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There's not much to do in GEM desktop without a disk. The only time I'd boot diskless was to ensure my systems was free of those pesky boot-sector viruses and then I could format a clean disk that was virus free.

If you boot linux in PC mode, you can of course mount the Atari OS volumes and make changes and possibly side load a game that way. But many VCS owners don't bother with PC mode, and not everyone is comfortable enough with Linux to make such changes.

I suppose it's waiting for you to insert a disk before it times out? Most people would have a floppy or hard drive connected to boot something from: maybe a few desk accessories or even just a desktop.inf files.

They should have the VCS hardware in physical stores first. I think the only retailer that ever put them on the shelves was Microcenter. For Best Buy and Gamestop, they were online orders only. Yes the Linux OS will recognize virtually any flash media format out of the box, also CD/DVD and even floppy. But the Atari OS User Interface would have to support it as well, I believe it already can read SD cards and use them as extended storage. But you would need a way to register the game in the Atari User interface. The types of games in the Atari store vary wildly from 2600 games to 3D efforts like "BPM Boy". Price varies quite a bit too, and size. So I don't think there's a right answer to this. Internal storage can be extended.

Apparently Unity is apologizing today and promised to update the policy

I find the modern synthwave "80s" music is missing one key thing. 80s music was bombastic with the singer front and center. The modern synthwave music is usually much more chill with a generic singer more in the background. Also 80s music was not that synth-oriented! Even most of the "Synth-pop" 80s bands were also using guitars, bass, exotic percussion, saxophone and so on.

Yeah, I'd love a Swordquest game with art style based on the comic books (and graphics level similar to the upcoming Haunted House). But I'd prefer a game with accessible puzzles with clues somewhere in-game and not have to refer to external media. The old 2600 Adventures forced you to read manuals or comics simply because they lacked the rom space to put everything in-game code.

The last thing the VCS needs is a new proprietary cart format. If you really want to distribute games on physical media- USB stick is the best bet, but readers for SD cards and DVD-ROMs are cheap and could be used as well. I don't think super high performance is necessary since VCS games aren't that massive and you'd probably want to install them anyway rather than run them straight from the media.

The way I understand it: Unity is changing their pay structure and will start charging developers per installation. (something like 5 - 20 cents per install) While that doesn't sound bad in itself, developers are worrying about things like * Do developers get charged every time a customer re-installs a game? or installs on multiple devices they own? * What about when a pirated copy gets installed? It seems Unity will be keeping metrics on installs and determines what counts as a chargeable install, and people don't trust them Seems like there's quite a backlash among developers to this.

I don't know how many of the existing and upcoming VCS games use Unity, but it's been a recommended platform for VCS development. Do you think this situation will result in upcoming titles getting postponed or cancelled, or existing games being pulled?

I think that's limited to games that read the Dual Shock 4 lightbar, but those would require the camera too. As @Razzie.P mentioned, that would include many VR titles.

Yeah it's our only 4K Blu-ray player too, but so far we still only own one 4K Blu-ray movie and still haven't removed it from the shrinkwrap! I was originally intending to buy the diskless PS5, but I bought it at a time when PS5s sold out as soon as a store posted new inventory, so you had to take what you can get. Astrobot shows what can be done with the Dualsense features and it is pretty amazing, but I've yet to see other games use the features so well

Looking for a position as "Head of Testing & Tasting Uncorked Beverages" (H.O.T.T.U.B) Anything?

What Frogger music has rights issues? I thought most of the frogger soundtrack was PD even back then- Camptown Races, Yankee Doodle

I haven't run into the USB issue since I posted it, hopefully a one-time thing

The Jag dev-kit might have been TT-based, I could be misrembering. It was one of the 030's

Yeah, There really hasn't been enough content to make it feel like a justified purchase. Sure the PS5 games look a little crisper, they'll have a more solid frame rate. I haven't seen a whole lot of games that give a true next gen feel yet. Finally this fall there's several AAA coming that have my attention, but some of them still come with PS4 versions, so it's still not going to be that "next-gen" break. Yeah I was playing Medieval Dynasty recently, which is PS5 only, but I don't see a whole lot in the game that feels like something the PS4 can't handle.

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https://atari.com/pages/careers Is this position open? (Asking for a pooch)

The main problem with ET was they made more cartridges than they had 2600s, they way way overestimated demand. If wasn't for that, they wouldn't have had to bury carts in a landfill, and ET would be considered one of the 2600's biggest hits.

Yeah Nolan is typical entrepreneur. Start a company then leave and do something else. Then the business is taken over by bottom-line focused "suits" and culture clash ensues. I wonder if Nolan was the prototype for the laid-back Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur that later became so common, or if there is an earlier example?

And a lot of 90s games had manual-based copy protection where they'd tell you to go to a certain page in the manual and type in the word you see. I think GoG disables this as well, even though you might still see the prompt in game? (it now accepts anything you type).

Likewise, Jack seemed to have only one play in his playbook: "undercut the competition on price!". It worked for the C64, but didn't work quite as well other times he used it.

I think it comes down to when you have a game that doesn't need the graphics power of the PS5, then why not put it on PS4 and benefit from the larger userbase there? (If it is still larger?) But yeah here we are 4 years into PS5 and PS4 games are still coming at a fast clip, It didn't take that long to make the PS3->PS4 transition.

Nice! I noticed I started seeing issues with my external USB though. Coincidence? Or related to this update? The drive wasn't available immediately when I last used the system, and took several minutes before it would allow me to run anything off it.