RIP, Curt Vendel

Very unfortunate to hear about the sudden passing of Curt Vendel, a great figure in the Atari scene. The best Atari Flashback (2600 clone) was the second one where he learned from the error of using the "NES on a chip" in the first Flashback, and instead designed a system so compatible you could put a cartridge port in it and play your old VCS games (and a system so easy to hack that the board has specific solder points and guides you how to make the modification). Probably his most lasting contribution to vintage computing was the Atari History Museum he founded in 1988 with over 15,000 files, folders and documents, plus two entire room-sized archives of schematics, mechanical drawings, artwork and design film, some of this even salvaged from Atari's own dumpsters. He was only 53. Rest in peace.