Mr Robot

Looks like a copy of Goonies on the desk. I think this is on the screen

Any word on the progress of this project?

Note: there is no EN version of Dude Story v1.1 yet. My TNFS has been updated with the PL version and the new Ultima V

Updated my TNFS server to include the last of 2023 and 2024 so far.

Thanks! I must have missed that when it was posted, it hasn't been updated in a while, I hope this will give it some more visibility!

What you consider the absolutely essential homebrew titles for the Atari 8-Bit computers? The titles that are so good they make the commercial titles of the 80's and 90's look primative by comparison? Prince of Persia, Yoomp!, The Last Squadron, Flob. etc. etc.

Someone needs to add libretro as a build target to the main atari800 branch, then a new core can be produced every time there's an update I wish I had the experience to do something like that but it would take someone with actual coding skills to do it.

Old men and accuracy nerds eh? TBH, sounds about right

That's a very valid point. This may be a reason for me to get one, even if I think it's so ugly it hurts my soul.

Then The400 has already done some good for the community... Welcome! Ignore the grumpy old men, of which, I am one. We like to moan and nit-pick about everything, but we do also occasionally like tacos.

You must be new here! LOL I think we're comparing HoneyCrisps to Granny Smiths

Oops! broken link, thanks for noticing! I've fixed the link, the download now works

I'll be leaving it. This offers nothing I can't already do, the only thing I'd have bought one for is an XL cased mini, purely for the looks. I hope the joystick doesn't suck!

The Atari 5200 support especially as none of the devs has one so there's no motivation to improve it. Peter said as much when they added support for newer cart types (which aren't in the retroarch core) recently.

I'll believe they will make a second version of this in an XL/XE model when they announce the TheC128

So they picked a machine that is liked and was popular in the USA (it hardly sold at all in Europe in comparison) over the machine that was the most popular everywhere... Maybe there is a reason why they couldn't use the 800xl

I hope Mr Robot is on there I think BBSB is broken on the 3.1.0 core emulation, it was only fixed recently so if they don't make any improvements to the retroarch core that is unlikely to show up

I won't be pre-ordering anything, but I'm highly likely to get a couple of the joysticks, especially if they are microswitched.

Back to the 400 being the ugliest of the A8's, it's surprising that an English company would choose the most popular American machine over the most popular UK/European machine. I notice that Revive 800 is still being produced, you think maybe Retrogames sold/licensed the 800XL look to them so now they have to pick something else?

Elektra Glide was an English Software title, it was published by Mastertronic in the US but I doubt that Mastertronic would be the people it would be licensed from. English Software did some great titles, maybe that's a clue to some of the other built in games? Here's a thought, will the emulation auto change speed between PAL/NTSC titles or allow you to pick the speed? Will the 5200 emulation in the atari800 core be improved as it's pretty neglected just now.

The ring that goes around the stick has 4 buttons hidden under it, press on the ring (I expect in the four ordinal directions) to press the buttons, the front of the stick (where the cable comes out) has three buttons, the two tiny ones you spotted plus one in the bottom corner under the red fire button.

The buttons are under the directional ring (four of them) and the others are on the front

Here's the joystick info. https://retrogames.biz/products/thecxstick Everything they make seems to start with "The"; TheC64, TheA500, TheVIC20, TheCXStick

A USB keyboard will apparently work OK, just like TheC64-mini

My yellow one is being delivered tomorrow apparently. It will be replacing my Anbernic RG351M, RG351MP and Miyoo Mini+. Looking forward to vertical arcade I don't need to squint at! Edit: I am looking to sell my Anbernic devices, the RG351M and RG351MP if anyone is interested. I'm keeping the Miyoo Mini+ just because it's so adorable!