FastRobPlus

Thanks all. I think I have what I need. I will build this and report back as soon as I order that SMT LS or find something in the parts bin to steal one from.

@All - I appreciate the help. I don't wanna make too much work for anyone so I created an account and mailed Lotharek to see if he has any docs. Also - I did go ahead and order a Pokeymax 2 (too.)

I think the TRS CGP-220 adds Serial to the parallel of the Canon PJ1080a. I seem to remember that they aren't fully driver compatible with one another.

I'm a big fan of this printer too. Unfortunately the ink path is normally pretty gummed up for most of them you may come across, requiring a teardown. The pumping mechanisms for the ink are also getting clogged and I have had mixed luck tearing down the piezoelectric head and pump assemblies and cleaning them ultrasonically. Also, the firmware varies a lot from printer to printer so you can't bank on compatibility, and the ROM sizes differ making it hard to use one versions' firmware with another. This is a tractor feed version of this - the IBM Color Jetprinter v2 - but yeah the rolls work really well even without tractor feed for banners. Unfortunately I only used this printer on an Amiga and don't know what supports it for the A8. I did manage to refurbish this one last month: To the OP I still might recommend the Okimate 10 because while it's slow and getting hard to find ribbons for (which do not yield a lot of prints, not to mention the OEM branded coated paper is un-finadable) it still has a lot going for it. It takes little space, needs no interface, is well supported and ought to be very low maintenance, and you can just set an ebay search to find some ribbon bargains that come up from time to time.

Dunning Krugers like you are why I don't come here often.

So you couldn't find it either...

I'd like to add stereo to one of my Ataris. I don't know of any good solutions around right now, but I did stumble across this Simple Stereo V2 in a drawer. Is there an assembly guide somewhere? Mostly I just need the resistor/cap values and the switch info. Lotharek's website is still around but I thought I'd ask here to save having to setup an account there.

These are the ones I'm talking about.

I was unclear - have the A8 vol. 287 and A8 vol. 387 not been dumped yet?

I was just digging out some disks and found in my collection some New Aladdin magazine disks so I came here to see what others knew about the magazine. I wanted to thank Kevin for the Antic Podcast interview that I just listened to. I was surprised to hear "Amiga" mentioned many times. I did a few quick web search and as far as I can tell, there is no online evidence that this ever actually came out for the Amiga despite John Henson saying that it did. Has anyone ever see an Amiga version of New Aladdin? (and if so, is it archived somewhere?) Also, I appreciate Kevin asking the obvious question - why was it named The New Aladdin? When I took about the disks recently I had an epiphany that it was an allusion to the user being a kind of New Aladdin and it turns out that was correct! But if I could talk to John Henson I think I'd tell him that as a teen in the 80's, I saw The New Aladdin subscription ads and assumed that it was trying to say that there had been a earlier computer magazine called Aladdin that folded and The New Aladdin was a re-launch attempt. I distinctly remember being interested in subscribing but deciding that it was too dangerous because the fact that it was "The New Aladdin" proved that it had already gone out of business once before!

Agree that this game is really, really fun. While obviously not scary, the atmosphere and sound effects are great.

Now that I have a VBXE for my NTSC Atari I can't wait to try this! I'm not a huge fan of the game, but have some strong memories of it when as a child I was part of cohort in a University of Washington research study on learning and the researchers used "Speed of learning to play the arcade game Popeye" as a baseline test (I think because Popeye had just been released and there was nobody with prior experience of it.)

Hey TJ! Yes it was 3D printed on a large format 3D printer. You can see a slight difference in color partway through as I was using up cheap material.

Uhh.... From the RAM and screws I think it's a later one.

Interesting. Is there a similar mod for the 1200XL?