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    Hello everyone!

    I collect everything from Atari, you can see my collection at https://www.atarimuseum.nl

    In the nineties I was one of the guys behind Stichting Pokey (The Pokey Foundation) and ANG Software. We published 60 magazines in Dutch, 3 in English and sold overstock from Atari as wel as numerous Polish games. If you want to know about the Dutch scene in the 80's and 90's, just ask me!

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  1. Interesting! I never have played the C64 mini, but I hope the lag of the 400 mini will be acceptable. It will be very sad if the lag is too big. I will test it tomorrow. The Myarcade Gamestation pro uses the libretro 800 core with the bad sound quality. I have seen some reviews on Youtube and heard it immediatly. Also I was very surprised the Gamestation pro did not use the official 5200 rom, but the Altirra rom in stead (which is not compatible with many 5200 games).
  2. And this comment was not cheeky? πŸ˜‰ Let's move on and enjoy the games πŸ˜ƒ
  3. Both tests used the same external speaker system πŸ˜‰ I will test the 400 mini extensively, I am very curious to know which emulator is used. I still assume it is the libretro 800 core, but hopefully Retro Games improved it. You are missing out on some very good games πŸ˜ƒ
  4. Both displays are LCD TVs and not CRTs. Don't you hear the bad sound quality of the second part? That is an emulator using the libretro 800 core. The second part of my post is about playing PAL games in NTSC. I guess you are not an Atari 8-bit user, because you would know there are hundreds of very good Atari 8-bit games that will run only in PAL mode and will even crash in NTSC mode. US 400 mini users will not be able to run these games easily.
  5. Please watch this video and hopefully you will change your mind....
  6. I have watched the videos of Genxgrownup to see and hear the sound quality. He let us hear a direct capture of the game MULE in 50hz (PAL) mode. The sound appears to be fine and not as bad as the libretrocore that is available. Sadly the soundtrack of MULE does not include samples, so I am not yet 100% sure that the sound is ok. But I have ordered one to test it myself (it will be delivered tomorrow, in The Netherlands the 400 mini is still in stock). But what got my attention was that Genxgrownup loads various games from USB stick. One of those games is Draconus (which is a PAL game) and you can clearly see it is running in NTSC mode. Sprites are flickering and the screen size is not correct (bottom part of the screen is not displayed). But when I look at footage of the PAL games which are included with the console, like Henry's House and Elektra Glide, it is clear that the 400 mini switches to PAL mode automatically for these games. There is no flickering, the speed is correct AND you can see that the screensize is a bit bigger (bottom of the screen). So it looks like the 400 mini (the emulator) is able to switch to PAL-mode when the user selects a PAL game. I will test if the 400 mini is running in 50hz mode when one of the included PAL games are loaded. I am curious to see if the console is switching the output to 720p 50hz or if the emulator is displaying PAL games correctly in 720p 60hz. But what I don't understand is: Why is it so difficult for the user to switch between PAL and NTSC as it is only available as a setting during the set-up procedure. I hope that Plaion/Retro Games will include a simple PAL/NTSC switch option so US users can play European games correctly too.
  7. The autostart option of the picocart supports only car and rom-files.
  8. Coolshop is an online store based in Denmark. They have many localized webshops for (mostly) Northern European countries. In The Netherlands they have a good reputation. Shipping is a bit slower than the bigger companies like Amazon.
  9. Afaik it does not work correctly on a standard 800. Though some people reported it does work after pressing reset... This was discussed in this topic earlier, that part of the discussion starts around here:
  10. In the development of the game Rotor II, which is a pong clone with a 360 degrees playing field, we tried several controllers: joystick, paddle, driving controller, trackball and mouse. We thought that paddles would be the perfect way to play this game, but they were not. Because paddles are not turning infinitely, they made the game harder to play. The standard Atari driving controllers were also not a good choice. Because of the low resolution of the driving controllers (the low number of pulses this controller generates) the player had to turn the controller way too many times to make a complete 360 degrees circle on screen. The best option was surprisingly the mouse. It quickly became our favorite controller to play this game. The mouse was the only controller that felt natural and the players were able to turn quickly and precisely in any direction. So I would say, try to find a tempest game that supports a mouse πŸ˜‰
  11. No, your GTIA is fine. It is a bug in a specific series of GTIAs, you are lucky that you have a good one in your 800XE πŸ˜ƒ
  12. You can still have the infamous GTIA bug in your 800XE, because most of them were built by Atari with this faulty GTIA. You can check it by running a Lucasfilm game, for example Ballblazer. If the intro screen does not look like this: your GTIA has the bug.
  13. "Any info / offers on this can’t find any with the same box" It is listed on Atarimania: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-frogger-ii-threeedeep_6779.html There is a separate forum for selling stuff πŸ˜‰ I don't think that you are able to sell this cartridge like you did with the 2600 prototype of Tarzan πŸ˜ƒ You can do a google search and you find plenty of pictures including the box.
  14. Maybe you should try the RF signal too. If the RF signal is in color, your composite cable is not correct. If the RF signal does not output color too, something else is wrong.
  15. The autorun is a standalone firmware and is not built in the normal firmware. You can find the autorun firmware here:
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