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100% agree on a new ST, but I don't want a mini. Some kind of new Falcon running an FPGA core or one of the Coldfire CPUs would be amazing. TOS can run on anything with a 68000 and a framebuffer, so it would not be hard to do a new ST of some kind. 😛 As for 5200 or A8. I think some hybrid 5200 system with 128K RAM would be good. SD slot, and ability to use regular Atari joysticks and new analogue 5200 joysticks would be great.

Very cool! 😄 Reminds me of the Calendar on the Tiger Game.Com I think it was similarly calculated to save SRAM. I used to use that and the address book, and the PDA functions. Would have been neat to have a PDA for the Lynx. A little SRAM cart to save your address book, notes, etc. maybe a real time clock too. 😉

Coolness. 😄 I never had the Lynx, but I remember seeing it in a Boy's Life Magazine, and thought it was really neat looking. Leagues ahead of the Game Gear and Gameboy. I wanted a Game Gear for Sonic, I was Sonic crazy. I did not get any handheld machine until 1996 besides the LCD Calculator types. 😅 A shame Jack's usual antics screwed over Epyx, and ultimately the Lynx. The hardware is very great. Funny enough the commercial with the boy playing the Lynx in school. I would play my Gameboy in the back of Science class in 1997. 😛 Never in the bathroom though. That was a place where you did not want to hang around too long. 😄

Just saw in the Portfolio FB group. https://www.apfram.com/

Agreed Solaris is killer! Blew me away back in the day.

Definitely, I got in late, cuz I dragged my feet, but still glad I have one.

Awesome. 🙂 Darryl was keeping me updated on his development of Block'em Sock'em . 🙂 Definitely he put a lot of cool extra polish into it. I'd love a copy too.

Good good! Games should be freely available to anyone. 🙂 I hate when people do the physical run and then sit on the ROM. 😠 Speaking of which, anyone reading this thread go download Carrot Kingdom, if you haven't already. 😄

Great stuff Lance! 🙂 Would be interesting to see what comes of those EPROMs. 🙂 Wonder why the Touchdown Football is labeled so late if it's NTSC. Maybe someone actually made it more fun? 😛 Sending the defective carts to South America is bleh, not something I agree with, but in the Tramiel mindset, it keeps from having to destroy them, and how can you get bad press for a bugged game pre-internet if it's all the way down in South America, I'm sure that crossed their minds. The monitor EPROM maybe is a code debugger of some kind of burn in or test cart, who knows. 😛 Interesting stuff as usual. ❤️

DJ Slopes has a great channel. This is a good retrospective, always interesting to hear the British view on the games back then. 😄 I would also recommend Peter Liepa's interview on the ANTIC podcast. https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-66-peter-liepa-boulder-dash I was surprised when I heard he wrote it in FORTH. Not what I would have used, but it worked. 😅

Very good ideas Lance! The solar charger is a good idea. Weird about the uneven battery discharge though. 🤔 I don't vape, but I have some rechargeable vape batteries I planned on doing something with years ago, those could be used in a series with a circuit to run a Lynx I think. They are 5v each so they would work nicely I think with a custom barrel connector to slide into the Lynx. Charging, could also be done with a crank charger. One of those could be built with junk drawer stuff. Geared DC motor, voltage regulator, capacitors, etc. During Hurricane Floyd in 2003 I think it was, I had my Sega Genesis Nomad and its battery pack. That lasted me well enough to play Sonic 3 for a while. 😄

Atari Game Tools is an easy setup library to make ST games in C by Doug Little. Includes tools to convert graphics, and stuff too. 🙂 https://bitbucket.org/d_m_l/agtools/wiki/Home

I played one at someone's house when I was little. All the adults were talking and the people who's house it was, just said, "Here play with this." Now I was used to my NES and Super Mario Bros, or my Atari VCS and Pole Position, but I remember finding enough enjoyment in this to make it to the end of the evening. 😛

Great Price, and great unit. 🙂

Looks like fun! 🙂 I think even scaling the playfield as he bounces up and down MODE 7 style would really make it feel less, I don't wanna say disorienting, but more pleasing to the eye/natural.

Very good looking Joust! 🙂

Thanks for looking, this is sold. 🙂

Can't wait to get mine! Great job guys! Another killer release. The A8 classic, now on the 7800. 😄

Really cool! I actually just dl the updated STe version yesterday.

Anybody want these? My son outgrew them. 2 sets, each box has the car, 4x gates, and 2x arrow track pieces. Shoot me an offer for one or both. 🙂

I was gonna order one at the some point. I have ordered plenty of other repro games from Ali, and don't see why it would be a scam. Jag cart PCBs are pretty simple.

Tape up your glasses, grab your pocket protector, and slap this in your stocking. Very cool, very Tron. 😄

Seconded, it's a fun game. 🙂

Oh neat it is like one of the kinetic sculptures that art guy Arthur Ganson makes.

All good points Peter. 🙂 The Lynx and Turbografx are good examples of 8-bit CPUs not mattering. The graphics chips and clever design make them punch above their weight. The TG-16 was hitting games that were on par with the Genesis and SNES.