New Atari Console that Ataribox?

[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

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[New Atari Console that Ataribox?]

With only 25 investors, and 89 days to go. I wonder if our resident shills high rollers threw in?

 

Shallbetter or Shillbetter?

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Obviously the new box should be called the 10400!

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Good point about the 8bit games and the 5200. I still see some desire to plug in original carts too, what was that other thing called retron77?

 

Maybe the Atariage dreamers box should be a windows pc inside so I can use all normal software & blue tooth KYBD &mouse etc and use it as a handy TV box as well as a fully functional pc - in a nice design (maybe the 5200 shape, it's big enough!)with cart slots for 2600/7800, 5200 and A8 carts too.

 

The box needs with awesome emulating software for the pc that can read the carts and run them and also read roms off SD cards etc.

 

TBH I would love it if you could also plug in original peripherals (can't beat that 5200 trakball eh?) so a 5200 port, 2600/7800/A8 ports? (I've got my Star Raiders keypad and XE light gun too.....)

Ideally I'd like tons of RAM and a fast processor and graphics card that we can still play modern pc games...maybe need a blu-ray slot and we can cast movies etc to yer TV...

 

Anything else? (Include ST and Jaguar emulators with super easy to use front ends, we don't want to have to be rocket scientists to work this thing... It should be as easy as the Flashback portable to use IMHO.

 

The software should have a built in Store so that 3rd party coders can sell more homebrews like the great stuff in the Atariage store...

God knows what this would cost but hey I want one!

 

What would anyone else like to see as a new piece of "proper" Atari Hardware? Box or handheld? (or both, switch style...)

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Hmmm... I wonder if Atari 2018 have ever openly asked the hardcore Atari retrogaming community (like the peeps on here for a start) what they like, what they would like to see and would pay for?

 

Personally I just love the old games. The best thing I bought in the last few years was the Atgames Flashback portable, mainly because of the SD slot so we can stick a few hundred games on there. Now I'd like maybe something similar but with a bit bigger screen that will also have every 5200 and 7800 game either built in or having the ability to be stuck into it / installed somehow.

Hey, let's start a kickstarter!

 

The only crowdfunding I've ever indulged in were 2 things I knew would get done because of who was behind them and the sheer number of fans:

 

1. Yello's Boris Blank's Box set (also not rocket science to produce, no cable problems with the vinyl and CDs)

2. New Amiga 1200 cases - theres a shitload of old yellow 1200s out there and a frankly rabid active fanbase for Amigas.

 

Both these things succeeded.

 

I do not think I would ever "invest" in a single game for one platform....

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Hi peeps,

 

I often lurk but rarely post but now I HAVE to weigh in.

 

I have been interested for years in being able to play 2600/.7800/5200 games in the best possible quality. Same goes for Atari 8 bit and Atari arcade games. I got a UK PAL 7800 and managed to beg a genius to mod it for S-video making me VERY happy. When I was a teenager I always wondered what the 5200 was like..... now I know. I paid a small fortune on US ebay for an S video modded 5200 with an Atarimax cart with an already filled sd card with just about every 5200 game. It cost a smaller fortune to ship over to Merry Olde England and I had to buy a 110v transformer but again I was twice as happy as I was before.

 

Now I know I can play most of this stuff on emulators but I love the old hardware. Did I mention I got the 5200 trakball in my package?

AWESOME stuff!

 

Now if there was a happy medium between emulation on any old boring pc and the original hardware costing a fortune to obtain and mod, I would be interested...

 

From this quote above:

"Preparation of a public relations campaign and crowdfunding to test the viability of a new product Hardware for video games ".

The Group has since broadcast a video unveiling a first design of this new product, whose functionalities and technical characteristics will be announced according to the progress of the works."

 

I'm pretty sure they haven't finalised the "functionalities and technical characteristics". So I think instead of saying I hope this total unknown device fails, maybe we can influence what it might turn into because I'm not sure they really know what will sell.

 

Frankly, someone buys the Atgames flashbacks so there is a desire to play these ancient games on a dedicated little box. I bought a version 5 (I think.... lost count). I leapt on the Flashback handheld because we could finally stick an sd card in, play it on the go AND plug it into a TV. ......but..... I still don't have every 7800 or 8bit computer game by a long stretch.

 

So, what I would love the Ataribox to be:

 

If it is based on a win 10 PC, well I have an older TV (I keep it because it is a Philips 21:9 aspect ratio-like the actual movies 2.39:1) that I have been thinking about buying a win 10 pc stick for. I like the look of a nice blue ASUS vivo stick but I may get the more powerful intel version.

 

Now what if we had an Atari box that served as a PC that plugs straight into the TV (so allowing netflix amazon prime etc.) ...that also emulates and includes every 2600/5200/7800 game that current Atari have the rights to.

 

Also it MUST have the possibility of sticking in either SD cards or stuff on a USB if it won't have cart ports. (Or for God's sake put 2600/7800 and 5200 cart ports on it or make a USB plug in adapter that takes carts....)

 

Also it MUST take old peripherals, I want to plug my 5200 trakball into it and make sure the emulation can take the old peripherals.

 

As we can use it as a "normal" win 10 pc plugged into the TV, lets have a nice wood grain wireless keyboard to go with it!!!!!

I just got a logitech lightweight keyboard that is wireless and bluetooth, has back lit keys, a trackpad and makes a slice of toast (oops sorry that's just another dream). I could make a nice woodgrain case for it myself! So surely Atari can do that.

 

Atari: make note of the experts on this board especially above regarding the best way to 720p HDMI output!!!!!!!!!!

 

So in the absence of this dream device I'm thinking of dropping some Great British Pounds on a Flashback that outputs 720p and/or (because the flashback 720p won't take sd cards or carts) the Retron 77 (but I wish it took 7800 and 5200 carts too! grrrrr).

 

So clearly some people will spend money on some kind of box that plays games.

 

If I had my way I would also have it take 8bit/XE carts and have as many 8 bit games built in too. (I don't ask for much do I?)

Ok I always loved Arcade Crystal Castles so lets have every Atari Arcade game on there too. I sadly don't have the money or space for a genuine old Crystal Castles cabinet (one day..... one day.....!") so I play it on Steam, oh yeah we can install Steam on a win 10 pc right? There you go then.

 

Finally if they want to make money from this somehow apart from just shifting boxes, they need to allow people to develop for this new machine and have a gamestore built in for the excellent existing 2600/5200/7800 homebrews on this site to get seen (and bought) by a wider audience and future games to be able to be sold thru the store and allow the talented writers to make a decent amount of money from it to make it worth their time and effort. (Reminds me I need to order 7800 Scramble and Moon Cresta, I LOVED those games when I was 12 years old!!!!)

 

Even more finally they need to market this right. It's not there for the Call Of Duty brigade (I couldn't give a shit about most "modern" £40+ games). I work with people who say they aren't into video games and then beg to have a go on my hand held Flashback. They just don't want to play photo-realistic warfare online with a bunch of knobs shouting at them telling them how shit they are at C.O.D!!

 

Whaddaya think? Everybody post up their dream machine and maybe those Atari bods might take our advice!

Lets hear from you all then :-)

 

What would your Ataribox be?!!!! .....and I don't mean a fridge you can play Crystal Castles on..... then again.....