MessalineApghar

@mytek@mytek Off topic but related... I would love to talk with you about an A8 product idea. -Messaline

what about the idea of a partial assembly , with just the SMDs mounted ? personally not for me, I want an assembled one, but an option for the DIYers ?

Personally , I like the idea of a "Universal" with interchangeable headers for the different pinouts. you could even offer multiple DB-9s for the 5 or 6 different standards , as well as the other usual suspects.

Aside from fixing the bugs, 1 - get a working Jaguar and Dev Kit into the hands of every programmer, from garage-lairs to the big boys,. every dev that wanted one, or who "we" wanted to steal is GIFTed a dev unit. 2- in addition to the Jaguar cart port, include a 7800 cart port. and make sure the 7800 port could accecpt the working 2600 cartridge converter. get all your existing stuff to run. keep your games , trash your console, plus you can run new games. 3 = as an expansion port , offer as thin as possable underunit expansion module that included a stadard-format drive and some sort of network. at that point in time 10-base-2 and 10-base-5 were prevalent and used simple Twinaxial or Coanial cables (depending on the transciever) 4 - promote the expansion by discounting it at or as a quick followoon sale to the main unit. say $100 off if you bought it immediately, $50 off if you bought it in the same month. for people buying the complete bundle at once, throw in 2 procontrollers. ...build their cost into the cost of the "combopack" box. alot of the companies with big hits, weren't demanding development money from Atari, which Tramiel would never pay, but they were demanding cross-platform-licensing fees. you want to have this game ported to this system , it'll cost $100k up front. and you get 0 on the backend, but it'll drive your hardware sales. I Liked the idea of dropping the lynx in and using it's games but on the jaguar's video and controllers. while charging the lynx. make it a PBI-connector STYLE dock coming off the side or back of the CD expansion unit,. and that the Dock plugged into. and that Dock could look like a reqorked modernized 830 modem. while it held & charged the lynx. 5 - if atari had handled CD-rom/CD-RW/DVD properly, like implementing full atapsi protocol , it would have allowed upgrading as new tech came out. CD-THOR was already a live but expensive product. (CD-rom Write-ONCE per disk) drive ran $$2500 in 1989, by 1990 it was down to $1000....you could see the trending. 4b - so with 4 in place, approach the higher end software developers like philips CDi unit, and/or panasonics' 3d0 . ask them for permission to be compatable, which is a right they were willing to sell, esp after the product went bust. amd with 5b - in a year or two writeable-CD and Writeable-DVD would be down to mass-market price point. as for switching over to the Cyrix/IBM/TI 486 emulator chips., they had some really hot interna; features at the command level, like Dynamically ReAllocatable Registers, and built in routines to Flip Endian logic / memory. so with some dev work, it could have been done. personally i'da stuck with the 680x0 series in the main unit, and perhaps slaved a 486SLC in the expansion bus. Rana successfully built a CP/M computer into every Rana 1000 drive, all you needed to turn it on and run CP/m on your 8-bit atari was a software upgrade, and an upgrade of the RAM in the Rana drive. ; but, hey i'm just blathering on. - Just my 2 cents.