JohnBuell

Ok, great! So if my son has a screaming tantrum about not getting Cookie Monster signs off the Star, there's a workaround. Plug in Fujinet, run Sesame Street Print Kit from Fujinet, print from actual Atari to virtual Fujinet printer, and use that PDF to go to our four color wireless laser printer. And thanks for humoring me, Doctor.

So my wife had been asking about classroom banners; something she could make herself, before school started. About the only way to do that with modern tech not using continuous feed paper is to print out a whole bunch of sheets of paper (that she set up with a slideshow program so they'd all have the same background), and kludge them together with scissors and tape. Ugh, we've gone backwards. Well, I've got a row of working Atari 8 bits in the basement, but nothing that could print graphics. Ok, find a STAR like we had back in the day, ah, here's an nx-2420 on eBay, no problem. And it works. Connect to my Axiom AT-846, no joy. Rats. Ok, B&C still has Supra MicroPrint, still new in the bag. Get one of those, follow the instructions, BINGO. Grab the driver for Print Shop for 24 pin printers from AtariMania, check. Everything looks good. Now I should say that while I own a couple of different hardware versions of FujiNet, I'm using a simple S-Drive Max for this. I can disk swap with a tap on the screen when I've got Print Shop sides A & B, a driver disk, and a graphics disk all loaded up. I wasn't getting the disk swap on the FN to work. Except my son saw what I was doing, and him being a complete Sesame Street nut, he wants Cookie Monster, even if it is old dot matrix black and white artwork. Hm, I had a copy of the Sesame Street print kit once.... Yep can download it, run it.... None of the printer settings seem to work. So here's the random questions: 1) Have any of the rest of you tried the Sesame Street Print Kit lately with a real 24-pin printer and got it to work? What printer setting did you use? 2) Did anyone ever dump/convert the graphics and borders from the SSPK and convert them to work with Print Shop? Or did anyone ever make a PD library type disk with art that just MIGHT have included Sesame Street characters? 3) Anyone tried Print Shop or SSPK with a virtual printer setting in FujiNet? Yeah that would defeat the use of continuous paper, but I'm talking about single page signs. Any other (useful!) suggestions welcome.

Just tested out the latest build and printer compatibility through my AtariWriter (silver label copy, which has 10xx printer drivers). FANTASTIC.

Thanks for the response!

Mathy, did anyone ever port your code to using MIO rather than Black Box? The latter is pretty hard to find now. Or, if I knew anything about Python, writing a module that would allow for the choice of a local VLC player instead of the Spotify code might be interesting. Basically turning an A8 into a giant VLC remote with local playback through the SIO audio pin. And giving you a choice of players to feed through the Sio2pc/USB connection.

Which would also mean spending a couple of hours re-ripping the CDs. Pass.

If I really worried about sound reproduction fidelity, I wouldn't be targeting MP3 files in the first place.

That question is one of the ones that pops up every time. And that's probably why nobody had bothered. But that actually frustrates me. The other 8 bit communities have working solutions. Why don't we?

At the risk of beating a dead horse.... I've been looking through threads of audio add-ons that exist for the 1088 projects, and knowing Fujinet can see and process certain kinds of Internet data... Has anyone come up with a hardware module that would plug into SIO, PBI or ECI, or onto an existing A8 based circuit board that could grab A) FAT formatted SD Card or CF Card loaded with MP3 files B) Online MP3 stream of any existing Playlist (such as from another computer in the house streaming via VLC) C) Directory of MP3s from a computer using any SIO-USB solution? I know it's been talked about for at least seven years or so, not least because the Apple and Commodore groups *have* working solutions. I don't care *how* it's implemented, I just want to stream an SD Card loaded with Christmas music from my Raspberry Pi on the top floor to the A8s in my basement. I guess I just don't understand why it's been so hard for A8s to gain this capability, when we've known since 1979 we can at least get mono audio off of a cassette player. And maybe that's what I have to do. Stream from VLC acting as a server in one room to a laptop, phone, or tablet in the basement with an old school audio cassette adapter and a pair of POKE commands. Thoughts?

Ordered Ynxa and the Christmas cart. Thanks Fadest!

Just out of curiosity, and feel free to smack this down as impossible, but would it be difficult to add the appropriate sprites to make Millipede out of Centipede? I realize the behavior of the DDT canisters are a different ball of wax, and have no idea how much free space (if any!) you had left on the card after completing the basic Centipede code

So, October? Happy birthday to me!

Got mine yesterday and spammed the Atari Lynx group on Facebook with 30 unboxing photos. Sorry, Igor! Patiently (ha!) waiting for the Ynxa Deluxe pre-orders!

Genius! Love it! I'll download it and give it a try as soon as I can!

Thom was kind enough to show me where to alter the code. From the root directory in fujinet-pc, it's /lib/http/httpService.cpp - change "8000" and recompile the file for each instance you want to run. Now I have one instance with a web service on 8881, and a second on 8882, both running over SIO2PC/USB cables.

Stupid question time! I compiled and got this working on a 32-bit ARM Chromebook (Samsung Chromebook 2, Exynos CPU). In theory, since I have two SIO2PC/USB adapters, I could run two instances (from individual directories) - but how do I change the default web server? localhost:8000 will always go to instance 1, is there a place where I can set, say localhost:8001 for instance 2? Or :8001/:8002? Second dumb question - this being an armv7 system, Altirra won't work. Period. Atari800 works - is there a way to mate the two?

Somebody broke sound in Gates of Zendocon from 0.971 to now. Doesn't seem to work in 0.98 or this 0.99 version. The laugh of Zendocon is my first test for sound compatibility.

Put me down as interested when the time comes to order from a larger batch. If you can do any sooner, I can test on 600/800 XL with RAM upgrades via PBI, but most of my machines are stock, or just have slight video upgrades (monitor jack in 600, svideo in the 65XE). The exception is the 800, with an Axlon RAM board.

Out of curiosity, and because I only skimmed the thread, is there a list of which models this works in? What have people had success with, including upgrades?

I need more time reading, and less time chasing kids. Turns out I *have* the Mf you speak of, in the blue binder, but it's incomplete. Eight tapes, sixteen quizzes, but two of the Dorsett "Practice Folders" are missing. Still, I'm in touch with Kevin; sorry it's a partial, but hey, right more tapes, right?

So, if I have the inserts for Spelling, SP, who needs them for scanning? Also, W - Reading Comprehension/Vocabulary, levels 5-6 Mn - Mathematics, levels 1-6 Mf - Mathematics, levels 4-8 Ma - Mathematics, Basic Algebra

Will there be any options for users in the United States, or elsewhere in the Americas?

Thanks, James! I haven't had the entire case open in a very, very long time, but I know the original video cord for TV display has been cut off. That's the only thing I would vouch for right now. If I get time tomorrow, I will try to get the entire case opened up and photographed.

So I got my father's Atari 800 out again recently, and tried to start figuring out just what upgrades he had done to it, and how they might be useful. He told me at one point, and this was something like 30 years ago, that he was trying to get the 800 so that it would work like an XL (I had the 800 XL). The OS board has had work done on it, and the #2 memory card has a switch. Using SysInfo, it shows a 1920K (!) Axlon RAM bank. Searching AtariAge last night, I couldn't find a way to get into that bank for testing it, but I was able to use a couple of ATR files off of my SIO2SD to get it to successfully create a RAM disk. But I still have no idea what the actual capacity is. Here are some photos. All cards in the Atari 800 with the top off. OS Board RAM from slot 1 RAM from slot 2, with physical switch

Ok, that's what I thought. Just haven't made time to do the mods and add an OS switch yet. But, it did work!