Atari 2600 in a chip

[Hendra]

Last year, someone posted a link to a video of a dedicated system that can play lots of 2600 games. It has drop down menu to select the game. It has a lot more games than the one from FB2 or Jakks Pacific. I think it's called 2600 in a chip or something like that. Has this been marketed to the public? Any new news about this?

[+FujiSkunk]

The Flashback 2 is the only new system that can boast actual 2600 hardware compatibility. The rest, including some that have come out since the Flashback 2, are just cheap Nintendo-on-a-Chip designs.

 

Perhaps you're thinking of one of the older pirate/clone systems offered with built-in games, such as the ones listed here.

 

Edit: You may also be thinking of cartridges that can hold multiple games, such as the Krokodile Cart.

Edited October 27, 2006 by skunkworx

[Hendra]

The Flashback 2 is the only new system that can boast actual 2600 hardware compatibility. The rest, including some that have come out since the Flashback 2, are just cheap Nintendo-on-a-Chip designs.

 

Perhaps you're thinking of one of the older pirate/clone systems offered with built-in games, such as the ones listed here.

 

Edit: You may also be thinking of cartridges that can hold multiple games, such as the Krokodile Cart.

 

No, it's actually neither one of them. It's a newer system built with an FPGA. The designer originally did it for a hobby and then sold his design to a 3rd party. He used to have a website to showed off his creation before he took it down after sold the design to the 3rd party.

[+FujiSkunk]

Ah, perhaps the projects talked about in this thread and this thread, then.

 

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[jaybird3rd]

No, it's actually neither one of them. It's a newer system built with an FPGA. The designer originally did it for a hobby and then sold his design to a 3rd party. He used to have a website to showed off his creation before he took it down after sold the design to the 3rd party.

Are you referring to Carlos Lopez's Atari-on-a-chip project? I did a quick search and found some old WIP threads on these boards (he has/had an AtariAge account), but it seems to have disappeared after the FB2.

[Curt Vendel]

Carlos said he had sold the design to a firm - Unprotected Reality? I think. The only thing was they never got past the FPGA stage and never got it optimized for ASIC usage. I remember Activision was looking at their project a long while back.

 

He had sent me and Atari a video demo of his FGPA kit back in Dec 04' but we were already at the stage of optimizing into a sample Winbond ASIC at the time and we well ahead of his design and moved forward with our internal chip design instead.

 

 

 

Curt

 

No, it's actually neither one of them. It's a newer system built with an FPGA. The designer originally did it for a hobby and then sold his design to a 3rd party. He used to have a website to showed off his creation before he took it down after sold the design to the 3rd party.

Are you referring to Carlos Lopez's Atari-on-a-chip project? I did a quick search and found some old WIP threads on these boards (he has/had an AtariAge account), but it seems to have disappeared after the FB2.