Since I did a lousy job keeping logs as I was going, I will go over what has happened since the beginning of the idea.

About 2 years ago my friend Nick Bensema told me about a ATARI cartridge he owned called a "Supercharger" which was originally used to load some specially made games via audio cassette. The cartridge itself had a 1/8" mono jack and you would use it with any old tape player. He then demonstrated it's use by playing back MP3 files of games that were made using his smartphone. He said there were utilities to take an ATARI ROM file and convert it into a MP3 or WAV file that could then be used with the cartridge. This got me to thinking that this would make an excellent instant development system, and I could for our hackerspace provide a real Atari 2600 to use with it.

I had already had a 386 PC there (Running MS-DOS 6.22 at this time), and I figured that would be a really amazing unit to do development on, as there would be few distractions and you could really focus on what you were trying to accomplish. It also gave me another excuse for keeping my outdated hardware at the lab for more than just what I had on it already! I figured I would make it up as I went along as I collected utilities, hardware, parts, and cables to make it all happen.