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  1. Posted

    FYI: This was posted on Reddit, emphasis mine: "Atari has said in the official Discord that users should not use 4k mode right now because it is causing OS corruption. Until an OS update is released they ask that you do not use my 4k mode."

     

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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, justclaws said:

    Competition for Atari's VCS launch in March!

    The last estimate that Atari gave for pre-order delivery was "late Spring", so probably June at the earliest:

     

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    6 hours ago, x=usr(1536) said:

    Yep, I'm familiar with WINE.  That's not running the applications natively, however.

    The person you were responding to only said that running Tempest 4000 under Atari's Debian Linux didn't require emulation, which is true.  Nobody used the word "natively" except you, and I'm not even sure what that means in this context.  If you mean you can't run something on the Microsoft Windows operating system without Microsoft Windows, that's obviously true.  But programs do essentially run "natively" on the CPU in WINE as Windows is basically just an API.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Paul Slocum

    6 hours ago, x=usr(1536) said:

    This is the part you haven't explained clearly.  If it boots to whatever Linux-based OS Fauxtari is using for their UI, how is it running Windows natively?

    To run Windows applications under Linux, you typically use Wine (which is not an emulator btw)

    https://www.winehq.org/

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    The great hall shortage of 2020!

     

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    Ultimately, and after many extra weeks of testing different combinations, the team identified and selected an optimal setup using a “Hall” sensor. Hall sensors are well-known in the world of high-fidelity audio product manufacturers for their extreme sensitivity. Most often used in volume controls and mixer controls, Hall sensors are always in high demand, and this year’s pandemic-related shortages made them particularly difficult to secure.

     

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  9. Posted · Edited by Paul Slocum

    A response somebody wrote to PDubs' comments on that thread:

     

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    You know, before this token, your shilling was at least well intentioned - you're a self professed investor in Atari. Fine, shill it up.

     

    This crosses a line. You are an admin in a large TG channel for this token and are participating in a gaslighting campaign to delete any and all concerns about the ACTUAL RUGPULL that just occurred.

     

    No, initial listings for an anticipated coin DO NOT plummet to 10% of their value within hours of being listed. No, forgetting to include a button to claim presold tokens for hours after the listing DOES NOT happen. No, presale buyers DO NOT normally have to watch as their $10,000 investment becomes $2,000 in the span of a few hours with no ability to trade what they bought.

     

    And NO, the telegram for new coins in the excitement of their first listing DO NOT force a 1 hour slowmode to silence the concerns of scammed buyers.

     

    Before, Josh, you were simply hyping a company to protect your investment. Now, you're an accomplice to creating a sterilized TG that gives the gaslit impression to newcomers that all is well.

     

    You have misled, and no doubt will continue to mislead, many investors into getting bilked so that your investment could use a hollowed out Atari logo to lure the nostalgic into one of the most obvious crypto ERC20 rugpulls since YAM.

     

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  10. Posted

    Atari's now saying that they won't have any VCS units to the general public until next year.  On Reddit somebody who ordered the Atari VCS through Atari's website posted that they received the following email:

     

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    We are contacting you with updated information regarding your Atari VCS preorder.

     

    Component shortages across the supply chain have severely constrained our production capacity. While we expect to fulfill 100% of our backer orders before the end of the year, we do not expect to be able to ramp up additional retail production until January 2021. This will delay the shipment of your pre-orders until early next year. 

     

    If you would like to modify your order, please visit https://shop.atarivcs.com/contact-us/ and provide us with your order information. We can process refunds within 24 to 48 hours.

    Please do not try to cancel your order through your credit card or payment provider as this will delay a potential refund by as long as 90 days. 

     

    Please accept our apologies, and thank you for your patience. We will provide additional shipping updates as they unfold.

     

    Kind regards, 

    The Atari VCS Team

     

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  14. Posted

    Doesn't sound like we'll be seeing a real review of any of those 96 units any time soon.  It's odd that during their last push this month to get in more pre-orders at the "early adopter prices" that they're not actually sending those 96 units to anybody except their own two PR people.  Especially when all of Atari's social media is now filled with people questioning their ability to deliver.

     

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  15. Posted

    3 hours ago, Shaggy the Atarian said:

    Wow, I didn't know about that....song. It would be less hilarious if it was made to be a troll, lol.

     

    Some other fun facts about "Atari"

     

    ...whoredlicensed out their beloved name to some hotel design group

    ...crowdscammed people on the "Gameband" gaming watch

    ...also ran a bizarre crowdfunding run for Roller Coaster Tycoon where they praised themselves over generating $2bn in revenues, but were begging for money, and they admitted that they had the right to use the money for things that had nothing to do with game development.

    ...made the ridiculous claim that only they could make "Haunted House" games

    ...didn't know anything about their Tacobox, looked like morons in front of a journalist asking questions, then tried to paint the journalist as a troll

    ...releases schlock versions of their existing IP, where it would have been better to just leave the IP in peace

    ...allegedly didn't pay contestants who appeared on their short-lived, but aired game shows (gathered evidence on that some hundred pages back in this thread :P )

     

    If Atari was an RPG character with a world reputation score, it'd definitely be in the negatives.

     

    There's so much that nobody can keep up with it all:

     

    - The abandoned Asteroids Outpost: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-01-whats-going-on-in-asteroids-outpost

     

    https://steamcommunity.com/app/330210/discussions/

     

    - Their attempts at launching gambling games in Kenya (which has been mentioned repeatedly in their company reports) where there is a gambling addiction crisis due to lack of regulation/enforcement:

     

     

     

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  17. Posted

    3 hours ago, OCAT said:

    ^ Amico video, seems like they do not have a viable prototype at all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV1EKzFUyT8

    I haven't been following that Amico that closely, but I work in the industry and have been following Intellivision's job listings for about a year, and their interpretation of those job listings make it seem like they don't know what they're talking about.  I don't think it necessarily indicates that the project is behind schedule.  There are other reasonable explanations for why they have those job listings, and they're vastly overestimating the seniority of that embedded position.

     

    That Youtube show is often kinda bad, even their last Atari VCS episode was really lazy.

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Nathan Strum said:

    He probably offered Fred some money. Atari likes it when people offer them money. I'd bet that almost anyone could "exclusively license" games from Atari for a rival, speculative console for a few bucks.

    It just doesn't make much sense to me if they're serious about launching a console, which is difficult even with good games and more valuable IP.  They have very little IP that's worth anything, and they basically licensed all of it to Amico.  But of course it's not that much of a stretch to think that they were never really serious about launching a console that was competitive in any way in the first place.

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  20. Posted

    6 minutes ago, RedWolfJC said:

    They both seem to have problems retaining their system architect...

     

    (allegedly)

    I've been contacted by recruiters about similar job listings of theirs last year.  That is definitely not a system architect job, and they've been listing jobs like that off and on for a long time, which is pretty normal.

  21. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Bill Loguidice said:

    I also don't get the comment a few posts back about about the Amico. They've literally shown several exclusive games and a whole lot more.  The VCS has no exclusives that anyone knows about at this point

    Amico has rights to make their own exclusive versions of Atari's 12 most valuable retrogaming IPs (Centipede, Missile Command, Yars' Revenge, etc.).  I'm still pondering how that happened.  I asked Tommy on this thread a while back and he said "Let's just say that Fred owed me a big favor".

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  22. Posted

    Missile Command Recharged is available now for Linux on Steam, so what is being announced here?  It's already been available for the Atari VCS -- just kinda need the actual console hardware to play it.  Also no mention of Tempest 4000 for over a year even though people keep asking about it on IGG.

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  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, digdugnate said:

    junky one with the C64 Mini

    Both the old and new design of their joystick is absolutely horrible, but the full sized TheC64 Maxi with the keyboard is pretty well made and uncanny.  It's actually my favorite reproduction retro console so far, and I really wish Atari was doing stuff like that instead.  A full size reproduction of an Atari 800 or one of the other Atari 8-bit computers would be amazing.

     

    And despite Covid, TheC64 just announced that they've delivered new inventory of the full size TheC64 to European distributors and are close to releasing a US version.

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