Ben Heck has completed his latest project, and I think this one is one of the coolest ones we have seen from Ben to date, the Atari 800 Laptop. Earlier this year I finished the long-gestating ...

With the help of a GameCube power supply and the malleable magic hands of master modder Ben Heck, one lucky client can now play Buck Rogers and other classics on a positively portable Atari 800 laptop ...

Yeah we know it’s a few days old, but we’re cool with saving the best for a Friday, ya dig? Ben Heck, maker of all systems portable and custom, has busted out his latest (and probably greatest) ...

Ben’s been working on this one forever. This new version 2 Atari 800 laptop features a CF drive, a RS lcd, original Atari hardware and lots and lots of friggin soldering. That keyboard is hand wired, ...

Some Computerworld bloggers have been telling tales of their first computers. I figured I’d throw mine into the pool here… The year was 1984, I was 11 years old and baseball cards were rapidly fading ...

Atari 400/800 -- Using your Atari computer -- Atari learns to let go -- Tramiel trauma -- Sunset in Sunnyvale -- Golden age gaming -- Emulation -- Collecting -- Mods -- Community --Atari forever ...

How do you make an Atari 800 seem hip and new? If you’re master modder Ben Heckendorn you disassemble the whole thing and turn it into a stylishly unstylish laptop. Like all of Heckendorn’s projects, ...