DegasElite

Those two are so close I thought it was Tuvix.

I got a logical one.

 

Was she a choice on there?  I wouldn't mind getting a hug from ...

It picked Tilly for me as well, but to be honest I'd rather have this one...
 

OK, this is just for fun.  Do the quiz and find out:  Which star trek character do you need a hug from?
My hug comes from Tilly...

 

If you have a TI-99/4A, << HERE >> is a little artwork at printables.com for it.

I love the color scheme on this. 

I improved on my score!  46,600!

Saved to watch later!

You touched on something very important here. If and when that day comes and Atari offers zero support, we need to find new and innovative ways of keeping the VCS humming along for decades into the future. That can and will be done, and Club VCS will be at the epicenter of the innovation I’m sure.

I've no stake in this since I do not have VCS however, of course, I follow everything Atari and have followed the entire history of the Atari VCS release including all of the plus and minuses of the platform. I always thought I wanted to be prepared just in case I ever end up with one. Windows on an external drive or perhaps some other OS is a nice option many seem to have tried, of course, Chimera Linux is an excellent choice with it being a great alternative with Valve dragging its feet on releasing an official PC version of Steam OS. An excellent idea and as you have already confirmed seems to work well. Thanks for sharing. 

I have not done this, but would try it and add Chimera to a separte external SD drive someday

I was disappointed that we didn't get Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story on the VCS, but I had to have it. I had a spare Team Group SSD lying around, so I installed it on my stock Onyx 8GB VCS and changed the boot order in the BIOS. Viola, a Steam machine that feels like Steam Deck or Big Picture Mode. The game ran beautifully.
Then I tried titles that crashed on a stock system from a Windows bootable USB.  These include Minter's Moose Life, Balls of Steel, the Lunar Lander demo, etc. They all ran fine.
ChimeraOS also has RetroArch baked in, and support for Epic and GOG. In addition to Steam.
Anyway, this may be a window into second life for VCS owners once Atari pulls the plug.
Have you tried ChimeraOS on the VCS?

That's how I spent my early 80's childhood at the local K-Mart, playing games on the TI-99 kisok. 
Anyone else try to "figure out" BASIC just to get Syntax Errors?  That's why my mom got me my first computer because she knew I had potiential for programming.
 

I ripped this image out of the recent Chicago TI Computer Club newsletter and colorized it for a little nostalgia.  Time flies, so it's hard to believe it's been over 40 years since we saw images like this in stores all over these United States...

The Commodore Atari 2600 Cartridge Adapter was Vaporware in 1980 but the R&D looked real:
  Was a prototype produced?
 This MADPlanet article from 2011 sheds more light on the mysterious Atari Cardapter suggesting if a prototype was produced it would have had to have been similar to the units produced for the Colecovision, Intellivision and Atari 5200 which were basically an entire Atari 2600 inside an expansion unit.
That's not really an Atari 2600 adaptor and the marketing was misleading. "playing Atari games on the other system with the adapter" really meant adding an Atari console to it; these adapters can be modified to run as a stand alone Atari 2600 clone console.
These Adapters were defended as the only possible way to play Atari on other systems at the time since 1 Mhz target platforms supposedly cannot in any way emulate or run each others programs natively.
Maybe the Game Loader was an Atari adapter that was truly different as described? 

This description details Commodore sound and graphics being used to play Atari 2600 games of all different types. 
It would be awesome to play Atari 2600 games with a VIC-20 soundscape and graphical skin!
Fake product to fool investors?
Maybe a fake prototype Cardaptor was presented at CES to lure unsuspecting investors like a mock up made from blinking Christmas tree lights cardboard and paper mache.
No real Adaptors only Knock Offs
It would have been easy to fool Investors at CES because there were no real Atari adapters on the scene just Knock Off Atari 2600 consoles that you plugged into your existing system which marketing called an adaptor, with marketing magic. 
I'm working on the real version of the product and Loader described to natively run Atari programs with CBM graphics and SID sound rendition! 🙂  
Here's the thread on AtariAge, in the Commodore section. The Loader is running a real Atari program written in BASIC and Assembly with no changes to the BASIC and Assembly code on a stock C64.  
CBS RAM and SuperCharger bank switching formats are supported transparently by the Loader and TIA graphics transposed to VIC-II in real time. 
Haven't added the sound yet, the SID is a subtractive analog synth like a Moog. Atari TIA to SID sound will be transposed dynamically by the loader in real time on 1 Mhz systems as described by the R&D team for that phat Commodore sound while playing Atari for real, on your Commodore 64.
 

Sounds like the Chameleon 64.  You can use that as a upgrade to a real C64 or a C64 clone by itself.
How are you dealing with the shortages going on?

The Chameleon 64 sounds really cool, I like that it has FPGA cores for the Atari 2600 and the C64.
I am not affected by chip shortages, Gameloader is running Atari 2600 program on an unmodified C64.
This is a software only solution using a soft ANTIC blitter accelerated by the VIC-II. 
I have just uploaded a surprising benchmark where it it is outperforming a real Atari 2600.

Any update on this project 2 years later?  I want this so bad!!!

I just watched this and though it was worth sharing here...
Tabletop arcade toys were all the rage in the early '80s. Coleco was well known for its tabletop machines (Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.), but slightly lesser known were those by Parker Brothers. In 1983 they released this version of Q*bert by Gottlieb. Jon found this one on a road trip into South Georgia, and while it works well, it was cosmetically not great, so in this video he cleans it up and applies a brand new set of decorative decals in an effort to restore it to its original glory.
 

Interesting, I might give this watch later. I got one of these about 10 years ago that worked excellently but was missing most of the decals and the ones that were left were rough. The only decal that looked good was the one around the screen. Similarly, I cleaned it up, repaired a few suss solder points and purchased new decals and had it looking like brand new.
Then a few years ago, another one popped up in the AA marketplace that still had all the original labels on it but did have some actiplaque like appearance on them. However, I ended up trading in the one I restored for about $100 and bought the one that had the original decals even though they weren't nearly as bright etc. And I still have that one and even though I know it could look like new, it is more original to me vs the one I did restore. If that makes sense?
 

It has to make sense to you.  I can see why you may prefer it fully original vs restored.