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    Here in the UK I used my 130XE and 1050 with MiniOffice II to write all my college assignments and Print Shop to do title pages, all printed on a Citizen 120D printer via an SIO to Parallel interface. This was from from Sep 87-Nov 89, then I got an ST and started using 1st Word Plus until I was done with college in 1991.

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  2. Posted · Edited by Ely

    As I have said on other forums in the past, the best machine was the one you had. My Dad was never going to buy an Atari in 1982 when we go our Dragon 32 for £200, a 400 was £250 + a dedicated tape drive for another £50 and had that keyboard, the 800 with 16K was £500. I loved our Dragon 32, I used it every day, I knew it's limitations but it didn't matter it's what I had access to. I learn BASIC on it, played games and generally lived the mid-80s kid with a computer life.

     

    Eventually I bought myself a 130XE in 1987 for £99 and a 1050 for £129.

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    1 hour ago, TIX said:

    Thanks man !

     

    They are playfield sprites, so they share the colors available on the playfield..  or something like that  🙄

    The experiment for me is to see if I can make them "better" using the original limitations !

     

    Ah, that makes sense. It's easy to forget the limitations the 8-Bits had when it comes to colours you can actually use at a given screen mode etc vs what the machine as a whole can generate. So I assume you're limited to like 4 colours for the sprites then right?

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    They are looking great! Can I ask why are you using brown for a lot of it? Is the aim to match the C64 graphics and it’s lovely colour palette? It’s not like the Atari can’t do the greys and reds of the Arcade. Unless I’m missing something. 

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    3 minutes ago, Mclaneinc said:

    Excuse my ignorance but when I have seen installs I saw that the modulator had been removed, is this a must do or can it be left on the board?

     

    If its just to make room for mounting the socket then I'd rather have the socket floating

    I think this is purely so you can use the port area for the new socket. Certainly that was the case with mine. I was never going to use the modulator again ever.

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    Great read thanks for posting. What I take away from it is that Atari not opening up to 3rd Parties early was a huge mistake and also the lack of 80col mode too. Still can’t imagine how the Apple II got so popular given it’s price. But being from the UK I  didn’t get exposed to what was going on in the US from that point if view, nor probably would I have been interested given I was born in 1970. 

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    I always preferred Galaxian & Galaga over Gorl or Phoenix in the arcades they always seemed much more polished to me. Gorf esspecially is glitchy and flickery as though the hardware was being pushed too far. This Galaga demo on the Atari 8-Bits looks amazing!

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    4 hours ago, Nojeee said:

    If anybody is interested, if you go to the Sector Copy Menu ('X' for Utilities, then 'X' for Additional Utilities and '1' for Sector Copy) ... entering NOJ and Return shows values for Clone Originator and Clone Generation. Note - this was added for the XL version of Multiboot and there are lots of the original Multiboot disks out there.

     

    If I remember correctly, I only handed out a few copies of Multiboot to friends and each would have a different Clone Originator number (my master being zero). The Clone Generation value would then be bumped for each new master generated from that copy. I haven't kept the record of who had the original copies but I don't think it was more than a handful?

     

    I wonder what the highest Clone Generation value is 🙂

     

     

    Ah that's a fun way to keep track it. Just looked as all mind Multibook disks and the highest Clone Generation was 73 and the all had tghe Clone Originator of 1.

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    29 minutes ago, brenski said:

    never had any issues with Rob C disks from/to ATR - they usually work fine.

    No me neither until today. I only noticed because disks I images about 20 years ago weren't actually imaged correctly. So I finally got round to dealing with them today and in each case the ones with issues were RobC disks. I'm going to have to try booting them on a machine to see if they are just rotten disks or something else is at play.

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    This is weird, but just this afternoon I was trying to image some RobC menu disks (with Music) and my 1050 (with a Happy Upgrade from AtariMax ) was get getting bad sectors. This is using the APE Pro system software. Could it be that Happy Drives have issues with these types of disks? 

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    My introduction to multi-game disks was getting Multiboot disks from my mate. The sense of nostaligia I had listening to the Antic Podcast interview this week with @Nojeee when I found out he'd written it was great. We used Multiboot for pretty much everything until September 87 when I started college in Hull and made friends with another 8Bit Atari owner who had loads of RobC menu disks.

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