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  1. Bill Lange
    OK, I'll order a couple of those and see what happens. Thanks Bill
  2. Bill Lange
    I removed the five screws (the sixth one is missing) and took the top off. It is quite dusty. I powered it up and the head move toward the back of the drive, but when it gets to the end of its movement, it looks like it is trying to move a little more. Maybe the head is mis-aligned somehow. With the power off, the head move back and forth freely. I am going to get a can of compressed air to clean it out a little bit. WRL
  3. Bill Lange
    Both drives have their switches set for drive #1. I just switch drives using the same power cable and io cable so I know those are not the problem. When I turn the drive on, it growls for a couple of seconds and then just cycles through spinning for a second then stopping for a second then spinning then stopping ... WRL
  4. Bill Lange
    I have two Atari 1050 drives. One works perfect ... I actually booted up Ultima I durning the week. The other one turns on, but doesn't boot. The 800Xl just boots to the test screen. Has anyone had this problem? Is it an easy fix? Can the Happy upgrade that I see on eBay fix it? Thanks Bill
  5. Bill Lange
    Found this site - http://jybolac.virtualave.net/atari/a8ether/
  6. Bill Lange
    I am in the middle of reading a very interesting book called "Dungeon And Dreamers". A large portion of the book is dedicated to Richard Garriott, the author of the Ultima series. If you played Ultima back in the day, or if you like to read about the history of computer gaming, I highly recommend it. WRL
  7. Bill Lange
    hmmmm [removed link] Ok, I got a program running in Atari BASIC that is creating web pages. I have to work on removing all the extra characters. WRL
  8. Bill Lange
    I guess I was looking more for something like this - http://kl.net/atari/ running the following code in Atari BASIC - 5 CLOSE #1 10 A=0 15 XIO 36,#1,14,0,"R1:" 20 XIO 34,#1,(192+48),0,"R1:" 30 XIO 38,#1,64,0,"R1:" 40 OPEN #1,9,0,"R1:" 1000 STATUS #1,C 1010 IF PEEK(747)<2 THEN GOTO 1000 1015 XIO 40,#1,0,0,"R1:" 1030 PRINT #1;"HTTP/1.1 200 OK" 1040 PRINT #1;"Content-type: text/html" 1050 PRINT #1; 1060 PRINT #1;"<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Atari 800 web server</TITLE></HEAD>" 1070 PRINT #1;"<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000><CENTER><FONT COLOR=#EFEFEF>" 1071 PRINT #1;"<H2>Welcome to the Atari 800 web server</H2>" 1075 A=A+1 1080 PRINT #1;"<P>Hits since last reset:";A 1800 PRINT #1;"</FONT></CENTER></BODY></HTML>" 1900 STATUS #1,C 1910 IF PEEK(749)>0 THEN GOTO 1900 1920 CLOSE #1 1930 OPEN #1,9,0,"R1:" 1940 XIO 34,#1,128,0,"R1:" 1970 STATUS #1,C 1980 IF PEEK(747)>1 THEN GOTO 1970 1990 XIO 34,#1,192,0,"R1:" 1999 GOTO 1000 WRL
  9. Bill Lange
    Has anyone connected their Atari 8-bit to the internet? I remember hearing about someone designing a network interface card for it. I'm not sure why I would want to do except just to do it. Bill
  10. Bill Lange
    Has anyone read "Chris Crawford On Game Design", by Chris Crawford of course. I just finished reading it last week and it was very interesting. Although it included alot of the information on his website http://www.erasmatazz.com/index.html, it was nice to read it all in one place. Chris Crawford is the designer and developer of Wizards for the Atari 2600 and several programs for the Atari 8-bits including Eastern Front, Scram and Energy Czar. WRL
  11. Bill Lange
    Getaway! is available here - http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showindex.php Bill
  12. Bill Lange
    1. First computer - Atari 400 either March of '81 or '82. 2. First game - Star Raiders 3. Best game - Ultima III WRL
  13. Bill Lange
    Got all 26! Finally. Hmmm what now ...
  14. Bill Lange
    Ok, now I see it. I got 25, looking for the last one. WRL
  15. Bill Lange
    I found a 17th title. I also found part of a message, but thats it for me. I tried blacking out every other column and I tried blacking out every other row. WRL
  16. Bill Lange
    So I assume that the first 16 titles in the word search give us the 'list' from which the other 10 titles also come from, is that correct? I found a 17th title using the 'bar' method. WRL
  17. Bill Lange
    Nice work Thomas! How is it that you can figure that out, but can't figure out how to solve a simple word search! Bill
  18. Bill Lange
    I can only find half of the game titles in the word search, but the twists and turns that this adventure has taken are exciting! WRL
  19. Bill Lange
    Does anyone have a copy of AMIS? This was a fairly easy to understand Atari BASIC program for running a simple BBS. Bill
  20. Bill Lange
    You should check out Scott Adams' site - http://www.msadams.com/new/index.htm Bill
  21. Bill Lange
    Tempest - All of the graphic images are available online. There are also lists of spell, weapons and magical items and their effects available online. Check out this site - http://adventurersguild.org/1/ The hard part would be to recreate the game engine. Bill
  22. Bill Lange
    I think that by the time The Bard's Tale came out around 1985, the Atari 8-bits where on the decline. Also, the high rate of piracy made creating new software for the Atari machines unprofitable. Currently there is a new version of The Bard's Tale being developed for the pc. There is some info here - http://www.cheek.org/bard/about.htm Also, if you like The Bard's Tale, you might what to try Dragon Bane I and Dragon Bane II on your Palm or WinCE device. There is more info here - http://www.palmcreations.com/ Bill
  23. Bill Lange
    I saw this CD with 100+ Atari patents in PDF format on eBay today. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcIS...item=3050432813 Looks interesting ... but should be freely available somewhere. [EDIT] - and here they are http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...To&StartNum=490 I can't seem to get the images to display though. [/EDIT] WRL
  24. Bill Lange
    Now this sounds like a nice cartridge. If anyone has the actual documentation for any/all of these software titles and has time to scan them, I can compile it and host it on my website. WRL
  25. Bill Lange
    What is your favorite 8-Bit (Apple, Commodore) game never ported to the Atari series of home computers? Mine would have to be The Bard's Tale series. WRL
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