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I'm still tempted to buy a mini, but the price tag just doesn't match. (You can get a mobile phone with HDMI out for that price, use Colleen and have (beside battery, screen, WLAN, Bluetooth) lots of additional possibilities.) I wouldn't mind if they would just remove the stick and drop the price significantly. There are many options for well designed and reliable USB controllers...

Maybe this helps: ? 😉

Maybe it comes from the YouTube encoding, but if not, I would also say that the sound in this section of the vid is not good: Regarding that SysInfo 1.8 doesn't show 100% performance, could it be that the CPU is too weak for full-featured audio if lot of cycles are burned for the display?

Looks like the Mini could fit into the cartridge door of the 400...

Does anyone else wonder about the "SysInfo Speed Rate" displayed here: ?

If there would be CX77 support via mouse (like in Atari800 with the "-mouse touch" option) I likely will be tempted to buy one... (or more as presents...) (That would mean you could use a mouse as paddle controller too...)

Could someone try this on "THE400 Mini" and post the results here?

My experiences with (at least) transparent PLA are not that convincing to get a really "clear" part. Just a small proposal: Design the frame/top edges for print with the ability to glue in the top covering, made of a matching piece of acrylic glass...

Nah - we need a killer app like "xphoon"...

It's not only about performance but also development time. Products like NVDI only had a chance, while the original VDI was already slow. But it was good enough to ship a product. Putting a further burden on the processor with proportional fonts while increasing the development time (coping with them in the applications (resource editors, desk, tools)) made no sense from the management standpoint. It also explains the price tag difference between the Macs and Ataris. Having a usable graphical user interface already made a difference big enough to tickle the desire to upgrade to those machines. PCs are even a different story while they offer very fast hardware text modes (contrary to the Atari 16/32 bit line)... ...and there were quite many window libraries/interfaces for applications for those modes. Users wanted those interfaces but not necessarily proportional fonts.

Benefits are often seen only in regard to ease of implementation, CPU friendliness , same indentation, ASCII-art - so for most developers the usability aspect is surprising.

(Just to support my statement...)

Interestingly there are not many screens shots in the web. (And I won't fire up anything here to make own ones.) Most things are configurable. While the system support dropped, I even had the impression that one of the main tasks for the users was to tweak the appearance of the desk/GUI as there was a lot of offerings - contrary to productivity applications... 😉