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mmh... I bet the portfolio still beats a laptop in terms of portability and startup-time. The keyoard beats every pda. I think there still is a use for it. I would miss the Jaguar the most, that's a nice collection of games. The falcon is really a nice pease of technology, but was there any support for it? Did you keep some 8-bit stuff?

Wasn't the lynx originally designed to accept magnetic tapes? I would call that pretty unnecessary The comlynx is one of the best things the lynx has to offer.

In terms of gameplay, SOTB on the lynx is what the original version should have been. It's like a 2.0 version . I remeber the gameplay of SOTB 3 was at the same level.

After accepting the funky graphics, I've spend many hours on Bill & Tedd's excellent adventure.

Some info (translated): P.I.T.S. info

It didn't like Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake (on the MSX), because the sprites didn't move as fluently as they did in part 1. Now I think it's a great game. Back in the 80's, my oppinion was that every Mario game sucked . Now I play them once in a while. First I thought that Shenmue was a resident evil rip-off, what was I wrong!!! I also didn't like the 2600, now I played some games in the emulator and there are some nice games for it.

Thanks everybody! A vecflash will be nice! It looks like the Multicart is hard to find. @MFoolsRun, A few years ago she found another one, without games etc. for 10 euro (14$) ! She didn't buy it, so I said: next time, just buy it!!

Hi all, I just bought my first vectex! My sister got it from a market for 30 euro's (that's about 42 dollar) It came with the following games (together with books and those transparent sheets): - Starhawk - Scramble - Fortress of Nazrod - Starship - Cosmic Chasm Good deal I think!? The graphics looks razor-sharp and everything moves so fluent! I don't understand why this was never succesful. It's like having a small arcade cabinet.

Something like this would be cool This thing looks just so slik (even today) that you just want to have it. nomatter what.

Dude, get real its a POS. I don't get it. What's a 'POS'? Google says it's a 'Point Of Sale' [edit] I think I get it, the FB1 has stupid remakes of classic games I guess [/edit]

Just found this thread when googling for 'FPGA lynx' Is this project still alive? It would be cool if someone could replace the internals of an 'VG Pocket System' with some lynx hardware For the video, I would stick with the standard resolution, scaled up to a video/vga output. It would be nice if you don't need extra memory for double buffering. The lynx does the same and writes the location of the buffer into a register from Mikey. So you know where to look. But I don't know if this is actually possible because the memory would need to be accessed more frequently then. Roland.

Has someone already hacked this system? Put other roms on it, turn in into an atari lynx (just kidding) Someone mentioned that the lcd accepted rgb, so maybe it could be turned into a monitor. I guess it's internally a standard video signal which is displayed on the lcd or outputted via the composite cable. My Turbo Grafx Express worked that way, although it hadn't the composite out cable, but I hacked one on a defect Express. Perhaps you could use this: http://www.gameboy-advance.net/accessories..._tv_adapter.htm

You do have a point, the fact that LCD's don't blank between two frames (a side effect of tft) is not going to help... But maybe the lightgun games first send a black frame and then a white frame? I think Bryan also hit the spot, mentioning the 'instant jump in brightness'. With LCD, this 'instant jump' is not so instant anymore and more difficult to detect. The wii-like technology works with a little camera that sees the infrared led's in the sensorbar. With this information, it is able to calculate the position you are ayming at. http://www.x-arcade.com/newsletter/Wii%20Dupe.shtml

Look here http://web.archive.org/web/19991012024128/.../img/page4.html

A standaard light gun would never work with lcd. The response-time of lcd is just way too slow compared to crt. I think (in theory) it would work if you have the following: An lcd-compatibly-gun: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-zo-49-en-70-16s7.html. This is a wii-like system with ir-leds around your tv. Then you need some sort of converter. The converter should connect to the gun, and to your av and joystick output of your atari/nes/old system. With the information of the video-signal and the position from the lcd-gun, the converter would be able to emulate a standard light gun, giving pulses to your system at the right time, based on the video-signal. Roland.

I also did CB packet radio @1200 baud, imagine that! Nowadays with 20Mb internet connections I don't see any reason to go back! I found an Collector Lens for the receiving part. If I go IR, this will probably be the way to go.

Hi Nathan, I don't know how good those AAA powered radios are... Anyway there are some problems with it wich the MAX7030 chip hasn't, I think, like karri said. As far as I can see, the MAX7030 uses OOK, On-Off-Keying. Which means modulate 100% when sending logic 1's, modulate 0% (do nothing) when sending logic 0's. That's really nice because there are only 2 state's for the listerens too look at: noise is nothing, carrier (433,92MHz) is data. With AAA Powered radio's + modem there are the following states: 1. send nothing (the others will receive noise 2. Start sending (the others will receive silence) 3. Start modulating the data That would make things unnessesary complicated. And then there are the problems like switching speed between send/receive Yep, it's called the 'redeye'. The led's I use at the moment have a lens in it which narrows the beam to 30degrees. I could look for led's with a an other lens/wider beam. Or use some more led's for sending, each in a different direction, and a wide angle beam for the receiving led. But RF would be so cool. Just attach a wire...

Are you sure? Atari basic is doing that for whole programs. How can one statement eat up your whole memory? Ok, I understand that using complex queries can be difficult for a small computer. but that's not the fault of the query-language. The query is indeed just an interface. Atari basic is also interpreting and that works ok. I think it's better to just compile SQLlite and see what happens. If it just doesn't work there is no point in optimizing it. But maybe I am wrong. Roland.

Possible - yes. Useful (with SQL syntax) - probably not. Perhaps a lower-level interface would be more useful. Since developing database kernels is my daytime job, I'd love to see one on a8 What is exactly wrong with the SQL syntax?

Not an easy task. But it is possible. Here is one from wizztronics: http://www.wizztronics.com/lynx.htm

That looks really good! Do you know where I can order those?

Artlover, I've considered RF, but there are some issues and I havn't found one that will suit: 1. Speed must be 62500 bps 2. Be able to receive just after it has send (That's also why those all in one irda modules do not work) 3. Not too expensive

I just digged up my wireless lynx interface I made 10 years ago. Would there be anyone interested in such a thing? It does work at the moment, but I've to aim it very precisely. Then it goes up to 3 meters (about 10 feet). I'm now working on a ASK modulated version (same technic as your remote control) with better performance.

Hi Lynxman, I think it looks great! You've made a pretty cool PCB too, I wish I had the tools to do that. Did you use a thick PCB? Do you use the comlynx to upload games to it? Roland.