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Good Reads

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 by Atari Orbit

The rise and fall of 6502 gaming by Ted Spence. Interesting read as I’m also facinated by the 6502 ecosystem. I hope Medium isn’t doing something wierd with this link and you are able to read it, if not, please medium don’t be bad.

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Raw Speed of the 6502

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Atari Orbit

Gergory Nacu of C64OS created the below graphic to poke fun at the Apple M1 CPU marketing. Michael Doornbos, at IMA Penguin has taken this poke and spun it around to try and see what the 6502 can really do. He charts his work across a number of machines with interesting results. And an update…

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576NUC Cart

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Atari Orbit

The NUC with a Cart is here! I have one. Playing cart games is now possible and makes the NUC a complete Atari system (with FujiNet of course). I’ll be updating my guide shortly with all the new info on the NUC+CART.

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FujiNet BreakOut Boxes

Posted on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Atari Orbit

To help facilitate FujiNet on new platforms, Mozzwald has created a new SIO break-out box. It will fit into any current FujiNet and allow each of the SIO pins to be used with testing and prototyping on new platforms. This was used for ADAM and now the AppleII bring-ups for FujiNet. The board are available…

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Dual 800XL and 1050 PSU

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Atari Orbit

Jan Beta on YT had a nice video building a custom PSU that powers both the 800XL and the 1050.

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SNES Atari Controller Kit

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Atari Orbit

the SNAK – SNES Atari Controller Kit for ATARI ® 400/800 / XL / XE and other computers & consoles – was submitted for the ABBUC 2021 hardware competition. Read the translated posting here, and there is a big thread on AA about joystick adpaters for more modern joys, and the software patching standards needed…

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XEP80-II

Posted on December 24, 2021December 25, 2021 by Atari Orbit

I saw that the new XEP80-II was in stock at the BrewingAcademy and so I ordered one. Amazing device. I’ve made some videos showing it in use with my NUC. The best feature of the XEP is that it’s a HDMI upscaler for your 8bit now, in addition to being a nice 80 column text…

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mytek XEP80-II Update

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Atari Orbit

Mytek looks like he’s wrapping up his re-implementation of the XEP-80. His blog has a new posting with info and a photo. This will do HDMI out as well as composite. This looks like another amazing product from mytek, and I hope that The Brewing Academy is getting ready to put this into retail. I…

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