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While this is a little alarming, I watched the episode. The guy uses it for retro-gaming! He said it is essentially a flat panel TV with composite inputs. This is exactly what I would use this for!

Another option 🙂

It was worth a revisit though 🙂 Tendi flamboyantly overdoing her singing cracks me up!

Dakar Desert Rally is free on Epic today->Feb 22! This game looks great. Maybe it's one we could try multi-player with atari.io forum members. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dakar-desert-rally Make note that the classic RPG "Fallout 2" is free next week!!!

First dibs to everyone else. But if there are any left by March 15, I'll take them. I don't have any of those games. Thanks.

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I picked Caverns of Mars Recharged. First attempt: 305 points! I think I need a manual 🙂 It is so cool of Atari to do this.

Administer electrical shock if user tries to remove cartridge or turn off console too soon. 🙂

Cartridge slot pacifier!

For sure. Who remembers those old motherboards that had TWO BIOS chips so that you could flash one, and if it failed, revert back to the other? I know, I know...added cost.

Related to this topic slightly....my mom, whose dementia continues to progress 😞 For a long time, we had a simple "ladybug" cell phone for her to use. But she eventually lost the ability to use it...BUT we switched her back to a land line with the phone pictured below. And she loves it. She answers it and calls us successfully. So thank goodness these are still available. It costs more than a cell phone, but totally worth it for her situation.

While I agree with that on principle, I'm also an engineer and know dang well that if there is a way to screw it up, users will find it. Therefore, a system should be designed to be idiot-proof. Store updates on the console itself and do not re-flash carts, for example.

I'm sure I've posted this one more than once already, but this one NEVER fails to make me laugh. Trombone sneeze.

My family has had a land line and the same number for ages. A few years back, I finally convinced my wife that we should switch to an IP phone service. So sure enough, we ported our old phone number over and it works exactly the same way. I even hooked up our old wireless phone set (with 3 handsets!). I estimate the switch saved us about $300 a year. My wife liked it so much, she switched her small business over too. As for the cell phones, I think it's cool to see people without them. I like having mine mostly to order food ahead with the discounts offered on apps. But otherwise, I totally get your point. So distracting! Also, travel is getting harder without a cell phone. Some airlines actually charge for printing out a printed boarding pass! And we've also found the luxury of NOT renting cars and just using Lyft/Uber. For traveling, a cell phone helps a lot.

Aha! More research shows that this is a hardware limitation of the SID, and that it has been hacked for hobbyists who have added a second SID to their system! Here is the hacked version on C64:

I just noticed something that I found a bit surprising. For the EA classic M.U.L.E., the theme song for the Atari version (which came first) has 4 voices. The C64 version, with the mighty SID chip, there are only 3! Here are a couple of videos cued up to a spot where it is easiest to hear. It starts with drum, then bass, then synth line. The Atari version clearly has two. C64, only 1! The lower-pitched rhythm synth is missing!! Do you hear it too? In any case, it is one of my all-time favorite video game theme songs. Atari version (start at 39 second point if I didn't embed this properly): Commodore version:

YES! Thanks for posting this, as I was unaware. I'll check this out more closely when I get a spare moment. Some truly awesome efforts in the homebrew space not just this last year, but over the last decade.

2600 "Adventure" is one I return to often. I also really love 8-bit MULE, One on One basketball, and Blue Max. And I am known to play Windows Spider Solitaire when I have a minute to kill.

Oh wow. My family had a TON of these, as one of my aunts was an Avon salesperson. We had the cars, and presidential busts. When I had to liquidate my parents' estate, I sold them all, but kept one...a Portland Trailblazer bottle that kind of looks like a trophy.

Exactly. We were together, we were adjusting and managing. It could have been much worse! We saw several people that were very upset about it to the point of tears. It is understandable, but what can you do? Roll with the punches, baby.

Oooh, that looks good. And a nice price too.

Same. First time I've ever heard of this.