JohnBuell

I have a SX212 in box and one loose... How badly you want one That largely depends on what do you want for it?

It was an interesting arrangement. He got the Jaguar base system and some games for Christmas one year, and I bought the CD-ROM drive later, so we could both share it. But aside from pack-in games, neither one of us really remembers what other games we had!

Ah you're the one who won that SpaceWar auction. I don't know anything about the game other than what was posted in the auction. Is there a kind of write up about it anywhere? Screenshots?

The AtariLab has paddle plugins using its RCA connectors. How hard would it be to modify a kit like that article?

Won a 1030 modem over the weekend! Now I've got a 1030 with box and XM301 NIB. Just need the 830, 835 and SX212!

And one of these days I will unearth where ever the heck my brother's old Jaguar went to, and get into its games again

I did this recently, but didn't take any photos, sorry Be careful what you solder where, as I wound up having the monitor jack working, but b/w only!

Ah ha, that was you? Nicely done! Looking forward to the next part!

ThumpNugget, if you start making these discs again, I would be interested. I'd never heard of SoftSide until now, so it seems like it would be another nice piece for my collection.

Is this the one that was supposed to be released as part of the AtariLab series, got a CES demo, and never again saw the light of day? If so I'm interested too. I always thought AtariLab was a cool idea, but just how much can you do with a thermometer and a light sensor? On the other hand, name for me another company which had the foresight to plug a little bulb in a 5v socket back in 1983? Yep, Atari invented the USB-light...well, sort of.

The demonstration went fairly well. I have to say I'm a bit biased towards the SIO2SD for having the LCD panel that comes with it (and I don't, as yet, own an SDrive). I didn't do anything fancy, just explained the theories, how to get the SD card to work (both initial configuration and changing the directory tree structure from a Mac, a Linux box or a Windows box), and popped it in and booted a few different ATRs. I even booted a Translator image on the club's 130XE, then navigated the directories to get the original Blue Max to boot. One of the guys said he didn't realize that Atari had ever made an 8bit modem as small as the XM301, which houses mine. Flashjazzcat, they were suitably impressed by your case mod work.

I have taken a couple screenshots (from the Basic Psychology and U.S. History cassette series) and posted them at: http://photos.8bitcafeataria.net/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=419414

http://sourceforge.n...s/sio2sd/files/ http://sio2sd.gucio.pl/index_en.html http://sio2sd-dev.gu...iki/Features_en To perform firmware upgrade, just put SIO2SD.BIN into the root directory, then insert card with this file and press proper key combination. Note: the directory named ATARI must be present on the card or else SIO2SD won't recognize the card and won't perform the upgrade. Is there a way to tell which Firmware it is running (or not running)? I took my SD card, put it in a USB reader, plugged it into my Windows laptop, downloaded SIO2SD.BIN to the E:\ directory, put it back in the SIO2SD drive, held down the two buttons, and I'll be darned if it's doing anything. I didn't know about holding down button #4 to get the config options, that's handy.

Ironically I will be doing demonstrations of my SIO2SD this Saturday for the Suburban Chicago Atarians. Thanks for posting the links guys, that way I can present who is still making the units, and for how much.

Yep, I just finished a game of Bug Hunt and it worked just fine. With what kind of light gun? Seriously, that is WAY cool news!

It isn't thermal (heat-sensitive) paper; it's just an ordinary roll of paper. There's about a 50% chance that the pens are dead; about half the ones I've opened have dried out, and the other half seem to work fine (although not for long, in some cases). B&C ComputerVisions sells rolls of 1020 paper, and they also offer new plotter pens that are imported from somewhere in Europe. The 1020 has a built-in vector font, so it can print text in a variety of sizes as well as graphics. It was especially useful for things like diskette catalogs; you could print out a directory list from DOS and tape it to the diskette sleeve. The sample programs included with the 1020 are on cassette tape, but I converted them to diskette for my own use. See the attached image. Atari1020MasterDisk.atr It's Germany actually. They hiked the prices and B&C isn't carrying them anymore. See my post at: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/154287-atari-1020-printer/page__view__findpost__p__2004703

Yes it does. It draws out every letter one at a time, but it can do text as well as graphics.

I now have three of those booklets/catalogs, I'll check to see if there is anything any different between the three, but I doubt it. Would anyone be interested in a video clip showing any of the tapes running with the cartridge? I just got sealed copies of Psychology and Sociology from [email protected], so those will probably play the cleanest.

I was bored enough once to do Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge on the Lynx vs Chess on the Atari and the Lynx won VERY quickly....

Did anything ever come of this? I was thinking during a long drive recently about what one could do for piano transcriptions that could potentially use ten notes simultaneously (or close to 10). If some kind of quad-pokey were possible, 8 voices on stereo left and 8 voices on stereo right, I would love to try to write music for it.

Huh, it looks like the Dorsett version was released twice. Thanks to PitfallJones's list http://www.pitfalljones.com/0800-med.htm - start with the "Original releases" and you'll find the Atari one, then scroll down to the Applications set, and you'll see one version of the Dorsett cartridge (the one I have), which is a Dorsett label on an Atari cartridge case. BUT also have a look at http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/116882-atari-8-bit-cartridges-a-big-list/page__view__findpost__p__1415592 and you'll see the same Dorsett label on a generic looking cartridge case. Personally I think trying to find and "rescue" the tapes will be more interesting, but if anyone is still working on a complete set of cartridges, there ya go.

There are two versions of this cartridge - the Atari one with the "flying owl" logo, which you can see at http://www.atarimuseum.com/atarieducation/education-menu/edu-menu.htm or you can see a partial image of the cartridge at http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/xe_game.htm (do an in-page search for educational system manager). Brad also has several of the original titles listed for historical purposes, but just two sets of tapes. The second version of the cartridge is the Dorsett Educational Systems one (they actually did all of the Talk and Teach lectures for Atari). You can see an example at eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310255527377 or check out a 1983 ad on Google for the entire package: http://books.google.com/books?id=jzjRzYMdo4sC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=dorsett+educational+systems+atari&source=bl&ots=YFuw69UR_X&sig=1X2JaUAxuuQcXE_G_OXk0w805Jw&hl=en&ei=JlmyTPyUK8ednAf1m6GJCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=dorsett%20educational%20systems%20atari&f=false Sadly Dorsett merged with another company which in turn got bought out by a maker of novelty goods. I dunno if anyone has unearthed a treasure trove of tapes yet. But I did finally get my hands on two of the US History tapes. Here's how it works. Start an A8 with the Education master cartridge, and a connected cassette player (I've been using a 410 for right now, but only because my 1010 is in storage, I aim to get it out this week and test it, I might post a video clip online if I get better results). Press start when prompted, and various lectures will begin, AND text/graphics will follow the lectures on screen. The graphics aren't that exciting, simple Atascii art, but still kinda cool. Periodically, you get prompted to answer a question. Press #1 on the keyboard if the leftmost answer on the screen is correct, #2 if it's the one in the center, or #3 if it's the one on the right (sometimes you only get a choice of #1 and #3). The tapes are long, but are easily stopped between lectures, that can be resumed later. BUT, due to the age of the cassettes, although I've had no problems with the audio (so far), the text/graphics being drawn simultaneously on the screen get 'glitchy.' There's probably no real way to help this short of some really good dubbing/audio cleaning software. If anyone is interested, I've been kicking around the idea of re-recording just the lectures and saving them without the data. Oh and as far as I've been able to tell (so far, owning just 2 tapes in the US History set of four, and the spelling set that I haven't tried yet), these packages did NOT come with any kinds of guides or workbooks, unlike the later foreign language sets (Spanish, German, French and Italian, which also run with just BASIC, and don't need the Education Master Cartridge).

I got the master cartridge, too, and boxed! It's in the small, green 2600 cart sized box, not the larger format boxes that Atari sometimes used. Aw man, this one was loose. I still like the concept, it has me tempted to dub and rerecord the tapes to see if more of the text and graphics will appear correctly.

There was an Antic magazine one that let you animate ATASCII art. I used that in Jr. High to animate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (no, not at the same speed of the cassettes, which I owned, that would have been cool). I remember customizing it to squeeze more animation into my 800XL's RAM!

I got an Atari Education Master Cartridge for $25 (the Dorsett version, not the original Atari one), and I've already got two sets of tapes. What a cool idea, text on the screen while it reads off the tape, too bad the tapes are degrading. But I'm NOT going for whatever nut that is trying to sell more tapes WITHOUT the cartridge for $499.