nice review, some interesting insights on the joystick and like your suggestion about how to place the sdcard. Personally not a fan of mini retro consoles it is a collectable but without it's own retro keyboard it is not for me and just cost to much and it just little a bit looks like a cheap plastic housing.
It’s great for display and nostaljia , but as a real Atari user I would of recommended if they added a standard cartridge port and a workable keyboard so you can use the basic or do some fun programming. It would of been possible and a few extra dollars would of been worth while spending. But I guess they just kept it simple. They obviously didn’t do the Atari 800 case it would of been a complex mould and keyboard layout. Yeah so very simple but cute.
“A little bit of a nostalgia hit” doesn’t seem like much of a reason to spend money on this over using an emulator. Seems like this and most other mini systems are basically collectibles.
I personally like the original hardware a lot more, but even a little bit of nostalgia makes it more fun to play over an emulator. But at the cost I do think it is aimed more at the Atari collector than the casual gamer.
its a cool little mini.
It Is nice, I still like the real thing better but this makes a much nicer video capture!
So if I write a program in BASIC, how do I save it to the USB stick?
nice review, some interesting insights on the joystick and like your suggestion about how to place the sdcard.
Personally not a fan of mini retro consoles it is a collectable but without it's own retro keyboard it is not for me and just cost to much and it just little a bit looks like a cheap plastic housing.
I do like the real thing a lot better. It is actually a surprisingly solid build.
It’s great for display and nostaljia , but as a real Atari user I would of recommended if they added a standard cartridge port and a workable keyboard so you can use the basic or do some fun programming. It would of been possible and a few extra dollars would of been worth while spending. But I guess they just kept it simple. They obviously didn’t do the Atari 800 case it would of been a complex mould and keyboard layout. Yeah so very simple but cute.
I hope they do like they did with the C64 Mini and make a full size version with working keyboard (THE C64/THE VIC20)
“A little bit of a nostalgia hit” doesn’t seem like much of a reason to spend money on this over using an emulator. Seems like this and most other mini systems are basically collectibles.
I personally like the original hardware a lot more, but even a little bit of nostalgia makes it more fun to play over an emulator. But at the cost I do think it is aimed more at the Atari collector than the casual gamer.