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C64, hands down

Agreed. Atari wants to build up their brand cache? Stop ignoring your hardcore audience. We are the ones that will evangelize for you if you put out a good product. Expand past the 2600 & Arcade platforms. Let us use original carts/controllers or images on an SD card. Stop aiming at the lowest common denominator.

Amazingly, it arrived an hour after my post. It's a Christmas miracle! Works great, though apparently two of my spare VIC-IIs were duds. With the remaining good VIC-II I'm still noticing some slight vertical banding. Not a huge deal - much less noticeable than the banding on the C128. I did order an 8580 with it to put in the second slot; I have a couple of extra 6581s to populate the first slot. For whatever reason Law of the West and the 8580 don't play nicely together - the bass track is silent. Once I get the kids situated this evening I'll mess around with the kernal/charset options.

Got notification that mine hit the states today. Scheduled to be delivered on Tuesday; same day I'm leaving town for a week. Oh well - I guess I can wait a week longer

I'm firmly in the "why not both?" camp.

Got my shipping notification today For those in the US, how long did it take to arrive once shipped?

It won't work with the original power supply. I ordered one of these to power mine.

Bummer. But I assumed it was a long shot.

I obtained a Sanyo MBC-555 PC a few months ago. It was a very early entry into the PC clone market, and isn't 100% compatible with IBM's offerings. Therefore it can't use your typical early PC-era disks that you might find on eBay. A boot disk came with it, but it appears to be corrupted. I found a bunch of .IMG disk images for it online, and I'm trying to figure out how to write them to real 5.25" floppies. I know the 1571 can read/write MS-DOS disks, and ZoomFloppy can at least transfer D64/G64/etc. images from PC to a floppy. Does anyone know if I can use this same setup to write MS-DOS images from the PC to the 1571?

Nice; I ended up ordering one a few days ago. I'm way down in the queue, but glad to see others are happy with their purchases. How is the video output? Any striping that would require a lumafix, or is that a solved problem on the Reloaded?

The 800 preceded the it by three years or so, so there's that The 800XL was more of a direct competitor to the 64.

I have distinct memories of messing with the Atari 800 kiosk at Sears, and realizing that it was far outside my parents' price range. It wasn't as bad as the Apple II line, but still... very pricey.

Positive thinking, magical thinking. Potatoe, Potato.

Ah, Canyon Runner. My first program I typed in on my new C64. Edit: Oh wait... that was Canyon Cruiser. Potatoe, Potato.

Shipped my heavy sixer to him for a repair last year. Eventually got a package - but it was someone else's stuff. We cross shipped, and I got my 2600 back, but after being bounced all over the eastern half of the US, the box was in bad shape and the 2600 was non-functional. It would at least power on when I shipped it to him. About that time he disappeared with a bunch of other people's stuff. So who knows if it was ever repaired correctly. I doubt he'll poke his head in here again, but if he does AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

I thought Google killed off YouTube support for the Wii earlier this year; they stopped delivering video in Flash format, IIRC. Not that it matters, most people have multiple devices capable of streaming YouTube content.

As long as we're wishing, I'd also add the Commodore CDTV/CD32, the NeoGeo Pocket and the Wonderswan.

For those who already ordered, did they charge you immediately?

According to Polygon Kevtris did indeed work on this https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/16/16481824/super-nt-super-nintendo-analogue

I don't think C64 support is *that* much of a stretch. Though obviously it's up to him how and what he chooses to develop.

Is Kevtris ready to spill the beans? Edit: No analog output, bummer. But if that's the tradeoff to cut the price in half compared to the NT Mini, it's OK in my book.

And paddles!!

I use these

I'd bet dollars to donuts the fullsize and the handheld will never see the light of day.

Got the urge to play some Zork, so I set up the 128 for proper 80 column G.U.E. exploration.