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I just posted my Amiga 1200 (keyboard doesn't work) bundle on ebay : http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/706-53473-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575378759&campid=5338273189&customid=&icep_item=253976714532&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229529&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&toolid=11111 Good luck!

Watch Blade Runner to find out!

Thanks for the info guys. Interesting stuff.

I was reading the Dos 3 manual (ducks) while sitting in the smallest room of my house (guess which one that is) : "In addition to the Master Diskette 3 (CX8104), your ATARI Disk Drive comes with an ATARI Formatted Diskette 3 (CX8111). Although this diskette has no files or program data on it, it has been preformatted at the factory. Preformatting means the diskette was divided into tracks and sectors before packaging (Figure 3-1) so that it has an improved sector layout. This improved sector layout makes it possible for you to store and retrieve information more rapidly than is possible with diskettes formatted on your ATARI Disk Drive." How do these improved sector layouts work? Or is this bogus and Atari just wanted you to buy these "improved" disks from them?

Originally I built an sio2pi interface board (see above) to accept the ribbon cable for the original Raspberry Pi. Currently I only have a Raspberry Pi A+ to play with and the gpio cables are different, so I wired it up manually. I think this would be a good project for a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The logic level converter could be done very small and the whole thing could fit into a tiny 3D printed case. The "W" even has built-in wireless which my rpi A+ does not (hence the wifi dongle). I then installed Apache + PHP and wrote a little front-end for sio2bsd. A very basic ATR selector but it works well. Now I can access my ATRs from my real Atari using my tablet. I simply point the web browser to http://ataripi/ (the name of this rpi). It's cool to have a web based interface to load ATRs into my Atari using wifi.

Thanks Stephen. That diagram you reference seems to be Pong, rather than Super Pong. Here is a Super Pong diagram :

I know this is an old post, but the C-140 is much older! I too am wondering about doing a composite out mod on my C-140. Looks like the poor fella (mragonias) signed up just to ask this question, never got a response and never posted here again. Can anyone share information about getting composite out from a Super Pong?

Apparently high refresh lcds are able to more accurately reproduce the crt experience in terms of timing. But you're still left with the sharp pixelated non-crt look.

Threshold had scrolling rainbows on the sides. Swordquest had the sword on the title screen and Centipede's title screen (the centipede itself) also used rainbows. All in 1982 but I doubt they were the earliest examples.

Nice. Starglider, Timebandit, Megaroids, Major Motion and Neochrome FTW! Of course not long after we'd see Dungeon Master, Oids, Arkanoid and so many other cool games. The early ST days rocked. I used my 520ST with a black and white TV for a few months before getting an SC1224. I couldn't believe how awesome it was to paint with light!

Does anyone have a photo of factory silver paint around the switches?

Where is the missing silver trim paint?

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. COP is a great game. I've already got it (2x), but I just wanted to point this out to anyone who is interested in taking up Ikrananka's free offer.

I remember the ad announcing the ST version : "He who laughs last laughs longest" - or something like that.

I am a Neochrome purist.

Atari VCS (well "Computer" was in the acronym!) Vic-20 Atari 65 XE Atari 520 ST ...

AV 389467 512 Love the 400s.

Come to think of it, when I got that 1050 it was my first disk drive ever. I began computing on a Vic-20 with a tape drive and when I moved to an Atari 8 bit I spent several months without a tape drive or a disk drive. I would type in Antic and Compute! listings anyways and remember my cousing turning off my Atari late at night thinking she was doing me a favour. I spent hours typing in something, can't remember what, and a power cycle of course meant it lost everything. So I *really* appreciated my first disk drive more than some. Mr Fish : Html 4 + frames = Dos 3.

Same here. But I was also given 2.5 from the store I bought my 1050 from and was encouraged not to bother with Dos 3.

Html 5 is actually cleaner and simpler than Html 4 as you don't need to use all of it's features. I thought I'd spare you further complexity than is needed and yes, it's a more modern standard. Frames can get in the way when people bookmark your pages and are generally being discouraged these days. "Responsive design" (as they call it) is when your site adjusts to multiple platforms (desktop, phone, tablet, etc). That's tricky with frames. I've been using php/html/css/js for more than a dozen years professionally; it's been my bread and butter. If I get a chance perhaps I can write a few tutorials for you on my website. Your simple site is a perfect candidate to be a modern, responsive site that's easy to maintain and works everywhere. I'm only trying to teach and help, please don't think you need any changes whatsoever. Your site is looking great as is. If your site contains errors or doesn't conform to standards, it's position in Google will be lowered. The Width and Height attributes for IMG tags are required to conform to the standard as you pointed out, but also if they are not specified you get "Popping". That's when the content of a web page jumps all over the place as it's resized to fit the images as they are loaded in. If the web browser knows ahead of time (the dimensions of the images), the page loads without popping. For what it's worth, this isn't even noticeable on your site, just a good habit to get into. Glad to know DOS 3 has a place on your site. I know it's crap, but it's nostalgic. Thanks for the hard work, I appreciate it.

Youmagine and Shapeways too... I've been into 3D printing for a couple of years now and plan on contributing to the retro community with some designs in the future. I just added a laser diode to one of my 3D printers and can now do laser cutting and engraving which might also be useful for some Atari related goodies.

Nice site. I like the clean, simple design. The more Atari sites the better, and I like your idea of quality over quantity. If you are learning html/css, I have a few suggestions : - I'd go straight to html 5. - Rather than using html for presentation (example : <br><br><br>) I would use CSS. It's best to seperate content from style. - I'd avoid using frames. Web developers have been trying to banish frames from the world for years (though sometimes they're still needed). - I would add width and height attributes to your IMG tags. - Use this : https://validator.w3.org/to see errors in your underlying code.

Norbert, you do some very nice work. Thanks so much for releasing this to the community. Do you have plans for any other early Arcade game ports to the A8? I see that you also did a YM player for the 64. With Ivop's Sid Player and your software could we could play ST YMs on an A8?

Quad Pokey and a TMS5220 will do fine.