Questions for Curt Vendel (Atari Flashback 2.0)

[Blackwolf]

I will be recording an interview with Curt Vendel, the genius behind the Atari Flashback 2.0 (http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback2/7800) system, sometime Friday afternoon. This was extremely short notice for him, and I'm glad he accepted.

Note that the Flashback 2.0 console is not an emulator - Curt actually redesigned the chip to fit the entire 2600 instruction set onto it, and also made it mod friendly. (For more info about that, check out this article (http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/flashback2/).)

If you have any questions for Curt, put them here and I'll ask him when I record the interview that will be played on this Sunday's show. I'll lock this thread when I've done the interview, so you'll know if you're too late.

EDIT: Interview's gonna occur tomorrow, so you get a day's reprieve to get some more questions in!

[Tom the First]

How true to the original control and feel of the gameplay will the Flashback have?

[GH33DA]

What is his educational and professional background?
How difficult was the signal output translation from the original RF?

[Blackwolf]

Just conducted the interview - it's about 37 minutes long total. Gonna figure out how to either edit it down or split it up into two parts this weekend.

All of these questions were covered. Thanks!