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    Cherry Bombs huh? :D That's funny. I know my girlfriend has a new Acer I'd like to cherry bomb. Tried to remove Vista off of it and replace it with her favorite program (Windows 2000 NT) and wouldn't you know it...Windows 2000 NT couldn't recognize those new SATA drives. Bummer. Too bad I couldn't burn Atari's GEM desktop to an eprom and slap it in there LOL.

     

    Just a quick one to tell you that unless the SATA controller has an IDE compatibility mode that you can setup in BIOS, you will need to use a floppy with the SATA drivers for windows installation regardless of whether you´re using 2000 or XP...

     

    you can TRY to use an USB floppy with the SATA controller software, in my experience, i´ve tried to do that on my desktop computers (they don´t have drives anymore because i have an external USB drive for that ONE time in a year that i need a floppy), and even though when you boot using windows CD, the press F6 to install a third party driver, it will finish loading drivers and then tell you to insert the floppy and press ok. you do that, it reads the drivers and everything seems to be ok.

     

    one more step ahead, when it just has to read the drive again, it asks to insert floppy in drive A: and press enter. and it doesn´t work from that point on with the USB drive.

     

    then i have to open the computer, connect a floppy cable, use a drive, load the driver and after the first phase of windows installation, i can disconnect the drive again.

     

    On a notebook, you might have better luck, since it does not have an integrated floppy controller, so it MIGHT work for you using an external USB drive.

  4. Posted · Edited by anzac

    Past home computers like Atari, Apple and others, when a device was connected to it, you didn't need a device driver, the hardware already knew how to handle it.

     

    not to get on your nerves here, but TOS could be considered to have "drivers" built in to let the software interface with the hardware... heck, without any kind of software layer, a computer is nothing more than a brick :)

     

    even a standard BIOS, is exactly that Basic Input Output System, a software that will tell the operating system what hardware there is and how to talk to it. which IRQs the devices are using, etc...

     

    As for drivers, the Atari also needed drivers to interface with a hard drive, for example.

     

    with a lot of hardware you would not "install" a driver, because when you used the software that came with the hardware, the driver was built in the software package. like sound samplers and genlock devices and scanners.

     

    printers back in the old days used standard protocols and when the inkjets appeared at the end of atari life they also needed drivers to be used with the ST.

     

    but yes, i do agree with you... life and computers were more simple back then...

     

    and no, no blue screens of death, we had cool cherry bombs... :D

  5. Posted · Edited by anzac

    yes, but since you asked if people remembered MS-DOS that AFAIK was released for the IBM clones, etc... then the ST TOS predates it... :)

     

     

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    this is just to point out that MS-DOS is not the same as DR-DOS or IBM-DOS, etc... they were all CLI OSs, just MS-DOS ultimately got associated with all DOS releases...

  6. Posted

    north of Portugal, with beautiful hills and fields... (interspersed with highways and factories, yay)

     

     

    i´m already on the Atari Users map, though for now appear only 2 in the whole Iberian Peninsula.

     

     

    520STfm with broken disc drive (a speaker fell on the STe case and i took this one´s drive and put it on the other along with the top case) :P

    1040STfm with megafile and SM124

    520STe with 4MB and SD205

    MegaST with megafile and SM124

    Jaguar

     

     

    Looking for MegaSTe, TT or Falcon...

  8. Posted

    there is one commum "bug" that really annoys me on Ebay...

     

    let´s say you get an e-mail with an item you were looking for. if your account is registered on the ebay.com, the e-mails you´re going to receive are from the ebay.com server.

     

    so you open the link of the item, see the item and decide to check what else the seller has for sale. what will happen next is very simple:

     

     

    if the seller´s account is also from ebay.com, you will see the items he has for sale.

     

    if the seller´s account is from ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, etc, you will have to go to that ebay to see the itens he has for sale.

  9. Posted

    I also use STeem and i´m able to save games on Monkey Island for example.

     

    i wasn´t able to save games on Deuteros, but it might be a game problem, not a fault with the emulator. i remember i had the computer on for weeks so that i could make a reasonably long game on Deuteros, since i could not save. There was also a sort of bug where the mouse pointer would get stuck on one corner, but that could be of the scene release in question.

     

    I did have the original game back then and i also have faint memories about this mouse bug, so it could be a game bug. but i also had a copy before having the original, so i might be mixing memories... :)

     

     

    haven´t tried a saved game feature on STemm much more and i´ve been coming and going to emulation over the years. i DO think that creating blank saved games disks could be easier, but maybe i just need to read the manual. :D

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