blakespot Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 If you have an APE serial cable.. If you bought it from the AtariMax website you should email Steve Tucker for the latest version 3.0.13 that has a software mode that will except the USB to Serial adapter.. Capture.PNG As I said, I emailed Steve, and he found my reg and sent me 3.0.13. Has my old address (where we lived 14 years ago...) and everything on the loading screen now. Crazy. My issue now is that I ran the auto configurator, it found SIO2PC device, and set itself up. I then tried to boot the XL after loading a disk and the Win 10 PC blue screened. I then noted that I had not changed the RS232 driver to Software since it's a virtual serial port, looking at your screenshot. I went to do that and, sadly, I make the change but when I hit OK, the spinning wheel persists and the app goes (Not Responding) for a while then Windows blue screens. I can't even kill the hung process in Task Manager... Rebooted a few times, same drill, same problem. Any ideas? Windows 10 Pro 64 here, kept up to date. Keyspan USB to serial drivers for Win 10 installed and the device is found and functioning. Thanks. bp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakespot Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 Does anyone know where APE stores its config file so I can edit it directly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) un install the re install ape, do the software driver selection and other set ups, then exit and re launch... if that does not work, go to the forums at atarimax and do the manual driver install of the 64 signed drivers and try again, if that fails, look at your vcp driver from the usb serial device.. then re install or choose another. Edited December 20, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) What mod are you referring to with the exceptional picture? Thanks. bp Jurgen explained the video mods to the PAL board I bought from him as follows: "The video mod includes S-Video output and some corrections to the Atari video circuit. It´s all a mixed-up solution from Ben Poehland´s Supervideo XL and some own experiences. For example using a diode to cut the Composite Video stream from Chroma - this enables S-Video and Composite Video without the need of having a switch." I just know it looks really great on my PAL capable LCD, but I haven't tried it yet on a CRT since I don't yet have one that handles PAL correctly. I suggest you reach out to Jurgen directly ( tf_hh ) if you want to buy a board from him. -Eric PS: He's in Germany so, yeah... shipping ! Edited December 20, 2017 by erichenneke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakespot Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 un install the re install ape, do the software driver selection and other set ups, then exit and re launch... if that does not work, go to the forums at atarimax and do the manual driver install of the 64 signed drivers and try again, if that fails, look at your vcp driver from the usb serial device.. then re install or choose another. I uninstalled and then re-installed. I saw both the Trial and Update as 2 sep programs in Add Remove Programs and I removed Trial and then tried to remove Update (latest ver) but it threw error, so I went in and deleted the Update file dir and two remaining Registry references to APE, reinstalled, exited, re-ran and same issue. Bluescreen. I went to run re-config in APE (auto config) and it now cannot see the SIO2PC on the Atari, which it saw fine before (so I know the USB to serial was working fine). Worse problem now. Would be great to get this working. As for manually installing signed drivers, do you mean this sticky with the drill? https://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=889 That seem to be for USB people and was posted 8 years ago. Could you point me to specifically what you meant? Thanks. bp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) I'm sorry usb to rs232, or usb to sio? If you are going usb to rs232 then rs232 to sio... that may be a bridge too far.. double latency and flow control considerations come into play....you may have cabling issues as well. check to make sure you are running the latest updates for your USB to serial device, both virtual com port driver and it's firmware. Edited December 21, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakespot Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Bah gave up on my Win 10 machine. Repurposed a Haiku-running P3 and got it done with XP. :-) https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/944404946304294912 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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