Frankie

Good thought, , but the cs8900 would probably overheat if there is not enough "open space" around it. It generates a lot of heat. That is what I am looking into for the second run actually. I would have to totally redesign the board which I am willing to do. All the components would have to be surface mount devices because anything through-hole would have to be hand soldered and that would make such a small run too expensive. Also, I can probably make a single board device fit into a standard cart shell except for the RJ45 port, which would also make assembly much easier. I have to make some calls and try to get an estimate for such a board assembly before I do any engineering. I know it's possible, but I am concerned about the cost. I want to keep the cost of the cart under $50.00 if at all possible. You are very welcome. Thanks for posting the pics. It's really cool to see them out in the world and being used! Are there any more for sale? Frank

I would like one if there are more. Frank

I was going to try and explain how but I just found a blank one I had instead. http://www.uspsa-clubs.com/misc/BLANKSDX.ATR

He has me down for the cables I wanted.

I think the new version is great, but as mentioned before I have to load the new version of the side-loader with the old version of the side-loader. So I wish I could flash it on the cart.

put me down for new cables (800XL) so I can replace my hack-soldering-job with dropchecks's adapter. Yes, I managed to hack up the wide ribbon cable too. Frank

Alrighty then. Yes I have SDX 4.45.. right on my U1MB card Frank

That will only create a double-density disk of 1440 sectors. My end goal is to create a quad-density 65535 sector ATR.

Is there anything out there to make a QD ATR image? I have utilities to make DD ones, but not QD. Frank

Ok, now I feel dumb. Turns out I had an older copy of FDISK in a tools directory and it was getting picked up before car: Frank

I have been using my SIDE cart with no problems. I wanted to modify the partitions and typed FDISK when I saw the error "IDE driver not installed" What does that mean and how to I fix it so I can run FDISK? Frank

-delete- I suck at soldering - all working again -

Mine is installed and working! Now what do I do with all this free memory!

Cacn you post another picture of how you folded all the cables and stuff?

For those of us not so comfortable with soldering, can someone take a picture of where they picked up HALT on an 800XL? I followed the pictures for the other three easily enough, but I didn't want to make a mistake counting pins for HALT. Frank

Is it not SpartaDOS X friendly? I just get a black screen after it's loaded.

Mine just arrived this morning!

Just thought I would say that. I thought my Atari days were long over, but it's become a whole new adventure! Frank

Don't have it yet, it's just showing at the local postoffice. Will probably be delivered tomorrow.

Mine finally made it into the US! Don't have it yet but it's now tracking on the www.usps.gov website. Left Poland Dec 1, arrived US Jan. 1 ...That's one slow boat...

Mine is in the same status...

I'm in the US (FL) and it's been 25 days since shipping and still counting.

I'll take one! Will send a PM for payment info. Frank

On November 29th, 1972: Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. Via Today in History - http://bit.ly/9btWQx

I got mine today! Oh what fun!