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Re: ATARIbox

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Hi,

Arachide writes:
> Ice_Breaker@particlesbbs.dyndns.org writes:
>> I saw this and I'm not even sure what
>> to think of it ;)
>>
>> I mean, the geek in me says I'll end up
>> buying it. But the rational side of
>> me says.. yeah... this isn't going to
>> end well.
>
> According to what I read about that, the AtariBox will be based on a PC
> hardware.
>
> Then, if you visit this site:
> https://www.atari.com/arcade/developers/
>
> You can see that Atari organized the development of old Atari games
> revisited using the talent of fans without paying for their develoment
> time.
> Only the result is rewarded if you submit your program. (submissions are
> closed now).
>
> In my opinion, Atari has succeded in rewritting all of its old stuff
> without any internal develoment : the fans did it.
> Now they are going to integrate this set of games into a PC with a
> "console" packaging.
>
> A motherboard with the minimum: CPU + integrated graphics, 4MB, no hard
> disk, a memory card and two joysticks connectors.
>
> Let's see whether I'm right or wrong...

According to what I read, the new ATARIbox console will be a next-gen
console, at the level of PlayStation 4, Xbox One or Switch, and would
compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's consoles. The ambitions of
ATARI seem to be at the level of everybody's expectations about it =)

Regards,

-- 
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/

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ATARIbox Ice_Breaker@particlesbbs.dyndns.org - 2017-06-21 11:03 +0000
  Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-06-21 14:33 +0200
    Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-06-23 18:18 +0200
      Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-06-24 09:04 +0200
        Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-06-24 11:40 +0200
          Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-06-25 08:09 +0200
            Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-06-25 12:01 +0200
              Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-06-25 12:10 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-07-17 16:10 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-26 18:45 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-26 18:47 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-26 19:49 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-27 08:31 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-27 18:22 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-27 19:18 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-27 19:39 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-27 22:29 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-27 22:50 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-28 08:04 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-28 18:13 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2017-09-27 22:30 +0200
                Re: ATARIbox David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2017-09-28 14:23 +0100
                Re: ATARIbox Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-09-28 18:22 +0200

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