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Isn’t this partly handled by the AntStream product that Atari invested $500,000 in? It doesn’t have the museum piece, but that would like require stand-alone product focusing on a series. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/antstream-arcade-lifetime-pass-edition/9PKVNQRL9NQ1/0010/9Z3GGH8M5PN9

The bonus structure seems to be misnamed, shouldn’t Beat the Leaders be something like; Finish above at least one<Players in Top 4 from Week 1-19>: +10 bonus. Finish above at least one<Players in Top 13 from Week 1-19>: +5 Bonus And if you are in that group. Otherwise the leaders are eligible for the same bonuses, and this is just a score high this week bonus.

It’s bad when they do this with games, movies, and game systems. (Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, …) VCS2 , Atari 26000, VCS Nu (neutronium), or VCS Series B would have been more appropriate.

Would have to cover Calculus. Derivatives and Summations. Leave partial derivatives for the sequel.

I think you are missing a ‘t’ in there, unless people are doing untoward things with their Atari cartridge ports.

Since the ROMs have been removed from the AtariAge database, I wonder how long the Harmony Cart page will be hosted by AtariAge. The Atari 2600+ release makes sense now. Atari needs new hardware if they want the ability to sell new software. I don’t personally understand the homebrew market myself though, since my understanding is that selling 400+ copies of a game is a blockbuster hit. With those numbers, I don’t see how a company can make much money. And for the older original titles, your rereleases are competing with 120 Million loose used cartridges. Here’s hoping Atari keeps preservation of the history of their games and company alive. Congrats Al, enjoy the sale of your site. Hope you got close to $1.5 million.

What does, “Emulation used for hardware development.” mean? I know sometimes emulators are developed before hardware comes available, but that was to develop software.

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Interested. Pm sent.

Shingen the Ruler is a fun game, but not the best cover art for a cart. I suppose that if you picked the game up for a rental it might be useful to know what all the abbreviations mean on the domestic administration interface. Then there's the unfortunate matter of the toaster NES obscuring the cover art, so you would have to write all that information down before inserting the cart,

Does a Battletech pod count as 1 arcade machine, or as 16? (Similarly, does Dayton USA championship (networked) count as 1 or 8?

Indeed, this is an issue with many "official" games (Warlords). Several have issues with constant# of vertical lines. Old analog TVs were more tolerant, but the changing VSYNC may cause issues (like rolling/blanking) with newer digital TVs. I'm not even sure this issue could be fixed (without other tradeoffs, like additional lag of 2-3 frames) in hardware since it is a software issue.

@Thomas Jentzsch I think you misunderstood his meaning. The Harmony / PlusCart (mostly) work when plugged into the Atari OAC in the Flashback 2. (Not that the hardware in each is similar)

If they were a homebrew developer, perhaps deprecated

While I would like an Atari OAC or an FGPA solution, I think I understand Atari's direction with this product. A way to sell newly manufactured classic 2600 carts for $30. A way to sell newly manufactured new 2600 titles (Mr. Run and Jump) A way to sell newly manufactured 7800 carts. I hope the Atari 2600+ sells well.i hope it sells lots of carts too. At least it is something slightly new, a system that plays 7800 out of the box without CFW.

It's the Nexus build for the AFB9 / AFBX / AFB50th. There have been several updates over the years, don't remember when the sutom bezels were added, but I like them as well due to the 4:3 not looking good without it on widescreen TVs.

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Not an EE, so don't know for sure. It has been discussed before, at it appears you need about 15,000 configurable logic gates to emulate the 6507 / TIA / RIOT. I think the Spartan IIs from Xilinx had FPGAs that could hand that on the lower end sub-$10. Don't know if you can still get those though, Spartan6 might be the oldest still available. Not sure how FPGAs handle non-digital I/O like the potentiometers for the paddles either (perhaps you need a more expensive FPGAs for analog signals) Whatever Bill-of-Materials cost you come up with, multiply it by 4x and that is about the cheapest Atari could sell it for. (Also, engineering hours aren't free. So figure a minmum 3-5 engineers at $150,000 a year, for 9-12 months) It's no wonder Atari just releases more of the same each year. Too much upfront cost, with mot enough guaranteed ROI. The only way you will likely see a new FPGA / ASIC 2600 if one already exists and Atari can license it for free.

I would have wanted something different that what has been released over the last 20 years. What would have been interesting (if not going the AFB2 Atari-on-a-chip route) would be integration with PlusROM support that links to Atari.com own High Score Club with community tournaments and daily challenges, the ability to track your own score improvements over time. Something like AntStream for online high scores or at a minimum if you didn’t want to hook it to your WiFi an embedded MySQL instance to track and graph your own scores with a nice interface (maybe a nice marquee from the 2600/7800 box art (arcade below)), selectors for Game#, difficulty switches, etc.

This product clearly isn’t for me as all the Atari Flashbacks I have owned were purchased second-hand. I agree with some of the comments so far that the MyArcade Gamestation and the Atari 2600 plus are likely hitting the same consumer market. I’m sure the cart dumper appeals to some people with an affinity for physical products, but to me it is just an added expense. Anyone who doesn’t have a nexus AFBX, AFB 50th, or Retro77 community build might want to buy the Atari 2600 plus, but how many of those people are left. I would much rather have seen an update to the AFB 2 (2005) (Atari-On-A-Chip), with HDMI output, SDcard support, and fixes for the Starpath and other games that hit special R/W addresses that the Atari on a Chip wasn’t designed to play. The price point is too high. The $80 MSRP (only 1 controller?) of the AFBX / AFB50th is probably the highest amount you can expect to avoid the post Christmas bargain bins.

Nukey Shay did some work to create a version of the 6502 assembly code that would support 18 holes. The changes were never complete. If you had a little programming experience, you could complete it.

Amoeba Jump - 3447 Elevator Amiss - 2117 Lucky Chase - 7900

Reminds me of this bit by a YT comedian.

I’m sure every software developer has this experience, and I think it probably needs to only be 6 months rather than years. Anything you’re not actively working on might has well have been developed by a different programmer 6 months - 1 year later. It takes a couple while to remember what the point of it all was.

I have heard something similar for people who learn languages later in life, that they have to translate to their first language (think in that language) and then translate their answer back into what ever secondary language they are speaking in. I suppose that if you immerse yourself in the language, you might be able to start thinking in that language (at least it was that way for my parents). Gotta say that programming languages aren’t similar enough to spoken languages as far as I’m concerned they serve different purposes. One is for expressing ideas to other humans, the other is a way to train a computer to answer a particular question for you. I would think that learning a computer programming language would have more in common with engineering and problem solving than language arts / linguistics.