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Could you add it to this list, along with which graphics modes you tried etc.? http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Flat_Panel_Displays

Hatari runs fine on Windows 7 and Windows 10. There are Windows 32 and 64 bit releases here from late last year: http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/1.9.0/

That's different. An example of Hanlon's razor failing would be a person who appears to be stupid but who is actually being malicious.

That's not Hanlon's razor failing. The whole saga cannot be adequately explained by incompetence, so according to Hanlon's razor should be attributed at least partly to malice. Maybe you mean that the way Hanlon's razor is misapplied (attributing everything to incompetence/stupidity) is failing?

Let me summarize all the important things you missed: Done.

Remember though (mentioned a few pages back) that the guys who left the Vega project are the same people who started THE64 (for licensing reasons they can't say Commodore or C64, which is why they use THEODD name THE64) and then sold it to someone else. All very weird. Yes that $150K is an arbitrary number; with flexible funding it means nothing. These recreations seem to be trading on the cuteness factor, of a modern device that looks just like one from 30+ years ago. Also there are a number of people who (astonishingly) are literally unable to or can't be bothered to set up and use an emulator. Those people are looking for a plug & play device where they don't have to copy any files, download and install anything, suffer the stress of risking getting a virus, etc.

From what I can see the keyboard uses a standard PC/XT DIN5 connector; this guy seems to be using a non-Atari keyboard with his PC-3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kwYvIfU9k The mouse seems to use a standard ST D9 mouse connector, and this auction shows a regular ST Mouse being sold with a PC-3. I doubt there's a more appropriate forum; it sort of fits here, the PC-1 in particular looked very similar to the Mega ST on the outside.

Sorry I meant Thomas Ilg - some fonts make that difficult to read.

I would go with GFA Basic; fast, popular, compile-able, re-usable libraries, clean syntax, lots of example code, no line numbers and English documentation. It became popular in the UK too; version 3.5 was even given away with ST Format in June 1992.

I picked up my first Lynx and about 30 games at the weekend. It's a Lynx II in great condition, and with it came two other brand new and boxed but non-working Lynx IIs. They were dead on arrival when they were new, so even if I can't get them working they might be useful for spare parts. Dead Lynx A completely unresponsive: I tried with both fresh batteries and a Lynx PSU and there is no response when I press the 'on' button. I tried connecting the negative battery terminal to the negative (ground?) pin of the speaker jack (which I saw in a YouTube video) - when I did this the screen backlight comes on but there is still no response. Problem Lynx B works perfectly except for the screen display being fixed solid black. The backlight switches on and off, sound plays, buttons respond etc., but the 'brightness' setting does nothing. Again I tried both batteries and a PSU. I tried switching over the motherboards of these two machines, to see if Lynx B's problem is just with its screen, but there was still just a solid black image. I was wondering if I could swap a McWill screen into this machine, but I'm not sure if this problem would persist with that screen too- is there any way I can test whether that would work? Is there any other A/B testing I can do between these two machines to help identify the problem components? Are there any other standard things I can test for? Thanks in advance!

Very late to the party but I'd like to be on the list for a cased cart please if it stretches back this far. Thanks!

I'm still trying to dig myself out from under the mound of Atari gear that flowed out of my car when I got home! Thanks again, great meeting you!

The Spectrum wasn't really underpowered, it just lacked custom chips. 3.5MHz Z80 and 48K RAM was pretty decent in 1982. It was also really really cheap, about 1/3 or 1/4 the price of most rivals, and Amstrads didn't appear until 2 years later. There was a thriving market in budget games that cost just £2 or £3, console cartridges could be 10 times that or more. The graphics were a decent resolution: none of the blockiness of some of the C64's modes for example, and with vivid colours. Also the strange graphics layout meant that all graphics were effectively 1 bitplane, and the CPU could throw large chunks of screen data around with ease. All early '80s computers and consoles look like garbage if you compare them to arcade machines from a year or two earlier (or to later home machines) so arcade conversions are usually a bit disappointing. Most of the Speccy's charm wasn't with conversions but the unique and strange things people were cooking up for it in their bedrooms. What 12 year old cares about the graphics when they can enter their enemies and teachers' names into Skool Daze, shoot them with a catapult, and write obsceneties on the blackboard? It has a similar place in UK hearts to the 2600 in the US; the first affordable and succesful games machine that almost everyone's parents, not just a few rich kids, could afford. Yes of course it's a computer but nearly everybody just used it for playing games- imagine typing on that keyboard.

I think for a lot of people it's something that they meant to do at the time and never got around to. A bit like finishing off a project that they started 30 years ago. I don't think these people want to learn a practical programming language, they are just doing it for enjoyment. I can't imagine paying for tutorials when there is so much great material available online for free though.

And it's been canceled, just 1 hour ago, after only 4 days! The link in the update below goes to a post titled "Pressing Pause for a Gameplay Demo" that is for backers only. The main page has an explanation: The last Kickstarter Romero was involved in didn't go too well either, canceled after 20 days: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lootdrop/an-old-school-rpg-by-brenda-brathwaite-and-tom-hal

Nice, it's less fiddly to build if you don't need the colour/mono switch.

I've seen it mentioned before that the samples from IK+ were taken from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon (1973), and I just stumbled across a great example of one of them. Compare the sound here at 1:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdcpWXPaDY&t=1m19s with the 400 point punch in the groin at 1:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKVks4JxhbM&t=1m30s

Floppy drive: yes. Hard drive: not as standard. The first hard drives from Atari (SH 204 & SH 205) were about as big as the Mega ST itself, although they only contained a PSU, host adapter, and the actual SCSI drive - examples below. The STacy, Mega STE, TT, and Falcon could all be bought with internal Hard drives already fitted though.

RETRO Year 1: 2,345 backers pledged $75,759 to help bring this project to life. RETRO Year 2: 1,260 backers pledged $50,832 to help bring this project to life. RETRO Year 3: 3,500 suckers please give $70,000 to help bring this project to life. Mike, based on the (lack of) enthusiasm for year 2, and your recent PR disasters, you'll be lucky to find 500 people willing to give you their money let alone 3,500. 'Limited' to the number of people who contributed to both of the first two Kickstarters combined. Hmm...

I suppose it depends on how 'mint' it is and how important that is to you. I've never seen an ST from a private seller go for as much as B&C's is asking, I paid that much each last year for a TT and Falcon, and much less for a Mega STE and Stacy. They are a business though. The 4160 badge and 4MB RAM shouldn't add anything to the price above what they actually cost, which is about $50 or so. If that really is the going price then I need to start retrobrighting some of my spare STEs!

Haha, sorry, I too was disappointed to see that I had been beaten to it, I didn't look closely at hookem's board because he said "this isn't exactly the same board, but looks very close". You should also post the pictures of the whole PCB that; that combined with the case are iron clad proof that they don't have a real prototype. We should, or at least a new thread devoted to this stuff. It's pretty fun trying to identify things from only a couple of vague pieces of information. The most blatant Indiegogo scam at the moment is the Triton Gills, which couldn't exist without multiple Nobel-prize level innovations. I'm also a big fan of Plastc which ticks all the scam boxes possible: it couldn't possibly work (other than magstripe) as described, is 18 months behind the first promised release date, and just published a video of an pseudo-Carlson 'engineer' working on the prototype in his basement with a bunch of cheap hobbyist tools: https://vimeo.com/158656087 (Yihua 898D, Centech 14 in 1, 50MHz Rigol scope)

I think hookem is right, this fake 'prototype' is a Linx 7" Windows Tablet PC. The PCB in this disassembly video is numbered EM_18270_V3.0 so the are minor differences aren't surprising as it's not the same revision (e.g. the size of gold patches on the edge of the PCB), but it's a 99% match. The battery here is a Shenzhen Shirui SR299198P, the number can be read in the 'prototype' and Linx photos. Edit: I didn't notice hookem's post at first and found this using the battery number, adjusted my comments accordingly; too slow this time

Thanks, so centre negative as the Stacy says; that's what I thought, just wanted to confirm. Hell of a typo on the power supply though! 16v is interesting; Stacy says 18v and the PSU says 16.5.

You desolder the old one and solder in a replacement.

I replied over here, you seem to have two similar threads going: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251238-atari-1040stfm-in-icu-awaiting-your-cure/