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Wichita
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MAY 09, 05:06 PM
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Atari Pong was actually created without any code, but built with hardware circuitry alone.
I find that somewhat impressive.
 [This message has been edited by Wichita (edited 05-09-2022).]
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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MAY 09, 08:03 PM
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OHHHHH mannnn....my old fat eyes can't see the details, but here, friend, let me open this window up, and stretch my upper torso out
and allow me to ask this random kid walking by to post a larger version:
Little known fact* about this circuit:
If you switch the voltage, the game turns into "Gnop"
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* lie
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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MAY 09, 08:05 PM
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(It's color coded so you know the proper jack/lift points.)
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Notorio
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MAY 09, 11:55 PM
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Whatever happened to Atari?
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cvxjet
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MAY 10, 01:18 AM
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I worked at Atari back in 1982 (Right after getting out of the Navy) Came up with a fix for a testing failure in 5 days that took their head tech 2 months in his lab to find) (But I couldn't program a computer to save my life)
When I first started there, I was in the Oven test crew...they would put the Atari 400 computers in a large oven and run them for 10 hours at 150* as a quality test. I was sitting next to the wife of one of the supervisors....Entering serial numbers into the oven test 'puter....At one point she turned to me and stated "My husband makes me sleep with the big boss"
All of the top brass were swingers....Kind of hard to concentrate on the biz when you are constantly chasing tail.
The company tanked a few years later- partially because the gaming market was saturated...and partially because of too much...."Gaming"...of the hor-i-zontal type.
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Notorio
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MAY 10, 11:13 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
I worked at Atari back in 1982 (Right after getting out of the Navy) Came up with a fix for a testing failure in 5 days that took their head tech 2 months in his lab to find) (But I couldn't program a computer to save my life)
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The company tanked a few years later- partially because the gaming market was saturated...and partially because of too much...."Gaming"...of the hor-i-zontal type.
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Too bad about Atari, but nice work on that test fix! While you were doing that I was working at Osbourne Computers in NJ, gluing magnets onto small CRTs to correct the awful projection quality.
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Patrick
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MAY 11, 03:28 AM
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I have my old Atari 520ST sitting in its box behind me as I type this. When I bought it brand new in 1988(?), I paid an extra one or two hundred dollars to have the memory upgraded to 1 MB. Yes, ONE full megabyte. 
I used it back in the 90's along with my MIDI keyboard synthesizers, as the Atari had built in MIDI ports. It was a neat setup. I still have everything. One day I'll set it all up again.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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MAY 11, 09:11 PM
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Atari still exists... they continue to make games... though most of the games are based on their old licenses.
They just came out with a new system last year, which I bought...
It's a network connected streaming device with an 8-core (?) machine with an Nvidia graphics processor and some other cool stuff.
It has a lot of the old classics (my wife playing Super PacMan)..
And it has a lot of new games too...
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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MAY 11, 09:27 PM
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OMG PONG! [This message has been edited by TheDigitalAlchemist (edited 05-11-2022).]
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Australian
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MAY 12, 06:28 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Atari still exists... they continue to make games... though most of the games are based on their old licenses.
They just came out with a new system last year, which I bought...
It's a network connected streaming device with an 8-core (?) machine with an Nvidia graphics processor and some other cool stuff.
It has a lot of the old classics (my wife playing Super PacMan).
And it has a lot of new games too...
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I have some cool gadgets for games all play Atari , c64, Omega. n64 ps1 2 3 Dreamcast my favorite easiest to use is superxconsole or run same o/s on android tv.
raspberry pi3+ 20k games
raspberry pi4 30k games
pandora 3d 8k games
superxconsole pro 50k games
pc 100k games.
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