The GTIA Report

Ben Heckendorn has done it again with an Atari 7800 portable!

Would you have opened up a brand new Apple //c ?

From The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn:

What happens when you take 2 great tastes and mix ‘em together? Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for one, and my new NEStari for another.

Stella: “A multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator”

Notable changes:

• Widescreen video modes are now supported; Stella will simply center the image with surrounding black borders.
• Many UI-related changes, including resizable ROM launcher and debugger windows, and a new UI palette (the previous ‘classic’ palette is still available). This is still a work in progress.
• The locations of all major config files (statedir, palette file, cheat file, properties file, etc) are now configurable from the commandline and within the UI.
• Added more complete cartridge auto-detection for Commavid (CV), 3E, 3F and Activision (FE) formats.
• Added support for gzipped ROMs.
• Re-added pause support.
• Re-added support for Windows 98.

Yes, YEs, YES!

Arkanoid Breaks Its Way to the DS news from 1UP.com

A special controller resembling the arcade controller (complete with the knob) will be sold separately. This can be plugged onto the GBA port of the DS unit. The controller come in white, black, silver and pink colors.

E3: Commodore unveils its U.S. desktop lineup | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

I guess Commodore is back… If you want to call it that.

A peek at the Atari Flashback Portable prototype - Joystiq:

Curt Vendel, designer of the all-in-one Atari Flashback — also known as the perfect holiday gift for that difficult person on your list — let the readers of the AtariAge forums in on the design of the upcoming (and no longer rumored) Atari Flashback Portable.

Although I’ve already got a bunch of Atari games in portable form on my GBA, I would still be interested in one of these. I’m curious how games will be loaded onto the machine though.

Amiga News:

After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users.

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Initially, two systems will be produced that address two different market needs. The first is a consumer entry design that will offer a complete product with a target price point of $500.00, while the second will be of a power design that would have a target price point of $ 1,500.00. The PowerPC architecture will continue to be the architecture of choice for these new systems.

Amiga fans rejoice! New hardware to run AmigaOS 4.0 on, although I think the Amiga brand would get further along with a port to the x86 architecture.

It’s been 7 years since Ben completed his first video game portable, the original VCSp, and now he’s finished the Atari VCSp Rev 5.1.

Charles & Marie: Back Off Door Mat:

You can block contacts in your IM and in your email In-Box and on your MySpace page and on various other occasions and applications as well, but what do you do to keep unwanted visitors from your front door?

Ouch, at $110 I’m afraid the mat wouldn’t stay at the front door very long!