Osgeld

I got a 100mhz thinkpad works fine but its a bit beat up 100mhz pentium, 48 mb ram, 1.4gb hard disk active matrix lcd but its got some rot going on around the edges but its not totally gone and its not seeming to be getting worse in the 3 years I have had it floppy and 4x cd rom, but they share a bay ESS audio drive, no battery its got 98 on it now but I can put 95 ill get pictures as soon as i get the baby off my lap

growing up C64 wasnt really a thing around here so playing big epic type games on the high res apple II (on the old green screen, I only ever recall seeing one color screen on a actual setup) or 3d tic tac toe on the C64 there was no comparison. And yes its funny, people back in the day spent a shit ton of cash to buy a computer that was only used as a sub par game system, and ... not actually a computer, no wait the opposite. The only reason we had a computer was to run my dad's biz on, and he never really like the idea of it being a game machine, that is what the colecovision was for. IMO the whole campaign for "its a toy that jimmy can do homework on, come on down to toys r us or kmart today!" was tat

yea the year or so tween the launch of the 3d0 and the PS1 yea it was the best 32 bit 3d cd console that costs as much as a neo geo genration 😛

there were some disks that had 2 versions on it, like c-64 on one side and Apple II on the other, but that was the exception, not the rule

technically you need a "drive" as pi's don't come with storage "out of the box" unless you're one of the people that buy a kit with a 25$ pi 8.99 power supply, a 2$ case, and a 5.99 16 gig sd card for 129$ (+ postage)

Bought this new old stock a couple years ago used it for maybe an hour tossed it in the pc parts bin (so it does have some tumbling in the drawer marks) It was one of the do cheap o's BITD but it works (the pc I sold at that time got a decent logitech oem that I bought after this one got lost in the mail for a month) 5 bucks mailed

not as good as the original but a good effort ... unlike the VCS 🖕👌

yea that is what I was thinking, its complex, doesnt matter if you have a 16TB hard drive, its a hard system to deal with considering its from the ground up design ... not saying its the hardest system do develop for, its just the least understood and its defiantly like driving a pro dragster on the highway

fixed that for you

disparaging really? get a grip, its a game console announced in 2017 that still hasnt been seen in the wild and what do you expect

I have tried blue-tak on them before, it doesnt last long. in the past I stick them in their own container and stir frequently

realistically case parts dont float that much, just poke it with a stick every hour or two, its the damn keycaps that cause you hell cause they always want to go belly up floating case parts not that big of a deal, they are more or less wet and exposed to light, just want to keep them wet

no, removing 4 screws wont void your warranty, at least in the US, they made that unenforceable and companies can face fines if they try

lack of contact with liquid where the glass is touching

yes everyone should hate *insert current version of windows here for reasons that the vast majority of people really don't give a shit about* that does beg the question, if I can get a thin client running windows (ffs windows 10 for pi is free isnt it) how come a "big name" like atari can't strike a deal? Long-dong or OneHung-Lo managed to do it, and have been able to do it for years now off of aliexpress

slap some wood grain vinyl on its top and call it a day, think I paid 8 bucks for the stuff I got to be used for interior car trim and it was enough to do an entire icade

But they are competing with Microsoft Sony directly, Joe consumer wants a game console, and has 300$ in his pocket, here is his choices XBOX One X, 299$ Nintendo Switch lite, 250$(ish) Playstation 4, 299$ Atari VCS, 299$ Yea OK where's the list of software, we know the vault, but you can get the vault on every single platform that has existed since it came out and ...?

except you ignore the fact that there are a pile of (even more powerful) consoles on the market that do exactly that, and you can go to any local reseller and buy one right now today, plug it in and get AAA games, indy games and all your media center needs fulfilled with a simple to use plug in tv box for the same price atari isn't exactly inventing the home media center console here, they have been out for 2 (going on 3) generations now

depending on the size your local hardware store might have them, otherwise off to the interwebs

why? do you think every barn find is going to be fully restored to perfect before shoved out the door? It will sell cheap and someone who cares can clean it rather than someone who doesnt hits the outside with a pressure washer and satisfies your twitch

400$ would buy me... A video card upgrade for my gaming pc (and the one I have now doesnt exactly suck, its just rather budget today) + A cheap electric power washer + a meat smoker + meat to put in it for a nice bbq with a couple bucks left over for a soda and a candy bar from work's vending machines

I also would love to discuss the Ataribox and its merits, but the thing is just a embedded computer in a special box that doesn't exist, and that has not changed since they announced the damn thing in 2017. But I guess that's our fault.

The fire buttons would still be plunger types looking at something more like a keyboard type of switch for those Thanks for the heads up on the solder comnectors I have never ran across one without the terminals

I have found some moderate success with some drop in tacticle switch joystick controller boards for atari 2600's ... almost 1,000 sold world wide in 2 years and still selling out and getting new stock notification's Would anyone be interested in a similar concept for CV (my first console ever)? It would not be as cheap as the 2600 version just cause of the diode matrix, pcb size and side acting switches, but pretty darn cheap what you would get is a board with Connector for stock keypad 4 brand new almost clicky tactile switches 2 clicky trigger switches Similar to the 2600 boards just take the controller apart, remove old PCB, replace with new PCB and screw back together no cutting, modding, sanding or other irreversible things, just drop in, plug wires up and start playing Just feeling things out before I dive too deep in this rabbit hole just for reference ...