An Atari 2600 OS, Nolan's 7800 Special
September 4, 2006 10:02 PM | Simon Carless
We seem to be heading into an entirely retro set of posts here, but what they hey - former GSW columnist RyanS passes on a YouTube movie of an Atari 2600 OS, as posted (but not created!) by Paul Slocum.
Slocum notes: "demo video of awesome Atari 2600 homebrew made by Dragnerok X. I'm moving the cursor around, and the Pong game is playable." It's a pretty fun idea, and people are already pitching in with ideas to extend it, so we'll see where it gets to - more info in this AtariAge post.
Meanwhile, visiting the AtariAge forums brings up an entirely unrelated post on the Nolan Bushnell signature series Atari 7800 - wow. The explanation: " A few years ago, we were contracted to assist in the production of NEW Atari 7800 units. They were to be emblazoned with Nolan Bushnell's signature (Nolan Bushnell founded Atari back in the 70's, if you don't know who he is), a large Atari logo on the front of the case, and "Signature Series" over on the right. Unfortunately, this project never entered production, and very few of these 7800's were built."
Categories: Retro
3 Comments
Mabie they should have just released a redesigned signature series 5200 controller to right years of wrongs.
d | September 4, 2006 11:52 PM
Here's another flawed product from Curt Vendel. Nolan Bushnell had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the Atari 7800, plus the fact that Vendel has spent the last 5 years doing nothing but bad-mouthing Nolan Bushnell.
Dave Sierra | May 23, 2010 5:18 PM
How is it flawed? The console is gorgeous and according to the information, seems like it was completely finished, but the Oshea company never produced it, also it looks like having Nolan Bushnell to be on the console was all Oshea idea and nothing to do with the design company. I just found a whole bunch of stuff on Nolan Bushnell - seems he owed a lot of money and test equipment to the designer guy, so if that was me I'd be angry with him too. Looks like Nolan Bushnell did actually apologize for what he did wrong, so I bet they are friends again.
d | July 7, 2010 7:39 AM