Gray Defender

Might just be a "feature", does same thing in Vice on my PC.

I was playing Boulder Dash (selected from carousel menu) and I noticed when the screen scrolls, the background darkens slightly, when the scrolling stops it lightens back up. Did same in PAL or NTSC. Seems more pronounced in pixel perfect mode. It is a little bit distracting. Curious to know if anyone else noticed this or if it is just my TV/HDMI cable issue.

That's great news. Glad you figured it out!

I downloaded both games last night. My unit was powered on for about an hour and gave them a go. I tried the disk and prg formats of both games and I played them in C64 PAL mode. My unit is configured NTSC 60hz. Needless to say I was unable to duplicate your issue. I had ZERO freezes. Now there are a lot of variables at play so it is hard to tell what exactly might be triggering a freeze. I am not that good at these games. I got to the third boss once. For what it's worth I like the Santron (hack) version better than Neutron which I know were both put out by Sarah Jane Avory.. As for the emulation, I think it's great, but some people have noticed speed/sound differences in the game "Impossible Mission" for example. Check out the terrific video by "8 bit show and tell" at about 14 minutes in. I probably would not have noticed what was pointed out.

Yes, will do. You/we are not the first people to run into these issues. I forgot where I was reading some others are asking for replacement units, which right now I am not ready to do. Mostly my testing has been for functionality, how things work, tinkering. I haven't really put it to a good play test. I will say as for the power adapter the fact that it is a common micro USB makes it pretty easy to find an spare power adapter as most people, these days have one around the house.

Thanks for your review. I agree with your assessment of the keyboard. Feels a little bit cheap as compared to the breadbox C64. The "micro switch" joystick is clicky (which I like) and for me not as responsive on games that require fast reflexes/corning. As far as having to rename ROMs for compatibility, I agree it is tedious but at least there is a way to make those configurations work. Hopefully they will add that kind of support directly in the menus someday. I did have it freeze on me one time during my testing. It also corrupted a save state when it happened. It was when I exited the classic mode back to the menus. Nothing would respond, had to unplug. This prompted me to download the latest firmware. So far so good after that, though I have not tried the games you mentioned. I will test it more when time permits...

The box came with US/Europe adapters that click or snap into the USB power thingy... Sorry I don't know what they are called...

Yes, interesting. After waiting all this time, I thought for sure they would have sent out the US version to US backers, especially with all of the people in Europe receiving their units months ago, but I was wrong in this case. Thanks,..

Okay so European version shipped to US.

This is what I got (bot at top of image)

Not sure now that you ask. I assumed that since I am in the US they would sent the US version, but I could be wrong about that. How can I confirm?

Good question. I know they have released in the US to the backers, because I received mine over the weekend and have been playing around with it.

Nice review... I wonder how it compares to the C64 1541 Ultimate+ besides being less expensive...

I really don't think you can go wrong with any of the Atarivox enabled games. Can you? They do not all have speech, but highscore support is always a plus. Atarivox supported games: https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=98

That was cool. I don't recall ever seeing a commercial for the Xonox carts..

Previous AA thread discussing this question:

Looks to me like there was a lot going on at 24 and they were not showing any one game so hard to tell where the beep came from.

Hi, I was one of the ones that really liked your youtube videos covering the Atari 2600 games. Will you be continuing those at some point or are they dead in the water? I understand one person can only do so much... Thanks, Glenn

I agree, and I know it's not much but I also purchased a second copy to throw in my support...

Another great release! I don't know how you guys do it especially so quickly. Great programming, graphics and artwork as well. Keep them coming!

You have a nice game idea, fun to play and pretty unique. I like it because it takes perfect timing and dexterity to do well. If you were taking suggestions, I would like for there to be some sort of indicator of when time is about to run out completely, like color flashing or a sound. I know there is the red bar on the bottom right but, almost everytime when the game ends I was surprised.

Please reserve a copy for me. Thanks!

I'd say that thousands of years of erosion has taken it's toll on the tip as well as the rest of the pyramid. I think it looks great and keep up the good work!

Personally, I am holding out for the DOS boot sector version ? . Just kidding great work indeed Oscar, I cannot wait to buy my copy...