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In Topic: What do you guys think about the "Atari Portfolio"?
Tue Oct 4, 2011 8:48 PM
svenski, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 6:16 PM, said:
The Portfolio effectively has a hard drive which is C: . The portfolio itself uses AA batteries which are easy to replace.
The cards use, a better description, a watch battery. The memory cards work like removable storage on A: . You can buy a ton of stuff for the Portfolio from the likes of Best Electronics etc. You can buy Chess and BASIC for the Portfolio on card, and there is a way to hook your Portfolio up to your PC via parallel interface to transfer files and data between them - check out the Best Electronics site - probably works better on older DOS PCs though.
$100 for a Portfolio without anything seems a bit steep for ebay. Look out for ones that come with at least the manual, or some extras.
Here is the link for Best Electronics, so you can see all the cool stuff available:
http://www.best-elec...om/portfoli.htm
The cards use, a better description, a watch battery. The memory cards work like removable storage on A: . You can buy a ton of stuff for the Portfolio from the likes of Best Electronics etc. You can buy Chess and BASIC for the Portfolio on card, and there is a way to hook your Portfolio up to your PC via parallel interface to transfer files and data between them - check out the Best Electronics site - probably works better on older DOS PCs though.
$100 for a Portfolio without anything seems a bit steep for ebay. Look out for ones that come with at least the manual, or some extras.
Here is the link for Best Electronics, so you can see all the cool stuff available:
http://www.best-elec...om/portfoli.htm
In Topic: What do you guys think about the "Atari Portfolio"?
Tue Oct 4, 2011 5:50 PM
svenski, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 5:14 PM, said:
The portfolio cards use a cell battery - these can easily be replaced.
What do you mean "cell battery"? Is it the battery backup that the portfolio uses? For when you change the batteries? Do those cell batteries last a long time and where can you buy those?
Also where can you buy the "memory cards" for it? Is that the only form of "storage" that is removable? (so that is the only way to add programs?????)
In Topic: Can you play original XBOX games on the 4gig slim XBOX 360?...
Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:13 PM
Atariboy, on Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:24 PM, said:
Flash drives don't enable Xbox backwards compatibility.
I hope you're also planning to use that 250gig hd for other things besides Xbox BC, such as XBLA games, installing disc games to the hard drive, expansion packs, etc. Xbox backwards compatibility was pretty poor. Barely half of the library is compatible and the majority of the games that are backwards compatible don't really perform right (I've played perhaps 20 original Xbox games on the 360 at one time or another, and maybe 1/3 of those performed close to 100% with the rest having issues ranging from nagging problems like frame rate drops that weren't there on the Xbox to critical issues).
It's a pretty expensive accessory just to play the ~10% or so of the original Xbox library that actually works correctly on the 360. You could buy numerous Xbox consoles for what you'd be paying for a 250 gig hard drive and every game would be guaranteed to work the way the programmers intended.
I hope you're also planning to use that 250gig hd for other things besides Xbox BC, such as XBLA games, installing disc games to the hard drive, expansion packs, etc. Xbox backwards compatibility was pretty poor. Barely half of the library is compatible and the majority of the games that are backwards compatible don't really perform right (I've played perhaps 20 original Xbox games on the 360 at one time or another, and maybe 1/3 of those performed close to 100% with the rest having issues ranging from nagging problems like frame rate drops that weren't there on the Xbox to critical issues).
It's a pretty expensive accessory just to play the ~10% or so of the original Xbox library that actually works correctly on the 360. You could buy numerous Xbox consoles for what you'd be paying for a 250 gig hard drive and every game would be guaranteed to work the way the programmers intended.
Itchy Koala, on Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:57 PM, said:
He's right about that, I forgot to mention it's not going to enable every xbox game to play on the 360.
yeah their right. What games do you want to play? Here is a list of the compatible games for the 360. See if the games you want to play are on there...... http://en.wikipedia....e_with_Xbox_360
