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At least they can blame the Coronavirus (which they did). I think you’ll see a ton of insolvent companies doing this. If you want an Atari, buy a real console
by madengr 7y ago
At least they can blame the Coronavirus (which they did). I think you’ll see a ton of insolvent companies doing this.
If you want an Atari, buy a real console. Better yet, build a MAME cabinet. You can run all the 2600-7800 games in there, with much better controls. CRT emulation (raster and vector) is pretty impressive on a 4k monitor.
- rtrunck 7y agoI’ve always wanted to build a MAME cabinet. Do you have any good resources you could share on how to build one?
- zdw 7y agohttp://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/introduction.html http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/introduction.html for building joysticks. https://www.reddit.com/r/cade/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cade/ has a lot of people building/rebuilding cabinets.
- madengr 7y agohttp://forum.arcadecontrols.com/ http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/
- taborj 7y agoAnother approach: I picked up an Atari Flashback 2 from Goodwill a while ago for about $6. It can be modded with a real cartridge port to play actual Atari 2600 games, plus uses Atari-compatible joysticks (side note: the joysticks that came with the Flashback 2 work out of the box on my VIC-20).
- musicale 7y agoReal hardware consoles like the Flashback 2 are great!! The later Flashbacks are inferior (IMHO) as they use software emulation and lack the cartridge port solder points. :( Of course you need a real CRT also. The Flashback also works with paddle controllers (which are necessary for several built-in games) although they can be hard to find.
- tenebrisalietum 7y agoOr just run Z26. There's was joke going around a long time ago that if Z26 is doing something wrong it's probably an error with the Atari hardware.