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  • Birthday 11/28/1974

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  1. I'm looking for an alternative commercial OS released for the ST called Idris. It's pretty much a UNIX v6 clone.
  2. Had an 800XL. Before that I banged around on my dad's Heathkit H8. After that went to an Amiga 500, then an Amiga 3000UX.
  3. Having a devil of a time with my 1200XL install. End result so far is one of the two following screens at random. Neither of which respond to anything......
  4. BTW, if you look at the mainboard for an A1200, the traces and pinout for an FPU is present. Now if this works or is just an artifact from an earlier revision (like the label for it being a 1mb or 2mb board) is unknown as far as I know.
  5. Yep, there are a few of us around - I've been doing lots of things to mine. I've only tried color on it - will a mono monitor work as well? Thanks. I'll be interested in reading that post - I've already updated mine with a new El sheet. There is a thread here at AtariAge. I'm going a bit more gonzo for mine. Replacing the LCD with a 640x400 Planar EL panel.
  6. I love the 1200XL, but for that price it better come with.......... Ultimate 1mb SIDE VBXE Two 3.5" upgraded XF551s And a Kristina Hendricks android programmed to provide certain "comforts" while I work on it.
  7. The programming I did had little to do with games, though they did use the video hardware for interesting secondary effects at times. The point is BASIC, which is by default the lowest common denominator for programming on 80s micros. And the C64's was bloody awful. If you have to alter memory location contents to do anything related to graphics and sound because the BASIC totally lacked commands to do those functions, then the BASIC is rubbish.
  8. I had the interesting perspective. I wanted a brand new at the time Apple IIc. Instead I got an Atari 1200XL and 1010, mainly because they were closing out the 1200XL to make way for the 800XL. Quickly I found myself wondering why I wanted an Apple IIc in the first place, aside for the lack of an 80 column text display. I ran into the memory limits pretty quick (Trying to write your own command line OS can do that) so when the price was right I went to a 130XE, and learned how bad a keyboard can be. But eventually what you want to do eventually outstrips the hardware you're trying to do it with and such, so from there I went to the Amiga 500, admittedly because between the A500 and the 1040ST, only the A500 was available locally.
  9. Personally, I've usually considered the Spectrum and Atari 8-bit to be the superior machines. But this isn't due to raw tech, because frankly, the C64 wins on that score. The C64's biggest weakness was that it required almost godlike programming skills to bring out the full capability of the hardware, and worse, not even a reasonable subset of those abilities could be accessed from BASIC without POKEs that were easier to implement in ASM. Seriously, C64 BASIC was hideous. The only thing that allowed Commodore to get away with that pathetic excuse for a bundled BASIC was in the states the C64 with a disk drive was so cheap that mommy and daddy would buy junior a C64, 1541, and a couple of games, and most wouldn't even bother to learn programming. Here's a comparison from the time period....... Person A: Got a brand new C64 and 1541 for christmas. Person B(Okay, okay, this guys is actually me): Got a brand new Atari 1200XL and a 1010 for christmas. (Trust me, 1050s were EXPENSIVE when they came out) Fast forward a year........ Person A: Wants a bunch of new games Person B: Wants Action! (I asked for Action!, I got a 1050 and MAC/65, I could deal with it.) The reason is, AtariBASIC for all of its faults, actually made learning to program something fun and rewarding. Talking to friends who had C64s who wanted to program they had nothing but ill to say about the built-in BASIC, I wound up being their go-to guy when they wound up ditching the internal BASIC for ASM as well. It's kind of funny, but it took until the 90s for a series of games to come out that got me excited, MechWarrior.
  10. Regular ST monitor port is on the back. Glad to know I'm not the only STacy owner here (STacy4/20 here) BTW, I'm working on a screen replacement for which I'll post info when it's done. Done meaning zero flakiness or bugs.
  11. Mines about to get opened for the last time since I put an AdSpeed into it.
  12. If you think that's bad, look at obsolete hard drive prices.
  13. Let's see....... Falcon030 4mb with a 2gb CF 800XL NTSC and 1050 (Bought it mainly for the 1050, but the 800XL will get the wife to stop hogging my 1200XL dev setup to play Joust) 130XE NTSC NIB 1050 (Got to have nother for the dev setup) And there's some more stuff I'm eyeing. But certainly not that one overpriced twit"s stuff.
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