primary issue. Here's an easy test: swap the light sixers' power supplies between them and see if the problem follows from one machine to the other. If it does, you've got a possible PSU problem; if it doesn't, move on up the chain until you find it. Good luck!

Rotate, shoot, and fly Through all the solar system With kickass soundtrack

You big dumb bastard That coin is gone forever Logger is awful

More specifically: a Western Electric 500. Mine has a base made in (IIRC) 1954, casing from 1968-ish, and various handset bits from up into the '80s. Think I dropped a whopping $3 on it in the early 2000s at a garage sale. And yes, they will outlast the cockroaches. eBay prices for them tend to be completely stupid; there are still literally millions of them out there. Thrift stores and Craigslist are your best bet. Oh, and places that buy back old phone systems. People will toss anything in a box to get rid of it during an upgrade, and the phone system refurbishers don't want to bother with them. $10-$20 apiece and no more. They should be working for that price.

Remember that the 2600 is a system that came out in the 1970s and was in production into the 1990s. A lot changed in that time, because a lot of the issues surrounding copy protection and software piracy had to be worked out during the lifetime of the console. To answer your question: yes, but the laws surrounding piracy were much different from country to country than they are today. They did bring lawsuits against a few. Right, but remember: this is a system from the 1970s. Security features like that didn't really start to become common until the late 1980s, though there were various attempts at them before then. What really kept 2600 piracy at bay was the cost to do it until about 1983 or so. After that, the cost of the technology needed to copy 2600 games had fallen to a point where the investment required to do so was more realistic for the average bootleg operation. Brazil is an interesting case in that regard: massive import duties on foreign-made products in the 1980s caused a flourishing hardware and software piracy market. See this link for an example, but there are many more than that.

Definitely. Cow Bay is a good example of that: it was originally Stampede, developed by Activision. Someone ripped it off, renamed it to Cow Bay (evidently they didn't know that the word they were looking for is 'cowboy'), and repackaged it as their own work. It's absolutely a pirate game, as is everything else on the cartridge. If you're referring to this in the sense of how Nintendo required that all games receive their approval before being released for the system, then yes, this is correct. But the difference here (other than that Atari had no such requirements) is that one party took another party's work and repackaged it as their own. It's piracy (though I'd probably call it bootlegging, but that's splitting hairs). They function like DIP switches. Depending on how the switches are set, a different set of address lines are likely used.

Or if voltages are fluctuating on the light sixer but not the others.

Yep. And this is why the people who are actually making money from bitcoin mining at this point are the ones offering it as a service, but even that market is over-saturated. The thing of it is, this is exactly the sort of short-sighted, half-baked decision I could see Atariboxcorp, Inc. making based on their evident lack of planning or strategy for the Ataribox thus far - their thought process probably hasn't extended much beyond, "O HAY GUISE LETS DO SOME BITCOINZ LOL", but I can see where (as part of that blinkered thinking) they might try to integrate it into a business model. Still, I freely admit that I'm wargaming the scenario here. In all likelihood, they're probably just incompetent and latching on to buzzwords.

I'm a bit out of the loop with regards to the state of Atari 800 emulation these days, so apologies if this question is an oversight on my part - Googling the answer wasn't turning up the results I was looking for. What I am trying to find is an Atari 800 emulator that can pass a serial device attached to the host OS through to the emulator. I'd imagine that the emulator would have to have support for the 850 Interface or similar in order for this to work, which is fine, but I just don't know what's out there that might do this. If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated. FWIW, a Linux- or Windows-based emulator would be preferred.

I completely agree. But how many people actually read the EULA, or its small-print-on-the-box equivalent?