The Atari flashback Portable is the portable renewal of the Atari 2600 that is considered the mother of all consoles. There are 2 versions of this laptop, but, we will only show you the most recent because it has more screens, battery life and pre-installed games. I started out adding a cartridge port to an Atari Flashback 2 of my own. I didn't really have any intentions of doing much more related to the Flashback. Eventually a friend asked me if I would be willing to modify their flashback, so I did, then another and another.
Atari Flashback
Everything gets smaller as technology improves. [Rossum] reduced the space needed for an Atari 810 disk drive by building this tiny replacement. Of course it doesn’t use floppy disks, but takes a microSD card instead. And it doesn’t stand in the place of one floppy drive, but can emulate up to eight different drives. The best part is that [Rossum] went to the trouble of designing an enclosure and having it fabricated via 3D printing in order to look just like a doll house version of the original hardware. It uses an LPC1114 ARM Cortex-M0 microprocessor to translate data transmissions to and from the Atari hardware, storing it on the 8 GB card.
Atari Flashback Portable Hack
Atari Flashback Portable Game List
As usual, you’ll soon find the schematic, board artwork, and code up on his git repository soon.
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