<story><title>Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-lead-architect-quits-claims-six-months-unpaid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gamegod</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an 881 page thread of people ripping this &amp;quot;Atari&amp;quot; project to shreds on the AtariAge forums. People could smell the BS even back in 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atariage.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;266480-new-atari-console-that-ataribox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atariage.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;266480-new-atari-console-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;At some point in that thread around summer 2019, a photo of their &amp;quot;prototype&amp;quot; hardware was released, and it&amp;#x27;s just a stock embedded Ryzen dev board - not custom hardware at all. After 2 years, they had nothing done. It gets even better: They realized their original case design from 2017 was too costly and had to redesign it in Spring 2019: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@atarivcs&amp;#x2F;atari-vcs-structural-improvements-and-feature-adjustments-ba4ee3af5317&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@atarivcs&amp;#x2F;atari-vcs-structural-improvemen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in 2019, all they had were renders of both their old and new case designs, and that blog post really goes to show how unprepared they were. Any moron with CAD experience could have told them their original design would have been a nightmare to manufacture&amp;#x2F;assemble.</text></comment>
<story><title>Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-lead-architect-quits-claims-six-months-unpaid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dotnaught</author><text>From The Register:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;atari_architect_quits&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;atari_architect_qui...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>