XL Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I recently bought an 2nd hand Atari 1050 diskdrive and an Atari 800XL. With this diskdrive this cable was supplied. The grey cable has a Centronics connector. The black connector is the standard diskdrive connector. The diskdrive has an (non standard) switch at the front. Also the 800XL has an little lock at the top. (i will post a pic of it tonight if necessary). What purpose does the cable and the switches have? Does anyone know? (-; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Hmm the only printer interface on the 1050 I know for the 1050 is attached to the Turbo 1050 but that 1 is internal. Could you post or send me photo's of the inside of the 1050 and the box. I can see if I can tell you what it is. I have many 1050 upgrades but this is something I didn't see before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XL Posted October 21, 2003 Author Share Posted October 21, 2003 I will post some pics here tonight. (-; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I will post some pics here tonight. (-; okay fine I will wait until then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I will post some pics here tonight. (-; okay fine I will wait until then Unless that dog eats it. -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XL Posted October 21, 2003 Author Share Posted October 21, 2003 the dog loves to play Atari ((-; Ok, here are the pics. If you need more pics let me know (-; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 The switch is a write protect switch. It goes to the wires that would normally go to a photodiode (which seems to be removed). The interface box contains a microcontroller and a program ROM. This is some sort of SIO interface (possibly for a printer). -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Yep the 1050 is modified with a write-protect switch and the interface is a homemade SIO printer interface. This is not something rare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Your mystery box is a printer interface with an eprom with most likely fonts on it, perhaps its an epson printer font set. But that box is not related to the disk drive. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XL Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 Thx guys!! (-; Is there any chance some interest for mp3's of intro tunes of games like worldchampionship karate, ballblazer, boulderdash, eidolon? Where can i post those on this forum? (-; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 you can upload them on my ftp server also host: atari.xs4all.nl port: 21 user: atari8 pass: atari4ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XL Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 ga je gang ((-; http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/ballblazer.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/karate.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/boulderdash1.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/ally_cat.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/lucasfilm.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/eidolon.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 ga je gang ((-; http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/ballblazer.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/karate.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/boulderdash1.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/ally_cat.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/lucasfilm.mp3 http://home.deds.nl/~baukel/eidolon.mp3 [dutch] nou oke, maar uploaden kan altijd... 24/7 [/dutch] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 O, gaan we nu opeens in het Nederlands beginne??? ----- mux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 >ga je gang ((-; ... >[dutch] nou oke, maar uploaden kan altijd... 24/7 [/dutch] ... >O, gaan we nu opeens in het Nederlands beginne??? Ahhh... dutch invasion BTW... It was allways a riddle for me, that in english "deutsch" is called "german" and "holländisch" is called "dutch"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 "German" comes direct from the Romans. Germanus is Latin for the peoples of Central Europe. Of course, Gaul is latin for France and we don't use that so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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