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I've got a pile of legacy hardware in the basement that's all in some way tedious to try to use.

One of my sons watches "speed running" videos that spend endless amounts of time discussing how mario jumps here or there to put a sprite into the wrong slot resulting in a stack overflow allowing a goomba to set the level counter to a weird hex value. He loves to play 8 bit games on his chromebook in dosbox.

I'd want to leave this thing in his room connected to a cheap 12in hdmi monitor and a reliable USB power supply to let him noodle with day and night, rather than his "has too many distractions" chromebook.




There's at least one fanatic who sells Atari 800XLs (and other Atari systems) on eBay, and he does things like test, refurbish, and update with HDMI interfaces, etc. I don't disrespect what the remake folks are trying to accomplish but I tend to think dealing with the refurb guy might actually be a more rewarding experience, with a simpler path towards getting support if it's needed.




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