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  1. I just acquired a Portfolio and I have some general questions. Is there a sub forum for the Portfolio anywhere? I couldn't seem to find one. Thanks,
  2. Thanks for the help. I got it mostly sorted out. The issue isn't PLATOTerm. It is the *&^%@ Lantronix that I bought a couple of years ago and stuck in a box for "later". It appears I purchased a model (mss1-t) that doesn't support modem emulation. I can use a terminal program from the Atari, connect to the Lantronix, and then use it to telnet out onto the internet. That is kind of cool, but too many steps for practical use. I need to find a wifimodem232 it appears to make this work correctly. Thanks for the help, and sorry for the bother. At least I got to spend some quality time on the Atari. That is always fun. Darren
  3. I didn't it realize it when I posted the above picture, but I don't get the c prompt like what is displayed in your video. Would that be that the program isn't seeing the 850? When the system initially boots, I hear the R: handler being loaded at the end of the sequence. I can still configure the program and such when loaded, so it isn't locked up. I made sure the interface is set to serial, the baud is set at 9600, I didn't do anything with the XON/OFF settings. Thanks again, sorry I am struggling with this. Darren
  4. Disabling the turbo function seemed to do the trick. I am at this screen now.
  5. I'll try that when I get home this evening. Thanks again. Darren
  6. I did, when that happens, it boots DOS, doesn't seem to boot the R: handler, and since Basic is disabled, it just freezes at the end of the startup. Not sure what I am doing wrong here. IMG_3920.MOV
  7. Yes, I just verified, I can hear the R: handler loading at the end of the boot.
  8. Ok, this is probably something simple and I am just not getting it, but I can't seem to get Plato Term to run on my stock 130xe. It gives me a "not enough memory" error when I try to binary load it from the DOS menu. I am using an SIO2SD interface with the ATR downloaded from the platoterm website. I tried pressing option when the ATR booted, but doesn't seem to make a difference. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Darren IMG_3910.MOV
  9. Not depressed. More embarrassed for basically spamming AtariAge with this. Maybe it will turn into something, but it sounds like the guy behind it has done some shady stuff in the past. I am mainly a looker and not a poster, so when I do make a post, I don't want it to be junk. I just felt like I owed an apology. There are so many cool things going on with this forum, I don't want to lower the sound to noise ratio :/
  10. I just wanted to apologize for starting this thread. I was overly excited about something that isnt realistic. Based on the little info about it, and the people who are designing it. Most likely it will be an overpriced raspberry pi. I was being nostalgic about what the product could be. My apologies again.
  11. Looking to start a new retro computer club/group in the Wichita KS area. Anyone interested?
  12. I had a similar story. I graduated high school in 1987. Used my Atari 800XL along with Compute's Speedscript most of the way thru college. I used an Epson L-1000 printer I got on clearance from Walmart and a MPP printer interface. Still kicking myself for selling everything in the mid nineties when I was "upgrading" to a PC
  13. To have the opportunity to buy a new Atari product for the 1st time since I was in high school. I'm all in. Probably going to be a Christmas release by the vague sounds of it.
  14. Saw this on Ataribox Facebook page last night. Info is slowly dribbling out.
  15. Article on Forbes. I feel similarly to author. Irrational excitability about a product that may be nothing, but could be a lot more. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/2017/06/19/why-ataris-new-console-could-be-just-what-the-gaming-industry-needs/#4fc0ecc1167b
  16. Definitely caught me by surprise. Not even sure how I got an email from them. Hopefully it is something decent, maybe even fun to play.
  17. https://www.ataribox.com Got this in an email today out of the blue.
  18. A little Atari Basic Source Code for light reading. Looks like brand new
  19. I had my 800xl, 1050 disk drive, and an Epson letter quality printer all the way thru college. I graduated in 93. I got the system in 85 or 86, printer in 87. I used a word processor I typed in from Antic (I think). I had a printer interface, can't remember the brand. After college I finally got a 486sx PC from Radio Shack. Sold the atari at a garage sale Years later I own a 130xe. 1050, and use my spare time to learn how to code again
  20. Arcanis-Will Quote: "Also (if it was not already obvious to you), from looking at the schematic I see that the DB-9 adapter gets its power from the serial port on either RTS or DTR so your program will need to assert one of those control lines then wait a short time before attempting to talk to the adapter. I looked at the Atari schematic and it seems like you should use port 1. If you have a multimeter and you are using that DB-9 connector with the built-in screw terminals then you see either +10 or -8 volts on the control lines. it would be really easy to debug your initialization step and confirm that you have the +10 volts working on the right pin. If things don't seem to work you could go back and recheck that. The 850 Operator's Manual has a lot of good information. I assume you will be using the Concurrent I/O mode? Seems like it is the only mode that fits the needs of realtime send & receive but it has the limitation that you can't do other peripheral access while it is active. So you should be sure to have a polling function that does not leave the Atari in concurrent mode permanently. My first attempt would be to write a polling subroutine that enables concurrent mode, gets an update, then disables it again before returning. This way it won't block you from saving your program to disk and/or loading data files, printing, etc." Thanks for the great insight, I had looked at the 1-wire adapter schematic and was wondering about how it was getting power. Thanks for the advice, I agree that it looks like concurrent mode is what I have to use. I downloaded the 850 Operator's Manual and the 850 Technical Manual. I have the feeling I will be memorizing a lot of each manual Thanks again for the advice, I will post my findings, probably this weekend. Too much to do at work!
  21. Ok, quick update, I acquired an 850 interface, serial cable gender changer, the 1-wire to serial adapter, cable, and a temperature sensor. Pictures below. Unfortunately the 850 was damaged in shipping, I was able to super glue the broken piece back on, and the 850 works fine. It looks like there are some pin assignment variations between the 1-wire serial interface versus the Atari 850 serial port configuration. Atari 850 Interface: 1-wire serial adapter pin configuration: Pin configuration differences: Atari 850 Interface 1-wire adapter Pin 1) DTR (Data Terminal Ready) Not used Pin 2) CRX (Carrier Detect) RXD (data in) Pin 3) Data Out TXD (data out) Pin 4) Data In DTR (Data Terminal Ready) Pin 5) Ground Ground Pin 6) DSR (Data Set Ready) Not used Pin 7) RTS (Request To Send) RTS (Request To Send) Pin CTS (Clear to Send) Not used I will probably just buy a straight thru serial cable, cut off one end, and use this connector to correct the variation in pin layouts. I had a really nice email conversation with Erhard Putz about how he used the 1-wire network. He was very ambitious and built his own interface and ran it thru the joystick port. I am not that brave, and I hope that I can use some of the "off of the shelf" components and with a little improvisation, write some code and get a response back from the network. I will update when I get a chance to hook it all up and send some commands to the interface.
  22. Thanks again for everyone's thoughts and suggestions. I have made an inquiry to Erhard and will hopefully hear back from him soon. I did place an order for the adapter, 1 cable, and 1 sensor. Maybe, I will have it all by the weekend and by Sunday, have some time to play with it. Someone had asked about my level of expertise in coding. Short answer; not that great when I worked at it regularly as a teenager in the 80's, and very rusty now. I am hoping that my son and I can learn together. Honestly if we can get this to function, even on a limited level in BASIC, that will be fine, and then we can move on to more sophisticated solutions. I would like to take a crack at Assembly Code, or something else more powerful. When I was working at it as a teenager, I always felt I was close to understanding a lot of the theory, and structure of coding, but couldn't quite make the leap to understand and execute it fully. If I could have done this, I would probably have got a degree in computer science, not Geology
  23. I think I am going to purchase the serial port adapter, 4 port hub, power injector, and one temperature sensor. I will then try to create a proof of concept project and see where it goes from there. http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/1%252dWire-Serial-Adaptor.html http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/4-Channel-Hub.html http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/Universal-AC-Adaptor.html http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/Temperature.html I found a schematic of a serial adapter here: http://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/DS9097U-DS9097U-S09.pdf There will be a steep learning curve to get my coding skills to where they need to be for this project. It should make for a fun, father / son project.
  24. That is some great info. I actually hadn't look at the Arduino as part of the solution. I will do some more investigating. I picked up an 850 off of eBay last night thinking that would help facilitate communication between the 1-wire network and the Atari. Thanks again for the insight. More research it is!
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