FastRobPlus
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Worked great. The steps I followed:
Turn on machine and let it boot to SDX command prompt. Using APE I set up a mirrored PC folder with the XEX in it. Type COLD / N to force a reset with and cause the APE Loader to run. Select the XEX file and let it run. The screen will flash for a few seconds. When you get to the blue screen with white cursor in home position, power off the machine, unmount the folder, and power it back up.
I finally got an SIO2SD and was able to try this technique to update Incognitio.
I can attest that COLD /N was required to get the file to load cleanly (all other methods caused it to load to a grey screen)
Anyway, carts now work great - even Congo Bongo!
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I plan to be there.
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I was going through some papers the other day and came across my old MSCE certification test results. I was thinking about how outdated all that knowledge has become in just a few years(Setting up an IBM Token Ring? Forcing WfW clients to talk to Netware?)
And this got me thinking about what an IT certification test for an old platform like an Apple II or TRS-80 might have looked like if they had 'em back then, I thought the idea was interesting enough that I put together a sample exam for Amiga computers in the style of a CNE/A+/MCP exam. I think it turned out looking and feeling more or less identical to those types of exams.
So - is anybody brave enough to see if they would pass an Amiga certification exam?
http://www.thebitplanes.com/archives/283
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Very nice! This vid was also making the rounds in email tis AM with the Retro gaming club at Microsoft.
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BUMP for my request to buy a disk with the executable BIOS file on it.
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You have to create an APT partition on your CF card for SpartaDOS to use. There have been a few threads about this, try searching.
Here's flashjazzcat's page with the toolkit:
There's some great info there, but I don't think it will help unless you can get FDISK and the other tools initially loaded without the use of SIDE.
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So... I've got an 800 with Incognitio, an 800 without an incognitio, SIO cables, 3 tape drives, two floppy drives, floppy disks, a CF card, a USB CF card reader for my Amiga, a drinking straw, and a light gun.
Using these things, is there any way I can transfer the incognitio bios ATR file to the tape or floppies so I can flash the bios and play Space Harrier from Cart? Or will I have to buy a one-time use SIO-to-something adapter?
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Yes the SIO2SD works with my NTSC Atari 800XL. Also, I just found my old Atari 1050 disk drive, and tried it with my Atari 800 Incognito, and it will not boot anything; still just saying "138 Device does not respond". So it looks like anything SIO related does not work on my Incognito :/
@FastRobPlus: Does real floppy disks work on your Incognito? Could you try boot at game or some other software using your disk drive with a floppy?
I can confirm that real floppies work with my Incognito. I can load anything when auto-booting and I can browse files when I have SDX enabled. I don't know enough about SDX to be able to do anything other than call up a DIR...
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I'll paypal $20 to anyone who can mail me a disk with that bios atr file on it.
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i've checked bios-flasher and it seems it only works when lauched from real sio device
it has some crude error reporting build in though
light grey screen means that sector erase command has failed
currently i have no clue about the causes of this, but i'll make this code more roboust and informative in near future
Does this mean that the bios should update my incognito if I could get the file onto a floppy?
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Hmm.. I've tried mounting the incognito bios ATR file in SIDE, but the act of doing this disables something in the OS, causing the Atari to go to a ready prompt rather than load SDX
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Would anyone be willing to sell me a disk with the executable file already on it?
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I have owned and subsequently sold nearly every game on that list.
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I had issues with the patch, I put on a floppy and ran it from there. I did not install the resistors and have 50+ that all work
fine, and also the Atarimax 1 and 8 megabit cartridges also.
I'm tempted to try this. How did you get the file onto floppy? I'm dubious about just copying it from the CF card in case something is corrupted.
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Sounds exactly like what mine was doing before the bios update earlier in the thread.
Do remember if the bios updated returned your system to a prompt after executing it?
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Most of the cartridges just show a 1 sec. glitch and a few show "not present!".
Same here.
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I can confirm what fandenivoldsk says.
All carts fail to be seen, regardless of which options I toggle. On my Atari, the resistors were replaced with 1.8s.
All other Incognito/Atari 800 functions seem to work fine.
One exception: Congo Bongo boots to a solid green, then solid yellow screen.
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When you reach the Gray screen, that means it's done, just verified it
Great - Thanks for taking time to check!
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Where did you download the bios-update.xex from?
From this site (I'm not sure if there is anywhere else to get it)
Is there a consensus of what a successful bios update looks like? Should it click the internal speaker for a few moments and then go to a brown/grey screen? Or should it return to a prompt of some kind?
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Getting closer! I now have the same problems as fandenivoldsk. When I select the file and hit enter, it boots, then seems to hang at a gray screen. It does not return to a prompt. Carts still are not seen, but I'm pretty sure that the update isn't taking. Any ideas? I can confirm the rtc holds time properly.
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Ah - great! Can't wait to get home and try this.
Is this one of those "You'd see the instructions if you had a PAL system" sort of situations?
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can somebody give me the steps to load bios-update.xex into incognito?
I tried formatting a CF card as FAT32 and placing the file on the root of that card, then enabling SDX and SIDE, but from here, I'm not sure what to do.
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Or even more generally, how to load an XEX file of any kind?
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I have a working Incognito and a CF card formatted as FAT32 now.
I'm not familiar with SDX or SIDE.
Can anyone elaborate on the steps I need to perform to get the bios flash loaded into the system?
Thanks!
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Sexiest old computer?
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The 1200XL is the sexiest console micro, and the Amiga 1000 is the sexiest desktop micro.
Not sure about handheld, laptop, or mini/workstation/full computer.