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  1. Posted

    3 minutes ago, x=usr(1536) said:

    8-tracks, man, 8-tracks.  And vacuum tube testers.  Put the two on the same retail floor and it's a formula for disaster.  I don't want to talk about it anymore.

    OMG, 8-TRACKS! I love those things! 😄

    I have 3 working players and 80 tapes >:D

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  2. Posted

    5 minutes ago, JBerel said:

    Ya gotta be about 50 to have actually had a real VCS when they were new and for sale in the store. You also had to deal with the smell of them nasty newfangled "Radar Range" cooking demonstrations with the eggs and chocolate cakes being cooked in the thing. Then ya had to try to talk over the sound of that dumb beach ball floating over the vacuum hose display. If you were lucky, you got to try out the Atari demo game before the sticky kid from down the block got his snotty hands all over it. Then ya had to avoid getting hit by the guy lugging his new Betamax cassette system out of the store while ya stood at the end of the isle trying to play combat. 

     

    Well.... uh.... I have memories of getting my VHS copy of Flubber jammed in my 13-inch TV/VCR combo unit, then my dad had to take the TV apart to get the tape out. o u o

    Also I remember when you had video stores, and you could rent entire consoles for a weekend. Hehe.

    And Pow-pow-power wheels and Tyco Video Cam were awesome... and Beetlejuice and Rugrats and Ren & Stimpy..... and.... and.... o u o lul.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    5 minutes ago, ColecoJoe said:

    Maths is hard, I think you're off by a decade or something :)

    omfg xDDD!!!!!! 

    My bad. LOL!

     

    EDIT: Well, he might be 50 by the time the VCS actually gets delivered to him.  o u o

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  5. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    4 minutes ago, Flojomojo said:

    No. The Frontier Developments matter was settled early last year. This kind of thing is in their financial reports. I wanted to give you an even more direct reference, but they're hard to read because they're financial reports, and because many of them are written in French. So despite all their other failings, this unpaid debt isn't one of them. It is evidence of their general shadiness and/or incompetence, of course. 

     

    IndieGogo recently updated their terms of service to say everything has to be filed through arbitration by an individual, no class actions allowed, $250 filing fee. I doubt there will be an attempt at a class action lawsuit, as the VCS backers barely seem organized enough to keep up with facts. 

     

    Ya think? 😄

     

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    This statement reminds me of Michael "Hands Not In Pants But Nevertheless Over His Head" Arzt talking about just one thing missing from their checklist. 😅

     

    I love how I just arbitrarily mentioned a "50-year old guy", and John is actually 50 (judging by his username, assuming that is his birth year). xD

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  7. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    I can only imagine some 50 year old guy that's completely computer IL-literate that backed the VCS.

     

    He will open the box, be wowed by the appearance of it. He'll get all excited and hook it up to the TV. He's going to turn the system on, see a nice little Atari boot screen, and then it will drop him into a Linux/Ubuntu desktop environment. He'll be like "huh? o.o;;" and try moving the joystick around to make something happen on-screen. The joystick won't respond, because the system is technically waiting for mouse/keyboard inputs instead. Then the guy will get pissed off and start mashing buttons angrily. Then he'll assume the system is broken and send it back to Atari for a refund. xD

     

    As for me? Well, I'll have fun with it because I actually really like Linux. ^u^

     

    But yeah, it will suck for those that just want to play some games from their youth.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    8 minutes ago, JBerel said:

    Also, these comments from Atari's latest news release strike me funny....

    Am I wrong to conclude that those comments clearly negate their last two "updates" as utter bullshit? By their own claim, the stuff shown at E3 was a fraud not even running on anything they were supposedly working on, as most of us suspected. And, the Antstream Arcade thing doesn't even have the slightest integration so there's nothing in place to provide any of the exclusive AntStream features they hyped in the last update. They have completely acknowledged none of the last two updates were true. I know cultists will contort that fraud into truth by suggesting their intent, but to those of us living in reality, those are called deliberate lies.    

    Yeahhh...... I highly doubt any of the UI menus we saw actually exist in any form. Sucks, because I actually particularly really liked the layout. If it was implemented, it would work really well I imagine. I could actually probably recreate something similar to it in Game Maker Studio 2, compile it, then replace explorer.exe with the executeable file of the menu I made, so it would actually fire up when the system boots up. LOL. That's basically what I did to make my custom built "Sega console" use LaunchBox as a UI. It's not hard to do in Windows.

     

    Also, for the record-- as much as the Ouya sucked ass, it actually made it to retail and it was a real product with its own UI. They had like $8 million, and you can tell they made good use of it. It just needed quite a few more bug fixes, then it could've been stellar.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    40 minutes ago, JBerel said:

    Clearly Rob's cheese done slid off his cracker a long time ago, but everyone involved is clueless. The one constant in all of it has been Fred and his corporate entity that exists for no other reason than to get license agreement checks and issue lawsuits. It's in their damn annual statements. Those kind of scumbag outfits only release funds under a pending lawsuit because all their activities are performed by lawyers in the first place. Feargal didn't get paid until he sued, Rob won't get paid until he sues, Kevin didn't get paid, the folks who designed the controller initially didn't get paid presumably. Do you see where all this is going???

     

    Backers may not get anything unless they sue, which is not likely due to the crowdfunding protections used by these scammers. They've openly wiped their ass with the Indiegogo terms from the start, and only complied with any of it to keep up the B.S. communications to paint the story they wanted. That much has been obvious through all their public actions with fraudulent videos, props and renders. I expect their entire effort has been deliberately half assed strictly for appearances, and they didn't have any motivation to really go through with this thing until there was some other legal precedent from other crowdfunded projects that convinced them their ass was hanging out if they didn't deliver something. That's still highly unlikely at this point. It just depends on which scenario has Fred less liable for financial losses.

     

    Sad, but true. 

     

    The thing that pains me about all this is, why not just make a good product that everyone likes? If they did, hell-- they'd be making way more than $3 million. Why even do this project if none of them give a shit about it? If you don't care about something, of course you'll half-ass it. LOL It's not rocket science. Most sane people would only want to pay for quality products. If you put out a product that's shitty, you're going to end up losing money-- simple as that. :P

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  10. Posted

    You know what's funny about all this? 

    I remember reading a recent article a couple months ago about the Sega Saturn, and it was an interview with a japanese ex-Sega employee that worked on the system (don't remember the guy's name).

    But he said something along the lines of, "it costs about $500 million to launch a game console". 

     

    So yeah, that's something to think about when you look at Atari's situation here......... think they have $500 million? LOL! 

     

    On a side note though, I'm actually kinda curious how much it cost Sega to do the Genesis Mini.

  11. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Nathan Strum said:

    Okay, I'm finally caught up. Pretty much everything has already been covered at this point. The jokes have been told. The memes have been memed. The tacos consumed. But here are a few takeaways:

     

    Nothing really surprised me about any of it though - maybe just that it's taken this long for someone to pull the covers back. I suspect it's more because the mainstream media doesn't really take Atari seriously in the first place or consider them to be newsworthy. IGN and most other gaming websites are picking up on it now though. Atari is going to have trouble spinning this one.

     

    Just kidding... they totally can't spin this one at all.

     

    More importantly, it wasn't even referring to the article itself - only to the questions they had sent to Atari. Implicitly, Atari is confirming everything in the article is correct.

     

     

    Blue masking tape. The hallmark of any quality development environment (I guess they couldn't afford electrical tape...):

     

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    Seriously though - do these boneheads not even know how to compose a photo without having something stupid in the background?

     

     

    Atari should go back to making T-shirts while they still can:

     

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    Might be a little long for a slogan. Kind of catchy though. I'd buy a hat with that on it.

    How about a speakerhat with that on it?

    And every time you turn it on, it says that phrase in a robotic voice very quickly. o u o

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  12. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Woulfe said:

    A documentry along the lines of this perhaps ? ( yes this really did happen under THIS version of Atari )

     

     

    I saw that video XDDD 

    You know what's ironic? Driv3r was actually one of my favorite PS2 games, simply because of how fucking crazy Survival mode is. LOL!

    I recommend that game specifically for that mode, because it's just way too funny to pass up xD

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  13. Posted

    45 minutes ago, Woulfe said:

    Stefan is easy to impress, a freaking light comes on " PROGRESS ! "

     

    P. S. I can make a light go on with a potato... Does that make a potato a game machine ?

     

    We really shouldn't be discussing tacos on this thread, but potatos! o u o

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  15. Posted

    11 minutes ago, PlaysWithWolves said:

    Is this how penny stock investing works?

     

     

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    Wow, that's just sad dude...

    I have a feeling Atari will be able to fulfill backer orders (and possibly any orders placed via GameStop and Walmart), but after that they'll pretty much go bankrupt and have to cease production. :P 

    Even with that prediction, I'm not actually fully confident I'll get my order. 

  16. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    It's admittedly pretty neat looking at the pictures of the molding process of how it's made. 

    Anybody know which Linux distribution that is in the picture where they're running GParted?

     

    Also, you know what will be freakin great? Visiting this topic on the VCS itself. xD

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  17. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    37 minutes ago, lingyi said:

    "You’re probably wondering what happens when you turn on one of our pre-production Atari VCS units. To be honest, while these machines boot up using our Atari BIOS, they operate more like a computer than a fully-functional game system at the moment. In other words, Atari Sandbox Mode is fully functional and the machines will play games beautifully through a standard Linux or Windows installation. The custom Atari operating system is functional, but various consumer-facing software elements like the front-end graphics interface we teased at E3, along with with our Atari VCS store framework and apps, including Antstream Arcade and other native entertainment and game applications, are still in varying stages of development and not yet ready to be shared or installed into these particular units. We have all of this working in other environments and it will be working in concert on the Atari VCS soon. We can’t wait to show it to the world because it all looks incredible. In fact, we are very much looking forward to hosting a series of hands-on preview events later in the fall for a select group of press and partners as soon as we are ready."

     

    So wait...the first units without the custom OS will "...operate more like a computer than a fully-functional game system at the moment. Ummm...what happened to the "Unconsole"?

    Is that literally what they said? Wait a fuck.... I have to see that... oh gawd-- (checks article) 

     

    EDIT: Yup... the article actually says that... LOL...

     

    Alright, well, looking at everything else-- I stand by what I've been saying: The hardware is going to be a lot of fun to play with, but there's no way this will ever be a viable game console against the big 3. Die-hard Atari enthusiasts who are also well-versed in computer hardware will probably get the most enjoyment out of this machine. In other words, an extremely niche audience. :P

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  18. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    14 minutes ago, Tickled_Pink said:

    Hmmm ... a photo of a prototype board appears to have been released. Looks like it uses a Ryzen R1000 APU.

     

    It's more powerful than a GameCube. That's good.

    Only one problem-- the GameCube apparently has more RAM xD

    That is unless of course the RAM chips are on the back...

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  19. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    3 minutes ago, Shawn said:

     

    That ballzerk game looks pretty good from the 2 videos I watched! The music in the game is well done too. The 2600 games (Bb I assume?) don't look to be as good as your IOS effort. If you are showing others in hope of getting them interested in your work I'd stick to showing off Ballzerk and not mention anything on the 2600 until you have something of the same quality of gameplay as that. 

    Thanks for the feedback dude! :3

    Yeah, I agree that my Atari 2600 games are probably not the best to showcase. I really just felt like I needed content for the website, and that's what I had. Lol.

    And yes, they were done in Visual bB. ;o

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  20. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    5 hours ago, Shawn said:

     

    I have signatures turned off so I don't see them. I've not seen any of your work or talk of it previously being released. What is the IOS game you made? Got a link so I could try it out or video of the game play?

    Sure! The game is called Ballzerk. :3

    Here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ballzerk/id1381234873

     

    My other Atari games are at www.megatoxic.com (thats my site). I did all of it myself really.

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  21. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    4 hours ago, Shawn said:

     

    What other games have you previously programmed and for what consoles? 

    I actually made a bunch of Atari 2600 games that you can find in my signature there, and I also made a smartphone game for Android/iOS. Game dev is mainly a hobby of mine, I don't do it full-time (though I'd love to XD). o u o

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  22. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    17 minutes ago, The Strangest said:

    What an absolute dork that Andrew Werner brother is:

     

    ”Take your 35 year old cartridges and your heavy sixers and cram them up your ***es.” - on another post on Facebook

     

    I don’t know what else I expect from someone with Pickle Rick as their profile photo.

     

    Lol, omg.... That's the guy that apparently replied to a comment I left under Atari's latest post. I wasn't really trying to attack Atari, but I laid the law down and said I wasn't designing a game for their console anymore. I never got to read his response to me because apparently it was removed before I saw the notification. LOL! xD

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  24. Posted · Edited by Lodmot

    54 minutes ago, MrBeefy said:

    See I may have an unpopular opinion. I think the board works. I think it will boot up and can handle things fine.

     

    However, I think their problem is with their OS. I think they don't have a working OS that isn't based off something like ES like Atari Dude's Atacoshoebox. That would be why they still are not showing it boot. Being dumb about not showing the RAM is just them making a stupid mistake. Remember don't even ask about graphics...

     

     

     

     

    I have a strange feeling you hit the nail on the head there-- I also don't believe they have a functional OS yet.

    Personally I actually always liked the look and layout of the mock-up GUI they showed off, even if it was fake/just a mock-up:

     

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