Bill Rehbock
November 29, 2017 ·
I'm doing research for the AtariBox project and needed to get some of my old Atari hardware working after many years in storage. Placed an order with the amazing Best Electronics in San Jose -- still in business supporting the Atari users after over 33 years. Bought a replacement keyboard Mylar for my 1450XLD, a couple CX40 rebuild kits, a Flash-Drive upgrade for my Falcon030, and a MIDIMax Atari MIDI interface -- because Atari was doing computer MIDI well before the other guys. Incredibly, Bradley at Best Electronics is building new and improved repair kits for joysticks and keyboards as well as cables for the 8-bits, as well as ST.
The guys at Best Electronics really are fantastic. Got an S-Video cable for my 800XL from them, and would probably have gotten a PSU from them had I not just modded it for USB power.
Given the expected specification range it would make a passable SteamLink - Install Steam for Linux and stream to it. Space Giraffe doesn't have a SteamOS/Linux port anyway.
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy.
Pah, shows what I know about that then. I assumed steamos was some kind of wine wrapper that let you play steam games. It's really hard to be optimistic about this - there's no way Atari can pull off a Nintendo like suprise and they sure don't have the nostalgic clout of them either, no matter how hip their logo is.
Little stoned kiwi wrote:Given the expected specification range it would make a passable SteamLink - Install Steam for Linux and stream to it. Space Giraffe doesn't have a SteamOS/Linux port anyway.
If you're just going to stream to it, wouldn't it make more sense to just get a cheaper SteamLink or similar?
Depends.
This is a small form factor PC in a pretty box. If it's locked down then it doesn't interest me. If it's not then you could install Steam and use it for streaming in addition to any other services offered.
A Steamlink is ARM based. I think there is an environment so you can compile things for it, but will be more limited than x86 hardware.
If the environment isn't locked down then you could probably install Atari's software on any PC running Linux.
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy.
Still looks like just a plastic mock-up to me...</cynical>
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
Interesting...Atari reckon they’ll have T4K on it. Until now I thought that was just conjecture by the press. I wonder when the team will have access to “dev hardware”....?
skip wrote:Interesting...Atari reckon they’ll have T4K on it. Until now I thought that was just conjecture by the press. I wonder when the team will have access to “dev hardware”....?
