Carl_R

Yes, the triangles puzzled me at first as well but I concluded they represented spaces. I then mistook the TAB character (a triangle pointing right) for a space which messed up the input totally. Found it during the debugging. All errors were related to mistypings of course. I spent some late evenings typing it in so that's why I wasn't too precise all the time. For example, the variable "INFOS$" I mistyped as "INFO$" in several places. While debugging I basically had to read the listing and run the program in my mind by jumping back and forth at every Gosub. I suppose it was a good exercise... There was one line in the listing that was over the max line length, line 3715. How did they get that into the listing? Anyway, I just put the last RETURN statement on a new line. When you enter a program line in ALPA there are three columns after the line number. First is for the label, second is for the mnemonic, third for the operand. If you don't want to enter a label, just press TAB to move to the next column. Type the mnemonic and then TAB again for the third column. Press Return when you want to go to the next line. Just press return again on an empty line when you want to leave program enter mode and go back to command mode. ASM to assemble. It's wonderfully slow, retro computing at its best.

I've typed it in as well and spent an entire evening debugging it. Right now it seems to work, at least it runs without exiting and the examples I've tried so far works. I have it in an ATR file which I could share but I suppose you really need a SIO2SD or similar to get it into your Atari.

Well, there is a USB floppy emulator available here: http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=12

I'm definitely interested in a card for my mega ste.

In my Mega STE it's certainly the hard drive making the most noise. The psu fan alone isn't too bad. With HDDriver it's possible to park the drive and that makes a difference. However, it takes a few moments to spin up again if need to access it and that is enough to give error messages. Just access it again and no problem, but it's a minor nuisance. An all quiet internal drive would of course be preferable.

Well, I ordered one of the extra units he said were available so it's not really a preorder. I got my Ultrasatan in less than two weeks.

I ordered a unit last week. Hopefully it will be shipped this week.

If someone's health or life depends on what you do, then it's certainly easier to motivate yourself for it.

Yes, I'm interested.

Picked up mine today. Looks very good. Will test later today.

Since I'm a bit new to Atari 8-bitters I have to ask, will this OS require some sort of extra hardware to be able to run? I have a 130XE.

Payment sent today. Now waiting impatiently...

Another stupid question perhaps: there is a switch on the side, what's it for? Is it just an on-off switch? My ultrasatan just worked out of the box so I haven't touched the switch yet. Best regards, Carl

No doubt - PLEASE don't give us a Metro interface Please give us a Retro interface

It looks very neat. I might be interested in buying one. Regards, Carl