Thought this was interesting, using a cheap microcontroller someone made up a open source game engine that looks quite impressive very 8bit like :D They even have a emulator for it, for coding in a browser :D https://github.com/corax89/esp8266_game_engine https://hackaday.io/project/164205-esp-littl...

That is some really out there thinking, how awesome

Always wondered about these machines and why they never really took off, yet when I looked deeper they had some big name games released on them so there must have been enough out there to develop for them. I saved I think it was a A7000 from a skip years ago, sadly had to sell it at the time

On a side note; wouldn't it be great if one could play "null modem games" like Lotus over the internet? A device that connects peer-to-peer via IP translating null modem signals? :P Anyone know of anything like this exists? I would sponsor the crap out of that. :D And all this rabling was...

Interesting to me, since I spend all day doing this rubbish on a Xeon that still sometimes struggles, and yet here with a Atari doing it.
I might give it a go I have a 800XL and a plotter I want to see this

https://github.com/savetz/Renderific

Burn in, sprang to my mind, did they really have someone sit there and run them for a period of time? Or just "picture came on done" :lol: I guess it would depend at what point in the production line the modulator was added or was it added later? with someone just testing modulators on the...

Topic pops up now and again round here, here's a video with some info on it, I thought was useful anyhow

Exxos always ranting about interference and grounds

Reviews of some new 8 bit games, the Atari 7800 game looks quite impressive. I like the packaging that goes into these old games, so well done must have cost a bomb prob more than they can get back selling the games

His actually quite famous been on the television and all sorts :lol: Yeah, I get around a bit for a old guy :P I too have been on TV but no one cares about Police, Camara, Action VHS tapes :lol: Really ?? :lol: Yeah I think it was volume 2, girlfriend has a copy somewhere :lol: Never paid me my roy...

His actually quite famous been on the television and all sorts

I too have been on TV but no one cares about Police, Camara, Action VHS tapes