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I just put a regular CF card in mine -- nothing fancy at all. I dunno if it would make any difference or not. The MMD is an odd beast -- I've basically been using mine as a homebrew launcher. I haven't touched any of the "media" features really, except I did try playing an MP3 just to see how it did.

Well, the first one that I noticed that was missing was Qix -- it's listed as a 1991 release, so I would assume that would qualify as a classic release. But, there is no ROM download for it. I dunno if there are more or not -- I'm not as familiar as I wish I was with the Lynx releases to know

I've noticed that although there are a lot of Lynx ROMs linked to from the games page, there are also a quite a few that are missing. Is there another source of ROMs or are those ones considered missing? Also, is the AtariAge list complete? Or are there other games that should be on the list?

Doesn't the CX-10 have a different button action than the CX-40? I have a controller where the button is "squishy" instead of the normal feel on all of my other controllers. It also doesn't have Top on it, and I just assumed that all CX-10s had the squishy button.

Well, there is no static libraries in z26. But, this does appear to be a library problem of sorts -- the program is crashing when a symbol is called that hasn't been binded yet. Somehow, the stack pointer is messed up when calling from asm->C. I can get it to work for some cases, but not for all. If I just knew what the correct way to call from asm to C under OS X was, this problem would be easy solve.

I'm working on porting z26 over to OS X/Intel, and I've run into issues with Mach-O. If anyone with OS X and x86 asm experience is willing to help, I would appreciate it. I've documented my current status at http://dmunsie.wordpress.com/. Leave a comment here or there if you have any insight/suggestions/etc. thanks!

Just looking for any utilities that would let me copy files to/from ATR files without having to fire up an emulator. Preferably with source code, because I need to be able to use them under Linux. Thanks!

Yeah -- that's what I have. I would highly recommend that cable if you have an actual drive. Otherwise, go for the PC->Atari cable instead.

according to the review on that page, it says that it doesn't support 1050<->PC connections. So far, that's been what I've used my cable for the most. Makes it very easy to make ATR images of a huge box of floppies that I've been moving around with me for the past 15 years. So, can anyone else confirm if the AtariAge board supports 1050<->PC connections? I would hate to convince anyone else to buy/not to buy based on a single review.

The translator was a program for the XL/XEs that replaced the OS that came with the machine to the OS that the 400/800 used. It lasted until you power-cycled the machine, and allowed you to run programs that were incompatible with the XL/XE. I have a few different versions of the discs for the translator, so I can include a copy of that as well, if needed. I'll also attempt to dump the cart that I have tonight as well -- I might just have a flaky dump, and that's why it requires the translator.

i just purchased a SIO2PC cable, and I got the one with the SIO jack instead of the terminals. Saved me from hacking up a perfectly good SIO cable, and looks nicer as well. I would recommend going that route.

if you encoded it at the right rate, it should be okay (in theory). The data rate isn't that high, and it's only alternating between two frequencies. Assuming that you are using a WAV from cas2wav, you have a perfect audio source to begin with. i was just thinking that it could really come in handy if you could use something like an iPod connected up to the Atari to load directly from there. Of course, since Atari never made a cable to connect other tape drives to the 8-bit line, that option is pretty much dead. But, it should work on other platforms that did allow other players to be used (TI-99, Sinclairs, Apple IIs).

MAC/65 was the more capable editor, but the Atari Assembler Editor cart should be easier to find. I have one myself (not selling though, sorry) and it wasn't that hard to get. I have a copy of the Assembler Editor cart on a floppy disc as well -- the only problem is that for some reason, you need to run it under the translator on the XL/XEs. I could send you a disc image if you wanted, or if necessary, I could probably get a real disc out to you for the price of postage and an floppy disc mailer.

couple of tips (though, I haven't done either of these myself -- reader beware ): - in iTunes, setup a playlist for the tape you are making. Make sure that repeat/shuffle isn't set for the playlist, and you should be good. - again, in iTunes, make sure you don't have any EQ settings turned on. I believe you can turn EQ on/off on a per file basis, but I'm not sure if this applies to WAV files. BTW -- does compressing the WAVs into MP3s or AACs work? or do you lose too much quality? Not that it really matters that much, since you can always just toss out the WAVs and regenerate from the CAS files instead...

back in the day, we had a submarine commander cart that we used on a 1200XL. The trick was that the cart case had to be modified to fit in that slot. But, otherwise, I think it worked fine. As I recall, it was a pretty hard game, so it didn't get too much use.

I was thinking of expanding my 800XL with some more RAM, and I was wondering what route I should take. I found a few different do-it-yourself options on the net, but I was really set on at least being compatible with the 130XE. Does the separate ANTIC and CPU banks make much of a difference in compatibility? If so, is there an upgrade that remains compatible with the 130XE for the 800XL? Also, I'm concerned about stability -- are the upgrades pretty much all equal? And then the final question -- do any of them have a switch to disable them for compatibility reasons? Or does it pretty much not matter? Thanks!

has anyone dumped the ROM/EEPROM that's on the Happy 1050 upgrade card? Is it possible to read it from the Atari? I'm just curious as to what it does, and wanted to take a look.

in theory, the XScale based PPCs should be more than fast enough. The ARM CPU is very capable of emulating the 6502 -- the GBA with it's 16mhz ARM can pull off emulating a NES at full speed. But, the problem is that nobody seems to want to spend the time in writing a custom emulator for the hardware. It's much "easier" to simply recompile an existing emulator and toss on a quick GUI than it is to write a new emulator from the ground up. BTW -- what is the typical screen resolution on a PPC device? Can the whole Atari display be shown without any scaling?

i think there was a thread on the 8-bit board about some games that looked as though they were just ported from the 2600 to the 8-bit without any changes. That got me thinking -- how hard would it be to "port" a game in that manner? Is there a list someplace of 2600 registers and where they are in the 8-bit? Just curious, thought it would be kinda neat to see

Are the Happy upgrades still available someplace on the net? Or is ebay about it?

hey everyone, i just finally got a working 8-bit setup again after almost 15 years of being out of the fold. I've started the process of making ATRs of my old disks (which, surprisingly, still work for the most part), and I've run across some double density disks that just won't work in my stock 1050. So, what options do I have these days for upgrading my 1050 to a true double density drive? back in the day, I bought a US Doubler that I actually still have, but I am really hesitant to try it out in this drive, since the last drive I tried it in ended up in the scrap heap (EEPROM vs ROM issue, I think... I could've sent off for the other chip for free, but being impatient, I went the solder the jumper route... ) Would it be fairly cheap to get a pre-modded 1050 off eBay or some other website? or would it be easier/cheaper to get an upgrade kit? Also, what kits are recommended? I'm only familar with US Doubler, but I've seen some of the other kits around as well. Are there any homebrew kits out there? It doesn't seem like a very difficult modification -- just some extra RAM and a new ROM, right? Anyway, any help would be appreciated thanks!

awww, why log off to pee yourself? it's pretty easy to do without even moving the mouse... as an added bonus, you can continue where you left off after peeing yourself

I know this is the classic gaming programming forum, but I've found that the GameBoy Advance is a good system to learn assembly on as well. I guess it all depends on what you want to learn -- if the goal is 6502 assembly, stick with something like the XL/XE or C-64. If the goal is to learn any assembly language, I would recommend the GBA or if you are using a PC anyway, x86 assembly. The reason, btw, that I recommend the GBA is that it's CPU (the ARM) was heavily influenced by the 6502. The designers at Acorn designed the original ARM chips to replace the 6502s that they were using in their earlier machines. Quite frankly, I think that the 6502 and the ARM both have an elegance in design that isn't matched in any other CPU that I've looked at -- and I've looked at quite a few IMO, you can't really go wrong with either of them.

As the subject says, I'm looking for a monitor and cable for a 800XL somewhere in the Boston area. I'd be willing to come pick it up. As for price, I really don't know what a fair price would be -- I'm assuming that the cable is worth more than the monitor We could also work out a trade, but I'm afraid that I just don't have that much to offer. But, I'm still open to try.

I've seen the red sticker before -- back when Atari gear was still on the store shelves, we had a power surge that took out our Atari 400 and 5200. After both of them were repaired, we had the red sticker on the bottom. Since it wasn't there before, it must've been introduced around that time. I believe that this would've been around 1983 or so -- definetly no later than 1984. Oddly enough, the flyer seems familar too -- but I'm not sure if that's just my mind playing tricks on me