Atari 5200 Guy

It took me a while but Debian and Steam are installed. And look what my VCS is playing:

That’s American Truck Simulator on an Atari! It just loaded. I’ll make one delivery and let you know how the trip goes.

It took me a while but Debian and Steam are installed. And look what my VCS is playing:

That’s American Truck Simulator on an Atari! It just loaded. I’ll make one delivery and let you know how the trip goes.

It played my ATS flawlessly. Whoever said the VCS couldn’t handle graphic intensive games was wrong. ATS has some impressive graphics. Not on the scale of CoD but can still be demanding. 
 
On my gaming PC ATS started crashing a lot. It never crashed or bogged down on the VCS. I’ll try it out with Borderlands 2 & 3, ETS 2, Sniper Elite, Saint’s Row, and Pac-Man CE DX. I’m curious at what the VCS is really capable of doing.
Keep in mind mine has been upgraded to 16 GB of RAM. However the AMD chipsets Atari used are nothing to sneeze at. Those processors are gaming processors pure and simple. 

Yes..but which one is actually active once you load a given game is the issue.  Games like Atari 50 have different controls based on which controller you use. 

Atari 50 is a must on any platform. It far exceeds a simple anthology compilation. It's beautifully curated and the new games by Digital Eclipse are excellent. The paddle functionality on the Classic makes the VCS version the one to get.
 

One of my favorite parts of having a VCS unit out has been all the comments received from visiting friends and family.  "What the heck, that kinda looks like an Atari.  Wait, it IS an Atari!!??" 😄

Debian on the VCS is underway.  Please stand by…

I was very hesitant about doing the PC Mode because I take original integrity seriously. Probably more than I should honestly. Im doing this for a few reasons.
Reason 1: The VCS has more modern PC chipsets in it than my gaming PC has ATM. It also has a much smaller footprint.
Reason 2: I want to join in on this month’s VCS challenge. While I could use my gaming PC I thought using the VCS would simply be cool.
Reason 3: We all need to face facts…all gaming consoles will reach the end of production and support. The Atari VCS will not be immune to this. If I can extend its ability to keep gaming then I’m all for it.
Reason 4: I would like to see if it can handle my large Steam library.
Those are my reasons. I’d rather play my VCS than XBOX to be honest. Long live Atari!

Well, I don’t know if I did a good thing or a bad thing but since I don’t use my XBOX One anymore I gave my VCS the XBONE’s external hard drive.

It’s 4TB. I’m going to try to install Debian again but it keeps looking like it wants to partition the VCS internal storage and I don’t want that.

I'm trying to figure out how to get Debian on my Atari VCS. I have tons of old laptop hard drives lying around and an external hard drive case I can use for them. My PS5 is using it at the moment. I don't have a thumb drive that's more than 16 GB. The biggest one is currently attached to my VCS for all the games I purchased. I want to be able to access Steam without Windows because I have well over 300 games there. I'd like to see how it can handle my trucking simulators.
I don't really want to use the PC Mode on my VCS because it just doesn't feel right but, let's face it, Atari branded or not it's still a computer.

Can the VCS use MAME?

I haven't been able to keep the multiplier up enough to beat my old score. It's a fun game but I'm obviously not very good at it. LOL.

@Atari 5200 Guy I hate that when set high score but instead you set it for your self 

@Atari 5200 Guy My Son set high score of 183,790 and it was crazy 

I gave up for a while. I can’t get close to the score I made.

I stumbled across this looking for 5200 games I don’t have.
And they are sold on EBay here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115911714663

I stumbled across this looking for 5200 games I don’t have.
And they are sold on EBay here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115911714663

Congrats to @greenween. That was an awesome score!

My first attempt: 26,315
 

OK. Thank! You can have this one back.
 

OK. Thank! You can have this one back.
 

@Atari 5200 Guy Here's a nice big clear one if you need it 
 

That’s wild. Just a while ago BitCoins were not worth much.

This has been sold. Thank you.

Cleaned and working. Memory card included. $50. Free shipping to United States territories.