- also, the board costs 30€, or 55€(!!) with a Pi Pico W included. Considering the Pico W sells for around 7€ almost everywhere, the fully populated board sounds a bit like a rip-off...
I an considering getting one for my 520ST (I have a handfull of Pico W's lying around), but I'm not sure if it would be better to wait a bit for the next HW revision (if there is one)... v0.0.1 screams "early-adopter" a bit too loud for my tastes ;)
But I kinda like the idea of the floppy downloader that can directly grab floppy files from an S3 bucket somewhere.
- same here, on Chrome
- I like the kind of funny way this was written back then, you wont see things like this in any current (official/printed) developer documentation:
Panic - Roll Over and Die ... (Registers) destroyed: a, x, y, r0-r15, and probably much, much more - Not so much "ported" as "re-implemented something resembling the original Demo"...
Especially the 3D parts are completely different.
- There is already winevdm (https://github.com/otya128/winevdm)...
- Some technical details would be cool.
Is this based on the original machine (mainboard + original chips, or modern replacements of chips)?
Or is it just an FPGA board with an Atari core running on it?
Or is it software emulation on an ARM board, similar to the C64 Maxi aka TheC64?
- "No emulation." yes. yes, it is emulation. Unless you used the original parts, or you got replacement chips made using the original ASIC definitions.
"No SOFTWARE emulation" maybe...
https://x.com/rm_800xl/status/1714336578619707408
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/268697-how-rare-are-atari-.../
OTOH, in the Commodore scene, there are lots of replica chips available these days so that you can build a complete C64 from scratch using the original Motherboard (and even on the Amiga some of the rarer chips are being re-created, like the Agnus)
Of course, that's not much different than using an FPGA to just emulate everything, but the one-chip-at-a-time approach has the advantage that you can swap in original chips that you might find, and only replace those that you're missing...