Tempest 4000 - YES! YES! YES!

[ozzzy189]

Finally! According to push square, it's out on June 12th

[Markie]

Finally! According to push square, it's out on June 12th

We will see! Fingers crossed at all times!

[PVB]

Finally! According to push square, it's out on June 12th

We will see! Fingers crossed at all times!

I’ll believe it when I can fucking play it!

[oxo]

No sign of the disk versions for PS4 and OXbox in the UK unfortunately.
Placed an order with Amazon.com in the meantime in case they don't show here.
I'll still buy it digitally on day of release though.

Giles, what's the best version, PS4 or Xbox?
Also, is it One X enhanced? ;P
*runs to hide*

[Baggypants]

Giles, what's the best version, PS4 or Xbox?
Also, is it One X enhanced? ;P
*runs to hide*

PSVita

[zbandito]

Rumor has it part of the delay has arisen due to the need to remove any of the original Polybius based code, as it has caused numerous members of the QA test team to go completely AWOL.

[gilesgoat]

No sign of the disk versions for PS4 and OXbox in the UK unfortunately.
Placed an order with Amazon.com in the meantime in case they don't show here.
I'll still buy it digitally on day of release though.

Giles, what's the best version, PS4 or Xbox?
Also, is it One X enhanced? ;P
*runs to hide*

Ok I have enough of all this .. but I don't know what I can reveal except "all is ready being held by the OXbox version cause ONE, one stupid thing about the Kinect".

PS4 version is DONE , LONG ago, in fact it erroneously (?) came out for a while ( and I don't want to hear about it any more ) .

PC version .. is DONE ( and I don't want to hear about it any more ) ..

Discs/things "I don't know, I hope they done all they said they would have done" but I really have not details ( and I don't want to know ).

Now the Xbox version, as far as I know so far, it's been tested an ALL possible variants/versions of Xbox One and yes as far as I know should ( sure been tested because they gave me some grief about that had to change some thing ) should go well on 4K display on the Xbox that supports it.

After this experience I think I'll have "Xbox NIGHTMARES" for LONG time - and I'll do my best to try to forget about all that - of all the systems I've seen this is the one that is giving/gave me the most grief and sequences of "italian words" of all.

I would personally have "far too many not so nice things to say" to whoever engineered and made the Xbox the way it is

I don't really know "if that's the way the new generations like to code" it certainly IS NOT the way "old skool (?) 1980 coders like to"

It's - OR SHOULD BE - a "game console" not a "wanna be jack of all trades masters of none not sure what this thing should be/do too much in a box etc." NNNNNNNNNNGH

It's not "gaming" .. "it's a social hub" it's not this it's not that .. it should be all of it .. from "windows to iOs to anything on the sun we have something for everyone" ...

My reaction is PRECISELY like the one in this following video, that's what I'd do to certain "engineers" or whoever said "this thing has to be like that" ..

Now replace "annamo", "occupamo", "menamo" with "Social" ,"UWP", "CXX" ...



Now the weird thing, in terms of graphics and gameplay I had "the bulk of stuff" kinda working in 2 weeks that made me think "Yeah, this is so cool, should be a snap"

NEVER IN MY LIFE BEEN SO WRONG

There was an "evil hidden somewhere" that had a laugh and said "you have not seen the rest of the OS/system yet" ...

Actually incredibly but true even the audio it's been not too complex to get it work ..

So you had the audio , you had the graphics, what took it so long ?

Well .. let's begin with the super weird thousands line of code with extremely weird stuff just to read "a some something about a probable controller" - and thanks goat we do not support kinect gestures ..

Let's continue with ALL THA )(*%$@)(#*$()#*$ thing about "controllers and user pairing" ..

Let's move to "application cycle lifetime" like suspend/resume/terminate/constrain/unconstrain/etc.

Let's move to a plethora of co-routine, asynch op, lambda ( yes in CPP oh pardon MS VERSION OF CPP with CUSTOM EXTENSIONS ) , PPLX, the fuck I know, functions that take a page to be written namespace::namespace::namespace::namespace::namespace::namespace::namespace::[=]OhYes<maybe template?!$$:)>(this).no%%that MAYBE CALL *the_fuck_I_am_doing* ? .reply -> onThis()

Let's move to "ah this should be explained there" .. login .."login failed please try again" ..login .."login failed please try again" ..login .."login failed please try again" ..login .."login failed please try again" ..login .."login failed please try again" ..login .."login failed please try again" ..finally you logged in, yes,information maybe there .. please wait ... 15 mins later .. "sorry the page you looking for been moved if you are not redirected within 45 mins please click this .. " "UNKNOWN internal error occurred 0x83131313 please contact the site manager" ...

Anyway after all this struggle we are down to one "lightly obscure" thing that I hope to finish as soon as I get back some info from MS BEFORE my INSANITY totally takes over and makes me take an SDK and launch it as far as I can down the cliffs of the coastal path being well sure it hits the rocks in the bottom at the maximum speed.

Yes I know it's a rather stupid feature, yes I know nobody uses a Kinect, yes MS wants it supported at all costs even if the game does not use it at all.

Yes I did not understand a shit why that thing happens that I think should not happen, yes it took me a week to find a kinect and hack it and make it work and find a way to set it up in the only way I can ( non optimal ) because you can't even buy a kinect anywhere NOBODY WANTS IT, I found it in a pawn shop for 20 quids I probably could have found it even for 10 ..

Waiting from some reply from MS Support ( when they answer they are NOT bad at all ) about this last shit.

Ah yes the kinect probably I'll use a sledgehammer after I am done with it.

I can find TONS in Pawn shops NOBODY wants them !

.. except MS ..

But you know what ? I am REALLY FED UP of all this "consoles are a social hub business" .. CONSOLES ARE TO PLAY GAMES !! Actually all this experience made me even more anti-social, I don't want ANYONE to know what I am doing while I am playing a game, if I am rubbish while playing it, nobody needs to know ! I am good the same !

And I don't want Cortana listening .. ALL THE TIME .. or Kinect watching me .. ALL THE TIME !!! ...

And I don't want to "compare stats", I am rubbish I know, or find someone more rubbish than me to make me feel better, or someone much better to make me feel worse ...

Or taunt my friends ( taunt me like that 'too much' and you won't be friend any more ) about "look look I made this huge score beat me!" or stuff like that.

I want a game with one joystic and 3 buttons .. AND NOTHING ELSE ..

Actually I have it.

I SO MISS the old Arcade Rooms and the old Arcade stuff.

You did not have anyone pestering you about "Hero Stats" in those times

[MegaZoid.]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

[Jamesac]

I sent off an e-mail to Atari's PR about Tempest 4000, asking how it goes on the VCS and admitting I'm assuming it's a Wine setup extensively tested within Atari. I'll let you know what I get back.

[Harlequin]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

$1,703,751 of a $100,000 goal‽

So it is a kind of SteamBox, then. Or, at least, it runs Linux Steam games on a modified Ubuntu distro.

Shipping in the first quarter of next year; pre-orders arriving in the second quarter (how long is shipping supposed to take?). So we should know in a bit over a year whether this thing actually exists.

And what is with this Siri/Alexa voice command stuff? Who have they licensed that from and at what cost?

("*All IP shown … is depicted for illustration purposes only.")

[PVB]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

Some people are taking that as meaning that T4K won’t be released on PS4, Xbox and PC until Spring 2019, when Atari VCS ships.

[Flojomojo]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

Some people are taking that as meaning that T4K won’t be released on PS4, Xbox and PC until Spring 2019, when Atari VCS ships.

Surely that can't be so? They'll sell orders of magnitudes more units on real platforms. Amazon USA has June 14th as the release date for the PS4 disc version.

[gilesgoat]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

Some people are taking that as meaning that T4K won’t be released on PS4, Xbox and PC until Spring 2019, when Atari VCS ships.

Surely that can't be so? They'll sell orders of magnitudes more units on real platforms. Amazon USA has June 14th as the release date for the PS4 disc version.

I cannot speak 100% sure because I really DO NOT KNOW whatever could be in mind ( of some people ) but I could say "with a 99% confidence" that the release of T4K has nothing to do with Atari Box.

In fact I could tell you that the PS4 and PC versions are ready and done since quite some time and I REALLY hope/do not want to put more hands on them, I mean to mean "they are done and that's it" they could come out "tomorrow" if they would like.

We had some little problems with MS and CERT but that's all about it and it's a thing "so idiotic" I don't/can't even want to talk about it, "CERT at its finest" however "those are the rules, deal with it"

About Atari Box and such and whatever about it I do personally know probably even less than anyone else ( filled with speculation ? ) because I don't listen to them at all I only listen to facts I know and those are very little, less than the speculations/press sure.

Honestly "it's not my job to care about it", my job is to finish and have it completed what I am bound to.

I don't know at this point what I can talk, or what I should talk, I am not 100% aware "where are the limits and the depths" of the NDAs I signed for so "I really don't know", I don't really read ANY press at all because it gets to a point "the press knows much more than what I know or I think I should know".

"I'll believe it when I'll see it" that's my "best advice" for everyone.

And this is really the best advice coming from "N years of real life experience" .. see what you have in hands when you have it in your hands, don't be afraid/worried of this or that "it's not there until you don't have it".

There's "the world of the press" out there that "creates I really have no idea what" and there's another world somewhere else that it's NOT "the world of the press" that goes by its own .. the two things can be very different.

I don't work in the world of the press.

Things are what you make of them and what you make them do.

[gilesgoat]

Switch is great for Arcady stuff, and it's a games machine nothing else.
I see the Atari VCS is live on Indiegogo with Atari advertising T4k on it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atar ... 13207530#/

*SNIP*

[Firefox]

I suspect the German .. but could be Dutch as well .. even French looks "too long" in places.

Oui! Oui! Oui! Oui! Oui! Oui!
Mange la mort électrique!
Excellent! ... Oh.