FB3...

[Gorf]

I think he was taking a jabb at the utterly ridiculous plan for giving away the house

of the United States of America to every one with thier hand out(unless your the middle

class like most of us....we get to pay for it.)

 

 

No, I understood that. The details of the joke didn't make sense though, because it seemed like it was based on a lack of understanding of who/what the Atari brand is now.

 

 

I think it also was just a sarcastic possibility for where Atari could get some money....why not, we bailed out banks

now using the money to have private concerts with Cheryl Crow. Im not suprpised at this hypocrite who claims she

is for the little guy then goes and takes our money from these banks.

 

"Hey Cheryl......you still want us to use one one sheet of TP when we wipe our asses? What's that? You dont use TP?

Oh! You use the money from these concerts? There's certainly enough of it, that's for sure!"

 

You know she's grabbing a wad of TP when she wipes!

 

 

 

Anyway........yikes.......back to FB3! Jag II Chipset with adapters would be the Jack pot.

[Retro Rogue]

I think it also was just a sarcastic possibility for where Atari could get some money....why not, we bailed out banks

now using the money to have private concerts with Cheryl Crow.

 

Again, why would we "bail out" a French brand, run and located in France? That's exactly what I was talking about. There's this missconception of an actual US company that could be bailed out.

[Gorf]

I think it also was just a sarcastic possibility for where Atari could get some money....why not, we bailed out banks

now using the money to have private concerts with Cheryl Crow.

 

Again, why would we "bail out" a French brand, run and located in France? That's exactly what I was talking about. There's this missconception of an actual US company that could be bailed out.

 

 

Oh you have'nt heard then? The UN is putting out there hand. I would not put it past the current cast of

morons in control.

[Noelio]

You could sell carts that contain a hardware emulator on board or a "chip formula" to modify a dedicated onboard FPGA to run any given classic system and maybe even allow for the use of the native classic system's controllers.

 

 

Comeone dudes! Imagine an all in one Atari Classics console.

 

Give It one Jaguar Cart slot and two adapters.

 

One to handle 2600/7800 carts.

One for 8 bit/5200 carts.

 

Now since you have all Atari consoles covered and you are using the Jag II

chipeset, you can have third party people make other adapters to do other

systems like Colevovison, SMS, NES or what have you. The Jag II is 3 RISC

processors now and not counting the host. all bugs are fixed in this chipset

and it can probably be clocked at 200 MHZ. More than enough to handle

the old classics.

 

This would be a great move on Atari's part if they did this. I'd go in hock

to get one.

 

 

Then there is all the classic Arcade machines it would easily handle.

I agree with you, but it doesn't fit the current Atari biz model. I think the Wii has proven you don't have to have the last hardware to be competitive, but you need games.

 

 

And what model would that be? Still wanting to be something they are'nt?

Come now. Dragon Ball Z? I expect this from Sony, not Atari. It certainly

didn't seem to help things much now did it?

 

I already said that the Jag II does not have to be as powerful but it will need games.

Make the adapters as I said and you already have more titles than the competition

from the get go. You'll draw a huge % of classic console fans immediately and the

Jaguar's current library will not suffer from frame drops. Imagine Battle/CyberMorph

at a constant 60fps. Or Doom with no netwroking errors as that part of the DSP is fixed.

It would also run at a constant 60 FPS. I-war, the IS series, MC3D, HoverStrike would

all run at 60 FPS. Then you have a RGPU processor specifically designed to handle high

level languages like C so ports are now not only possible but practical.

 

Imagine Alien Vs Preditor at a constant 60 FPS. NOw you get us developers to continue

to pump out newer titles and 3D classic updates. If you guy saw some of the ideas I have

for these updates, you'd definitely appreciate them.

 

Plus, in a week or so, you'll have Mad Bodies to play on it too! ....its close anyway...

[Gorf]

You could sell carts that contain a hardware emulator on board or a "chip formula" to modify a dedicated onboard FPGA to run any given classic system and maybe even allow for the use of the native classic system's controllers.

 

 

The later would be much more practical and much cheaper. You simply put the bit stream in a

ROM on the cart slot adapters and when you plug in the the adapter, it loads the FPGA on powerup.

 

Using the Jag II chips would be powerful enough to allow emulation of everything up to and including

the Jaguar. That means all the arcade machines from the past as well.

Edited February 25, 2009 by Gorf

[Atari Dogs]

I think it also was just a sarcastic possibility for where Atari could get some money....why not, we bailed out banks

now using the money to have private concerts with Cheryl Crow.

 

Again, why would we "bail out" a French brand, run and located in France? That's exactly what I was talking about. There's this missconception of an actual US company that could be bailed out.

 

Ok. Congress can send the money to Curt then.

[Gorf]

I think it also was just a sarcastic possibility for where Atari could get some money....why not, we bailed out banks

now using the money to have private concerts with Cheryl Crow.

 

Again, why would we "bail out" a French brand, run and located in France? That's exactly what I was talking about. There's this missconception of an actual US company that could be bailed out.

 

Ok. Congress can send the money to Curt then.

 

 

I'd prefer that over some of the utterly useless crap they plan to finance

with our tax dollars. USA now stands for the United Socialists of America.

[antron]

USA now stands for the United Socialists of America.

sounds good to me. socialist have the highest standards of living on this planet.

[Animan]

Curt, can you include this with the system?

[BlackDS]

Curt, can you include this with the system?

No posts in a month, is the project cancelled?

[Wickeycolumbus]

 

No posts in a month, is the project cancelled?

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/149322-is-the-fb3-project-still-alive/

Edited August 24, 2009 by Wickeycolumbus

[TwinChargers]

Alright, here is what we now now-

 

The Flashback 3 is going to be a portable 7800 system. It will have no cart slot, but it will have a SD card slot.

 

Any of the info posted earlier in this thread is old news and should probably be disregarded.

[Flojomojo]

Curt, can you include this with the system?

The shoes are here.

 

What was the headband called? The Atari MindLink, right?

[Havok69]

Sweet - now we just need to find those pants!

[mckafka99]

Alright, here is what we now now-

 

The Flashback 3 is going to be a portable 7800 system. It will have no cart slot, but it will have a SD card slot.

 

Any of the info posted earlier in this thread is old news and should probably be disregarded.

 

Awesome!

[otaku]

so is the FB3 still in the works or is the FB2+ the latest and greatest there is and will be for awhile (and does it have a SD slot or cart slot?)

[JohnBuell]

so is the FB3 still in the works or is the FB2+ the latest and greatest there is and will be for awhile (and does it have a SD slot or cart slot?)

 

FB2+ has no slots, unless you hack and add them.

[tz101]

so is the FB3 still in the works or is the FB2+ the latest and greatest there is and will be for awhile (and does it have a SD slot or cart slot?)

 

Funny I got banned from this thread for awhile because I questioned the real possibility that FB3 would never be released. That was over a year ago and we have yet to see it. Hmmmmmmm...

[OldAtarian]

August 26th... Work begins :-)

 

 

Yes.... there WILL be a cartridge slot... sorta

 

 

 

 

Curt

 

Memory card slots don't count.

Edited October 18, 2010 by OldAtarian

[Retro Rogue]

so is the FB3 still in the works or is the FB2+ the latest and greatest there is and will be for awhile (and does it have a SD slot or cart slot?)

 

Funny I got banned from this thread for awhile because I questioned the real possibility that FB3 would never be released. That was over a year ago and we have yet to see it. Hmmmmmmm...

 

Nope, once again trying to rewrite history I see. Your exact statement was derogatory flame bait, *that's* what you were kicked for, not simply questioning if the FB3 will ever be released. In fact what was stated? Oh, here it is: "I think the whole FB3 thing is a farce. A pipedream that is never coming to pass. Atari/Infogrames has zero interest in hardware, being mainly a software dev company milking the Atari name badge for what it's worth. Curt Vendel offers little tantalizers to keep people on a string like "If..." and every Atari fan fawns."

 

And once again popping up with more flame bait to start it up gain seems to be your specialty in threads.

[ApolloBoy]

so is the FB3 still in the works or is the FB2+ the latest and greatest there is and will be for awhile (and does it have a SD slot or cart slot?)

 

Funny I got banned from this thread for awhile because I questioned the real possibility that FB3 would never be released. That was over a year ago and we have yet to see it. Hmmmmmmm...

You do realize Curt's been real busy with the 7800XM, right?

[TwinChargers]

Out of curiosity, could the FB3 or a Flashback portable feasibly be sold the same way the 7800 XM is being done? Granted it wouldn't be sold in the quanities a nationwide retail release would, but it would still get the product into the hands to those that would really like to see something like this built.

 

And seeing that there are threads that are 31 and 9 pages respectively on the Flashbacks, one being a petition to have it built, there is clearly some demand for them.

Edited October 18, 2010 by TwinChargers

[atarilovesyou]

Any ballpark figure on when this new 7800 system will be released?...and I'm hearing that it's going to be online sales only?

 

I'd be down; even though I know next to nothing about the system (although for a few months I did have a hankerin' for one...88 maybe?) new hardware with an SD slot sounds like the way to go.

[raskar42]

played fb 2 yesterday

 

still want 3

[tz101]

1 1/2 years ago I made the comment on a FB3 thread that it would not happen in our lifetime. I proceeded to get obscene names called by certain "respected" members of the AA community. Oh yeah, I even got banned from that thread by an AA admin, never having said anything even close to what was said to me.

 

Funny thing is I went into a local Kroger supermarket today and saw a display of FB2 systems on sale for the 2010 Christmas season.

 

Hmmmmmmm. What's with that?