Atari 800 XE Laptop

Lester Oats writes "Benjamin J. Heckendorn (of Atari VCSp, NES Micro, & PS2p fame) has been at it again! Summary from his site: "Of all the portable videogame devices I've ever built over the years one system has always been my 'Holy Grail' to make - my 'dream portable' if you will. (Yes, even more so than my Neo Geo arcade machine) And now after a couple years of tinkering it is complete! Without further ado - the Atari 800 XE Laptop!""

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Re:Was the Atari his webserver as well?

[Dogtanian]

I mean, the Atari Flashbacks (1 & 2) were both reasonably successful at $30.

If you mean the Atari 7800 flashbacks, they weren't genuine emulators; they'd simply reprogrammed the game IIRC, and there were apparently quite a few differences between the Flashbacks and the "real thing". I think it was built on a Nintendo emulator or something(!). So don't hold your breath on that count, as they took the easy way out (i.e. cost-effective, but not nearly so worthwhile from the point of view of what we want).

If they released a *genuine* (a la that Commode-64-in-a-joystick thing that's out just now) Atari 400/800/XL/XE on a joystick (or whatever) at a similar price to the Commodork all-in-one I'd snap it up in a minute. A few "simulated", not-quite-right games, probably not.

Though wasn't the Crappydore one based on a "universal" design (the C= One or something IIRC, there were several /. stories about it)? Sounds promising if they can get it to do an Atari too...