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Crowdfunded Ataribox Reportedly Postponed Until further notice

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/14/2017 04:51 PM | source: | 9 comment(s)
Crowdfunded Ataribox Reportedly Postponed Until further notice

The crew behind the Ataribox on IndieGoGo (Kickstarter) last Thursday should have started with their crowdfunding campaign, as it seems, that has been postponed until further notice as noted on the kickstarter page. Exactly why that is, the company did not disclose.

The unit is making a lot of oldsters and aficionados hearts beats faster when the initial announcement was made back in the summer. Preorder should have started today with a delivery 'late spring 2018', however, the countdown on the Indiegogo page has stopped and yeah .. nothing. It is mentioned that more information will be posted later, reports tweakers. Unknown is the exact price for the unit, as well as the actual games that would be included. Herein might be the problem, copyright-wise. The Ataribox is estimated to cost somewhere between 249 and 299 dollars. 
 

 
The Ataribox can be seen a bit as a steam box, you can play a number of classic Atari games. The Ataribox would make use of a custom AMD processor with Radeon graphics. The console should be running a customized version of Linux. The Ataribox would be capable of music and video streaming as well as running apps and web browsing. The device is styled after the Atari 2600 from 1977.



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sammarbella
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#5501316 Posted on: 12/14/2017 05:35 PM
It's not a surprise at least for me, they spent a good amount of money on marketing but...:

- Few to no details on hardware specs
- Games?What games?
- Past fails of the brand

Get the money and run?

:S

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#5501350 Posted on: 12/14/2017 06:58 PM
The re-release of the old-time consoles is neat in theory, but when I try to re-play the games I once played 35 years ago (I guess I'm dating myself there) today, I think to myself "We've come a long way!" and then I quickly discard it and move on to a modern title.

The nostalgia of playing the old title only remains when it's only a memory and not something I experience again. You know?

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#5501381 Posted on: 12/14/2017 07:56 PM
Did they have the rights to even do this and use the Atari name to boot?

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#5501457 Posted on: 12/15/2017 12:13 AM
Reminds me of people capitalizing and still making money on the Amiga. Way, way back in the wayback machine I used nothing but Amigas for seven years--right up until C= went belly up. In its day, the Amiga was king--unchallenged, unsurpassed--the "god" of computerdom at the time. I owned during that period at least one of every Amiga model manufactured except for the A1000--which I passed on in 1987--to pick up an A500 instead. Stuff you could do with Amigas in those days was incredibly advanced--and often directly contradicted what Bill Gates at the time would proclaim was "possible"... ;) But like all good things, eventually the Amiga party came to an end because of the mismanagement of C=--few there in the company understood the potential of the machine or even what made it so superior at the time--the platform was far more than just gaming. By contrast, looking at MS-DOS environments in the 1986-1993 period was like comparing neanderthal cave paintings to Michelangelo's renderings in the Sistine Chapel...there was indeed that much difference. But that was then. Today the Win10x64 hardware and software environs are, as one might expect after such a passage of time, much superior--and indeed, picked up a few things from the Amiga and incorporated them (such as preemptive multitasking.) I own every major game I owned during my Amiga years and they all run fine either under an Amiga emulator like UAE, or DOS emulations. There's simply no practical reason to buy an Amiga today--none. Nor would there be for an Atari box, either, imo.

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#5501505 Posted on: 12/15/2017 03:22 AM
Did they have the rights to even do this and use the Atari name to boot?

The "Ataribox" is apparently being developed by Atari, so I'd assume they have the rights to use their own branding....

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