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_The Doctor__

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  1. lol that's for sure. I decided to slow myself down and it caused the calibration issue some have wrestled with, normally I just tap tap, tap tap and it's done. If I carefully deliberately press and release it's liable to to get a double read and then oh no, I have to do the point to elsewhere on the screen to get a button problem. either way it all works out in the end.. um the idea behind the open platforms is to share code and ideas, he can look at it, accept, reject, delete, ignore whatever you send.. but if it is a worry let someone already doing it submit for you or email it to him ,
  2. in so many words they are kind of one and the same... even with almost everything under rom etc, you may still need to swap out for special cases, though this can be overcome in some instances by UN-linking the offending thing.. bobterm does this sort of thing as well as sparta, but stand alone utilities and such are also made for other DOS etc.
  3. @ FJC it's just me mixing stuff up. The resulting conclusions are correct though. as far as the AVG loader / AVG sideloader.. goes and u1m- and BB / MIO it may very well be that it fixes things for one group of software and breaks it for others I wouldn't know what touches what.. I will simply try what you alter, and if it all works we'll be happy as a clams- if it doesn't I guess it could be made a selection in a config or something. I think I need to re read what I wrote and you wrote. I am having one of those days... yesterday I made more sense I have called it a day and have headed home. I will be back in a few. Yesterday took it's toll on me, I had to repair the oven last night, ... which went perfectly. But it did wipe me out. So today I am having trouble in some areas. It's almost like everything is just noise to look at or read. This continues to worsen.
  4. how about this one... I trust in Drac030! moon-patrol-audiofix.arc unarc and enjoy! I have used this on all sorts of machines without issue.
  5. It still seems a waste to piggy back another 64k on XE's first row when it could be another 128, I am not sure that I am proving anything to do so. I think the problem may be in at least one of the rambo methods. Might be I need a rambo again to physically see it and why...and that will be after FJC is done
  6. what is the concern about bit 5? standard xe second bank is as always, and the 128 and 128 banks for extended ram have antic accounted for in the upgraded.. look at the modification....see how it's tied in... this has been covered in other threads. if it works with one shouldn't it work with the other? I am not a fan of how at least one rambo upgrade functions, and the arrangement thereof. We can bank off of whatever pin we wire up to. I am not sure why Pang or anything else can't be modified... FJC is making modification for what he sees. When the wedge came out almost everyone fixed up their expansions to allow antic to be tied in, some people said it was antic following etc. doesn't matter, it works and nothing is lost. Perhaps I haven't dedicated time or grey matter to this, of course I could do as I mentions and add just 64k to the XE either on top of first row or second row in the xe, and see what comes or it. with antic tied in. I didn't see where it should matter in the pang txt.. does it say explicitly it needs sep antic access, antic following, normal, or none...? perhaps I've lost the train of though, confused about something. At this minute is Pang is running and I would probably need to wire up on both XL(old xl single row not XLF etc) and XE. I don't see a reason why 64 base plus 192 extended wouldn't work. perhaps rambo sort of hidden ram is at issue...
  7. What hair is being split here, you could have star raiders as early as January and buy in almost any store come march/April etc. That being said.. easy enough for someone who has the requisition, shipping and delivery reports to check. I'd go that route. As has happened from time to time, if important enough the fellows hear have done the deep dive or produced such paper or internal electronic memos. We are long in the tooth and it would take some doing for them accomplish this at this stage in life. I'd contact Curt and he can either help or point you in the correct direction...
  8. someone can just patch the sound on your image, it's a simple mistake if I remember correctly. some people like it both ways. the fix was done on mario and some others... I will try to remember...
  9. I don't see that we can't make it work in 16k after optimizations and replacements and using the load in provision as done with the 1400 series where additional rom loads in the rest of the goodies. I would use that template.
  10. I don't see that we can't make it work in 16k after optimizations and replacements and using the load in provision as done with the 1400 series where additional rom loads in the rest of the goodies. I would use that template.
  11. Nice idea, shorten the delay further maybe. I'm impatient Give it another look if nothing wrong then nothing prevents to modify and see what you get. If you are happy with result put the code / suggestion up on the repository with note and make the request.
  12. tbxl 1.4 was 14 k and ran on the 800, now if it were adapted to cartridge form, could 2 8k block be accessed or would it be better served to put load half like a translator and and leave half car rom...
  13. no idea what it says, needs polenglish translatorizations ... is it scooping excrement from peoples butts?
  14. yes the fail safe hasn't been requested to be removed... but if we get good calibrations and can save and load them maybe we can avoid the need to use the fail safe. but it's nice to know it's there.
  15. If you have made archival copies of your music in a significantly degraded fashion, and aren't selling them and have put them in the cloud and encrypted as well as protected by a password it's perfectly legal, if others obtain a password or whatever and do whatever they do, it appears you have taken the proper steps to protect your archive. I don't see a problem.. if someone guessed it or did something your not responsible since you are in need of space I could hold the music on a drive for you. It can be an open ftp server or torrent type server as it would be faster. since it's encrypted and password protected I don't have an issue with it.
  16. I tend to like the full featured terminal servers, the older the better... why? they have all the good stuff, dns is always nice mss100, ets16r...scs200 or similar from other companies. basically console servers. The highly configurable devices can provide all the goodies, the better ones give you slip etc.. in it's true form... no PC/MAC blah blah needed... and can have your Atari not only do some bbs etc. but do old school internet connections to the now non existent services like genie, aol, compuserve etc. long after the phone line were gone I was still connecting as if nothing changed. some of the irc programs that were almost completed work well enough when paired in this fashion work very nicely.. You can also act like a gateway for people to loop through your server on the 2 or more serial port models This is helpful for dns challenged folks like the uds users. You can also provide more than one way to connect... lets say someone has a perle device that only wants to do raw mode and your system has always worked best with telnet users, well the server can provide both.. just supply the relevant port number. or set up a menu in the console server and let them choose which way to connect to your bbs, or use you to connect to another bbs from your pass through menu. you can go crazy and provide dial in or dial out from a real old pots modem as well... I better stop before your house becomes a data center...
  17. make sure the wire blocks are attached correctly for which mech you have... some need to be reversed in the spot they plug in....
  18. Items to request of developer 1 ability to save both calibrations sets from rotate or have the code just flip the calibrations in the code, whichever leaves the most free mem in the ardy... might depend on the screen though 2 a load config button, this is useful if you make a mistake or cat etc touches screen and slots show he emptied them or other stuff changed, allows to get it all back without power cycling etc simply loads the last saved config. w00t! 3 be able hold more than 2 atx disks (if memory would allow-not sure on this) 4. a filter to find all files with or all files without whatever extender...more popular ones on buttons? (don't know/remember if file is cas, atx, atr, or what folder it belonged in) more powerful one in the D0:sdrive.atr if that is done - use a config file saved on the sd card from the atari via the sdrive atr or other utility image. that's about all I see in the thread or from me.... just ideas to consider. someone could pass the list along if it looks reasonable and you think it's complete enough
  19. I just slobber and pet the cat when it gets too bad.. be better if I had a dog again... he can go fetch whatever I forgot I needed. I will call him dog. That way I won't have to worry about the name
  20. interesting because the avg cart loader does pang no problem... I will try the side loader on the avg just to see what happens... (prolly a bad thing to do but hey why not)
  21. pang atr hates the black box even with it set to d1 as floppy no high speed all other ports off Pang XEX happy as can be though when used with AVG cart and BB.... you need to get the 4.5 version it seems. Pang v4.5 (2016-12-15)(TeBe - Vidol - Ooz -R ocky - stRing)(PL)(en)Req 256kstereo.xex NTSC users press o and p to turn on off music... keep music off to enjoy game.... still think trimming out all blank lines could help NTSC though provided nothing is happening embedded in them..of course they can be moved to the top or bottom if that were the case perhaps.... of course now I am playing the game- so I'll forget what I am doing by the time I am done having fun popping stuff to pieces!
  22. okay using AVG cart, I loaded up on 320 XE NTSC... The XEX works just fine if you turn off music.. there are plenty of blank lines all around in in between energy and time at top and game field as well as between play field and score stage at the bottom These could be trimmed out and give NTSC better chance to run with music without disruption... I only have 192k total in one mode and 320k in the other... I didn't want to install a 128k piggy back chip bank to do 192k extended when I could do 256k straight up using toggle to select 128k extended and 256k extended... I should have banked the old 64k on the first bank and had 192k extended (256k total) and 384k total... oh well
  23. okay did some digging version 4.5 is latest version in theory.. changes mentions this - PANIC mode at the beginning is characterized by a greater number of bonuses (heart, shield), then there are fewer bonuses- after passing the 9th level of the PANIC mode, we will see a screen with congratulations- added datamatrix, you can save high_score results on XXL-a page- possibility of suspecting the best results, HELP key (then you have to choose TOUR, PANIC)- handling the joystick moves "diagonally", now the character's movement will not be blocked- the ability to turn off music while playing is for those with NTSC- game checked under Rapidus, everything works except the title image, where raster changes are used- various other bug fixes, tested for TDC resistance There is ATR and XEX... says 256K and stereo... etc...
  24. I just don't know on this one, Pang was suppose to work on both NTSC and PAL.... it was suppose to work on memory extensions of 192 or greater but it was never said if that meant 128 + 192 or if it meant 64 + 192... all along saying XL XE so your thoughts it should be 64+192= 256 sounded perfectly reasonable. as usual NTSC was an after thought - there were free cycles to use all frames, but the normal writing code run to the end of pal length made that rough to change. so a work around to shut off music sound to keep things moving was implemented. TRY again with music OFF, maybe no crash then, works better ? wonder what the official all fixed for everyone versions are? only one version on pouet so maybe that's all there is now... hopefully tebe can help to make sense of it all I suspect if it works in 192 extended it would have to load from tiny boot loader or special loader maybe side or u1m etc loader... maybe xbios we certainly could use some understanding- who knows maybe if possible makes ntsc better too... is tough to know.
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