The Atari 400 mini + 2024 Solar Eclipse
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Күн бұрынWe drove to Arkansas, experienced the 2024 Solar Eclipse in the path of totality, drove back to the lab, and played with the new Atari 400 Mini.
#atari400 #retrogaming #retrocomputers
@maverickblah 3 ай бұрын
YES a new Taylor and Amy video! Just what I needed to start the day 😃 Also, that 400 mini is SO CUTE!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
RIGHT??!
@SusieTheExhaustedCatLady 3 ай бұрын
"And we're back." 😂 I'm so glad you showed your eclipse experience. We weren't able to see much here. Also, I need the tiny Atari. The nostalgia is real. Everything about it makes me happy.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
She was CAHRAZEE!
@EricsEdgeVideos 3 ай бұрын
That was a nice demo. I love it when they include unexpected content like BASIC.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Surprise basic!
@datassetteuser356 3 ай бұрын
Good stuff. Wish the keyboard of the 400 mini worked - but then again, I might be the only person wishing for that. Anyway, fun video, as always. Cheers to you!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
We wish that!!!
@anjanettepetty-kountz3785 3 ай бұрын
I’m so jealous that you saw the eclipse!! 🎉 I did enjoy that you projected it onto the white background for us who had next to no eclipse to view 🤩
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Man, that was game changing. Highly recommend!
@MisterMsk 3 ай бұрын
Always a good day when a Taylor and Amy Show video drops. :)
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
😊😊😊😊😊
@equinoxxee 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for your always cool videos 👍 I also received my 400 mini and I even program in assembler with it. I love programming in ASM 6502. I made a small program which highlights the well-known indirect jump bug of the 6502 and the bug is present on the 400 mini. Fyi the bug was fixed with the 65C02 See you soon 😉 Franck
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Oh that is very cool
@CallousCoder 7 күн бұрын
I love your channel fellow GenXers! I think you motivated me to make some videos again. I have been slacking. Not a lot of old stuff and I don't want to engineer and explain new stuff -- as I do that everyday. But I just need to get creative!
@ahc2369 3 ай бұрын
I am so pleased that my former gifted students knew not to look directly at the sun without eclipse glasses…well, except for once or twice. 🙄 Thanks for the throwback Atari demo. I did not even know you could procure such a machine nowadays!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
It is so cute and tiny! Our eyes: 1 Eclipse: 0 It was all the enrichment that saved us! ❤
@ahc2369 3 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD Yes, I am certain!
@KeritechElectronics 3 ай бұрын
Nice to see you again! Getting closer and closer to 5K, happy to see that. Cool to see you saw the eclipse and were prepared.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Our epic green foam garbage play button is underway.
@robertroberts1905 3 ай бұрын
It will be my first VCF East as well! I cant wait to see so many awesome people!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Excited!
@TRONMAGNUM2099 3 ай бұрын
I got my Atari 400 mini yesterday. Maybe this weekend I'll try it out. I do plan on heading out to VCF on Saturday, though. Hopefully get a chance to meet you ladies. My first "real" computer was a Tandy 1000 as well. I'm impressed what you guys were able to do in Basic back then. My knowledge of Basic was doing Type-in programs only to be frustrated if they didn't work.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
The type in frustration is so so so real. We are currently at Glitchworks soldering up a thing or two. 😃
@lurkerrekrul 3 ай бұрын
I'm in Connecticut. Nothing much happened with the eclipse here. I didn't have any glasses, so I couldn't see the eclipse itself, and the light didn't really change. It was cloudy to begin with, and you couldn't tell the difference between the eclipse and the sun going behind the clouds. There was that little change in the light levels.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
That was my last eclipse experience. I had glasses but it was just a teeny bite. This was a whole different animal.
@Chris.Wiley. 3 ай бұрын
You guys are so much fun!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
😎
@michaelstoliker971 3 ай бұрын
We had a bright and sunny day until the eclipse when all the clouds in the world came to stay. It got dark, but that's about all I saw.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Oh bummer
@DrDavesDiversions 3 ай бұрын
10:15 Nice! Good memories - the first computer I used in middle school. (c. 1981?)
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Hell yes
@CheshireNoir 3 ай бұрын
Your excitement at the totality reminded me all over again of seeing my first totality last year. (It was an awesome event. Saw it sitting on a cruise ship off the coast of WA with about 4000 other eclipse chasers. ) There's another one here in Australia in 2028 and I'm hoping to catch that one as well. Also the Atari 400 is cute! Can you stick a slimline USB stick in the USB port at the back?
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
I'm jealous of that eclipse experience! We are currently at VCF literally at a soldering station, lol, so can't check about the slimline, but I like the idea.
@anjanettepetty-kountz3785 3 ай бұрын
10:44 “Shut all the way up” 🤣 for those who might only shut partially the way up!! 😂
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Taylor cracked up hard at that one, too. 😂
@TheREALJosephTurner 3 ай бұрын
What a cute little Atari. Such a shame the keyboard don't work though. Missed opportunity. Speaking of missed opportunities, it's a shame we didn't get a Taylor & Amy eclipse song...
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
We may or may not be forming a band with other retro tech youtubers, so... stay tuned.
@turret72 3 ай бұрын
You ladies gave me much to consider. I had no interest in the 400 plug and play as I thought that was all it would be. But you were able to make a basic computer out of it as it was back in the day. I have a 400 computer in mothballs right now that I would love to get out of mothballs in hopes of writing games on it (hopefully with assembly or Batari Basic if possible), but if the 400 mini offers the possibility of writing games while taking up less space, maybe it’s something to think about. You ladies are brilliant and fantastic.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Get that puppy out of mothballs and get it a mini friend!
@zh84 3 ай бұрын
"Now, where is the BREAK key?" (Experimentally hits all the keys on the keyboard one after another) Yes, I've done that...
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
This is the way.
@CurtisBoyle 3 ай бұрын
Someday I will get to a totality solar eclipse; been in a few partials (including one with my 50x refractor I had as a kid, with a special sun lens.. that would have been in 1979). The Atari does look cute - I have a modern 2600 clone that I have to try out soon (it's been sitting around for awhile - but I was kinda busy with Nitros9... lol)
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
We have to get you to totality, LCB. This was my first, and no complaints. Well, maybe the traffic back.
@CurtisBoyle 3 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD - We have on in the southwest corner of the province in 2044 (in the Cypress Hills - which is the very edge of the Rocky Mountains). I think I will try and make that one. :)
@Kehvarl 3 ай бұрын
Awesome video as usual! Looks like I need to get myself a 400 mini, but Missile Command without a trackball seems overly difficult.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
The struggle is real.
@geremychubbuck3730 3 ай бұрын
Great video as usual Guys. 👍👍👍
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Thanks!!!!
@andromedaone3640 3 ай бұрын
The stick came with protection lol 😅 mine was aswell.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
I see what you did there.
@Freejack1971 3 ай бұрын
Amy's glasses remind me of that Jesse Plemons character in that Civil War movie.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
His are way better.
@Pounder480 3 ай бұрын
Great eclipse coverage! I have the same telescope... mine was an Edmund Scientific rich field telescope. Love it. Great video! Does the membrane keyboard work? I missed that part...
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
The keyboard doesn't work. IF ONLY!
@derekchristenson5711 3 ай бұрын
Cool! Another mini computer emulator box to put on my wish list.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
YOU NEED IT
@derekchristenson5711 3 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD LOL, maybe I do!
@AJGriglak 3 ай бұрын
I got my Mini last week, and I saw 90% totality yesterday from NJ. BUT - I didn't get any t-shirt! Jealous. ;-(
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
The tshirt def the cherry on top
@CubicleNate 3 ай бұрын
The Atari 400 mini looks pretty cool and I agree that the top should pop open for USB drives. That would be pretty rad. There is a mini keyboard conversion for TheC64 Mini that was done on Retro Recipes, so I'm sure it is absolutely possible to do that for the Atari 400 Mini. t would be cool to go to VCF East but it's just not in the cards this year. Is VCF Midwest in the cards for you? That one is fun to go to, for sure.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
We totally have that keyboard conversion! Planning for VCFMW, even have the hotel booked!
@awilliams1701 3 ай бұрын
I actually have the amiga mini. I haven't opened it yet. I just haven't had the time. I'm lucky if I can find a couple hours in a weekend to play any kind of more serious game.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
WE FEEL YOU!
@michaelstoliker971 3 ай бұрын
An Atari branded HDMI cable is hard to believe, but an Atari branded USB cable would be appropriate as the SIO cable is the grand-daddy of USB. Just ask Joe DeCuir. And yes, you can run Basic on the 400 Mini. Fortunately, I have two 400 maxis with functioning keyboards and cartridge doors.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Now we need the goldilocks in between one.
@chrissimpson1183 3 ай бұрын
Its good it has BASIC.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Yes! We were very happy about that.
@WhatHoSnorkers 3 ай бұрын
Hooray! The issue I have with these minis is that the keyboards don't work, which is a shame. I'm very niche as I like typing in BASIC, so not the target audience. And I expect it'd be too small to type on too! Eclipse loked fun. We had one here in 1999 that clouded over... and then there was the computer game Total Eclipse I suppose.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
A working keyboard would just make it too good for words.
@WhatHoSnorkers 3 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD Perfection!
@fuzzystuffone5744 3 ай бұрын
Bounty Bob FTW
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
😃
@chrissimpson1183 3 ай бұрын
I know someone who made the Amiga version of Missile Command.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
I played it a ton on the 2600, but Taylor was like, what even is this.
@NotMuchHere 3 ай бұрын
plug in a usb stick, you will get basic there ... also... you can load on the USB ,.,. I LOGOed a turtle ,,, sadly caps lock did not work :(
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
We did!
@chrissimpson1183 3 ай бұрын
I wonder if you can add more games and BASIC...
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
You can!
@chrissimpson1183 3 ай бұрын
I wonder what CPU it uses.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Not sure off the top of my head.
@awilliams1701 3 ай бұрын
I live in huntsville, alabama. Last time I'm like.....meh 95% is good enough right? It wasn't. I regret it. I really wish I had gone with my friends. This time I felt like it was too far away. So I didn't go. I believe my sister in toledo ohio was in totality. But as a trans person I actually am more worried about ohio than alabama if you can believe that crazyness.
@awilliams1701 3 ай бұрын
oh and on top of me hating traveling, my oldest dog has a degenerative disease. She's slowing getting paralyzed. I don't want to leave her for long. I feel bad enough just going to work every day. She doesn't have much time left. Although she is getting more used to it, I see just how much she struggles to even get up. On Sunday her back left foot looked completely dead. That was her lowest point to date. She is doing better, but yeah I really don't want to leave her. She's my precious baby.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
@awilliams1701 That poor baby! She is lucky she has someone that loves her as much as you do.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Oh man, if someone messed with you and we were around they would regret it!
@awilliams1701 3 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD She saved my life. When I thought I had nothing to live for she reminded me I wasn't alone. And while I do love my younger dog, I've not had it that bad with him. I have friends now. I didn't back then. But I do remember where I was playing a game (Life is Strange 2 actually) where the dog died and I was crying. Zeppelin came running after me to make sure I was ok. lol I know Abby loves Zeppelin a lot, but until this weekend I wasn't sure it was mutual. Abby can't go to the groomers anymore. She was taking out her frustrations out on the staff. So she can't go back now. So this time Zeppelin went alone. Abby spent the morning by herself for the first time since I got Zeppelin. I don't know if it had anything to do with her suddenly getting worse or not, but I do believe he's the reason she's been fighting it so hard. When Zeppelin got home he lost his dinner and I had to clean it up. I've had him since 2017 and that's the first and only time it's ever happened. So I think them spending the day apart was tough for both.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
@@awilliams1701Dogs are gifts we don't deserve! I'm so glad for your wonderful fur babies. ❤
@ekarademir 3 ай бұрын
Hah, interesting to see the redwolves hand sign. The same animal and the same hand sign is used by a far right party in Turkey for decades.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Oh no! I don't think Jonesboro Arkansas is aware.
@TommyPrins 3 ай бұрын
this plastic garbage doesnt come close to a real nostalgic experience...playing retro on pc via frontends like coinops and core type r does.....its also free!systems and games from all ages,including modern....yet only a few million people seem to know about this?
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
It's nice, tho, cause you can find retro joy via so many different pathways.
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