Quoting: elmapuli still dont see why anyone would purchase this thing instead of an ps4/ps5, xbox one/xbox series...
especially considering the price of this thing...

i mean, the only ones who would like to purchase it are atari nostalgic fans and linux fanboys...
i dont see how this thing will solve our chicken and egg problems of lack of games/users, or why should i care for this device.

at least they relased it this time.

Well, I look at it this way (being both an Atari fan and Linux fan) that now they are one and the same. It'd be like if Atari and Sega had made a console together, I'd be all over that too.

But considering the fact that I have proven I can take a game I purchased through the Atari store and just run it on my desktop (granted I'd need to do something about my Super Ultrawide monitor having a funky resolution), it means I have a great choice on where I play the software. Also hopefully means they can get some quick ports made. Already having a potential quick library, vs something like the PS5, which for the most part unless you want to play the console version of Cyberpunk, or a remaster of a PS3 game, there really aren't any unique games for it that you can't play elsewhere, or even just on the older generation PS4. That'll probably change in a year or so, but right now there isn't much point in the next gen systems.

The Atari VCS can hopefully at least get some Linux ports going for it, if not I can use it as a more powerful RetroArch / Emulationstation than the Raspberry Pi. I'm wondering how much extra oompf it gets after upgrading it to 32gb of ram (as the memory / video is shared). I believe the processor also normally runs at 2ghz, but can overclock to 3.5ghz. I haven't read of anyone doing that yet though.

The motherboard looks sweet though.
https://hardforum.com/threads/yet-another-new-atari-vcs-update.1982704/page-3 [External Link]

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: slaapliedjehttps://shop.atarivcs.com/developer. According to that, they only take 12% from game sales.

12% if your game is exclusive to then, otherwise they take 20%, source:

Publishers and developers will receive 88% (percent) royalty on all Atari VCS-exclusive titles, and an 80% (percent) royalty on non-exclusive titles, approved and placed in the Atari VCS store.

Yeah, my bad, I should have quoted the whole thing. 20% is still better than the 30% everyone else gets. Though I think it's the same as Epic? Pretty sure their exclusives are also 12% but probably not if you are not exclusive.

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https://shop.atarivcs.com/developer [External Link]. According to that, they only take 12% from game sales.

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Quoting: SlackdogSo wait... they *actually* released something *and* it works? :shock:

I'd have one just for something new with that logo but...

Ha, inded they did and yes it works. it is a sturdy little guy too!

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Quoting: robredzUh oh, is the Chickening coming

Why did the chicken cross the road?

It was cold and needed to be warmed by Cooler Master.

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Quoting: RafiLinux

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnything in particular you'd like to see?

Installing the other OS options - Loading my GOG/other DRM Free game collection.

That should work fine. I'll see about slapping Lutris on there tonight. So far I've tested Debian Sid with Mad Max (plays using the Experimental Vulkan on High with a little bit of hiccups here and there, but otherwise pretty smooth at 1280x720). I installed Doom (2016) to test proton, but it was taking it's time to download the 59gb...

I've also ran PCSX2 and Dolphin on it with decent results.

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Quoting: RafiLinuxThis is interesting. If I can see it in action, I may replace my HTPCs with it.

Anything in particular you'd like to see?

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Quoting: constSorry for beeing sarcastic.
It will be a big surprise if anyone will ever build an entire software stack ever again. The difference here is that Atari doesn't only grab what they can but doesn't do anything to make the ecosystem a walled garden, which is really nice.
I still doubt this system will find a big community, even less 3rd party studios in a large scale. Still wish them some success as I think this niche will get quite interesting with the next hardware generations. I really think the time for an open console generation is near, though I suspect that it will happen with ARM and a standardized implementation of Apples Rosetta hack.

My thought at this point is that Indie studios that ALREADY have Linux native games should reach out to Atari and start getting things published on their store while it's still in a 'starved for games' level.

I mean how many games did we have ported over right away once Steam was available?

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Upon more digging, it also is running Debian (10.6, the initial OS before updates was 10.3) and running a 5.4.0 kernel. Anyone want some more digging?

I'll be doing an upgrade to 1tb m.2 SSD and 32GB RAM as soon as my order shows up.

Edit: To clarify, the Atari OS has backup partitions for when it does an update, so one rootfs partition showed /etc/debian_version to be 10.3 and the other 10.6. It had an update the second I plugged it in. So they're working hard on fixing bugs and pushing out updates. It's still in 'Backer-Only' mode, but in essence we are their beta testers until it rolls out to other people in March (I think that's when it's supposed to have a more general release).

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Quoting: t3gI'd love to have this free/libre under a BSD, MIT, or GPL license and in the mainline Linux kernel.

From the article it is going to be in the mainline kernel. They say two drivers are made by Sony, hid-playstation for the controllers and hid-sony for other devices. Not sure what those other devices are though.

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