Frankie

Well.... maybe it doesn’t. That could explain things.

Has anyone used one of these drives with an ATR8000? I have it hooked up but have no disks to use. Formatting doesn't seem to work correctly. It addresses the drive correctly, it spins up when I try and access a disk. Formatting attempts to do something, but fails with error-138. I can't figure much else out. Frank

Afraid to say I don't really know. In ANT all my slots have the same thing XLOS,ABvC

I have a SIDE2 as well, and Yoomp loads fine. I just flip the switch on the cartridge so the side-loader starts, go find Yoomp and it loads.

As an informational -- not a solution -- I have a 1200xl with an Antonia board in it. I don't have an AVGCart, but I do have a Side cart that I can load xex's with. Yoomp loads without any complaints...but then the Side cart has a setting so you can disable basic. I don't know how I would do it without that. Does the AVGCart have any settings?

I would if I could, but I have no idea how to do that and I’m guessing I need some hardware for it.

HA! I read the manual! The jumpers where set for an RS232 terminal instead of Atari. When I put jumpers J7 and J10 in the correct place every booted ok. I did a quick LPRINT test in basic and it responded correctly. I also confirmed from the jumpers I have the 64KB version.... Now off to find some drives to play with.

I got my hands on an ATR8000 but unfortunately it doesn't work. You can turn it on, the light goes on, and it hums a little. Now, if I connect my Atari to it and boot it up, the keyboard locks up. No drives attached, just the cable to the Atari. Turn on ATR8000, turn on Atari. Atari boots, looks fine, but no keyboard. Turn off ATR8000 ... keyboard comes back to life. I have no idea what to look at. Here is a quick snap I took with the cover off. Help me Obi-one, your my only hope.

Does anyone know if this would work with the right cable https://www.ebay.com/itm/333590636366

Ever since I saw WarGames I wanted an 8 inch floppy drive. I realize I have no practical use for it, but still. I have an ATR8000 on the way. Is there a particular drive I should try and find that works with it? Are cables standard? Frank

December '82

Bump?

Had me for about 2 seconds .... https://www.amazon.com/Are-ready-Hokey-Pokey-Maxx/dp/B006VL372U

Plug and play basically. Just need to modify the cage / case. I made it so I could remove the board completly.

This was the jumper settings I received. Notice there is one you can't do with an actually jumper but need to do with a wire. Not sure why that's missing in the pictures of my install.

I had to cut a part of the cage to make things fit. I swapped out the UAV for a Sophia DVI so all I have are the pictures.

Anytime I tried access a drive to copy something I would get a NAK timeout. ... but I read that the original 1.3 firmware had the IO speed set to $0A (51kb/s). I switched it back to that and everything started working normally. No more need to downgrade.

Upgrading I understand. I was trying out 3.1 but found out it doesn't work well with SDX. So I tried downgrading but it just says "firmware update not available". Have I gone down a one-way path? Frank

Maybe someone can try and port Lynx to Atari.

Fit one in an 800. I removed a little more metal then needed, but this way I could remove the entire board without taking the case apart again.

800 Height - 4 9/16"

I didn't have to make any modifications. It plugged right in.

I used an extra socket on the CPU to raise it.

I have a 1200xl with an Antonio upgrade in it. I plugged it in, remove both OS chips because they are not needed since the OS is in the Antonio and it worked. Frank