Keatah

Indeed. Empty space = nothing to wrong. No ratbaggy electronics to generate heat and collect dust. Nothing intermittent.. Perhaps you could make a shelf or a storage compartment for spare parts or tools in there. Maybe a shelf for external controllers. Or just keep it ready for a bigger computer.

I learned from the "Kennedy Experience" that industry veterans are full of crap in their waning years. And that they automatically think their shit don't stink and whatever it is they have on their imaginary drawing table is something you'll like.

It's rarely the case. For every 150-200'ish people I know or have met, maybe 1 maybe 2 if we're generous, even know of classic gaming. And their response may be just ohh I had a C64 in school. Further attempts to coax more conversation is a trying experience. Retrogaming is a narrow vertical field of interest.

I thought it might work like that, input via jpg/png. Does it simulate the analog controls on the CE box too? My guess is no..

Nicely done. Looks like this cab is all about fun! Good on you for going with newer electronics. They're more versatile and the old crap isn't worth the trouble.

Not the Gen2 shit again..

Avoid genuine vintage hardware, unless you don't mind tinkering with it and repairing it all the time.

Just how the fuck is ComputerEyes emulated?

10nm is not required to run any emulator.

As far as preserving the playability of most VCS games, I consider Stella complete. Sure there's still presentation and user-interface issues. But then again what emulator doesn't have its quirks.

You should see it on an 8K screen, not!

An arcade is going to have to be clean, have completed ceilings, have games in working order with nice monitors, and be conveniently located. Not to mention have some space between the games and not be overcrowded. There should be 80's music with 80's style patrons. Otherwise why bother going through the trouble of going outfox the arcade experience?

Relays, tubes, transistors, mechanical, possible. Resistors, not a chance.

Emulators, these days, should be developed to 4K minimum standard.

Videogame console consisting of resistors only? Bullshit.

Some few years ago I was outlining and putting together all that'd be needed for modeling the beam and how it interacts with the phosphor and glass. Per pixel. As part of learning how to program a GPU. None of this subtractive mask crap so often used as filters. Maybe when the 2nd or 3rd gen of rtx cards come out I'll revisit.

Well sort of, yeh. It'll give you a starting point at least. And yours looks like it could be in the high side of things. Go by what has actually been selling. Disclaimer: I don't own any atari hardware. I'm mostly an Apple guy.

Check eBay and add 10%.

The PC is an exercise in tedium. The underlying technologies of PCs like filesystems, where your data is stored, the concept of device drivers, and even "installing" software -- is all too complex. And backups? You mean you have to do backups? No one need worry about ANY of that on a smartphone. And crap Windows10 makes it all that much worse. I find myself tolerating that OS at best. A Windows 10 computer can and does waste time multiple times a month (week?) conducting updates. Not so on a smartphone, you get 1 update every 4 months or so. And you get a preview and a change log. And it takes all of five minutes tops. And the process is so trouble-free I wouldn't mind it happening more often if necessary. But the current frequency is just fine. Build your product correctly and the only updates needed would be for new features. Updates on a PC are an exercise in tenseness and even horror, what will break next? What setting us going to revert or toggle without you knowing? I recall just recently that a Win10 updated REQUIRED thousands upon thousands of users to buy a new Wi-Fi card because of a driver fuckup that they refused to fix. And just recently they had a problem that a certain documents folder wasn't nested correctly all your user data would go away after the update. And, besides, smartphones JUST WORK. It'd take me all of 30 seconds to send a photo to anyone, anytime, with smartphone. On the PC? Forget it. You have to have camera and USB drivers setup just right. Make sure all that connectivity is operating. Understand drag'n'drop email attachments, know where your data is stored and how to import it into a mail program, all the while using a browser and OS that changes how it looks and operates every year. No thanks. And that overly smug "..we're configuring xyz.. Please wait.." Is annoying and totally un-necessary. You're not doing a goddamned thing except making my life a miserable hell. So, Stella development should focus on the here & now and leave the PC in the past. It's time has come and gone.

I like and prefer the behavior of Stella as it is now. Changing basic behaviors as such described starts to confuse or create discord. And that gives a bad rap to emulators. A compromise could be including options to change the behavior as long as the original long-standing behavior is available and defaulted to. in other words no changes to OOTB operation.