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• Atari 2600 modified into an iOS speaker dock

  
  Ubergizmo — Authority: 736
  Looking for a blast from the past? Well, for some of us who are old enough to have experienced the joys of playing the Atari 2600 console, you might want to check out this Atari 2600 console which has seen itself transformed and remodeled into a speaker dock for the iPhone and the iPod touch. (more…) By Ubergizmo ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atari 2600 iPhone Dock

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 737
  Etsy seller Daniel McLeod writes “I had an old Atari 2600 that had stopped working and I couldn’t just get rid of it.” Well, of course not! That’d be like getting rid of your own mother because she got old. Classic Ataris should be cherished and repurposed, and that’s what he did. McLeod’s is now an audio ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atari 2600 Speaker Dock: iTunes Goes 8-Bit

  
  technabob — Authority: 686
  Most of us who have a need for a speaker dock for our iPhones or media players already have one. But if you’re among the few who haven’t already invested in one of the myriad docks out there, you might want to check out this unusual dock, built out of an old Atari 2600 console. Daniel McLeod of Black ...
  2 weeks ago

• Box Art: Omega Race – Atari 2600 (1983)

  
  The Retroist — Authority: 501
  As I was busy searching for a particularly nasty program on the Game Grid last night I came across this wonderful piece of Box Art for Omega Race, this is the Atari 2600 port of the arcade game, which was programmed by Ron Haliburton and released by Midway to the arcades back in 1981. [Via] AtariAge Omega Race ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 406
  If you were a teen in the 1980s, loving Sesame Street, the Muppets, Atari 2600 games, John Hughes movies, D&D, MTV music, Zork, and nerdy Commodore 64s, then I have a book for you:  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline .  I lived through the 80s too old to play D&D but I dug the music, films and computers.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Flashback From Approach Again

  
  My Make Money Blogs — Authority: 153
  Relax. You are not having a flashback. Retro video game techniques have made an enormous resurgence in recent years, likely due to the truth that a few children by no means grow up. There appears to be a real affection some of the techno-geeks in the market for the original gaming systems. A cursory seek of the web ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kickstarter Projects: Atari History Book, Vol. 1

  
  How soon is now? — Authority: 104
  The History of a Cultural Icon Last week I introduced you to one of my new Y&R projects, The Emerging Culture Composite Index . Today I want to talk to you about another project I’ve instituted. Each week in 2012 Y&R will be supporting a Kickstarter project, that we think embodies the values of innovation ...
  3 weeks ago

• cTrixs gATARI2600 chiptune "guitar"

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 771
  The chiptune music scene is known for its creative use of antiquated gaming hardware, and youd be hard pressed to find a better example of "antiquated" than 1977s Atari 2600. Through a clever mix of custom software, handmade cartridges and three Boss stomp boxes, chiptune artist/modder cTrix has created the ...
  4 weeks ago

• cTrix forges Atari 2600 and guitar together, mesmerizes nerds (video)

  
  Managed Hosting Services and Enterprise Solutions — Authority: 129
  If you’re going to rock out , you might as well do so with a video game console from the ’70s as the core of your guitar. In fact, this is precisely what modder cTrix has done with his gATARI2600. In his configuration, he’s able to write and play new music through an Atari 2600 by using an EPROM programmer (a ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Geekiest Musical Instrument- gATARI2600 (Video)

  
  GeekTech — Authority: 494
            You got to check the video below of cTrix, who performed with his gAtari2600. He created the wonderful music with a video game console from the ’70s as the core of your guitar. He made use of an EPROM programmer (a software application he wrote) and daughterboards to feed the new music back ...
  4 weeks ago

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