fiscap Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) Is the SDrive-MAX compatible with the Atari 800 (non-XL), and if so is there a minimum RAM requirement? Edited December 31, 2018 by fiscap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 It works just fine across the line... I've use it with 48k on up.. whatever runs on a real drive on the machine should run on the sdrive max just fine... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Is the SDrive-MAX compatible with the Atari 800 (non-XL), and if so is there a minimum RAM requirement? Yes, in fact it is. I used mine just last night to load and play a number of ATX and ATR game disk images on one of my 800's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiscap Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 Thanks for the replies guys - I'm starting to think my issue in getting the SDrive-MAX running is due to the memory configuration of my 800... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/286620-atari-800-96kb-and-3bit-full-view-80-card/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin1968 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Is the SDrive-MAX compatible with the Atari 800 (non-XL), and if so is there a minimum RAM requirement? Works fine on mine, with 48K but should work with minimum memory since it really doesn't load anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 are you using a second display from the Atari's monitor port on the side? bit 3 can work as a hydra much like the XEP 80.. you need to have thing selected properly for what you wish to run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiscap Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 are you using a second display from the Atari's monitor port on the side? bit 3 can work as a hydra much like the XEP 80.. you need to have thing selected properly for what you wish to run. I'm using only the monitor port on the side of the Atari - I don't have a separate CRT monitor that supports the output of the Bit3 card. As I mentioned in my other post, the only way I can get any video to display through the monitor port on the side of the Atari is to run with the 32K Mosaic card in slot-2 behind the 10K ROM. But even then, BASIC is reporting only about 13K available space. Despite game cartridges running fine in this configuration, I'm unable to use the SDrive-MAX - anything I try results in the video output being garbled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I'm using only the monitor port on the side of the Atari - I don't have a separate CRT monitor that supports the output of the Bit3 card. As I mentioned in my other post, the only way I can get any video to display through the monitor port on the side of the Atari is to run with the 32K Mosaic card in slot-2 behind the 10K ROM. But even then, BASIC is reporting only about 13K available space. Despite game cartridges running fine in this configuration, I'm unable to use the SDrive-MAX - anything I try results in the video output being garbled. Try booting plain old Atari DOS (2.0 or better 2.5) and see if the machine works. DOS will actually work in only 16K but you won’t have much free memory at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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