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SNES Atari Controller Kit

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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

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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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Loading Images on NEON

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With Neon you can load MIC format images! Now to setup a pipeline to convert PNG/JPG/GIF into Micropainter format. And the cool APOD server from billkendrick does almost all of that. More to come.

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mytek XEP80-II Update

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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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NEON

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Neon is a recent application created by Gibstov over at AA. It looked like Neon started out as a help viewer for his Ponies Game for the 8bit. But it has quickly taken off once he asked about getting it to work with FujiNet. If it could work with FN then DOC files (hypertext files)…

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Guides – NUC+ Updated

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I had forgotten to update the links on my local Guide Pages to the newest NUC+ Guide! It’s fixed now and I have found a link forwarding service (short.io) that will finally let me edit source links and not charge me for it. The Guide Page here has the latest versions and going forward will…

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Antic Podcast 80

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The Antic Podcast has done it- they actually mentioned me in the podcast! Actual time was 15:15 in the Atari Dunking Booth Episode (80). It was in the News section, and Kay and Randy were talking about the 576NUC+ again- but this time mentioned both my NUC History page (on this site) and the NUC…

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AVG CART

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The AVG cart is a feature full multi-cart system for the Atari by tmp user. I picked one up just to play the amazing new game Flob, which is available only as a CAR file. The AVG cart arrived from Slovakia in about 10 days (to the East coast). No docs, just the cart! After…

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July BASIC Challenge

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So, over in /r/RetroBattlestations they have a series of interesting challenges that last for a month. These usually involve doing something interesting with your old battlestation, then posting proof that you achieved the challenge. Then there is voting and the most voted entry wins. So the July Challenge is running a BASIC program on a…

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Antic Podcast NUC+

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Antic, the Atari Podcast episode 79 talks about new devices from mytek- the NUC and XEP2. You can listen to it and learn about the development of the NUC and other devices by mytek. The dicussion of the NUC starts around 24m in.

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