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  2. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    omfg check out hias site. check out AA. He even made a HD maxflash cart to do it too. Why do we have to spoon feed all of this stuff to you, you make us do the work all the time, now it's time for you to do the work :)

    we already stated SpartaDOS provides pclink...

    and APE from AtariMax has supplied this with his software for ages... the only issue is you don't want to see it and don't want to find it.

    Video and testimonials mean nothing evidently...

    I just don't get the whole ostrich with it's head in the sand routine

  3. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    no it fr*cking doesn't, it can use a driver what don't you get?

    and since you view carts as ok, you can use a cartridge to provide the the driver actually... I had hias driver on cart and the real sio devices that were capable worked... so by your definition that old set up is okay yes?

    sio power injection or removal isn't a new concept either... either...

     

    I leave it to powers that be to dig all that stuff up again... I mean it's not as if cartridges aren't basically cut down bus device theses days anyway...

  7. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    well it looks like it shows you copy 2000 in the video from MoparStephen...

    can we assume you are seeing the same pictures and videos people have been posting across the decades?

    I see pclink, copy programs, demos, everyday use videos all littered through out the AA forums showing the higher speed usage and devices.. It comes down to what you own for a drive/device or not...

     

    @xxl,  you make great stuff... and it's possible to eak out just a bit more if such other wonders are supported, so long as it doesn't break completely for the end user.

  10. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    As a PAL user you wouldn't normally need it, an NTSC *may* need it... even though ICD and Atari service centers did remove the two caps for folks.

    The point is you don't even need to modify the Atari, you can use a SIO device that allows for the speed which you can still buy to this day, not unlike the powered USB hubs that were use on x86 machines that had speed and power issues for a comparison.

     

    Since you are a great coder you can verify this yourself though. The end user has more than one avenue to achieve this since 84

    unless we are to use cassette and pre grass valley 810's in perpetuity... though we used 8 inch drives on the Atari as well, and paper tape... (one of the AA members here actually bought this from someone I know) I don't want to go back to paper tape.

     

    It is admirable you want things to work for all Atari's in all configurations, and that can still be if a loader reverts from zero divisor to divisor 6 and then reverts to base divisor after that...

  11. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    you can use pbi to transparently modify whatever needs to be and it need not be a pbi device in and of itself, it modifies stuff inserted in parallel to what is already there in a sense as the keyhole can run things larger than the available space appears to the machines. If it did not do that, it might have been labeled simply as Buss interface. As noted in the first adverts all of the RAM, Personality etc, was meant to be replaceable, with the caveat it used the architecture of the core machine and it's chips and followed the outlined rules as the machines expanded. The PBI specification fall under that umbrella

     

    The capacitors weren't on all machines and sometimes having them present didn't kill sio speed depending on the machine. @lotharek 's sio splitter is buffered and seems to get divisor zero with 99.9 percent of Atari's with or without the caps... NTSC or PAL... does your PAL machine have the caps? if so... weird. There were earlier offering of sio splitters, some with and some without SIO improvements, some blocking other device use at the same time others not. All of this was available as mentioned.

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    Correct, the idea was that an xf disk could still be read with another drive one side then the other even if it need be a sector copier like process to still get your data.... for better or worse, not that it every worked out that way. although it is nice to know a disk has something on it because a drive reads some of it rather than none of it..  I like the maxi but it needs some more modes..

  15. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    I bet the ham radio operators / business radio / as well as cb users and the like will just love all the QRM this guy is asking you to generate by leaving all the shielding off... not to mention what a nice linear can do to your un-shielded machine and connected peripherals... trust me it's fun for about 5 minutes...

     

    Sorry Decker, your just not Starfleet Material

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  16. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    well it's not like a crt these days... what make and model insignia screen is that?

    usually there is a spot for red green and blue adjust... tint... temperature (warm normal cold etc)... as well as colorspace etc...

    while your at it adjust brightness and contrast...

    i'll check for the specifics unless you have the manual or dig it up yourself

    after you've adjusted the screen, you can further dial it in using the Atari Color pot

     

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    1 hour ago, BillC said:

    The issue was with BASIC code that used XIO to reprogram the XEP80 to use only 216 scan lines, the SDX and Altirra release XEP80 drivers don't have XIO enabled.

     

    The additions disk for the Altirra beta/test releases has updated drivers and an XEPVHOLD ML program that does the same as the BASIC code.

    yup

  21. Posted · Edited by _The Doctor__

    I can not check my idea, fujinet down...

    but if you are using bobterm, it used to be possible to leave and use DOS, or sometimes use the built in DOS shell in some way...

    try that to gain access to the tools and mount/format/whatever... and then exit the shell or load the term program again

     

    just a thought

     

    it is an issue as many disks might already be nearly full or full and not necessarily even write locked...

     

    A quick fill this slot with a blank button might be a good idea... no screen needed...

    the logic to interpret the buttons is another issue... but hey... where there is a will... there is a way...

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