TheMontezuma Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I have installed a Raspberry Pi in the 65XE case and it is a pretty nice setup running the "Emulation Station" software . However it would be really nice to load games from a real floppy drive connected to Raspberry Pi via 1050-2-PC cable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foft Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) Atari++ does via Hias' atarisio kernel module iirc http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#atarisio 'As a bonus, the emulation also includes Matthias Reichls atarisio interface, allowing you to connect a real 1050 or 810 drive to the emulating PC by means of a 1050-to-PC or ProSystem cable.' Edited October 30, 2017 by foft 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Supposedly the Atari emulator on the Atari emulator on the Dreamcast did. Never got to try it as it required an expensive cable at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 Atari++ does via Hias' atarisio kernel module iirc http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#atarisio 'As a bonus, the emulation also includes Matthias Reichls atarisio interface, allowing you to connect a real 1050 or 810 drive to the emulating PC by means of a 1050-to-PC or ProSystem cable.' The problem with atarisio is that it is not available on Raspberry Pi. I talked to Hias and he said that the UART in Broadcom SOC triggers an interrupt when at least 2 bytes are in the input buffer which makes it useless for atarisio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foft Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 How about using an ftdi USB serial adaptor then the 1050-2-pc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) How about using an ftdi USB serial adaptor then the 1050-2-pc? That's exactly the idea, but atarisio is a linux kernel driver for a hardware UART and it does not support FTDI USB serial adapters. I'm looking for an emulator which could talk via serial port to a real floppy (but not using atarisio). If there is no "off the shelf" product - it should be fairly easy to add it to the atari800 emulator (at least with 19200). Perhaps one day I will find time to do that Edited October 30, 2017 by TheMontezuma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi301 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I wrote a program that communicates with my Atari by pretending to be an SIO device and sending data out the COM port at 19200bps - I'm sure the reverse (fooling the drive into thinking you're an Atari) wouldn't be hard at all. SIO is a very simple protocol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I am pretty sure I connected a 1050 to my Atari ST with XFormer. But perhaps this was only to transfer disks from the real 1050 to the XFD image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozar Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 I have installed a Raspberry Pi in the 65XE case and it is a pretty nice setup running the "Emulation Station" software . However it would be really nice to load games from a real floppy drive connected to Raspberry Pi via 1050-2-PC cable How do you do the keyboard? I am pretty sure I connected a 1050 to my Atari ST with XFormer. But perhaps this was only to transfer disks from the real 1050 to the XFD image. I think that cable connected to the parallel port. Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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