That Atari drama is a real shame, the three involved have put out some awesome and really interesting hardware for the Atari 8 bit machines. I too ordered an Incognito for an 800 I just put a mechanical keyboard on. Upgrade devices seem hard to get and go out of stock fast, a Sophia would be the only other device I'd need to make this ultimate except for a SIDE cart which looks like will never be available again. BIG LOSS for the Atari 8 bit community.
Agreed, however take a look at the epilogue from my video. Candle has released projects to PCBWay, and understand he'll receive comission through their sales of assembled or non-assembled units. Not sure how the firmware royalties to FJC will work, however he should get his share also somehow I hope.
I was lucky enough to get a Sophia and Sophia 2 for my 600xl and 800xl. I'm still keen however to get a VBXL also, as I find the pure-digital video of the Sophia is often not faithfull to how the video was intended to look on old TVs (IMHO). The stock video is not bad on the Atari's I have, however could be better.
@@TJAtarian Interesting, I will learn more about the VBXL which is still available. I did see that Candle released his projects except the ones he sold and I hope people start making some of them but the Ultimate 1MB and Incognito are not there. Both of those projects are something else as you know...
That Atari drama is a real shame, the three involved have put out some awesome and really interesting hardware for the Atari 8 bit machines. I too ordered an Incognito for an 800 I just put a mechanical keyboard on. Upgrade devices seem hard to get and go out of stock fast, a Sophia would be the only other device I'd need to make this ultimate except for a SIDE cart which looks like will never be available again. BIG LOSS for the Atari 8 bit community.
Agreed, however take a look at the epilogue from my video. Candle has released projects to PCBWay, and understand he'll receive comission through their sales of assembled or non-assembled units. Not sure how the firmware royalties to FJC will work, however he should get his share also somehow I hope.
I was lucky enough to get a Sophia and Sophia 2 for my 600xl and 800xl. I'm still keen however to get a VBXL also, as I find the pure-digital video of the Sophia is often not faithfull to how the video was intended to look on old TVs (IMHO). The stock video is not bad on the Atari's I have, however could be better.
@@TJAtarian Interesting, I will learn more about the VBXL which is still available.
I did see that Candle released his projects except the ones he sold and I hope people start making some of them but the Ultimate 1MB and Incognito are not there.
Both of those projects are something else as you know...