_The Doctor__

Yep zip ties or cable clamps, or even plugs as mentioned

gofundme should start a sister site.... gofundthem

Unlike many beach areas that are all big money resorts etc. Mexico Beach Florida WAS an area of more modest means and older folks. I would like to express my sincerest sympathy and hopes that everyone can come together and help rebuild for folks. It was a small town of about 1,100 homes.... This doesn't stop here though, there were places were a storm of this nature may not have come through since the 1800's, so while it's not like this never happened before, it's wholly likely many people don't have flood insurance further in far away from what is normally an area you would expect such things in... It's my wish and hope that we all keep positive thoughts, energy and help to these folks. If anyone can think of a way to help, to donate their time efforts or skill set to get these people back to a an acceptable life I implore you to do so. FEMA contrary to what we dream of, is only able to help in relief efforts, clean up, and a few thousand dollars here and there. It has always been this way. While many near the ocean might have some insurance, it's still tough. An those further inland are SOL. We a blessed that such landfall was in less densely populated areas, but this means longer times to get help, greater distances and less money... we may need people to swing a hammer, clean stuff up, wipe off memories and dry them out... who knows, we used to have army of *ssholes and elbows to rebuild quick and help each other out. So much is online today, the goods just aren't at the towns a hundred or couple hundred miles away. The distribution network is gone. Once again I implore everyone to come up with ways to help, be it in person or indirectly. Call the powers that be and offer your suggestions. Let's not see. The safety nets should only come out when we can no longer help each other. They are after all only nets and don't have any firm or lasting strength to them. I've made some calls, see what you can do. I used to be the person to clean up and swing a hammer, even pour some concrete, and play in the mud. Since I and others no longer can, we need people that will take up the tools and get it done. There is no power like the power from a people determined to do it right, to do for each other, and themselves. The pride, worth, and restoration to oneself and others joining in can not be had from any other method or way that I've encountered.

I am counting the days until I get the pieces together to revive my original set up, three people have dug up the bits and pieces I need. just waiting for some of it to clear transportation and shipping hurdles. A couple of pieces and parts still being collected etc... Now the funny part. while the Atari itself may remain pretty much stock, these add on parts are often mini computer systems themselves when you dig right down on them, simple or complex... it adds to the function and ability of the good ole 8 bit. It's a challenge and reward in itself not only for me, but those who help in the endeavor. That is one of the things that brings Atari back for me every time, we do it together.

bump

are you saying the RMT version has a bad glitch causing the logs to get stopped or stuck? that sound serious and something that needs a correction. I wouldn't want this propagating further in the wild. All for improvements, stuck logs isn't something I'd want associated with the game.

I'd venture to think diode on both rx and tx might be needed to prevent issues... Looks like it's time to measure some things and or look at what it's doing with a scope.. I'd hate to think it's stressing chips on the Atari or the real drives over time.....

looks like it might be, still no way to know type etc...

True there are many more AIRPORTS now... would be cool to have them all in there. Maybe even redone with modern digitized voice and action at the same time techniques? Maybe some quick ANTIC on/off to speed some calculations.

Wonder if that touch screen emulates Atari touch pad or koala pad?, Maybe even for PLATO use?

don't see why not, since most only use 1 control line for client/server control... since that and sio2bt use 2 of them up we still have the third available...not sure what 850 mode on an APE uses if any... but there should still be at least 1 to mess about with.

Many Atari's fell off the production floor right into the hands of the workers in the country of manufacture. You'd be surprised what's in Taiwan, Singapore, etc... it was rampant.

I personally think this is a game that would rack the brains of our bet programmers, the lessons learned attempting to do this could be used to help any racers to come after. I agree hard driving didn't collect the quarters for long at most arcades. It was an achievement and had die hard fans. People want more than a technical sim at most arcade settings. put some guns in the game and blow crap out of your way and then folks are happy!

he's on fire, perhaps a moderator could wrangle all of his threads into 1

I had a bricked one but using blaster and quartus after touching up solder on center pad and one other place brought it to life again. Your best answer is to simply try whatever it is you can if it no longer responds just like anything else....

No diode means no go... but there is a work around... single pass sector copier set to 1 drive.... only have one device on during the read or write. ( I mean you could use the normal methods and go switch flippy crazy bu If you have a MIO or Ultimate 1 meg or 320XE you can copy to a ramdisk. then shut off whatever, turn on whatever and copy back from the ramdisk... so many choices and ways to get around it. To make life easier put a double pole switch in so you don't have to plug and unplug your diode-less sdrive... at least until your diodes arrive....

I can't count the number of times I've run into a person who has an Atari of some kind and they never gave a thought to looking online for Atari Age or some other forum... a good chunk that have are intimidated by the technical, fastidious, nature we have taken on over the years. They are often afraid to speak up and find the singular newbie thread kind of off putting. Faicuai's numbers are pretty good as sampled size estimate. It does make some assumptions. The number is still conservative so, I'd venture we have more than that right here in the Americas...North and South continents

I don't see any errors, I see 166 test cycles over a time period of 453 and no errors reported anywhere.

If you do a complete flash it should replace everything.... answer the question "incremental update" with "n". 2017 version of the software... if you have issue with atr. perhaps try different unzip program.... I use two, 7 zip and IZarc2go sometimes a thing does not work with one so I choose the other... both report no errors and success but sometimes the archive makes a mess up during extraction anyway... so I just try with the other and often everything is fine. Sometimes it's just like that.

sounds like you are ready to flash....

Love that profile picture from the Movie 'The Black Hole' awesome!

SS, you still haven't said or shown pictures of the diode you are using... if it interferes with everything it sounds like it is missing or the incorrect type or some other issues

I wonder if scooter ever made imaged and shared all the stuff he got from our friends here in Allentown, and Laurys Station. Just haven't seen it.. maybe it's all gone now...

I love cracks as it is definitely a nostalgia trip. I wonder what happened to the clean initiative to remove all protections and to move adjust to run on as many drives and computers as (in)humanly possible...

what are you talking about? I shoot down the bombs all the time! have one of these hacks or supplied xex, atr's broken this?