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I wondered the same thing. If it's just the partially compatible FB2 chip I'm out--and I'm betting that's what it'll be. Many of my favorite games don't run on it. I might not have the money to drop on it at the current pricepoint, but once the price drops, if it runs at least 100 decent Atari games (although not necessarily loaded all at once), then it will be the only item on my Christmas list. And I think that the homebrew scene will really light up if that happens. The only concern I have with it is the menuing system. I loved the FB2, but my kids had a awful time with it (but part of it also is that the idea of reset button and select button are foreign. I think it should be dirt simple and have a single list of games listed by either the filename (without extension) or pulled from a metadata file, and would be great to have it show screenshots of each game next to the list. It would be sweet if the game names were red and they did the chalice color effect when you had the game selected and just had to press the button to choose a game. Also maybe pressing the joystick right or left would page it down or up. And finally pressing select would be the same as pressing the joystick down (holding it down would continue to move down) and reset button would also start the game. LE can totally have that idea if they like it. By awful time, I mean they had an awful time with the menu. I always have to do that part for them. And by red text, I mean red text on black background.

I wondered the same thing. If it's just the partially compatible FB2 chip I'm out--and I'm betting that's what it'll be. Many of my favorite games don't run on it. I might not have the money to drop on it at the current pricepoint, but once the price drops, if it runs at least 100 decent Atari games (although not necessarily loaded all at once), then it will be the only item on my Christmas list. And I think that the homebrew scene will really light up if that happens. The only concern I have with it is the menuing system. I loved the FB2, but my kids had a awful time with it (but part of it also is that the idea of reset button and select button are foreign. I think it should be dirt simple and have a single list of games listed by either the filename (without extension) or pulled from a metadata file, and would be great to have it show screenshots of each game next to the list. It would be sweet if the game names were red and they did the chalice color effect when you had the game selected and just had to press the button to choose a game. Also maybe pressing the joystick right or left would page it down or up. And finally pressing select would be the same as pressing the joystick down (holding it down would continue to move down) and reset button would also start the game. LE can totally have that idea if they like it.

Thanks I agree. That game rocks.

Sweet! That is totally awesome! Will look forward to more videos!!!

If it has a countdown timer- I'm there.

Steve Perlman just said that the maximum from east to west coast in the beginning was going to be 25 millisecond lag (said 5-25 ms lag). He later said latency would obviously be greater for some ISPs or if you had a bad cable/DSL line, etc. He also doesn't think they will run into bandwidth caps, because they are good citizens, but if they do, they'll work it out. Just ended.

Watching the press conference here and there on: http://www.gamespot.com/shows/on-the-spot/

They seem to be having some web serving issues. First I got this and now blank screens (no page source).

List of games: (Game title, Publisher) Burnout: Paradise, Electronics Arts Hawx, Ubisoft F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Warner Brothers Frontlines Fuel of War, THQ Tomb Raider: Underworld, Eidos GRID, Codemasters World of Goo, 2D BOY Riddick, Atari Crysis Warhead, Electronic Arts Wheelman, Ubisoft Lego Batman, Warner Brothers Unreal Tournament 3, Epic Games Major League Baseball 2K9, 2K Games Mirror's Edge, Electronic Arts Prince of Persia, Ubisoft Bioshock, 2K Games

Yay!

Yeah, it was amazing! RT, I think we were separated at birth.

YES!!!! Oh! Oh! OH! Aaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEAA... oops!

I'm so excited, I created two duplicate threads: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...=141335&hl= http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...=141332&hl= And took a screenshot: Anyone else waiting the next 36 min to see what the fuss is about?

Rats! Sorry! I did a search for the topic, but did it in the wrong place again. The search at the top of AA needs to go to the general search, just for me.

News: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&topic...;ncl=1319593672

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That's funny since "the old Pentium III" is what I'm using right now as my "new computer". It does run XP though so that's a plus. I have a wide variety of emulators running on this from Stella, MAME, Meka, Atari800Win PLus 3.1, Handy, three different NES ones and a few others and they all run fine. Now with yours still running Win 98 I'm not certain if it'll make a difference or not. I wouldn't think it would but then again I'm no PC expert. Mine's a P III 450 MHz. It has a good bit of memory (128MB). It can't even run Frogger in S.S.E. (based on MAME 0.029) without skipping a little. The NES emulator I have on it also skips a good bit, as does Stella. Win98 runs acceptably well (boots slowly by today's standards, but responds quickly enough). An older winamp version runs just fine on it. There is not much resident on it that would cause it to churn (no anti-virus). Basically just looking for stuff with very light requirements you'd suggest that would be fun with some educational stuff.

I've got a few of those "Encyclopedia of games" type discs from the mid/early 90's filled with random freeware/shareware games I could iso and send to you to try out if you'd like. Lots of interesting stuff on there to check out. Thanks for the offer! No need to do that, though. I was actually just checking out the games that have been licensed to be free on sites listed on http://www.abandonwarering.com/ as well as others. There are a number of full-versions of games that have been freed. I was just looking for maybe the top 10 that would be good for me and the kids.

Hey everyone, I have an old PC (Pentium III) that I was going to setup with some old games on for my kids (and me of course). I need the games to run in Win 98 because the primary purpose of the PC is for printer sharing at the moment, and I don't want to spend the time at the moment to try to get DSL linux to work with the cheap wireless card that is in it. I tried some of the Sil's Single Emulator (S.S.E.) games that I thought were fairly thin and might run well (based on MAME v.029) but even those were slow. I haven't tried many of the single game emulators which might be good picks, but it would help if people could suggest some that might be faster even than S.S.E.: http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=single I was starting to look at some abandonware games. There are just so many to choose from. Could anyone suggest some abandonware games or emulators that might run at a reasonable speed that would be fun enough for either toddler, pre-teen, and for someone who appreciated these games during their heyday? Especially educational games that might still be fun for kids today. Note: my kids like Frog Pong on the Atari Flashback 2, and they've gotten into DOS games before, so I'm not worried about them not liking old games (and we don't have any game console other than the FB2 and a Jakks Atari games).

Marty, That totally sucks about the I2G controller. I'd love to see your presentation, especially the stuff about the joystick and the portable. Could someone record this and post it to YouTube or similar and then share it here?

That is sweet! I love that pic.

Sears should totally do that. I'd actually visit even if they just started selling the Tele-Games again.

Perhaps I should have been more clear. This just in: Curt Vendel is still trying his best not to die. Subscribe to the free Curt Ain't Dead Yet newsletter and get hourly updates on his condition and how many USB joysticks he has finished, boxed, and labeled while still in bed. Sign him up! And he wants the optional 24/7 Curt webcam subscription for $24.95/mo. All in good fun.