Stephen

Built to a price yes - massively overpriced at $400, especially given you just compared it to a junk $150 laptop and that includes a keyboard and screen and Windows OS. Remember - from the few videos (which were not faked) we've been shown, this piece of junk cannot even play a game from 2012 without stuttering. Good luck to anyone paying $400 for something that is useless for 8 year old titles. But hey - at least the moms can use it for "Netflix and chill".

Nice - I saw the video on youtube earlier today. Looks fun.

Wow - I did not know Energy Czar was a Chris Crawford game. That and States & Capitals were the 1st 2 games I had for my 400 + 410. It was a bit too advanced for me at 7, and I am sure I never read the manual

That was me. I recognize the cable as an XBox 360 one. It's an aftermarket replacement, here's a link (I am not affiliated) https://www.amazon.com/Composite-S-Video-Compatible-Microsoft-Xbox-360/dp/B000V6KTDG

It's a great game, very much a shame it was never finished or properly released. I think it showed potential for a different style of game. Not everything should have been textured polygons (or even polygons at all).

Yeah - I miss the Jag Interactive days. The forum software left a lot to be desired, but it sure was cool for a while when new games were still coming out, cheats were being discovered,etc.

Got my Jag in 94 - found out about it from VERY early online sites. I was on the old redsun.net for a while. I know Kevin Manne is still around - he's a real old school guy. Wes Powell - haven't heard from him in many many years. I remember he wanted to call his website "Buff Jag" Don't recall what it ended up being named. Love this forum - it seriously re-ignited my 8-bit collecting.

(c) 2002 - my god - has it really been that long?!?

Those compilations are awesome. Would be cool if you could automate the process and each time a new one got added here they could update

When did you first get Atari machine?

Given current history and how they pretty much bungled everything post 2600, it's a safe bet to say the console would have been crap and not re-kindled the industry

Can you provide a bit more detail of how this works? Are the sine waves just used to select a colour AND position?

Interesting - does this mean we might actually be using UPS and FedEx to mail in our votes (like they ever mattered anyhow)? HAHA - talk about privatizing an industry

Any hard core developers here get one of the 1st 96 to go out? What are you working on? I can't contain myself with excitement.

If I wanted to leave my 400 original, I would still be running that awesome software using 4kB of RAM and the CTIA with a cassette. When we got more RAM, nothing took advantage of it for a while - we needed software. When we got stereo PoKey, the music and demos didn't code themselves. Every upgrade I've witnessed for these machines since owning one in 1982 has been readily accepted and coded for minus the 6809 CPU (very easy to argue and say yeah - that's no longer an Atari 8-bit, entire CPU is different) and the VBXE. We actually wanted to upgrade the machines back then. We wanted faster storage, bigger storage, more RAM. We got it and liked it, but the minute we get better video - full stop. I guess it's always been that way for these machines. How many BIT3 or similar sold for the 800 machines? Couple dozen it would seem.

Nice work! Thanks for not cutting up a 400 case I'll do all kinds of internal mods, but it just kills me to drill / cut into a case for some reason.

This makes me so sad. VBXE is not using a PC with an NVIDIA card. You're still bound to 6502, it's what Atari should have done in the early 80s, rather than sticking with 1978 technology through the EOL of the 8-bits in 1992. If you code for the VBXE you will see it as a natural extension of what should have happened. It has a display list. It is scanline based. Few more pixels per line, few more colours. Same overall feel. This shitty attitude towards only the VBXE kills me. 10+ years and it's treated as the red headed step child. Since the early 80s we accepted RAM upgrades. We accepted stereo pokeys. We accepted faster serial devices. We accepted parallel devices. We accepted CF cards not SCSI HDDs. Covox for 4-channel 8-bit audio. Atari released a garbage 80 column solution in the XEP-80. But god forbid, we have a device that gives us some better colours on screen. It's shunned as the worst thing ever. Why is this? Please - as an Atari user since the heavy-sixer of 1977 (which I still own) - why is the VBXE pretty much single handedly pointed out as the only 8-bit upgrade to get universally shit on? I implore you - try Sparta DOS X with Sparta Commander set up properly, and Last Word with VBXE drivers. It's still 8-bit Atari but "next generation".

Probably was me gushing about the keyboard upgrade. I put one in my (former) daily driver 130XE and enjoyed typing on it more than 1200XL. I also have one in a 1040ST keyboard, but I haven't used that machine in 5 or 6 years now. These days, my go to machine is the 1088XLD I built, tricked out with VBXE2, Stereo, Covox, MIDI, U1MB, and best of all, with the built in TK-II I am using my favourite old school keyboard, a Model M clone called the Focus 2001. Sorry - don't know of a good source for parts.

Wow - that looks great! Pretty sweet monitor you have there too.

Yeah - on both lists for the GD.

Kidding as usual. I have a white case numbered edition of Gorf CD. Was glad to get it - it's a great conversion.

Definitely not a 5200 board. Pins and spacing are for an 8-bit computer. Many years ago, I purchased an Atari ASM/ED cart (I believe from Best Electronics) and it was bare PCB. I'll see if I can find it and check the dimensions.

Covox is awesome!

DAMN! That looks fantastic!

Hey man - your keycaps all got rubbed off! How can you type?!?