Osgeld

in today's technology it cost about 45$ in hardware to launch a saturn Atari had 3 million to make a generic content consumption device and 2.98 million left over to work on marketing / software ... but they didn't pay the bills

Whats up with that rats nest of bodge and debug wires hanging out its ass

I agree, its really not THAT hard to make even a last moment X86 SBC computer board that (can) function (not well and crash every 9 min but it "works") software is a son of a bitch so while people are wondering if ram is backside (hint its not a dimm socket, they are not making them without though hole mounting post, so its either integrated or non existent, both being a lie) im sitting here thinking, yea grats, you took a reference design and its DRC file, moved shit around and verified its less than X% in violation and had it quickturned about 1.5 years late software is a son of a bitch on this level, your not dealing with an arduino anymore so grats atari, if you do infact have a final design just now entering DV (design verification) your at least a proper 4-6 months of headache, PV (production verification) an additional 3-4 months, and the entire thing is based on a software ecosystem, in which we get an ISO of a playstation 2 archive and a generic linux ... made by whom? oh yea and a webstore to rival what...? if they had a web ecosystem that shit would have been on android, IOS, steam and my toaster a long time ago ... its "nutari" who failed to launch a shovelware game on fuckin nintenfo, the king of cheap gimmicks and shovelware ~osgeld~ IPC certified circuit board designer, EE , and before that IT / Software monkey for almost 20 years

They are aware that Atari is a word and not just a name right? For all they know were all playing board games

Numbers are hard

We own our emc chamber and a couple months is still a fast track and nothing as complex as a computer Even if it passes everything and works perfectly on development board(s) they still have a steep hill to climb to produce anything in quantity ... Should be interesting to see how this floats

holy jeez they might have a one off board 2 months before shipping to backers, if that's the case, bout fukin time

xbone and ps4 are not making sandbox mode as one of their selling points might I add, I have no idea how you modern console guys keep it straight, with names like xbox one x pro new U II VR 4 lite every 6 months, I kind of gave up on it back when playstation 1 and N64 games started listing system requirements on the back of the box

but I don't even have a basement...

given past performance, bumming money off of people to fund a company, 2.3 years since announcement, no absolute updates, no proof of software, no proof of hardware, fake videos, blatant lies, proven slightly above crude 3d prints as production model's for what 4 industry shows and NOW complete radar silence seriously what do you think? that's like on day 342 of this shit show, figure it out already, my stupid tv's bezel doesn't morph with my finger, oh that's right, its real

yep I work in h-ville and there's 2 great taco shops within a few min of work anyway after almost a decade, nice to meet a fairly new local PS check out game eXchange in rivergate if you havent already, its almost always buy one get one free on 2600 games

There's a 2 places in our neck of the woods that looks almost identical to that, Tennessee seems to be having a "real deal" street style taco boom cause even a few years ago it was name brand corn shells with american cheese

my pc all in was (just) under 700$ not including screen mouse or keyboard, in reality it was about 400$ out of pocket, but the 300$ difference was I built it when video cards were knuts in prices, but I got it for free thanks lifetime warranty on old video card that served me since 2012 one could build the same spec (not custom work) pc for about 400$ today thanks to video card prices and ryzen 3 cpu's being out Ryzen 7 2700 overclocked to 4 GHZ all 8 cores 16 gigs (3.2ghz) ram 500 gig pci express nvme drive 1TB spinning hard drive AMD Radieon RX570 super duper over clocked with windows 10 effin DVD drive, ever try to find a pc case with a dvd drive slot that doesnt look like its the black edition of a windows 98 era pc??? Dremel + home depot solved that for me lol

not even that powerful, it was indicated to use a embedded ryzen so think in terms of Intel Atom, which paired with a graphics card (or in AMD's Case APU) can in fact run a 2012 title in "hd" (hd being a bare minimum of 480p MAYBE 720, considering a low end R3G desktop APU can barely do rocket league at 720 medium) at a respectable framerate so at the bare minimum someone googled or watched a youtube video or 2

Final burn neo happens to play about 25% of the games I like, with the last version I tried it couldnt load even basic games, and no capcom ... which is odd that wasnt that long ago, like last winter, least on the X86 build which gets you right down the shit lined rabbit hole, X works great on platform Y but dennis quit and now tylor and jane are developing the arm version , but arron and bill are working on the new X86 version and no one documents anything so 50/50 shot, best review is from 2015 good luck with any of the prebuilt image distros for any platform, with very few exceptions (like retropi on pre 4 pi's) your going to spend less time setting it up yourself than hoping if you dare venture outside of 8-16 bit home consoles and some very popular computers random example ... yea a pi3B+ couldnt run starfox full frames per second, but loading up a full blown much heavier on ram desktop and loading a N64 emulator would run mario 64 in 720p with texture filtering

for those just catching up the irony is that the historian pretty much never existed before the ataribawx and ate his hat when stuff started to become obvious, and has since been mostly impartial with a super duper heavy dose of doubt. Meanwhile ol biffy, who is a troll account, er accounts what like 25 of them now has personally crosslinked this site and atari about a dozen times to date with each time being a completely different relationship again ... just for the new players in this NOW 831 days (or 2.3 years) old thread to shove an embedded SBC into a plastic box, load linux and provide a web based front end Think about it, in 2017 when this shit show started, that was a 2nd year college project for untalented people in public schools (and my 5 year old BUDGET computer could run boarderlands 2 at 1080P 60+FPS)

yea but they were not inputting video (unless your throwing a video toaster or some other expensive and semi exotic solution in the mix) you can make an atari 2600 composite over standard video with a fairly simple circuit and many computers did that back in the day including the apple II which has the video hardware of some ram and a shift register edit: here's an example of an 8 bit AVR microcontroller overlaying text on a 2600 using like 2 chips and a few passives back when I was interested in making a 2600 pause mod delux which was to include "paused" text and a DVD player style screensaver after X time ... its not exactly magic to composite signals, its timing more than anything

My coleco chameleon uses the goofy brochure picture as its retropi splash screen, might have to change it to this though just to capture 2 levels of fail

100$ reduction 150$ shipped in the USA

not to mention the LC / performa line was the absolute cat's yack in terms of performance, I have had a machine or a two (heh damn apple's) of those era's and they just cant handle more than a postage stamp real media size stream, which expanded to even the era monitors would net you a resolution of ass x balls at a FPS of are you fkin kidding me at full screen .... which was perfectly fine in the early 90's we were impressed you could see a color photograph back then, the fact you could encode a few seconds of just above garbage video on a desktop machine was the shiz-nit

wordperfect and zork with a toggle switch bootloader *yea I know roms n shit but

shameless plug my nintenputer is still for sale, its got a dual core 1.8ghz cpu, 4 gigs of ram and a effin Geforce (cough 210 intergrated with 512 meg of dedicated ram) and on ebay I dropped the price 75 bucks from the below listing just to break even .... guys ... gals ... birds ... ??? since were talking pi's in a box and custom consoles ... this is my 5th or so one since the atacobox was announced ... direct from my garage and a funding campaign of some extra paypal funds from selling real VCS's that had been refurbed for a profit of 10-20 bucks a pop off the shelf parts in a retro console box, atari = 3 years and 3 + million, osgeld = 3 years and 5 different builds for less than 1000$, and I never sold my pi in a box coleco chameleon it's just too fun (something about having a 128 gig SSD in a Jag cart that I can yank out and plug into my computer for rom stuff and plop back in the cart slot of the jag case just amuses the f*ck out of me for a tv system)

no, the apple TV model was the first AFAIK (and those are hard to get at a reasonable price) a number of the beige towers had it as an option (I had my PS/2 ran though my 8500 to a very large VGA screen, was nice) edit: meant the macintosh tv not apple tv