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Oh, I din´t see he´s talking SDX. Sorry.

I´m using SDX449_sdx128.car which just works fine for me.

Did you set the paths for the HDDs in the "Hard Drives" tab?

Ah, thought so. That doesn´t work. It´s actually like booting a DOS disk on the real hardware and then switch off the machine and try to boot the xex, just that Atari800MacX starts the xex, while the real hardware would give a nice "Boot Error" scroller. You wrote you use MyDos, there it is quite simple: When booting, make sure BASIC is off, that will bring you directly to the menu. Then you hit "L" and type in the name of the program, you want to load. If you are not sure about the name, just hit "1" to get the directory of D1:, which shows you the files. It´s nearly the same with AtariDOS 2.5. When you boot with BASIC enabled, you end up in the BASIC editor, which just shows you "READY" and a Cursor. Here you can type "DOS" and will get to the menu, too.

How do you load the .xex? It should be on the same disk like the DOS. If you have the .xex separately, use "Media - Edit an .atr Disk Image", choose the disk with the DOS and then click "Import Files From Mac". If there is not enough space on the disk, create a new one with any size (Media - New Floppy Image). Or am I getting you wrong?

Great news. Thank you so much for still improving it.

Ah, I understand. Yes, that´s the downside of that device. When you power the computer off, the configuration made is lost. Maybe it´s possible to install a buffer battery, to keep it? @alsp, would that be possible?

I´m a bit confused about what you´re seeing. When I enable SDX on my U1MB, attach the Sdrive2 and boot the computer, it boots into SDX. DIR gives me the same you see. I run sdrive.xex and then can mount anything as I´m used to. Pressing Reset brings me back to SDX and the DIR now shows me the content of the ATRs I´ve mounted. I´m using U1MB firmware 3.10 and SDX 4.49 (latest), not even sure about the firmware of my Sdrive2, it´s one from the first batch. Does your SDrive behave "normal" when you disable SDX?

It´s not about playability. I just don´t like it.

Stopped at 350 points. Won´t get more, I never like this game and won´t waste my time playing this.

I´ve played Kaiser even more than M.U.L.E. Would love to see a Fujinet-Version, where the other players can´t see how I set taxes and that I spent all money on mitlitary.

Of course you may.

That´s exactly why I meanwhile printed four of yours. When occupied with four carts, they´re even stackable. But the non-angled ones are comsuming less place and might come to good use when we finally can have meetings and presentations again.

Thanks, drac030. Finally I got it. Several things here: Both SD Cards started behaving strange, so I took another 2GB Transcend from one of my Amigas. And than I did, what you proposed but I hate: Math... From the start installed the FAT as EXT and some APTs, used DISKUTIL on the Mac (as described by @flashjazzcat), back to SIDE3, copied fatfs.sys from SIO2SD onto it and... BOOM. Thanks! Now I finally can go to bed.

Yes, I know. I did several tries with FAT16 and got the same result, so I was supposing the error on the Mac/PC side and just tried with FAT32. Will do a last try with the 4GB card and FAT16 before I hit the sack.

You guys keep my printer busy. Still need two or three more.

I´ve updated my SIDE3 to the latest Firmware and now wanted to access the FAT-partition from SDX. I know, there is a huge thread, but I didn´t find a solution there, except from copying a prepared image. But I want to do it from scratch. First: I have a Mac with OS X Big Sur and a Windows 10 machine with the latest update. Atari800XL with U1MB, SIDE3, SIO2SD, 1 SD Card with 4GB and 1 SD Card with 16GB. What I did: - 2 GB SD Card in SIDE3 - Boots into SDX 4.49e - FDISK: 2 Partitions: 2000MB FAT16, remainder APT - Create APT Partition "C" with 65535 sectors bootable - format that with FORMAT from SDX - put SD into Mac, use DISKUTIL as described by Jon - successfully got FAT16 partition, which the Mac mounts. Put two *.xex on it - Boot SIDE3 into Fileloader: FAT-partition recognized, can start both files (and wasted an hour playing TimePilot) - Boot SIDE3 into SDX, using FDISK to install FAT as EXT partition - try to access DK: - Error 138 - Install FATFS.SYS 0.87L (from SDX toolkit): Still Error 138 So: Everything´s working, but I can´t access the FAT16 partition from SDX. CHKFAT says "Not a FAT disk" Next try: Use Windows 10 to format the FAT volume. No success. Last try: 16GB SD card, initialise as FAT32 (4GB), format it with Windows 10. Same as above: All is working, but I can´t read the FAT partition from SDX. The Config.sys on the SIDE3 is unchanged, I´ve also tried loading FATFS via AUTOEXEC.BAT, but simply can´t read the FAT partition. Any help (that does not sound like "use Linux", simply don´t have and want it) appreciated. Edit: Stupid me, I just realise, I used CHKFAT on the APT (C:) partition. Will do correctly now, one moment. Addition: At the last try I forgot to give the FAT partition a Drive number (DK:). When doing this, I get Error 148 and CHKFAT looks like this: Still can´t access K:

One more thing: I´ve also separated ATRs from PDFs.

Think, I never added mine here: S/N: 72R DA 26797 263 Made in Taiwan And it has that label on its back:

This is to inform all ABBUC-members who are registered to the ABBUC website and can access the downloads: I´ve created a new section "ABBUC Magazine - ENGLISH" where you find only the english PDF-versions of the magazines. Currently #140, #141 and #142 (Title page will be english soon, too) are online. #143 will follow soon (translators are busy, let´s hope for this week), as will Special Magazine #52 (ABBUC competitions). I´m very optimistic, that #144 will be available as english PDF as soon as the printed magazines ship. But I won´t put it online, before the first magazines arrived at the members (which normally is one day after shipping). The disk images still are in the other folder, I might create a separate section for the ATRs, too. And: On Monday we reach the deadline for texts, graphics, sounds, games, tools... everything for #144 (printed and disk). So check your stuff and send us, want you want to share.

I don´t like it that much, as I prefer to use them. But finally I had to organize home office, but my home is small. Now a big Rendermachine is lurking next to my Ataris and eating much space under the table. Home Office is not good for my knees...

Just put a Sophia 2 in my (PAL modded) 1200 XL. By accident (Home office) there is a 4K-Samsung, so I used a DVI -> HDMI adaptor to connect the Atari to it. The images should speak for themselves. I´m more than happy.

Was it like opened, or like never closed (plastic above adhesive) ? The latter could be my mistake, but when it was like opened, someone was keen on looking inside. Maybe that happens due to the stamp: 3,20€ is a special price for magazine shippings, the same with a "personal" letter costs 3,70€. So they might just have checked if the content is a mass product and not an individual letter or so. P.S.: 142 in english is finished (just wait for approvement from the translators) and will be tomorrow. 144 will finally be created in GE and EN simultaneously.

Thanks for the information. The stamp date should be the same on all envelopes, as all magazines shipped the very same day (boy, they´re heavy - or I´m gettin weak...). As I was focussing on getting the magazines out, I´ve updated the database after christmas. All fine with your account, it currently reads 31-10-2021. We´re already working on #144. There are still a few days left for transmissions (texts, graphics, sounds, demos, games...)

It´s getting crazy. Unbelieveable how much time and energy I need to spend for simple tasks like shipping stuff. The newest joke happened yesterday. I got a message from a German member, that his letter was returned, as the addressee couldn´t be found: This is on front of the door to my house. Those are the mailboxes in the house: Close up of my Mailbox: But German Postal service returned this to sender: Addressee not found: You can see, that he used the same address which is printed on the envelopes I use for the magazines. Some of them returned for different reasons, so in general, the address seems to work. As there are other things I´m missing (a repaired 1050 was "delivered" to me regarding to tracking, but never showed up here) I´m really nervous about how many deliveries might have been lost. So please: If you ever send something to the ABBUC headquarters, always send me a message via mail or messengers so that I know something´s on the way.