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Items that I'll be listing on ebay soon. I'll mention them here in case anyone is interested and would like to buy now (and save me the effort and fees of ebay). Pictures available if interested.
- Atari 1200XL - needs keyboard refurb. About 1/3 of the keys do not work. Another project I'll never have time for. Hoping to get $175 + shipping. Comes with power adapter.
- Atari 1027 printer - No idea if it works...probably not as the old rubber heads on these disintegrate over time. Free for the cost of shipping.
- Atari XEGS - works. No keyboard. There is a hole cut in the cover. I don't know what this might be worth. $80? Make an offer.
I did NOT buy a mini. I just have too many computers and need to downsize.
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Thanks for sharing here @RickR! If these end up on ebay feel free to share your auctions in our ebay listings forum
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pizza pie for lunch today? 🤔
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CRANK IT UP! End your day properly with some Yars' Revenge music. (Courtesy of @Sabertooth, who brought this up several weeks ago)
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It's a fun one!
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I'm fiddling with Dolphin emulator (for Gamecube) on PC. It works pretty well!
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Whatcha playing on the GC emu? I bought a GC several years ago and have a small library but haven't played it much.
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The AtariAge "Last Chance" sale ends THIS SUNDAY 7/23/23. I ordered a couple of 2600 games that were on my list. Grab em before they are gone!
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I ordered Baby Pacman and the Venture remake. 🙂
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Happy Atari Day!
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Thanks @RickR! Nice to see you celebrating #AtariDay!!
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3/14 is pi day!
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This is kind of cool: Calculating pi in Atari BASIC:
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/pi-day-estimating-the-value-of-pi
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I'm bad!
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I plan on going through all the games on this machine one at a time.
Bad Dudes is a lot of fun! I really like when you get the nunchucks as it gets easier to take down groups of bad guys.
What I don't like is the dogs! They are really difficult to deal with and you are guaranteed to lose a few health points. Plus, I'm not a fan of hitting/killing dogs!
I played for about an hour last night and really enjoyed it.
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Slow progress in the game room. I have a lot of systems set up now.
- A VHS VCR
- N64
- NES
- SNES
- Gamecube
- Intellivision
- 7800
- 800XL
- Vectrex
- Atari VCS
- PS3
- WiiU
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Really sad news via Marty Goldberg on Facebook:
It is with great sadness I announced the passing of Atarian Regan Cheng on April 4th after a two year battle with cancer. Regan was 1/2 of the world's first video game industrial design team consisting of him and Pete Takaichi under the leadership of George Faraco. Joining in 1972 while both were still pursuing a degree from San Jose State University, the duo designed Pong-In-A-Barrel as their first project before moving on to work on the infamous Gotcha cabinet. and a slew of others. Ronald Wayne (who would later go on to co-found Apple) went on to manage them after George's departure and by 1975 they were crucial to Atari's coin cabinet designs helping carve out Atari's unique look and feel in the arcades and were joined by Clint Graham, Phil Kearney, and Carl Lepinne. Iconic looking games like Night Driver, Evel Knievel and more.
Back in those days everything was done by hand, no modern CAD or design software. As Regan recalled last year regarding the days when Atari used off the shelf TV's in it's arcade games: "I recall us design guys creating the card board bezels to custom fit to each new TV. Took a while to do. We would trace the final pattern and give to a die cutting shop to make production parts. What a kick. Now we would use 3D CAD and 3D print . It was a kick."
Also in 1975 Regan became involved in Atari's foray into consumer products with Home PONG. By the early 80s he had left the Coin Division and was responsible for helping craft the futuristic look of Atari's home offerings like the Atari 5200 and their XL line of computers and products like the Atari 2600s Star Raiders controller as well as the phone products in Atari's pioneering AtariTel division.
Leaving Atari in 1983, he continued to play a role in Silicon Valley going on to work for such companies as Sigen Corporation, NAMCO, Data East, Global VR and Google (in their Google Fiber group). Regan is survived by his son, sister Donna, and a brother.
All product photos courtesy of the Atari Museum. Read more about Regan's contributions in Atari Inc- Business Is Fun and Tim Lapetino's book Art of Atari.
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This is very upsetting. Regan is a friend and colleague. We worked on a project along with Gene Landrum for many years pioneering mixed reality in ways that have yet to be done on a mass scale. That's Regan pictured with me at Atari World Headquarters on Borregas in the top left photo. Regan is a hell of a talented designer, and a very interesting person to talk with. I'd give him a quick call and 3 hours later would realize we really need to get going. I learned so much about product design from him, where inspiration is drawn from, etc. He showed me his vintage Jeep once that he bought with "Atari money" which was very cool. What an unbelievable loss to this world.
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