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Yes, most. Some "ingredients" of shit disintegrate harder than other like fibers and seeds. They even found fossilised dinosaur shit. Imagine that you can step into a millions years old turd Robert

Hi Glenn, Thus the little wires at U6 and U2 are for the midi interface? I already wondered why they were for. In your description about adding the remote reset wires, I saw that your Alpine also has a resistor and capacitor at the back side of the board (with one leg at the crystal). Does that have any purpose since my Alpine doesn't have that. My Alpine has only an extra 2k2 resistor at the backside between pin 8 & 11 of U34 (GAL16V8). What the purpose of that? B.T.W. Do you know the purpose of all the jumpers? I know there are a couple for the memory configuration and one for the batery power but what is the purpose of the rest? Regards, Robert

Yes. Ape shit, just like most other shit, disintegrates over time RObert

Yes he really said that. And yes, I found it so funny that I had to add that quote to my sig. It's from an email news letter where Bill Gates or Steve Balmer write once in a while personally about an actual topic. This time it was about the things M$ is doing about spam such as the anti spam features in Exchange 2003 and the 15 or so lawsuits against spammers. Read the full newsletter here: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2...-24antispam.asp Robert

Wow, it seems that the Dutch made a large impression on Shiuming. And we were only with four of us Great article and photos. There is even a closeup of an old ST demo I wrote. Old school rulez Robert

Hi Atari_Owl, It was nice to speak to you at JagFest UK. Nope. In my Falcon, the TOS EPROM chip is the square chip in a socket under the memory board. My TOS chip has a sticker on it saying TOS 4.04. The square chip in a socket under the floppy is the audio codec chip. Robert

Who bought it? And if noone did, who was selling it? 16-32 systems was selling it. I think they still have some. Robert

Hmm. If I had to choose between JagFest Japan or JagFest Brazil, I would say... Brazil Robert

Why don't you build an Atari 2600 512-in-1 multi cart yourself? Robert

I retried the XP Hyperterminal program it now works. It takes however about a minute before uploading starts. I think I was impatient before. Robert

I had no problems with downloading programs with JUGS under XP. But uploading BattleSphere screenshots using the XModem protocol did not work with the XP terminal (HyperTerminal) program. Instead I used the old Windows 3.11 terminal program under XP and that works without problems. Robert

Yes, you're right. I didn't noticed that yet. Robert

What your descibed already exists in the form of the Atari VCS 7800 development system (second release) which uses a cable between the computer and the 7800 joystick port to load 7800 programs to a ram cart. Another solution called the Cuttle Cart II is in development. This uses a MMC card to read 7800 programs to a ram cart creating a stand-alone solution. Robert

This is an 128Kb EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) I don't think these were common when Atari still supported the Lynx. Robert

Well, with A ... P you have 16 letters. So to encode 16 letters you need 4 bits (2^4=16). So with one byte (8 bits), you can store two letters of the level code. With 26 letters you need 5 bits to encode a letter. 2^5=32 possibilities. So you waste 6 possible values and you can not encode two letters in one byte. So using only 16 letters makes it easier and more efficient to store the level code. Sorry for the quite technical answer. Robert

I wonder if Nick organised such babes for JagFest UK too

Hi, I found two different versions of "Brutal Sports Football". The first cartridge is a four chip version with 27C4000 OTP-ROMs. The label on the chips say "Brutal Sports Football 05/16/94" The other cartridge is a two chip version with regualr mask ROMs. The differences in the game are: - In the four chip version you can't skip the Telegames and Teque intro when you power on the game. In the two chip version you can skip these screen by pressing "B". - The four chip version displays in the "Show results screen" the word "points". The two chip version displays "pts" instead. For the rest I couldn't find any differences in the game itself. The 2MB checksums of the rom dumps are: - Four chip version: Full: $0192, Hi: $5710, Lo: $AA75 - Two chip version: Full: $8DC0, Hi: $4B1A, Lo: $42A6 An interesting thing is that in the ROM dump you can find the text "Swap discs" & "Loading". Probably the used the Amiga source as start point for the Jaguar version. The label and box art is for both versions the same. Robert

Maybe not with STario land but an earlier Super Mario clone called "The Great Giana Sisters" from Rainbow Arts was forbidden after Nintendo sued Rainbow Arts. Nevertheless, illegal copies where extremely popular on C64/Amiga and ST. It certainly was a fun game. Robert[/url]

Yes, if you store the image in the boot track you can only have one game per CD unless use you a bootloader such as Thunderbird did with the Scatologic Demo CD. Robert

I think you mean SynSONIC Records. They have released many C64, Amiga, ST remix CD's and now a lot of Console Music CDs. Also worth to check out is www.c64audio.com which specialises in releasing C64 audio CD's. If you liked the music of the Amiga/ST version of Turrican you certainly must buy the Turrican Soundtrack CD. If you are into dance music, then the Instant Remedy C64 remix CD is a blast too. Robert

If you make a boot disk then you should use a ROM image without the $2000 bytes header and load it to $802000. This because the load address is the run address aswell. I don't think a flash card is fast enough to program it on the fly (while loading of CD). You first have to load it into RAM and then flash the card. Since there is less then 2MB of RAM available you must load and flash it in lets say 1Mb chuncks. This requires to split the ROM file in multiple sections (with the partition marker). This because the CD BIOS doesn't alow you to read halfway the file. (Actually it does but then you won't be able to find the exact position of where the data starts). Robert

Only the XE models have a Chroma signal. On XL models you need to use Composite Video. If you try to use Chroma/Luminace on an 800 XL you get an almost B/W picture which is not purely B/W. The Luma signal on the XE model is truly B/W. Attached the pinouts of the monitor connector of XL/XE/C64 and C128 models. I hope this helps. Robert

Yup, you can find a description of that on my website. Also there you can find a description of replacing the BIOS of an CD unit to turn it into a developer unit. Not only usefull for playing unencryptes CD games that use a MemoryTrack but you can use it with an Alpine too I've put some ROM dumps on CD that loads directly into the Alpine's memory. If you want to see this, come to JagFest UK. Instead of hurting my back with bringing my whole cartridge collection, I will bring an Alpine and a bunch of CD's I think you mean this website: http://www.nanomonic.de/jaguar64/ Robert P.S. Where can I find that secret Atari underground? P.P.S. LinkoVitch, I liked the pictures of the CD unit. I found cutting out the ROM of my unit scary enough but disassembling the complete drive is something I won't do if it is not absolutely necessary.

Is this a trick question A solderless alternative for BJL already exists in the form of BattleSphere Gold™ or Protector SE. Robert

Hmm it should work the technique it used is funny. Normal the 600XL has 16KB but there is an option to disable the internal ram and use external ram. This line is used on the 1064 which means your internal 16Kb just will be disabled and you use the external 64Kb. On the 800XL with 64Kb it should work the sameway but what's the use then to disable the internal 64Kb for external 64Kb? The only use I can think of is to rebuild the 1064 for static ram with a battery. TXG/MNX The 800XL doesn't have a 5 volt power line on the PBI so you first have to solder a wire inside the 800XL from a +5V source to pin 47 and 48 of the PBI. Robert