NEW Release PCUAE v5.0.0-R2

i added also basic Edition for THEC64 Family and THECVIC20

Basic Edition


have fun

NICE...

why ask ?

Yes it can but I got to figure it out how to add it

The AIO is uploading at the moment i edit the first post when done
dont know how its possible thats gone but it is so have patients gr Wizart

Nick, Davy,

forgive the weird question but

If the PCB in the 400 mini is the same or similar to the TheC64 / TheVic20 could you flash the 400 mini firmware to a TheC64 and make it a 400 Mini with a keyboard (a The400CBMMaxiChimera perhaps?)

Then add PCUAE onto the 400CBMMaxi to get back to TheC64 Carousel, TheVic20 Carousel, Vice Mode etc.?

Just a thought on how to get 400 carousel onto a Maxi.

I properly make a mode where you can switch between THEC64 Carousal and THE400 Carousel soon for THEC64 and THE400 Mini.

Do not see why THE400 Carousel wouldn't work on THEC64 Mini too, THEC64 Amora Carousel from THEC64 works on it, THE400 Carousel uses the same mail driver as THEC64.

Thinking about it all you need to do is overmount its firmware so when PCUAE Boots it thinks it booting up on THE400 Mini on THEC64 or THEC64 on THE400 Mini...

Its kind of funny RGL didn't think of this when they designed it and decided to use older hardware, a copy of THEC64 Main board in THE400 Mini, officiously they didn't care, I wish they be like that with THEA500 carousel too and not care if we add games to it...

The Vic20 Maxi shouldn't be a problem I'd guess cuz it's just a C64 maxi with slightly different fromtend firmware on it.

For clarity, correct me if I'm wrong, but thought I heard the 400 mini is just a slightly different variant of the C64 mini control board, and it's only slightly different because of what's available in parts for a product a few years later production wise? But the C64 maxi and Amiga mini use somewhat more powerful boards because they either needed it for more reliable full speed 16 bit emulation (Amiga mini) or simply came with more ram (C64 maxi) than the C64 mini did so they can run certain emulators for 16 bit systems easier?

iam reuploading because off some aditions and fixes

new update v4.1.1.223 here

THEVIC20 is THEC64 so would work on that too, it use the64 binary like THE400 Mini use manhattan from THEA500 Mini so is the same as THEVIC20... all machine come from one machine, THEC64 Mini, they ither use its software or its hardware, THEC64 main PCB board uses it blueprint so is the same board just uses a different SoC H3 not A20, and is set to run with 2 cores not 4 cores so its the same as THEC64 Mini that has 2 cores...

All PCUAE does is look for the64 binary when you load it from the USB Drive then it loads THEC64/THEVIC20 mode because they both use the64 binary as there carousel, I just get to load the right carousel when its finished loading everything so it loads THEVIC20 carousel, you can load THEC64 carousel too if you like as well.

THE400 Mini uses the nand from THEC64 thats 256mb KIOXA(TOSHIBA) TC58NVG1S3HT A00 Chip not 128mb nand, Atari are wrong, its nandb is 184mb so would not fit on a 128mb nand.

I have noticed a lot of little mistake they have made with THE400 Mini, it because they never put any effort into making it so did not care because they knew it would sell, RGL had to prove themselves when they made THEC64 Mini and THEC64, that why they are better made, when it starts to come to easy to do so just modify one machine to look like another then you start to make mistakes because its just a copy of another copy.

Mistakes:

MULE - characters missing on the screen and it crashes.
5200 controls are crap, hard time playing 5200 games.
Label says `Hong Hong` underneath it when its meant to say `Hong Kong`.
CXSTICK works the same way as THEC64 Red Joystick, it made the same way.
CXSTICK is miss aligned so if you pull down or up it goes left up or left down, made wrong so acts like THEC64 Red Joystick, should have a hole in it PCB and a pole in the middle of it to keep it aligned, it doesn't so why users are putting rubber pad on the middle of its PCB so it stays aligned but the pad will move it need a metal stand in the middle so the pole can sit in it maybe like a screw but is big enough to hold the plastic pole the CXSTICK stick has and keep it in the middle.
CXSTICK is called THEGamepad... why, it called the CXSTICK, it should not have the same name as the last controller THEGamepad(they all use the same IC inside them the GH001-USB IC, Its meant to be a Atari Joystick, its laziness, it will sell attitude again, well, Atari didn't gave a crap either, well they are just a publisher after all.

RGL have not learn from the past mistakes with THEC64 Mini.

Most of all this can be fixed by running PCUAE and Atari 8bit Mode, it has the Atari 800 XL and Atari 5200 emulators and you can use the Atari800 Emulator 4.2.0 menu so set it to a different machine if you want and set it up how you want...  I might upload a video of it running in THE400 Mini, it runs quite well.

Atari is just Infogrames and Hasbro Interactive with the Atari Copyright and logo, they are not the same company from the 70s or the 90s, they are a PC Games Publisher originally, they published The Matrix: Path of Neo(the only game they made that was any good) and Enter The Matrix(Yuck), plus the Terminator games that were crap, thats all they did in 2000s.

All they do now is sell retro stuff in the US, what happen to all the other companies in Europe, what is the propose of Atari SA, none, they are just a holding company for the Atari Inc, US company, Atari Interactive Inc they was Hasbro Interactive Inc, they just took over there company and website and named it Atari, that why they have a hold in the US... they sell nothing in Europe, what the point of making something to be sold by a 3 party like Amazon, your losing money that way, Atari should be able to sell to Europe by now themselves, like there silly Atari VCS, only sold in the US, so will never sells anything like Sony and  PlayStation 5 do, Infogrames has been Atari for 20 years and nothing to show for it really.

The problem with Atari is they still act like a games publisher because they are one, they can not make stuff, they need another company do do it for them, they never made the Atari VCS or the Atari 2600 Plus they just sold the Atari right and logo to the devices have its name, they have never made a console in there life's because Jack Tremiel did in the 90s.

Oh and they nearly when bankrupt, they got themselves out of by the entering of the social casino gaming industry with Atari Casino ... . Atari Casio, so they are like Sky Vegas...? I hate gambling and what it does to people, it as bad as drugs or Alcoholism.

On January 21, 2013, the four related companies Atari, Atari Interactive, Humongous, and California US Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.[64] All three Ataris emerged from bankruptcy one year later and the entering of the social casino gaming industry with Atari Casino.[65] Frederic Chesnais, who now heads all three companies, stated that their entire operations consist of a staff of 10 people.[66]

First Atari Flashback was in 2004 because of the C64DTV but was made by a different company then, not ATGames, it is on Wikipedia so Atari never made there own consoles, you need a factory to make them for a start and Infogrames is a publisher only so has none, they stopped when jack sold the company because the Atari copyright was all that was left, Hasbro Interactive only has Atari copyright and nothing else like Commodore, no one copyright the way the computers, consoles looked then, no point.

Anyway, Rant Over...

How are you gonna play Atari toddddaay...

i updated first post to v4.2.1 have fun The AIO is uploaded

Updates first post to v4.3.0
just read it

Added restore Toolkit switch NAND on THE400, THEC64 maxi and THEVIC20 and back or just restore your nand (restore nand is available on all models except the atari 2600 plus)
Added Sega Mode run sega games on all models
And more bug fixing