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Which is why I suggest going to known quality sellers for AVG AVG SUbcart and fujinet, with provided links. I won't bother with the influencer style write up though. Just know the FujiNet firmware is all over the map and I have asked repeatedly for feedback on the best versions. I really would like a top 5 or 10. One thing fix another broken, then great feature yanked for this or that. So it'd be real cool if get it together - here's the closest 5-10 firmware choices could be had. I really don't want to start a flashing frenzy at home doing each and every one, but would rather hear back from those using and loving it as to what their fave is. Then I'd only have 5 or ten to try and pick from there. Quality sure is an issue, as the SIO connection point and method seem to vary in many way and is a critical failing point as many aren't doing as a good a job as mozzwald in that area. Lotharek seems to have gone with the tried and true sockets and looks durable, able to use full size SD card etc.

AVG is hybrid Cart/PBI SIO, FujiNet with separate memory upgrade is basically sio and cart/pbi, S-Drive MAX handles most files correctly in XEX,ATR,ATX, and CAS. I have two S-Drive Max, and two AVG's, and one FujiNet, but have been through and given away/up on a handful of FujiNets.

The OP didn't say it must be wifi this or that, The FujiNet currently is only good at what I said it was, for most people the better choice has been one of carts AVG and variants being some of the best. They are the gateway to SpartaDOS X or all of the productivity carts, they simply do everything short of wifi the best across the board so far with the sound options improving each few weeks. The FujiNet makes a nice companion for what it currently specifically does depending on which firmware you are running and like best. I included links for it but didn't for AVG, which I should do. https://avgcart.tmp.sk/ https://miscretro.com/product/avgcart/ https://retrolemon.co.uk/atari-8bit-storage-devices/125-avgcart.html https://mozzwald.com/product-category/atari/ https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=374 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175746919248 always compare them for build quality and what else you will need to make it a good item, like power supply to get started for fujinet or add on cords for avg carts etc.

I don't swap SD card, FlashAir is wifi / access point built into the SD card, I simply send it to the card on the wireless network. Like I said, Fujinet does TNFS well. I guess if you want all the other limitations and want to play a games that get along with it, It's all good. I am on the umpteenth fujinet and it's never quite worked out for me. I guess the only good FujiNets are from @mozzwald direct or maybe @lotharek , maybe @Jfcatari The lesser memory machines will play cart images usually without a memory upgrade but fujinet is not going to do a thing for you in that realm. If you want online gaming without the hiccups get a dragon. If you want news, weather, apod, TNFS, etc, or remote desk like gui the fuji is great. Sam is ok, and cpm is sorta almost there. Everything still seems so proof of concept, perhaps I should try the next next next firmware. If you get the FujiNet make sure you have at least 64K memory minimum

So long as you get the frequency spot on for the Atari to execute code at full speed and produce color nothing else really matters. Some oscillators are noisy so you may have to clean the signal up a bit else you get more digital noise as well. Always a bit of this and a bit of that. Timing is critical so get it in spec no matter the crystal or oscillator. Especially with add on devices and such tolerances.

And not managed not to get one because life went crazy, but I missed the prototype offering as well, it's been a grueling number of years.. thanks for making it seem better even if it doesn't always work out for everyone, it does work out for someone! That's hope for all!

They support holding everything your TNFS server can locally with the added bonus almost EVERYTHING will actually run. They act as memory expansions also that allow almost everything new to run as well, the support DISKs, Cassette images, and Cartridge images including stacking cartridges, they support Audio like stereo pokey and others. The only thing the Fujinet does well enough is a few apps to check the weather, and news etc. The TNFS server is useful enough to get disks etc. but I find to truly make use of it all you need what the AVG and SubAVG carts have to offer. I use a FlashAir SD card to send what I want to the AVG's. I use the FujiNet to do a few things like I mentioned it also does a card game but it never really works well for me, times out takes forever to get around the table... that's why the card games are almost always empty The only thing impressive at the moment is a polish online desktop via the net, I don't think my wireless lantronixs can pull that off. If you want to have a chance at competing in the online racing games you need a dragon cart for ethernet. You aren't going to play or do much on a plain vanilla 600XL with a Fujinet. The loader still needs work in any event.

Easily the best all in one bang for the buck way to go is AVG and SubAVG carts, grab the SIO and PBI or eci cord and you have almost everything covered without tearing your Atari Apart aside from the occasional Atari that has speed limit caps still on the SIO. If you have the need for SIO speed that is. And if you want to, you can get another goody to plug into it for stereo sound choices!

Sounds like reserving 8 from ramdisk was the answer then as it will do the first 4 for spooler, the next 4 for sparta, and the rest for ramdisk. In a decent world. I'll have to see if BB will look higher, and reserve 12, hoping 4 for XE apps, 4 for spooler, 4 for sparta, the rest for ramdisk.

Fresh download of SpartaDOS X 4.49g re-imaged with the two SIO overlays. Quick check shows KEYS working and APE appears okay. Further testing will be tomorrow. Does SpartaDOS X know when the CSS BlackBox is using XE BANKed RAM for spooling? I see no difference in size with it on or off. Using an additional 64K or 192K of XE banks only yields the same expected sizes. This leads me to wondering which way the BlackBox or SpartaDos X will clobber each other if they are un aware of who's in the XE banks. I am not sure if the usual reservation of RAMDisk banks will alleviate this if SpartaDOS X -using banks- fills the empty spots in. Is there a way to tell SpartaDOS X to USE extended memory after the first 4 banks and of course then we can already tell RAMDisk to use memory after 8 banks if we wish.

You can make your own or if you want a specific made for you cart I am told the needed files and parts are possibly now in corei64's hands, but I'm not 100 percent on that I prefer the versions with a cart reset switch and cart on off switch. Never need to take the cart out of the slot that way.

The problems began with 4.49e as far as I can recall. Check your October 2017 and November 2017 notes. I do know you fixed some issues with the flasher. 2 issues were fixed at that time and you were working on some other idea. I do know you were aware of the other sections crash (which you fixed in g presumably). I know you were pondering I/O and considering using IDE+ items in SDX something currently can confuse APE when using various combinations of SDX versions and e or g bootable flasher disks. I thought some of these were handled and rolled into f at some point, but I flashed over my f with g... something seemed familiar about it, dejavu... so it was serious thinking and luckily some recall for a change that helped me to outline vaguely the time frame and what was going on. The provided f is similar in problems to e and g.

whatever you changed in the very last 4.49f and 4.49g, you've made it unhappy with the ICD MIO 4.49 plain and it's flasher work fine. When using the latest 4.49f and g the flasher and the actual ultimate cart sdx 4.49f and 4.49g will have problems. Remove MIO and all works well. I will need to be able to test all previous SDX's to see where it goes wrong, since I only remember having this issue once before during testing and you fixed whatever it was at that time. I had mentioned a problem with both of these areas in the past but they were never present together at the same time. You fixed the flasher back then. And the entry problem before. Might want to go back and check your notes. I did not know the connection with the MIO at that time, but I wanted to be thorough and tore my systems down to the ground and back up adding each piece one at a time. The flasher used to tell people to remove carts, if the flasher is going to be this way, it will have to ask to remove MIO or other PBI devices. This will not solve the actual incompatibility of using the later versions of SDX though as they won't play nice with the MIO 1Meg ROM of old. I am willing to test each variant from 4.49 stable on up as last I knew it works fine. But I won't simply test just what is on the Project site since all variants are out there and come to haunt us. I will need to test any one since then that made it into the wild. I am very surprised that no one is using the real hardware and such that often, as I've been the only one to look into this. I have 4 MIO's, 2 Black boxes, and well a crap ton of gear, the results were the same.

TGB1718 I should also have stated NTSC, I did not use ultimate build I used the supercart build. Thanks @drac030, I'll flash it and give results this night EST USA time.

130XE with MIO and Fujinet SpartaDOS Super Cart with real time clock (aka ultimate time clock) fresh down load from SDX site. Flash the cartridge, Broken Command line input system, won't repeat won't accept same key twice, KEY ON... oh look it works, KEY OFF key repeat is gone and pressing the same key twice results in no further input on the duplicate key press. 4.49f is not in the archive. g is not working as outlined, and as a result, depending on what you launch the key input is the same as CP Probably best to try it using a standard 130XE no bells or whistles, same response on different 130XE and black box etc. Only way it's a bad flash is if the source is corrupt. They all flash back down to plain 4.49 without issues 4.49f was pretty good during it's last iteration, so I thought I'd flash back to it, and couldn't find it. I have 4 Super Carts, all the same response, two different XE's with two different PBI devices and one Fujinet, again same results.

So it will share the memory and have active windows into each other as expected with the redesign? That's DMA both ways, Atari into Z80 and Z80 into Atari? Will the memory be seen as Atari Memory when Z80 is off like the standard memory cards?

@drac030 , I am looking for the very final 4.49f images et al. as the archive on the project page does not contain it. 4.49g has a nasty problem with KEY being off, it won't key repeat and you can't delete backspace more than once in a row nor any other key repeated in a row. If you type KEY ON then it's business as usual and all is working. I normally turn KEY OFF for various reasons, and KEY OFF is the default in any event. As I muddle through 'g' it's kind of hit or miss. I'd like the very last 4.49f and then will continue testing and trying g.

what are all the signals on the ram ribbon? what signals are on the z80 cards 1090 slot?

There will always be static free felts and fabrics.

The Atari pre stuffed the memory card for the Z-80 card, then it loaded it's own bus monitor in it's own base Ram, the Z-80 then took over, the Atari then became the I/O, Video, keyboard et al watching the Registers and Ram. The Z80 was free to communicate with other cards in the 1090. It could suspend the Atari and the Atari could suspend the Z80.

Hands down Altira is better. A real machine is best. Mini is an arm emu machine and barely has the specs to do what it does and good luck typing on it.

v height, h width those would both need to be adjust to keep aspect ratio. You could easily fit a little more on the screen

If it has to be one picture the Blue Sky from the left with he brown/tan bottom on the right

Quick Altirra check and you can't jump up high enough to get to other platforms, guess it's real hardware time

take a look around, you will find it dissected. ho hum,meh