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Picked up mine at the museum tonight. Very impressed with all the effort that's gone into the packaging. It looks great! Thanks!

Underball, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:32 PM, said:

It makes a lot of sense. I moderate the Marketplace section on another computer board, and we discourage "PM Sent" posts.
Why? Because the marketplace section is different from the other sections of the board. It's intended for the sole purpose of selling items and is not an area for discussions. Long threads of PM Sent and other comments conveys nothing about whether the item is sold or pending, but it makes any potential buyer scroll through the thread to see whether the seller posts that the item is sold. Unless the post asks or conveys additional information about the item (eg, where are you located? Is it the Rev. 1 or 2 board) it's just noise in a thread that benefits from being short and to the point.

As others have suggested, put the onus on the seller. Sold the item? Post that it's sold. Now everyone knows.

I ran into a similar discussion in which someone angrily insisted that if you put an item on your ebay Watched list, you should be obligated to place a bid otherwise you were somehow being deceitful.

It's a really impressive device, and I've joined their mailing list in attempt to ensure I can snag at least two of the boards soon as they're available for purchase.
Just saw a demo of it running XBMC at full 1080p, so I think there's finally a small and electricity-sipping replacement for my original Xbox.

The big issue with Atari augmentation is not so much the hardware as getting someone to develop software. An Arduino could perform a lot of the same tasks we'd assign to the Raspberry (excluding full system emulation), like drive emulation, additional interfaces, etc., and it's been available for cheap for years but so far it looks like only one person has stepped up to do some coding so far. That's not a criticism of anyone, or our community at large, it's just the number of people who could take on the task by way of talent, motivation, and having the free time, is going to be painfully small.

Very cool project!

I've seen the pre-Uno Arduinos used as an inexpensive sio-2-USB interface using its FT232 chip. This doesn't even use the Arduino's microcontroller. Haven't figured out yet how to do the same function with the UNO's different serial chip.

I thought it would be a great idea to make a device like this, but unfortunately it's a bit beyond me and staring really, really hard at my Arduino somehow just didn't make it happen. So I'm glad someone more capable is making the attempt.

Rybags, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:29 AM, said:

Wouldn't this fit the bill?:
http://rossum.poster...-810-disk-drive

Apologies for the slight derail, but has anyone ever got a response from that guy? Last word on his blog he says he'll post the relevant files soon, but that was back in May.