Kyle22

my bad again... oops. I tend to 'speed read' directions sometimes. FDISK works fine. Thanks. BTW, this version seems fast, with NO stability problems on my 1200XL. -K

OK, I am an idiot..... I comletely overlooked the MOUNT /W command.... I guess I assumed that FDISK automatically took care of that... Thanks for your help, though. -K

Interesting... This is original MyIDE + Flash Cart BTW. Transcend 256 SSD on it. 512 BPS Supported. I have MYIDE.SYS ( the 3566 byte one) on CAR: I put it in 4.46 myself, using the tool. At boot, it says: MyIDE Driver v1.0 ©2011, FJC TRANSCEND No mounted volumes SpartaDOS X 4.46 10-06-2013 Copyright © 2013 by FTE & DLT D1: It is only after I type: mount /n a: 1 mount /n b: 2 etc. Then I can use the MyIDE cart. I must load the mount command from an SIO device. There is no space in the cart for the mount command and associated DLLs. Maybe I have wrong version of MyIDE.SYS driver? Thanks for your help. -K

Hi All. I have been out of the loop for a while. I am trying to use SDX 4.46 w/ MyIDE cart. It works, but I must load the mount command from SIO before I can use the cart. I like the APT scheme and 512 byte sectors better than my clunky old driver. Is there a way to automount a partition at boot time, so the cart may be a truly portable device. In other words, pop it into any Atari with no need for any SIO devices? -Kyle

Hi all, I saw an earlier post that mentioned 2.35i version. That is for high speed with Indus GT Drives, but will work fine with anything, just no highspeed SIO with other drives (without mods). -Kyle

I already posted b4 I read about posting here... I would like to buy one of your resistor MMU adapters. Please message me when you have more. Thanks! -K

I would like to buy one of your resistor MMU boards. Can you please message me when they are available again? Thanks! -K

BTW, Mike Hohman, if you are reading this, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Contact me. (Pittsburgh, PA Area Code) 353-9082, e-mail cornholio_0202 AT msn.com.NOSPAM, (use common sense) or message me here on AtariAge. Thanks! -K Also, to prove you are really Mike (other than your voice on the phone), please tell me what you had in the trunk of your (beautiful) white Dodge Aspen that I told you to get rid of before it rusted the trunk out... BTY buddy, I (after a lot of searching, have a Sunrise Electronics Z-1000B stacked full of static RAM to the max. Gimme a call, Mike, PLEASE!

I wish I could remember better, that was back in the FTe days (mid 90's). I *THINK* it may have been a delay that I added between the receipt of the command frame and the 'ACK' sent by the drive. It was just a few cycles more. I wish I still had the source code!!! I found and fixed it within a few hours. I made a (never released, one of a kind) SDX 4.23 for my personal use, although, with the other bug fixes I did, it *SHOULD* have been officially released. INDUS.SYS with RAMCharger Track Buffering sounds like RAPID FIRE Machine Gun!, EXTREMELY FAST! I don't remember the baud, but it must have been around 70K. IIRC, more than 2 tracks/ second. You could watch the track display count up VERY quiclky. It would fool the RPM command to show over 1000. This was around the time when we were struggling with money, and trying to perfect the ill-fated MARS8 board. We did have working prototypes, the only problem was, it would randomly lock up on the un-released game Deflektor. I lost my SDX 4.23 cart in a move, and all my source code when FTe moved to Arizona, along with many other things like my favorite Universal (EPROM & PAL) Programmer Sunrise Z1000B. Some lucky person (when they auctioned off our warehouse) got my TeleVideo CP/M system (TS-816 based, with my own customized OS called Network-NZ) that I did all my Z-80 programming on. If anyone still has a TVI-816, I found a few tapes that *MAY* or *may NOT* have something useful on them. I will be happy to send the tapes to anyone who can read them, and hope and pray my *COMMENTED* GTSYNC source code is on one of them. Also, please remember, Back in the day, many people got mad at Mike, the founder of FTe because of the pre-order money not being returned. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT! That said, Mike Hohman is a great guy. I am *NOT* (well, maybe a little) defending him for what he did... Back in the day, he did what he had to do to survive. We really *DID* use the money to develop new products, but, UNfortunately it went FLOP I wanted Mike to release the MARS-8 'as-is'. It worked with 90+ percent of software, but, he, and myself to some degree are perfectionists. Deflektor is a cool game I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) Endorse the Ultimate 1M Internal SDX upgrade that's out there now, I want one! As soon as I get the money I will buy one. I would like to see the option of empty sockets for various OSS ROMs, BASIC-XL, XE, MAC-65, etc. We had a working IDE device, much like MyIDE, but I made a circuit to latch the upper 8 bits so we could use all of the IDE drive capacity. It was the 512 byte sector thing that we had trouble with back in the day. I sure wish that I knew then what I know now And, on the other hand, I wish I knew now what I have forgotten from a long time ago... Why is it that M$ made a great OS in 2001/2002 and called it XP /2003, and now they make GARBAGE? Load up a Win7 box, go to command prompt, and type VER! You will get NT V6.xx.xxxx Just like Vista! It's not really version 7 (seven)! Atari lasts forever on SDX, or even DOS 2.xx (or MyDOS, SmartDOS, TopDOS, etc.) Atari is TIMELESS! We don't worry about OS upgrades for security, or other reasons. OK, I have rambled on enough.... Good luck to anyone who can find the original, COMMENTED Indus RAMCharger source! We had it, so it MUST be out there somewhere... -Kyle

Hi All. If I remember correctly, the Indus track buffer Z80 code has a bug in the SIO timing. This timing is done by counting clock cycles of each instruction. I had a completely working INDUS.SYS at one time that would program both RAM equipped and regular Indus. I wish I had it now Good luck with the project, I *KNOW* it can be done. -K

Yes, that is it. Sorry it took so long to reply. I think the commercial version was 2.4 though. If you load a picture, then hit Print, there will probably be some text about ordering info show on the screen (and paper). Please let me know. Thanks! -K

Thanks for all the info! I found a 68764 EPROM, pin compatible w/ 68766. It was $11.99 + 5.95 shipping (ouch)! but it works perfectly in the BASIC rev. A cart. Take out both mask ROMs, burn the 68764 or 68766, and put it into EITHER socket on the cart. board, leaving the other one empty. I have a 2764 with BASIC C on it, so I set the burner for 2764, and read the chip. Then changed type to 68766, put in the 68764! and burned it. I chose "Intelligent 1ms 3x" algorithm. I was a little afraid to burn it, because my burner only had 68766 listed. I looked at both datasheets, and could find no real differences. Anyway, it works fine. Hopefully my little experiment may be of help to others who want to make a ver. C cart, and have some of those expensive 68764 or 68766 chips sitting around. -Kyle

Thanks for the info. I did a little research, and found that one of the two chips in the BASIC A cart is 2532 compatible. The other has the select line inverted in the chip for A12. Basically, A12 selects one chip (low) or the other (high). The two sockets are pin for pin in parallel. There is no different chip selects between the two sockets. I am going to burn an 8K 68766 (24 pin) and try it, leaving the other socket empty. If that doesn't work, I'll go the 2764 route. I'll post my results here. I erased those 2532's I tried in the cart, and burned USD in them. Those 2532's are good for USDoublers in 1050 drives that have the mask ROMs if you don't want to change the jumpers. -Kyle

Hello. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to upgrade my BASIC rev. A cart to rev. C. I sent the rev. C file to my EPROM burner (Needham's SA-20), starting at 0 -> 1FFF, then burned a 2532 from 0 -> 0FFF, and another 2532 from 1000 -> 1FFF. I plugged them into the BASIC cart board C012963, and does not work. Both chips verify, I even read a 2764 with BASIC C on it, that I had in my 1200XL, and compared it, it verified too. What am I doing wrong??? Thanks for your help! -Kyle

Hi everyone. Hopefully someone can help with this. Years ago, I wrote a program, PicPrint Plus. Over time, I have lost my disks due to multiple moves, bad sectors, etc. This program will read, display, and print almost all Atari picture files, compress, uncompressed, Fun with Art, etc. It prints in color on color printers. I released a demo version, which is available, but, unfortunately, I embedded some text into the program that defaces the picture in the demo version, and I made it impossible for a hacker to remove. I can't even remove it So, please, if anyone has it, please .SCP , .DCM, or .ATR it and attach to a message for me so I can release it to the public for everyone to have. I only sold a few copies, so, I hope someone has it. Thanks! -Kyle

Metalguy66, What is the current status of the new MIO? I may be interested in one. I tried to ask about this on blackendtech, pressed "submit" and it seemed like nothing happened. I hope you can get all that, cause it's long, all about what I wanted to do with the MIO while I was with FTe, and I don't feel like typing all that again my e-mail is [email protected] I generally see that before I read here. Thanks! -K