Wednesday 5 February 2020

February 2020 teaser



  Playhouse Strip Poker atari screenshot

No, this won't appear at the meeting.  It's just a teaser!

(Screenshot from French Publisher Ackosoft.)

The plan this Meeting is to get a (ok!  A little off topic here, it's not an Atari product) Nintendo Switch to run on the big screen.  Yes, this product of Japan has been designed as a hybrid that can be used as a handheld a la Atari Lynx but can also be used on a big screen TV.  Something that Atari Lynx's fan of the era would have loved to have but which would have been difficult to achieve as the Lynx's custom graphics chips were dedicated to driving it's in-built LCD display.  The display was not limited to fixed frame rates & the Lynx custom chips could deliver a truly variable frame rate which could be set to say 60 fps but could be pushed as high as 78 fps

If you're an Atari Lynx hardware expert be sure & add a comment if you'd like to elaborate or if any of the above info is incorrect (I once posted on an Atari Lynx newsgroup that the card/cartridge size was 256K because I was going on my memory but the typical size is 128K with a few exceptions that are 512K such as Jimmy Connors' Tennis)

  California Games - Screenshot

  Jimmy Connors' Tennis - Screenshot

Yes, I've tried be Atari relevant!

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