TrogdarRobusto
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15 hours ago, Giles N said:
Hi, do you know whether it’s true or not that Atari plans to discontinue their Evercade-cartridges?
I saw an article yesterday saying Evercade's Atari carts were discontinue and they would sell down inventory.
As for Evercade compatibility with the 2600+ that is a question best answered by Al or Ben.
Our goal with hardware is usually maximizing compatibility while maintaining a reasonable cost.
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3 minutes ago, zzip said:
There was a lot more negativity around the VCS when it was announced
The number of times it was called vaporware ... the VCS has its weak points, I could point them out all day long. But it has some strengths.
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6 minutes ago, Mockduck said:
Someone needs to do the work to determine the number but orders placed through Atari.com are given a sequential order number, so just like on the VCS side we've been able to track game sales in aggregate based on order number. I ordered immediately when available and my 2600+ order was 7925. The 50th XP set I ordered early this year was 4944. If someone places an order from Atari.com today you'll get a number that can be compared. Note that the number will also include things like orders for the Berzerk Enhanced and such, but it gives you a ballpark.
I bet those order numbers are just Shopify sequential orders, not actual 2600+ inventory counts. I mean, you can keep trying ... but I doubt Atari is going to be giving out that information any time soon. Sorry ..
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15 hours ago, PowerDubs said:
I readily (and often) call Atari out for the dumb things they do.
I can attest to this. Powerdubs is not shy about pointing out things he is not happy with. Especially to me
Right Powerdubs?
How are you doing in this rain by the way? It is nuts up by me. Huge puddles in the backyard, and my wife is trapped in the city because the trains are shut down.-
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1 hour ago, jeremiahjt said:
This thread has gotten a little off track, but I think I can speak for all AtariAge users when I say that the most important question that Atari can answer is this; did Atari get the rights back to Math Gran Prix?
Yes.
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Just now, Albert said:
Intellivision Interloper.
..Al
Gonna be funny to see Intellivision as a rank for an Atari employee ... but I guess I'm down for it. I did own an Intellivision as a kid.
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Powerdubs !!!!!
The sponsorships are nice, but I want to visit an Atari Hotel. One would imagine I would get some perks !Just now, PowerDubs said:
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What rank comes after chopper commander? I like that title, I might have to stop posting when I get close to the threshold to the next level.
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8 minutes ago, Matt_B said:
Thanks. I stand corrected.
The confusion arises mostly because of this line in Atari's FY23 financial report:
"Atari announced the termination of all license agreements with ICICB Group and its subsidiaries (“ICICB”). The license agreements between Atari and ICICB, including the Atari Chain license (the “Joint Venture”) and the related licenses including hotel and casino licenses, have been terminated effective April 18, 2022."
I didn't realize until now that there were two hotel deals. Holy moley!
Yeah ... I hear you it is word soup sometimes. I mean, a few of the articles that came out in April came to the same conclusion.
But one is the hotel licensing deal with a company that actually is in the hotel business.
I don't really know as much about the ICICB piece. There may have been a lot in that agreement that they just never actually did. There were physical Atari Casinos in Africa, I didn't think those were related to ICICB. A lot of the ICICB casino references were to virtual casinos. It was a use case for the token ... but as noted the execution issues ...
Our blockchain/web3 interests at this point are so far removed from all of that ...-
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On 9/27/2023 at 6:30 PM, Matt_B said:
The hotel deal is already dead, and along with it their association with the company that created the Atari token.
As I understand it, the hotel and token licenses are not at all related. Token was a licensing deal with ICICB. New leadership did not like how they executed, cancelled the deal. Full stop.
Hotel is also a licensing deal, with a different entity, GSD Group. Don't know where they are at the moment, the pandemic blew up their timeline.
Some articles conflated the ICICB termination with the hotel license. It was confusing. There were some virtual casinos, and other metaverse projects I believe within the ICICB umbrella. Those are all terminated.
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and a video ...
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At one point we were discussing Brazil ... the thread is 72 pages long and I couldn't find what I was looking for with search. My apologies. But, I said one of our partners had done a cool activation in a mall in Brazil. Here are some photos.
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2 hours ago, D Train said:
if he approaches this from a "mission driven" perspective rather than solely a profit driven one, that would be a welcome change.
If your mission is a good one, a mission that has a strong community, sense of purpose, makes sense in the marketplace ... one would imagine that it would also be profitable. that is what I am rooting for ...
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11 minutes ago, Nall3k said:
Just to clarify, I didn't mean that as an insult, but more as a compliment. There are certain game CEOs who come off as not caring about their end products because they don't seem like actual gamers.
100% ... we are all good... he is an actual gamer. I don't know how he finds the time, but I am very grateful that he does.
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28 minutes ago, Nall3k said:
You can't run a company into the ground that was already 6 feet under. Whatever way Wade has his money, he's bringing something Atari has desperately needed for like 10+ years: money. Wade seems more like a gamer than a businessman, so it will be interesting to see if he can pull Atari up.
I really don't want to wade into the conjecture about our Chairman and CEO (nice pun right?). But, I will say from personal experience and some understanding of his background that he is both a businessman and a gamer.
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3 hours ago, zzip said:
"Nooo! I meant I wanted a 2600 for Christmas! Well now that I own Atari I guess I'll just have to build my own"
- The inside scoop of how the 2600+ came to be
I actually said something like that in an interview, I think Wade did too. You might be referencing that? I mentioned it in the context of Wade soldering RCA cables to his original 2600 ... funny
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On 9/27/2023 at 1:19 PM, GoldLeader said:
One Tiny iteration of this company ago was an "atari" (Chesnais era) that I'd call downright hostile to those on this forum...HMmmm...Guess everybody quickly forgot.
I came in at the end of that era and the beginning of the Rosen era ... the change in how we interact with the Atari community was palpable, welcome and long overdue.
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20 hours ago, protomank said:
Man, I hope Amazon Brazil picks the Atari 2600+ for selling. This device is a beauty by itself, and then that Atari logo with lights on... amazing job into getting a classic design into a smaller form.
And thanks for the updates, as a software engineer, I know pretty well how transparency into product development is translçated into great products, because you catch some issues that might seem silly, way before and the consumer is much happier because of that.
Atari has some strong licensing partners in Brazil, but I don't know if there is a distributor for the 2600+ in country yet.
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On 9/24/2023 at 12:54 AM, Trebor said:
Truly hope it is given some strong consideration and integration.
As mentioned in this post, what is furnished by leveraging ProSystem 1.3 core files has many significant and obvious issues.
It would be a very poor showing of the 7800 system and library if left as is currently.
Hoping @TrogdarRobusto is involved as well, from a community and public relations perspective.
I am absorbing all of this discussion ... Ben is better pled to answer these questions re compatibility, etc. but I am taking nots for sure.
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58 minutes ago, Defender_2600 said:
@Defender_2600 one more note, we are testing every cart we can find and noting down any issues we see related to color, controls, and more. As we identify things we can evaluate potential remedies. The work is ongoing.
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51 minutes ago, Defender_2600 said:
Hi @Ben from Plaion and @TrogdarRobusto,
@Defender_2600 you have asked a lot of really good questions here. I have already shared them ack with the team and we will work on answers. It might take a bit, but we will address the whole PAL compatibility topic. We also have a lot of open questions about 7800 functionality that need to be addressed.
As for the question "does HDMI output a clear image" .. in my experience yes indeed. I had an Atari 2600+ at Gamescom hooked up via HDMI to a monitor I purchased at a local electronics store in Cologne, and it looked amazing. Crisp graphics.-
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On 9/17/2023 at 12:51 PM, sl0re said:
@TrogdarRobusto
Thanks for your suggestions
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On 9/16/2023 at 6:29 PM, M-S said:
You repeatedly said this should be discussed in another thread but you keep posting it here, I don't think Atari should have any problems with names now, they have just started doing 2600 stuff, it's going to be a long way until they do something with computers beyond 8-bit, and even more until they bother about the ones they don't completely own.
But to my question, @TrogdarRobusto , there's a company known as Tectoy which has been releasing the Flashback consoles in Brazil, they also have been releasing Sega products ever since the Master System, are they a partner of Atari directly or just a partner of AtGames?
It doesn't sound like it's related to the topic, but I just need to know that first.
I'll ask
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On 9/16/2023 at 5:21 PM, KainXavier said:
@TrogdarRobusto
I thought of another question for you. Now that Atari is making hardware again, is there any chance we'll see some kind of official Paddle Controller Adapter for consoles? I'd totally be cool with some kind of DB9-to-USB solution too since you're already making paddles for the 2600+.Interesting question.
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Right Powerdubs? 
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Evercade Atari cartridges turning into legacy by end of 2023
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I think this would more likely be a peripheral ... but I hear you.