Shamus

This is a terrible and pernicious lie! Everyone knows the real information can only be found here: http://obmoz.com/

Quoted here, since it seems to be the goal of certain people to make sure it gets drowned out in the noise:

I think the goal to surround Curt's post with noise.

I don't know what interview you listened to, but that isn't what I got from it at all. The Register misconstrued nothing. Seriously, if this what you have to offer, you're gonna have to up your game.

Why do I get the feeling the update is going to come after the campaign closes?

I think I trust Curt Vendel's information (who is a legend around here) more than some random internet numpty. If you were sent in to do damage control, I think "Atari" should ask for their money back.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Fuck that shit.

TIL that a little strip of wood will set you back 80 USD.

When they said 'ticks all the boxes', I don't think that's what they meant.

I am going to go out on a limb and make a bold prediction: everyone who pledged for this non-existant console is going to be screwed. Every last one. All the numbers on IGG shows to me is that there are lots of people with more money than sense.

Dear God, noooo! /me readies the flamethrowers

This is what gets us all...

I was at the local Fry's yesterday and what did I see when I went over to the Nintendo aisle, just past the USB NES, SNES & Gamecube knockoff controllers? I saw a portable Atari™ branded handheld console for USD50 with classic Atari games on it sitting next to an Atari™ branded Flashback 8 console (can't remember the price of it, tho--I think it was around USD30 or so?). So, unlike NuTari, there are licensees out there who are bringing real Atari™ branded gaming merchandise to the stores that you can go and buy right now, if you are so inclined. Strange thing is, I thought of tacos when I saw them. To be fair, it was around lunchtime and I was getting hungry.

Just to throw in my two bits... I've done a fair bit of wading thru the CD BIOS in my attempts to get it working with VJ, and I can tell you, if it works, it's because of lucky circumstances. They do absolutely NO message passing between the 68K and the DSP when reading from the CD--it's all tied to 68K instruction timing as far as I have seen. Which blows my mind, because by that time, they surely had some people there who understood multi-CPU synchronization issues, yet they *chose* to write it so that it depended the 68K's timing (which would also explain why it doesn't work 100% of the time).

Techinically, the OP is programmable too. It has a very small instruction set, and is wonky as all get-out, but it's still a legit processor.

It's even worse--it's a Jack in the Box "taco" (burdened with scare quotes, because those things that JITB puts out are not tacos).

@Toiletunes: Your haiku Was the best laugh of the day. You win 1,000 Internets!

Cheezeburger in a can sounds amazing... ly awful. I'm surprised Atari™ didn't think of it first.

Yes, the vertical resolution is what it is (being a byproduct of the NTSC signal), and you can get a bit more than 200 in NTSC mode. You can also double the vertical resolution if you want to work in interlaced mode, but you then halve your screen rate (30 Hz in NTSC). Also, it's more difficult to work with an interlaced screen, but it is doable. It sounds like what you want to do is certainly feasible. Feel free to keep asking questions.

360 horizontal could be done, but your pixels won't be square. The vertical resolution is pretty much what it is, being that the output of the Jaguar is tuned for televisions with a fixed vertical resolution. You get slightly more scanlines with PAL, but you lose some framerate for that (50 Hz for PAL, 60 Hz for NTSC). You do realize that the Jaguar is a very old machine, and as such, doesn't have things like OpenGL or DirectX? No alpha channel either. If you can live within those kind of restrictions, you should be fine, assuming there's enough bandwidth to do all the things that you want to do on the screen (and sound!). Hope that answers at least some of your questions.

If McD's made a taco, they would have to be better than those things that Jack In The Box has the nerve to call a taco. Disgusting.

We're hoping to have a Winter release for 2018. Fingers crossed.