New Atari Console that Ataribox?

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

@ dragon If your trying to be cute at least try and know the guts of a laptop

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

I cant remember any life changing games from infocraps

 

I do remember a hand full of meh not awesome but not aewful games from that era

 

meanwhile in the real world

 

exactly 3 months into having a spare NES shell and a wild hare up my arse

 

 

OG NES shell

intel atom dual core at 1.8ghz

Geforce 210 graphics

DVI, VGA, HDMI, USB 3.0 yadda yadda yadda

512 gig mechanical drive

DVDR

802.11.n wifi

1GB wired network

Windows 7 pro

Retroarch

 

100% capable of running GTA 4, maybe borderlands at 30 fps

 

cost ... well under 3 million USD

and ataribawx shows a 3d printed mockup 6 months away after working on it since late 2017

 

using a generic cloud skin ... sigh

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

After working on this since 2017

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

never seen a 3d printed nvme drive before

 

So it looks like a completely blank dummy board with nothing but breadboard plastic, a laptop fan, random wires and plastic widgets simulating components.

 

That's exactly what it is

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

Why is there a wire coming out of the joystick?

 

there's a blutoof dongle at the end, most of the time in the industry its called a computer

 

but lets not bash them too hard, its not like a child could buy an ESP32 off a billion places for 5 bucks and have it running a bluetooth dongle using example code within 10 min of getting it (incuding installing the toolchain on the computer, er dongle)

 

oh wait, a child could do exactly that

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

This video is huge... it shows an actual working system, joystick, and assembled devices.

 

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Well heres the problem they have shown videos and pictures of things being played on the system for years now and its been shown to be faked

 

So with multiple fake videos abound what did they really show... Something in a 3d print a 3d print joystick that may do something and a front end which might could be something or just a skin

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

 

Wait a second..... IS THAT ACTUAL FOOTAGE OF THE SYSTEM IN ACTION?

Probally not

[Need Help Updating a Ten-Year Old PC (Dell Optiplex 745)]

also for point of reference spend as little as possible on this, just this january I scored the following for our new home office

 

HP 3rd Gen i3 running 3.3 ghz, 4GB DDR3 1600 ram no hard drive no os 50 bucks ebay

added 4 gb DDR 1600 ram 10 bucks

 

Added a old 256 gig hard drive I had kicking around, installed windows 8 OEM since that is what the computer came with and upgraded to windows 10 using install creation tool from MS

 

boom there's a 60$ 3.3 3rd gen i3 fully supported out of the box with windows 10, slap something like a radieon RX570 in there and your sub 200$ playing PS4 level games

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-Pro-4300-SFF-Core-i3-3220-3-3ghz-2gb-Ram-No-Hard-Drive-DVD-RW/233179366574?hash=item364a92c4ae:g:woMAAOSw7xxcmjMQ

 

not same seller but just an example

[Need Help Updating a Ten-Year Old PC (Dell Optiplex 745)]

 

What is the exact model number of integrated graphics as some of the older integrated graphics are not supported and won't even work with the recent Windows 10 releases except as a generic vga.

 

For example Intel HD Graphics 3000 (released Jan 2011) is not supported and the Windows 7 drivers will not work with recent Windows 10. If your PC is 10 years old it's very unlikely the integrated Intel Graphics will not work other than generic vga (640x480 with only 16 colors).

 

just for the record a detailed datsheet is provided by the op in the first post and it is in fact a

 

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000

 

so windows 8 was the last supported OS for that ... good catch

[Need Help Updating a Ten-Year Old PC (Dell Optiplex 745)]

we use similar computers at work for test stations, they do 1080 fine all day long, if your instant you can get a gefore 710 for under 30 bucks

 

I did something similar to my garage computer, its a old dual core (AMD but whatever) that had a thousand year old geforce intergrated graphics and it would bog down doing like full screen comcast streams or cad work so I slapped a el cheapo card in it... but that machine is like a 2006 maybe 2007 cheap as possible board ... with the intel graphics of a c2duo you should not have an issue with it

[Playdate: A new handheld console- with a crank?]

It's true there's not much comparison with GameBoy, I was just pointing out that $150 isn't all that much money nowadays

 

 

well 150 bucks can get you a 1 trick toy, or a 3d printer, its still a chunk of money if you choose to piss it away

[Doom On The NES Hack]

How is that different from Tetris running on a Super Game Boy?

 

the SGB was using better hardware to run a game designed for a lesser system

 

this uses a modern computer to run the software and the NES is nothing more than a video passthough device

 

now again its still neat, but its not any more neat than the recent demo's of AVI files running though an NES, but saying doom is running on a NES in this case is just as equal as saying doom is running on a VCR ... just cause I passed a signal to it from a 1ghz multicore computer

[Doom On The NES Hack]

its not running on a NES its running on a ras pi and dumping the video into the framebuffer

 

neat yes, but its just using the NES as a video pass though, its not doom running on a NES, its doom running on a PI with a complex data stream to composite adapter

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

anyone notice the google stadia controller

 

 

of course its a different shell but just more proof that generic controllers can be had all day long

[8th gen core i3 ok for emulation?]

Ya it would be fine if your going to use shaders you might want to consider throwing a low end nvidia or amd card in the mix

 

Intel integrated graphics are leaps and bounds what they were but are still not that awesome

 

I have a dual core atom with an onboard geforce 210 it will run n64 at 720p (maybe 1080 the tv is only 720 and I haven't tried another tv)

[SNES Solder Type Cartridge Slot Replacement]

You are going to havw a very hard time finding a 1:1 replacement as it was a custom defined part that stopped being made decades ago

[willis]

Bought a handful of carts

 

Arrived well packed, good price, great communication

 

100%

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

Its ok sometimes

[32blit The open, retro-inspired, handheld console for creators]

152 dollars! I was writing bad lua games on a 333mhz psp a decade ago

 

This is in the "mildly interesting toy" department not buy an off lease laptop department (which has plenty of programming resources)

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

Someone else (not from Nutari) is actually doing this.

 

shoot I am almost done shoving a generic pc inside a NES and I didnt start ordering parts until 2nd week of April

 

 

and that picture was from first week of may

[Dremel - which tool?]

here is what I use

 

 

its a miniature 4 flute carbide end mill made for cutting circuit board material, you can find similar online, I get them from work ... Our CNC's that we use to depanel PCB's spit them out after X many of feet cutting so they wont start to get dull and burn / melt the fiberglass

 

tween that and breaking (cause they are brittle cause carbide) we always have handful's of them, and they are still sharp, maybe just not sharp enough to whizz though PCB material at 20mph (the one in that picture was cutting cast iron last time I used it)

 

PS: I never use a power tool to "cut to the line" I just get kind of sort of close and then break out the files

[Dremel - which tool?]

1.6mm Pcb router bit

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

 

How many could you do if you were given, and I'm just using a random figure here, a little over 3 million dollars?

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[New technique for whitening yellowed plastic]

I live in Queensland, with excess sun here, more than I like. I just hope this process won't warp my case.

 

yes 100% yes it is a real concern if you live in an area where the sun gets INTENSE might I suggest putting it in a water bath to prevent that (never had warping issues with liquid retrobrite formula's in the south east USA August sun, where its so narsty your grass turns to dust)

 

I set some 5 mm accrylic out in the sun one day just to see what it would do and it started to make a 90 over the deck rail by the end of the day, you dont want that messing with a thin, old ABS part that's hard to replace

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

Which confuses me why they didn't just make what I've said they should have made from the beginning... a flashback on crack with a deluxe case. It would have been technically feasible, is proven marketable, and has existing distribution channels. The fact that Atari didn't go that route proves they have the business acumen of a methhead in a casino parking lot.

 

they have yet to shove a generic pc into a plastic box, I have done 3 in the same amount of time for a cost of 200 bucks each just since last summer