pixelmischief

Yeah, I'm in. Put me in for one.

Can I order an SIDE2?

I've read the occasional story about copyright holders turning up and "requesting" that their content be removed from archives like the one AtariMania is building. Nintendo is pretty aggressive about demanding exclusion, despite the age of the software or the platform. There are others. For the most part, however, there is noone left to enforce the copyright and therefore no complaint. Still, over the years, a kind of "self-policing" of honest archival efforts has evolved wherein a disclaimer and offer to remove upon request is prominently displayed on the public facing portal for the archive, and anyone with a beef can submit a demand and have it honored pretty much immediately.

The brown Lucas splash screen with the dramatic sound blast and starburst ding on the logo is still one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Ever. Anywhere.

The challenge using MyIDE-II and getting a CF card to have both FAT32 and APT partitions AND a MYIDE2 device driver acceptable partition table turned out to be, essentially, a tool chain problem. But I finally got it to work, and here is how. 1. Connect a floppy drive (or floppy emulator) to the Atari; 2. Create a floppy (or floppy image) with FJC's FDISK.XEX; 3. Prep a CF card on the PC with a FAT32 partition. Don't worry about the size as you will destroy this partition shortly; 4. Prep an SDX ROM image on the PC, inserting MYIDE2.SYS; 5. Edit CONFIG.SYS on the SDX ROM to include line "DEVICE MYIDE2" right after line "DEVICE SIO". If you are using SIO2SD Turbo as a floppy emulator, you have to load SIO classic, "DEVICE SIO /C"; 6. Copy the SDX ROM image to the FAT32 partition on the CF card. Make sure OSB.ROM is there as well; 7. Put the CF card back into the MyIDE-II and plug the cart into the Atari; 8. Boot the Atari and load the SDX ROM from the FAT32 partition; 9. See the MYIDE2 device load and complain about an "invalid partition table"; 10. Load FDISK.XEX from the floppy; 11. Initialize the disk (yes, I know I am telling you to destroy the FAT32 partition); 12. Answer YES to CREATE A FAT32 PARTITION?; 13. Size your APT partition to a maximim of 32MB * 15 partitions (480MB); 14. Create disk in the APT partition (65535 sectos, drive C: should do); 15. Pull the CF card and put it back on the PC; 16. Put the SDX ROM back on the FAT32 partition; 17. Put the CF card back in the MyIDE-II; 18. Boot the Atari and load the SDX ROM from the FAT32 Partition; 19. See the MYIDE2 device load and recognize the storage and list the disks; 20. Run CAR:FORMAT 21. Set DISK # to whatever you assigned the APT disk to in FDISK 22. Set VOLUME to a name that works for you; 23. "Create Directory" (or something like that); That's it. Exit the tool and navigate to your new APT hard disk.

"I have one I can share, but it's for the 128k slim version." Please, share.

Falling in love with SpartaDos X. But not feeling the fact that everything in the toolkit is arc'ed. "So, then just unarc the stuff", right? I would if I could get "arc x *.arc" to work as it does on every other platform known to man. It doesn't. It unarc's the first arc file that meets the wildcard requirements. *.arc picks up only the first arc'ed file. d*.arc picks up only the first arc'ed file that starts with d. You get the idea. Is this just me not knowing how to do something in SDX or is the wildcard parser in this arc utility broken/badly designed?

Is there any way to get the SDX446 into the flash area of myide-ii so I don't need to load it from a fat32 partition?

No, my question is dumber than that. I mean, what letter is used? 'D" still? H? My SIO2SD has some "V" devices, I don't have the first CLUE what to do with those!

Ball Blazer, Archon, Mario Bros., Hardball, and Joust - probably a few others - defined my relationship with my little brother. 2 player gaming at the best it will ever be.

Once I've created APT drives and SDX partitions, what is the right device indicator (i.e D1:, D2:, etc.)?

I'm loading SDX446 from the Fat32 partition on a CF card in a MyIDE-II with the latest MyBIOS and loader. The only "Atari-Side" partition I am aware of on the CF card is a MyDOS partition. When SDX loads MYIDE2.SYS, it complains of an "Invalid Partition Table". Is this because it is finding the MyDOS partition, but can't read it? SCX446 has no FDISK. Does this exist any where in a form I can use it?

MetalGuy never fails to cut right through the bullsh%t and bludgeon one to death with the facts.

This brings up a good point and something I have been trying to get my head around for a while now. Where is kept a list or an archive of "Post Atari, Retail Quality" software and hardware for the A8. Clearly, "Space Harrier", "Yoomp!", "Ridiculous Reality", and recent "SpartaDOS X" releases meet the mark for software. "VBXE", "Incognito", and "MyIDE" might be examples of hardware that makes the cut. If no such repository or information resource exists, I think I'll get to work right away on one. Anybody?

No 1200XL should ever be collecting dust. Ever.

Use the Google machine, man!! On the Internets!! I put the following searches into Google and got back everything you need to know everything there is to know about this stuff. "atari what is vbxe" "atari what is APE" "atari what is SIDE"

Just wanted to pop my opinion in on the various issues: - God Exists, in my humble opinion. And if He doesn't, my belief that He does has been such an incredibly beneficial factor in my life, that I have no desire to disabuse myself of the notion. - Heaven and Hell are constructs of the most abstract nature that can be characterized no more clearly than "desirable" and "undesirable", respectively. Any attention to them is wasted. - Religion sucks sometimes and rocks others; see the Crusades vs. Organized Charity. - Science rocks sometimes and sucks others; see Evolution Theory vs. Nuclear Weapons. - Both of those are patently HUMAN endeavors and no more indicative of the existence of God than Football or Rave music, though I hear that a certain combination of recreational pharmaceuticals and rave music will get one fairly close. In other words, it is altogether illogical to argue against the presence of God by citing human behavior. When I read your stories, and hear the stories of others, I am humbled by how hard-won your persepctives are. I simply ask that you leave a light on in your life for the possibilty that the great totality of all that is the truth might be a little bigger and offer just a little bit more than you currently understand completely. Never stop being open to the truth.

@JK4001 - Grab a proggy called Envision and pump out some of those maps. So freaking cool on a 1020.

Yeah. I'm good for 3.

The Eidolon, CIB.

My kids live in Staten Island with their mother. They're safe, but they lost everything. It's going to be a tough few months coming up for them and my ex-wife. Bad mojo.

@Mclaneinc: Got 'em. Loved 'em. Love you. Wait...

@Mclaneinc - The rar had 3 files, "Envision B Docs.atr", "Envision C Utilities.atr", and "Envision D Maps and Fonts.atr". Any chance you have the actual proggy, perhaps on Disk A. Also, Disk C comes up as a Documents disk.

You rock. The smooth scroll on that NCC-1701 and that dot matrix pumping it out on paper. They are the very best of nostalgia.

Disks 595 and 596, Sides A and B, would rock my world pretty good.