MrFish

I think Atarimania displays screenshots like that because they mimic what's seen in Europe -- which is where the owner's of the site are from. To be honest, I find it annoying too, as the programs aren't being shown as intended by the authors. The other thing I don't like seeing is all the NTSC programs in PAL colors. They really should have them posted as they're intended too.

This is exactly what I do with my JVC studio monitor, which has buttons on the front for switching between S-Vid and Composite. It's handy, as I want the clearest picture, but don't want to miss out on artifacting when it's intended, or when I just feel like seeing it.

Any NTSC setup that can't do proper artifacting is going to fall short in my book too -- unless you're into pinstripes. There are just too many programs that made use of this feature.

According to AtariMuseum.com it was the codename: Atari 1450XLD Codenames: Dynasty (1983 Version, shorter motherboard with Disk Drive Daughter board) TONG (1984 Version, very large all in one board)

It's not really that surprising: software developers knew well the common denominator for the 8-bit line of computers. Ultimately, it was more than a minor annoyance for those expecting to see the extra memory in their (stock) 64 KB and 128 KB machines exploited to some advantage more often and brought up to standards more commensurate with that of their peer/rival machines.

I see I have here the Co-Power-88 disks and a bunch of various CP/M-86 manuals and so forth too.

Speaking of the Co-Power-88... I came across schematics for it while working on the ATR8000 section of the Atari hardware site I'm putting together. I can't remember which site it was from ATM, but here are the files. SWP Co-Power-88 - Schematics.zip

No problem.

I was able to look at my other files. The end labels posted above are the only ones I have.

The unfinished Druidarium is pretty cool.

C64 parody, maybe.

Here's what a Retronics replacement mylar for 65XE/130XE (Mitsumi keyboard) looks like, for instance.

These are both replacement mylars, not keyboards.

I'm curious how the Mini performs compared to the Pro too. According to the text there, they say this: Important Information *The MINIs are slightly less sharp than the Pro, but it is almost certainly not noticeable for most S-Video sources, and certainly not on consoles like the N64 that are already soft. That being the case, I'm curious whether those difference affect performance with the Ataris or not.

I found your channel a few months back, and watched a bunch of videos over a few days/nights (Atari 8-bit stuff only). Informative and humorous.

I look at the 400 -- in it's stock state -- as a game machine with an advanced/extended controller (the membrane keyboard), not as something to program or do word processing on. However... if one wanted a real keyboard for the machine (and many did), there were many 3rd party keyboards to choose from, as can be seen in this thread: Atari 400 Aftermarket Replacement Keyboard Thread. I love the 400, for it's small size, simplicity, and styling; and the keyboard fits it perfectly for using as a game machine. Those who wanted more could buy an 800, or add a keyboard to their 400. It's as simple as that.

Hi, what is the current cost outlook? Thanks.

Oh, I see. Yeah, maybe that was brought up a bit much -- given the level of tunnel vision piracy paranoia. It still stands as an important point for people interested in selling software for 8-bit hardware, though.

I think you should have brought it up. Someone buys a cart from Video 61, and wonders why it has problems; who else can help him understand the problem more than someone who has first-hand experience with it? People have the right to ask questions about faulty products that they pay hard-earned money for, and hear straight-forward answers from knowledgeable peers. The only person not backing you up here is Pete; and, well... big wonder...

You're on the wrong forum bub. We're talking about the 8-bit computer version of Mr. Do's Castle, which is way more rare than the 2600 version. I see copies of the 2600 version going for $50 to $75 on Ebay for a loose cartridge.

@Marius Nice history: Atari 8-bit -> Atari ST -> Atari 8-bit (forever). Still use the ST equipment at all? Personally, if I had a Black Box and liked to use it as much as it sounds like you do, I'd have two machines set up, one for the Black Box and one for the other modern hardware; and some way to share resources between them (SIO2PC or a storage media cartridge that plays well with the Black Box).

I guess their the idea with the black box was that if it did everything you needed, then it could use the PBI however it wanted. Use-wise I suppose it depends on what you want or need to accomplish. Many people still have a lot of old media they need/want to interface. So, devices like these can still make sense. For those interested in a more modern approach, it might just be an interesting relic. It certainly holds it's place in history. One thing remains true, though, and that's the need to test software on real hardware. So, being able to stop program execution and debug is a feature which won't soon run out of proponents. Although, phaeron is doing his best to make it so. I'd say these days, Altirra takes the brunt of development debugging, with real hardware being the final stage of each test cycle. Yeah, your cats validated that sentiment. Haha...

Before all the cartridge emulation we have now (via cartridge devices: AVG, SIDE3, Utimate Cart, ect.), I had thought that some interface from the cart port to the PC would be useful for emulating carts from images on the PC; and to do that somehow in tandem with normal SIO2PC operation, to give an overall solution -- rather than just the XEX and ATR/ATX access of SIO2PC devices/software. On XE's this would work more naturally with some sort of ECI/Cart port to PC type connection; hooking something like that to an XL would be a little more messy. The nice thing about connecting to a PC is that it's power can be leveraged for handling the software side of things.

I'm just answering the post about "features other upgrades still don't have". I'm not knocking the BB. It's a marvelous device and, as I've said, I'd like to have one. Honestly, I think there's definitely a place for a modern all-in-one solution, in the spirit of the BB and MIO.

The Turbo Freezer 2011 can do this.