Podcast Retro News & Atari ENDS New VCS. Am I Shocked? Nope.
Jan 6, 2023 1:27:02 GMT
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Post by c64stuff on Jan 6, 2023 1:27:02 GMT
As much as I was and am a Commodore fan, I'll root for pretty much anybody but big company entities like an apple or IBM. That kind of power never leads to lower prices, innovation, or good ideas in my opinion.
I got my start with the Atari 2600 and also Atari's fantastic arcade machines. I've always rooted for Atari to do better and compete against the likes of overpriced apple products and boring Microsoft clones from the IBM zombies.
Unfortunately, from Atari's 8 bit line, to their lackluster Atari St line (they were great against the way overpriced Macintosh but I'm talking Atari versus compared to the Amiga here), Atari never seemed to push the lead in technology at a cheaper price much beyond the 2600. Commodore completely replaced them in that role. And this new Atari VCS machine wasn't much different in my opinion.
Atari, I as a Commodore fan am rooting for you. I'll root for anybody who offers a better and cheaper alternative to IBM, apple, android, or iPhones, because technology in all it's unique and different flavors was so much more interesting back then.But these days the only cheaper and in some ways better alternative to any of that is the Raspberry Pi or even other single board computers.
I see single board computers as the future. Not only being cheaper, less power hungry and much more simple in design and desk space, but also being Linux driven much cleaner setups that run much faster on less able hardware because they aren't overburdened with a terrible windows or Apple operating system.
I'd much rather have ten different single board computer manufacturers selling somewhat incompatible hardware for software to run on than two or three selling hardware that just about everything runs on, because that unique and diversified market is what there was back then when computers were interesting and fun and it made for a rich environment of both hardware and software developer mom and pop shops among other things..
Here's the latest Retro Hour podcast on Atari and other news.
I got my start with the Atari 2600 and also Atari's fantastic arcade machines. I've always rooted for Atari to do better and compete against the likes of overpriced apple products and boring Microsoft clones from the IBM zombies.
Unfortunately, from Atari's 8 bit line, to their lackluster Atari St line (they were great against the way overpriced Macintosh but I'm talking Atari versus compared to the Amiga here), Atari never seemed to push the lead in technology at a cheaper price much beyond the 2600. Commodore completely replaced them in that role. And this new Atari VCS machine wasn't much different in my opinion.
Atari, I as a Commodore fan am rooting for you. I'll root for anybody who offers a better and cheaper alternative to IBM, apple, android, or iPhones, because technology in all it's unique and different flavors was so much more interesting back then.But these days the only cheaper and in some ways better alternative to any of that is the Raspberry Pi or even other single board computers.
I see single board computers as the future. Not only being cheaper, less power hungry and much more simple in design and desk space, but also being Linux driven much cleaner setups that run much faster on less able hardware because they aren't overburdened with a terrible windows or Apple operating system.
I'd much rather have ten different single board computer manufacturers selling somewhat incompatible hardware for software to run on than two or three selling hardware that just about everything runs on, because that unique and diversified market is what there was back then when computers were interesting and fun and it made for a rich environment of both hardware and software developer mom and pop shops among other things..
Here's the latest Retro Hour podcast on Atari and other news.