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  1. On 5/30/2020 at 7:17 PM, leech said:

    Shipping of course depends on weight, but last one was like 4 dollars. Where you connect them depends on your hard drive model. You'd have to poke around the manual and look at the pin headers. Happen to know what hard drive model you have?

    Get some Naval Jelly or other rust remover and clean that up first.


  2. The cheapest is to get a SCSI2SD 5.1 since real HD's are going for over $100.  I have one in mine and it works ok.  I use it with a 1GB SD card.  Was a  pain to get the HD DRIVER software working but it will work with some tweaking.  HD DRIVER and AHDI work, as well as one from ParanoidLittleMan's.

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  3. Yep sadly the prices have been creeping up over the years to insane prices.  And people are perpetuating it and continuing it.  Rich idiots will buy a few at these insane prices and people will do price checks and list it at a high price too, and the vicious cycle contines.  What I find funny are the filthy, dirty and untested ones still being sold for insane prices!  #idiocracy

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  4. Your TV has to support PAL. Most if not all US TV’s don’t. Best option would be to get a special ST to VGA cable and a LCD that can do 15khz like the NEC 1970vx. It will do pal or ntsc in color. The original Atari SC1224 does too if you can find one.

     


  5. One thing that could be an issue is the 1040STf doesn't have a RF Modulator.  While that is not a big deal today, the issue is the extra circuitry is missing if you wanted to hook up to a modern LCD with a Scart or Composite video input.  So get a 1040STFM or 1040STE for sure.  Unless you are sticking to a RGB monitor then the 1040STf is fine.  (you could also add the extra components to the MB)


  6. Standard PC power connector works since it has a built in power supply.

     

    For a video cable to connect to VGA you can find them on eBay or head over to Best Electronics for this super nice mono/color cable that is very high quality.  But you will need a 15KHz LCD to make it work in COLOR Mode.  Mono works on any LCD monitor.


  7. 6 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    sorry but that's not all the games on the disk... as has been explained...

    Never said it was. (had to clarify my comment.  Edited and fixed for your approval) I found games in the BASIC format that work straight from the author himself and the magazines.  There is a download option there too.


  8. 19 hours ago, EddyFree said:


    I had a look at it all. Was able to extract all the files despite the unconventional naming, nothing too fancy.

     

    The Main Menu program is a tokenized Basic save, the rest are "LISTed".

     

    I couldn't get the "LISTed" ones to run on their own. Looks like the Main Menu program creates several "machine language" routines in memory that the LISTed programs use, and so they crash when they try to call that missing code.

     

    You may want to try and break down the Main Menu program and see what lines are planting externally needed routines in memory. Then incorporate those lines at the beginning of each "LISTed" program and see if that makes them work independently.

     

    Ok this may explain my issue.


  9. Been playing around with these BASIC games.  Saved them to a DOS 2.0 and 2.5 disk and tried to run them on my Emulator.  They don't work or crash.  What's going on?  I get an error 21 when I try to load them and run them.  Tried the ENTER command and that is when it crashed the Emulator.  Atari 800XL settings is what I used.  Normal ATR works fine.

    basic error 1.JPG

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