@SteveFox I'm fairly sure that Mars fpga discord is the same as the coin-op collection's discord that you can get access to by being a patron of Atract17 https://www.patreon.com/atrac17
@Gamemoose The situation with Fixel isn't MARS, it's his own projects such as Optical Drive Emulators (ODE) for consoles and PCs. These have been paid for by customers, in some cases years ago, but haven't shipped and some haven't even received tracking info. For some he won't respond to DMs or emails which makes the situation even worse.
Some are acussing him of lying about progress and, while he has denied this, he hasn't put forward any real proof that things are moving along yet. Earlier this year Fixel was caught in a lie about shipping products to Stone Age Gamer, when a customer contacted SAG they confirmed they had not received anything and after that Fixel changed his story.
Batch 2 of the IDE EMU still says it is a pre-order shipping November 2023 which went up for sale before batch 1 has shipped and neither batch has shipped! Still available to purchase: https://3do.dev/products/copy-of-ide-emulator-batch2
He's working for MARS now, even though his own projects are massively lagging behind schedule, that's why I brought it up.
Fixel isn't free from controvery either, the 3DO community discord is full of unhappy customers due to him being uncommunicative and repeatedly claiming products will ship "next week" or even "today" but then nothing happens and radio silence for months at a time. Some have been waiting since 2022 without much of an explanation or apologies.
:Edit: I see Atract17 deleted his responses to the article, so now you can only see the authors responses to him. He wasn't happy with them putting information from his twitter account in the article after he blocked them.
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Re: All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
@SteveFox I'm fairly sure that Mars fpga discord is the same as the coin-op collection's discord that you can get access to by being a patron of Atract17 https://www.patreon.com/atrac17
Re: All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
@Gamemoose The situation with Fixel isn't MARS, it's his own projects such as Optical Drive Emulators (ODE) for consoles and PCs. These have been paid for by customers, in some cases years ago, but haven't shipped and some haven't even received tracking info. For some he won't respond to DMs or emails which makes the situation even worse.
Some are acussing him of lying about progress and, while he has denied this, he hasn't put forward any real proof that things are moving along yet. Earlier this year Fixel was caught in a lie about shipping products to Stone Age Gamer, when a customer contacted SAG they confirmed they had not received anything and after that Fixel changed his story.
Batch 2 of the IDE EMU still says it is a pre-order shipping November 2023 which went up for sale before batch 1 has shipped and neither batch has shipped! Still available to purchase: https://3do.dev/products/copy-of-ide-emulator-batch2
He's working for MARS now, even though his own projects are massively lagging behind schedule, that's why I brought it up.
Re: All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
Fixel isn't free from controvery either, the 3DO community discord is full of unhappy customers due to him being uncommunicative and repeatedly claiming products will ship "next week" or even "today" but then nothing happens and radio silence for months at a time. Some have been waiting since 2022 without much of an explanation or apologies.
:Edit: I see Atract17 deleted his responses to the article, so now you can only see the authors responses to him. He wasn't happy with them putting information from his twitter account in the article after he blocked them.