What next?

[wesmond]

Hi all -

 

I also voted for the Lightgun project, if there is hope that it might make some real Atari games usable (in a different way, true) on real Atari hardware, should you not have a CRT screen any more. Can any emulator make it possible either? I fairly recently got Crossbow and CrimeBuster, but other than being nice boxes on the shelf, have not had the TV hardware to try them.

 

A few years ago, I wondered whether an original Nintendo Wii remote with the sensor bar could be somehow interfacted to (hacked) and the signal converted into what the Atari would need - I guess by doing some maths with the ANTIC sync signals to "emulate" the delay and feed results to the joystick port. But it's way beyond my expertise...

 

W.

[Irgendwer]

2 hours ago, wesmond said:

A few years ago, I wondered whether an original Nintendo Wii remote with the sensor bar could be somehow interfacted to (hacked) and the signal converted into what the Atari would need - I guess by doing some maths with the ANTIC sync signals to "emulate" the delay and feed results to the joystick port. But it's way beyond my expertise...

With a lot of effort and significant computational power this would be possible:

 

[JamesD]

On 9/30/2021 at 9:12 AM, Faicuai said:

We don't have (yet) real, milestone-acceleration products (8Mhz, 20Mhz, those are just stop-gag speeds).

 

When we talk about 100Mhz, 200Mhz or even 400 Mhz... at genuine 6502 code-level, that's when we'll go to places...

 

Or even better, a plug-and-play, multi-core, high-performance CPU card that goes on Slot-3 (or CPU slot) on the 800 or PBI (on the XL/XE), with on-board HD storage, dedicated GPU, digital video+audio, WiFi, local access to host's keyboard, SIO, I/O ports, and capable of running user-choice of Altirra, Apple and C64 high-quality emulation, at any speed-multiple supported by auxiliary CPU.

 

That's just the tip of the iceberg... 

 

http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

 

[Faicuai]

2 hours ago, JamesD said:

http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

 

 

SICK !!!

 

Perfect for the 800, since it can run std. 6502 and SALLY types (plug-and-play), thanks to its CPU-on-card architecture.Also the 400 !! ??

 

Will be reaching put these folks for the necessary feasibility tests... Can't imagine what v2. of this plug-in will be!!

[Irgendwer]

22 minutes ago, Faicuai said:

Perfect for the 800, since it can run std. 6502 and SALLY types (plug-and-play), thanks to its CPU-on-card architecture.Also the 400 !! ??

 

Will be reaching put these folks for the necessary feasibility tests... Can't imagine what v2. of this plug-in will be!!

...yeah, this will be funny, if ANTIC tries to read the internal CPU RAM and trying to HALT the CPU while doing so...

[JamesD]

FWIW, multi-core isn't really feasible unless each core has it's own page 0, stack, etc... and even then the instruction set doesn't have special instructions to support it

 

[xxl]

> Software: New games

 

well balanced strategy game. it can be with symbolic graphics but the game balance must be perfect - an example of perfect balance is Starcraft.

[Fred_M]

I would love a scrolling pinball game like Pinball Dreams.

[popmilo]

On 10/14/2021 at 9:34 AM, xxl said:

> Software: New games

 

well balanced strategy game. it can be with symbolic graphics but the game balance must be perfect - an example of perfect balance is Starcraft.

+1 for that idea.

 

 

[rdefabri]

On 9/30/2021 at 6:59 PM, Wrathchild said:

Maybe we should finish The Sentinel ?

 

Sorry to revive an old thread, but this game would be a cool addition.  I was actually looking for UFO info, the graphics in that remind me of something like STUN Runner, but The Sentinel is a game I knew nothing about.