Android Phones and the Atari

[Spirantho]

Hi everybody,

 

(Posted in Atari 2600 forum as this is my focus! Feel free to move it if an admin likes)

 

I've not been very active here in the last few years as I've been doing crazy real life stuff like setting up a business making Android apps (mostly games). I'm thinking of what to do for my next project right now!

 

Just thinking out loud now: just now a thought struck me - would it be useful to people to write an app to keep track of your Atari collection? I'm thinking basically a specialised database, perhaps linking to photos taken by the phone of your precious carts/boxes so when you're going thrifting you'd know exactly what you have?

 

Just an idea germinating in my mind at the moment, but am I allowed to ask: would any of you have interest in such an app? I'd probably sell it at a dollar or two (probably with a free, more limited) version. With Albert's permission I could even link to the AtariAge website, maybe AtariMania too with RomHunter's permission - so in trawling eBay or thrift stores or car boot sales, you could do a quick check on any weird games there are you don't recognise, or see if the one in the store is better than your copy.

 

If enough people would be interested, I may well write this. Heck, if enough people like it, maybe Albert could even brand it an "AtariAge" app for Android. What do people think?

[SlowCoder]

I've considered this same thing myself. But I think it would be limiting to have it only on your phone. Methinks a better idea would be to have a website or section here that already contains all the games. People could make their collection list public or keep it private. And it wouldn't be platform specific due to its web based nature.

[TrekMD]

An App for keeping track of my collection would be great.