Atari Scene NewsPhilsan@mastodon.world
Oct 8, 2026, 1:09 PMTHE 800XL with real keyboard and cartridge slot will be available in April 2027 https://atari.com/pages/800xl #atari
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Oct 8, 2026, 2:58 PM@Philsan They could at least offer an option for one of the 256KB bank-switched built-in RAM disks popular back then, but maybe current RAM prices make this uneconomical... In any way, it's super great to see it's actually happening (for almost the same price we paid back in 1988)...
- Atari Scene NewsPhilsan@mastodon.worldOct 8, 2026, 7:31 PM
@toxi it's only an emulator, therefore the amount of available RAM (and other features) depends on settings.
- Oct 9, 2026, 9:13 AM
@Philsan Do you have a link about the actual tech specs? The "features & specs" on the website doesn't say anything about the underlying architecture? Is it FPGA based? Can you elaborate how one might configure the RAM settings? I'm interested because some of my old Atari projects only worked with a RAM extension...
- Atari Scene NewsPhilsan@mastodon.worldOct 9, 2026, 10:58 AM
@toxi specs aren't available yet but it should be something like other Retro Games products, for example THE400 (AllWinner H3 processor, basically a quad-core Cortex A7, 256GB of RAM). The hardware runs Linux and an emulator. Therefore Atari RAM expansion (Rambo, Compy Shop) availability depends on settings. All emulators support memory expansions but strangely enough THE400 is limited to 128KB. We'll see.
- Oct 9, 2026, 11:27 AM
@Philsan Thank you for this! 🙏