In college, I used a $600 desktop publishing package for Mac called Quark Express. It was truly the future. It had all of the features of modern MS Word plus more and was easy to use. After I graduated, I purchased a high-end mac and a Laser Writer Pro. The printer still works while I sold the mac to a freind. The next round of macs had quality issues and I jumped to PC for several years. Several years ago, I went back to mac bc their video editing in iMovie and Final Cut was amazing AND also easy. Right now, the quality is good. (knock on wood.) My first comp was an 8-bit Atari. I loved it for many reasons including that it was so well built as to be nearly indestructible. C64 was cheaper, had more memory and more titles.. This became a circular issue for Atari sadly. Less units out there, means less developers make software and therefore fewer sell. It is sad. Somehow, when I moved, I tossed my 8 bit collectedtion, but the new home buyer kept it and just gave it to me. Id love to tinker, but am so busy now. Any suggestions are welcome. Id hate to toss it.

Nolan Bushnell left Atari in Nov 1978. Maybe that's when the CX model numbering system fell apart.

One resolution to test that has been "hard to capture" would be 1024x768 interlaced at 43.5Hz. This is an original IBM 8514/A output resolution that many 386/486 era SVGA cards support (ex: Cirrus Logic 542x series). A good test bed would be that 486 and Windows 3.1x. The original OSSC can't capture it at all and other solutions struggle with it as well. The only card I have that properly supports it is an Epiphan DVI2PCIe capture card.

its is a BOOTLEG PCB!!!

Superb job Rees! Thank you for doing all this and getting this video out.

I am very happy to hear about this. I've been using a couple of the original OSSCs as my scaler/HDMI converter for a few years. They do alright, remarkably good given it's not their core competency, but I'm really anxious for something that can lock on to the signal more quickly. The BIOS boot screen, and often the Windows loading screen, are both just lost in the dark. And sometimes it doesn't come back until I cycle inputs. Minor gripe considering how critical it is that ANYthing exists to do this, but would be nice to have that fixed.

You can pick up a used Extron 300A for 1/3 the price or less.

Nice converter. Had never heard of it. I use the RGBtoHDMI myself and am a great fan of it. Liked the video!

love to see your RM machine - always raised a nostalgic smile. Used them at school too :)

Will this work with Atari ST via ST2VGA for both mono and colour modes?

Hi Rees, Have you tried it with the original MDA card on the IBM PC? Hercules would be interesting too.

Hi, may I recommend to DOS fractal generator FractInt for testing? It supports a multitude of exotic video modes and video cards. Maybe it can help Markus trying out some obscure/exotic modes.

There's a tool included in the YAHDI image to force 24khz, in the TOOLS/SCAN31 folder. This is a tool normally used for forcing a machine running in 24khz to do 31khz, but you can also do the reverse. Run S24 in that folder. Most games run fine in 31khz but a few will run too fast or have minor glitches if you don't do 24. Not sure why 24khz wouldn't stick on power-up though, not a huge deal but it'd be nice. Also, I do appreciate your slightly more positive look on the Virge compared to others. That video of you going through all the Virge supported games is still excellent imo.

So glad to see it released after so many years that passed since the very first announcement of Pro. What I miss in this video is a test with some early pre-1994 VGA cards from the 1980s, like 8-bit-ISA Paradise VGA (quite popular at that time, as individual cards or onboard graphics devices), so far no scaler I tried handled them good entirely.

Weird and old? I find them quite unique and interesting to be honest.

I wonder how the ossc would handle an original rm nimbus with their customs graphics they had before they released the pc186.

If it can eventually do composite and be competitive price wise against the RetroTink, it’ll be awesome. I never understood tho why even the original couldn’t do composite and/svideo over the SCART connector given the SCART connector standards support it.

Would be interesting how it works with Acorn A3000 machines and above. I bought an OSSC once but it had a trouble syncing with the various modes that are available on my A4000.

Note: I don’t attempt to measure lag in this video as I can’t speak with any authority on this subject and don’t have the equipment to measure this, and besides, it’s not really relevant for my use case. Be on the lookout for upcoming videos from DFRetro and RetroRGB for scientific measurements as always. All tests in this video were performed in scaler mode using integer scaling with all settings on auto.

Great video! I might do that mod to my A3010 one day (I had soldered an extra 3.5mm audio jack onto the motherboard back in the days). I was wondering: Do you know WHY Acorn decided to add those filters? I hindsight it seems like a pretty dumb decision.

Does the 10 in 1 Game Cartridge work with the original 2600?

Mine is not booting from the SSD

I loved Wacky Wheels! Bought my copy in school, of all places, from some guys in the year above taking part in “Young Enterprise”. My favourite memory is playing the duck shoot split screen with my sister. All the music was awesome. I ended up using it (with kind permission from Mark Klem, who’s a really nice guy) as background music in some of my videos.

Is there any way to circuit bend this into higher res, more abstract fractals and get rid of the 8-bit clunkiness? Lol. I have old-time light organs here, and even a 3-tiered lamp controller that works as an ad hoc level indicator, though not practically, since it has an auto level implant as old tape recorders have, that will increase sensitivity to where the cat scratching herself will start it strobing! Just seems a kind of interesting starting point to interface and/or circuit bend with some modern audio-visuals... like, for instance, finding a way to take all of those analog output signals, and run them into an analog-to-digital converter, into a blue ray player, or try to saturate and distort said signals, making a crazy untraceable forest of random noise and square waves, etc. All I can say is they did some amazing things with the processing power of a modern calculator! If that. And the diamonds remind me of the final screen in the game Phoenix! Blasting away at the low-res aliens and their mother ship, of jagged blocks... lol.

This game deserves an open source version with modern OS support and all bells and whistles (eg: faster FPS, high resolution, internet multiplayer gameplay, ...). Similar to OpenTTD and many other games of that era.

The rage 3d was so much better if i recall.

I've noticed that Puyo Puyo 2 and Rance 4.1 display more colors than usual (around 60 / 100+ respectively) while pretty much all other games from around 1990 onwards only show 16, and older games show 8. Do you have any info on that?

Smash it with a hammer?

I pledged an extra $50 to Rich Whitehouse if they enter and win this.

Nice idea! Looking forward to see some cool stuff in a few Months!

I had a S3 Virge, it was a Diamond card, right before the 3dfx voodoo appear... The virge was a total piece of shit, BUT i remeber playing Indycar Racing and Quake, a fighting game (mostly Gouraud shaded) and a star wars game... Terminal velocity also. But soon after i got a Voodoo and it was sooooo much better. I mean, it was a garbage compared to a voodoo card that from memory I think had the same street price at least in my country. And also the framerates were terrible. Also, as rhe video points out at one time, the software renderer usually ran faster 🤦

Very cool, thank you for doing this, hope to see new blood enter the ring.

All about the music.

I used to spend hours playing guardian on my original Xbox

I used Ventura Publisher on GEM ca. 1990 and the one killer feature of GEM, I thought, was the large scroll bar size which made them easier to grab than any scroll bars on Mac or Win I've used since. I still miss those.

Awesome, thank you for being a part of JagJam! Happy to be involved as well. Minor correction: I did host JagFest in 1999, but not again until this year as a one-time event for the 25th anniversary. Not sure I'm ready to take on hosting an annual event! ;)

I love the game selection on the OG Xbox. Though, I don't have one, and play all of them on the backwards compatibility of the OG Xbox 360. Which works pretty great and plays almost half of the catalogue (you can mod it to run more of them too)

This is awesome, you went above and beyond!

Nice use of the "Atari ST Font" in your end credits

If you watch the 1979 movie, "Over the Edge", you will see one of these babies making a cameo! Incidentally, this movie is available right here on KZfaq!

We had a Amstrad pc 1512, originally running DR DOS and we had GEM. Used to use the paint program and also has a program for making birthday banners/birthday cards... That sort of thing. Then we'd print things out on our Oki Microline. Happy days 😅

Are you still using your solar setup to power this youtube channel ?

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Do You have a BIG GUARD DOG ? I loved the IBM 515 and the MODEL F keyboard!

The Voodoo is famous, not infamous ... now the ViRGE, the _ViRGE_ is infamous.

Brits always have the best taste in music! What is this genre? 8 bit dnb?

Jaaaaaag. Love the sound of this. Looking forward to seeing the new games resulting from the comp.

Wow this is so cool! I love my Jaguar

Could have called it "Jag-off". Missed opportunity.

Shout outs to dads bringing home 286s from work!