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I will order a black one please.
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Hello All,
Here's a warning about the installation paper that came with the MegaSpeedy unit.
There's a mistake in the installation instructions, sorry for that.
One wire for the I/O connection is listed wrong. The red wire should go to the capacitor or pin 8 and not pin 10.
The website has it ok.
BR/
Guus Assmann
This technical masterpiece works very well. I only need the one drive now.
I thought photo is required to clearly show where the wires go.
And this to show the position of the plug on the main board.
I did not cut the facia plate, the ribbon fits through the slot. I used 3M VHB tape on the back of the ribbon cable plug to hold the PCB firmly on the front. It could do with a small 3D printed bezel that attaches to the front plate screws for perfection.
Hi Guus,
Does this mean that my wiring shown on the first photo above is correct?
John
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Hias,
Is it possible that for each OS that is installed the bootable disk software is available as drive door open boot?
For example on Happy, the Happy software boots, on Archive the archiver tools boot etc.
Is it easy to change/customise the bootable software?
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This technical masterpiece works very well. I only need the one drive now.
I thought photo is required to clearly show where the wires go.
And this to show the position of the plug on the main board.
I did not cut the facia plate, the ribbon fits through the slot. I used 3M VHB tape on the back of the ribbon cable plug to hold the PCB firmly on the front. It could do with a small 3D printed bezel that attaches to the front plate screws for perfection.
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I would like to order 2 please.
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ULTIMON II is about 95% complete now.
I have had to devote my full attention to a PC project that has become urgent. I do expect to conclude the first release of ULTIMON II within the next few months.
The changes that I have made have been substantial and required much more work that I originally planned.
Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth the wait.
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After a heavy week of work ULTIMON II is coming along nicely, its still a few weeks way though... because of new more powerful functionality.
Top line is stack (current position leftmost).
Bottom section live (continually polled).
All commands are being re-worked with some commands having a different instruction set, for a better user experience.
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Its nearly finished, a couple of weekends should see the first release.Is ultimon II nearly finished John or have you just started it
Lasstly if your still doing it, could you add a calcultor mode (like the one built into omnimon)...or even a binary load option (i.e load dos exec. files without dos)
If anyone has a list of possible requirements for the future maybe they should list it here; but please keep in mind that its a Debugger/Disassembler.
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The original ULTIMON! was designed when memory was limited to the Atari spec. It is planned that ULTIMON II will automatically work on all memory footprint configurations.
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No you are not losing it, not based on this subject anyway.Before I asked the question there was only one file in the folder - ULTIMON.PDF
When I am looking now there is also ULTIMON XE.ROM
Something must have changed since I last browsed that folder, if not I will believe I am loosing it
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BLUE button Download Folder..
You are welcome. It's only a taster, once ULTIMON II is out, the original will be of no use.
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I never knew of Computer House so I never had any dealings with them (sounds like I was lucky?). ULTIMON II is well on its way it will work in the Cartridge area, it has new and much better look, it will be easier to use and have more functionality. No target date yet but it should be within a couple of months.Hi John...
Did you ever have dealing with Computer House in Fulham?
Not sure if they sold your product...If they did was it a horror story
Both myself and Carmel knew John and Paul, me from reviewing their game and Carmel knew them from Silica I presume. I really liked the little monitor John had hooked up to his ST to play The Pawn on..Was very nice for the day.
Will look forward to Ultimon II: The Revenge
Will it knock my good old OmnimonXL which I purchased in the good old days off top spot
Biorhythms was written by John Sosta & Paul Carr (I think it was their first effort at programming a product for sale) jointly and was only produced on cassette media. If I eventually get a new drive belt I can try my only version to see if it works. Zapping Zombies I wrote that (it was my very first program when I became a software developer), Once ULTIMON II is over just maybe I can look at releasing it again (yes I have the source code).Thanks for dropping by!
One of my 800XL systems is equipped with UltiMon! :-)
Do you know who wrote some of the software distributed by Computer Support? Still looking for Biorhythms and Zapping Zombies after all these years.
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Atari Frog
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Thanks for all your comments. This particular version will die as soon an I release a MyBIOS compatible version (ULTIMON II; basically splitting ULTIMON from the OS, fixing bugs and re-documenting the changes), that should then open up possibilities for other hardware. I am just having a play with my favourite old computer and hopefully making others happy in the process.
We can get more deeply into fixing it for you when we see how ULTIMON II works.Not tested yet... but I read the manual last night. What exciting features!!!!
I did not read every letter of it, but I was wondering: does it still support PBI devices or are these routines gone... since you spoke about OS B vectors etc. I suppose it will not support PBI devices. I would like to combine this with my BlackBox.
If this OS satisfies me for my coding projects (I still do everything on the real thing, no crossassemblers etc.) ... I would like to make a donation for this work; like it was 1985... but first let me test it out!
Again lets see how ULTIMON II will perform. There is no emulation involved.Just playing around with it and I'm having not vast amount of luck halting games etc, some halt and are either locked or the keyboard does nothing or they simply throw all sorts of player garbage and the display is unusable.
Is this an emulation thing?
I knew both John Sosta and Paul Carr very well, none of them had anything to do with ULTIMON, they were into games, I was into the technical side, as I already had Electronics qualifications. I did some programming on the Atari ST with Paul just to learn C (no products came from it). I never have been into games but I absolutely love playing Atari Space Invaders, in fact its what made me dig the old equipment out.Thanks for the filez John....Hows things going since you left the Atari scene (post computer support)
lastly, isn't it true that one of the futureware programmers (of sidewinder fame) helped you design 'Ultimon', Paul Carr unless i am mistaken
Nowadays I am a professional software developer I spent 15 years developing robotic and diagnostic software for General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Jaguar Cars, Land Rover; after the massive decline in the UK car industry I was left with no work so I decided to reboot my career and currently I have many projects on the go; PC, Linux, Mac and iPhone/iPad for the Estate Agent business. I have programmed in 12 different languages my favourite being C#. I maintain my own Linux servers.
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Altirra64 - it works fine (I have 2.30-test4)
Hardware: XL/XE
Firmware: Other (set to downloaded ROM)
Memory Size: 128k (or less)
Test: Let DOS boot then SHIFT+CONTROL+TAB
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Let me introduce myself: I am the original creator and Copyright owner of ULTIMON!
I have decided to make this old version (along with its new PDF Manual) available for anyone to download and use completely free of charge. Although it will still remain subject to my Copyright.
You may download the original ROM and the new Manual from:
https://www.box.com/...jd2zs8pce0saeae
The ROM should work for: 600XL (64K), 800XL, 800XLE, 130XE & 65XE.
Enjoy!
In the near future a MyBIOS compatible version of ULTIMON will be released.
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