Stephen

Yeah - this was a C4 picture. It looked familiar to me, but I didn't remember the conversion. I was glad to see the post was from 2015, so I don't feel too bad about forgetting.

You do realize, at some point, all of us original people that know (knew) Atari will be, as Kansas sang, "Dust in the wind". I wonder how far my Jag fumes will help carry me?

Don't fly over this house then - your non-shielded starship will melt

Looks at this and laughs (or cries). Think to myself - the people that never saw CRT screens before, probably don't know that you used to pick up a phone and get this thing called a dialtone. Also, when driving, we would stop at a gas station and find a phone bolted to a pole in a glass box in order to make a call in an emergency. Wanders back into my retirement home, screaming at the clouds.

Slow yes. Please tell me, when these speeds were common all the way back in 2010, the OS allowed for higher speeds all the way back in 1979, and now in 2021 we have 90kB/sec HDD loaders, why single speed SIO seems a good idea? I know we can drop all the way back to 600 baud loading of CAS files, but seriously, why?

Welcome back. Another beta member for all 3 of the Mytek boards here. If you have any questions about this or the new stuff, just ask. If you've really been gone for a decade, you are in for a surprise in all the new toys we have Better strap that wallet down if you get carried away.

Here ya go - acp.xex

That's beautiful - the original picture and your conversion!

This one did not come out as nice as I had hoped. I think a talented G2F pixel artist could really do this justice. Original - All I did to prepare this image was crop it to an exact 320*240 lines (removed bottom 8 lines). Stephen-YankenMyKranken.xex

I'll try again - I did use an external SD card formatter, and according to that program, it was forcing FAT32.

Thanks for looking. I have a day off work today, so I'll play around in the emulator and just try to figure it out.

Well, I tried that - including the SD Card Maker. It seemed any card over 32GB I tried, the GDEmu just refused to boot the menu, it acted like there was no card installed. PC could read the card just fine.

Yep - we already have the above mentioned three projects by Mytek. There's also two FPGA recreations (Eclaire XL and a core that runs on Mister). There's a potential 130XE PCB recreation in the works. Hopefully, by announcing the idea of it, before building it, design by community could stop anything from happening, because if you ask 20 people for ideas, you'll get 50 differing ones then the arguments happen.

Looks fantastic on my 20" PVM! Boy it sure it difficult though (my suckage level as gamer is 110% though). It even loads from SDX, via HDD, very quickly. Great work all around - I will put in some time with this, for sure.

Excellent - can't wait to test this. I remember seeing the original demo videos, thought it was for VBXE. OK - been trying to find the download link for the past 10 minutes now. Online page translation is not working for anything I try. LOL - found it. "stąd."

Pretty funny then, that every time someone suggest doing something worthwhile with the VCS, the immediate answer is "use it as a PC, i.e., install Windows". I know though - maybe 2021 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

Same here. Never had an issue with the drive - it still works like new.

Did someone mention CD-Rs?

Dreamcast is probably the oldest console where the games on it still look "current" or decent. I loved mine for the great racing games.

I recently got one of the clones. My Dreamcast was working, but it's sure easier to store 300 games on a micro SD card rather an 300 CDs. The only issue I am having, is finding a card > 32GB that works. Like you, my original drive was working. But I had no qualms taking it out. It's sealed and stored safely and the mod is non-destructive. If I want to use the original drive again, just plug it back in, so no harm there.

I tried to zoom in as best as I could on the picture - that power supply they have sitting behind it is definitely not an original unit. The machine runs on a 9VAC supply, I believe 31 watts. When the 400 was sold new, I do believe it came with a BASIC language programming cart, as the original models did not have BASIC built in. The unit has the standard Atari SIO port (serial port, pre-cursor to USB_ for connecting cassette drive, disk drive, printer, modem, etc. I don't know what the current ebay prices are, but I would certainly not pay $180 for a 16kB 400 with the original membrane keyboard.

That's the Atari 400 computer - 1st model released in early 79 along with the 800. If it's base configuration, it will have only 16kB of RAM. Easily upgradable to 48kB, bot super useful with only 16kB.

Everything you need you can find here: http://trub.atari8.info/index.php?ref=indus_cpm_en

Damn it - you are going to really crank my arm and reverse my thoughts that all 3D printed stuff is shit. I'll buy your products, but not another 3D printer

Atari did not own the rights. It was not in their IP collection. Regardless - suing somebody, and then stealing screenshots of their work, while faking controllers, is absolute bullshit. If you cannot see that, and you cannot comprehend why this completely sours me to the brand, then I feel bad for you.