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  3. Posted

    21 hours ago, drpeter said:

    Video would be great, if at all possible.👍

     

    You can't always get what you want...  (The Rolling Stones)

     

    a) good video without flicker => impossible, my old digital camera shooting/filming an even older crt tv, there is always flicker (e.g. PAL flicker)

    b) good video without shaking hands => my old Kodak camera does not have any kind of stabilizer and I also do not have a stand/tripod, so I had to use my old + shaking hands (not comfortable, when holding the camera for 23 minutes)

    c) good video, high resolution => uploads are restricted to approx. 50MB here, but a video with 23 minutes and e.g. 320x240 pixels low resolution already requires more than 100MB, so I had to downsize to approx. 160x120

     

    I already can hear you say "I can get no satisfaction", but that awful and flickery video was the best I could do for drpeter_3_1 artefacting test. Note: This is an AVI video using XVID compression (original format was Apple .MOV, but I converted it into AVI). Beware, the video is boring as hell and does NOT include any pron.

     

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  6. Posted

    Errrm,

     

    afaik the creator+seller of the Sophia 2 is from Poland and Poland = EU. Contact to Simius should be available thru AA forum or pm via AA. Quoting Simius from this topic (post #368) "The second batch is not over yet. There are still a couple dozen left. If someone would like to buy, let me know on a PM." 

     

     

    But if you are looking for a seller from Germany, you may contact tf_hh, quite often he has some third-party A8 hardware available (not only his own hardware). Simply write him an E-Mail and ask him if he has Sophia-2 or U1MB, SIDE-3 available at the moment.

     

    If Juergen does not have this A8 hardware available, you can simply order a U1MB and SIDE-3 from Lotharek's webshop. Here are some direct links:

    https://www.lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=246

    https://www.lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=143

     

    Allthough the Abbuc webpage is down, the club is still alive and kicking with 550+ members. You can always contact the Abbuc boss Sascha Kriegel, if you have some A8 related questions or contact the Abbuc Rechnerservice (that's tf_hh).

     

  7. Posted

    3 hours ago, 8bit-Dude said:

    I want to say THANK YOU for sharing all these Sector COPY programs.

    I have a 130 XE, XF551, and SIO2SD and wanted to duplicate double density floppies from ATRs (which use XBOOT/XBIOS).

    I tried several popular copiers like MyCopyR and Copy2000, but was getting nowhere (sometimes they would not read data from SIO2SD, sometimes formatting floppies would not work, and so on....).

    I then tried various versions of the programs you shared until FINALLY, DISKCOPY.ATR (option C) gave me perfectly working duplicates!! I am surprised how hard it was to find a compatible sector copiers, but I am CHUFFED!! 🙂

     

    Good to hear, that at least one copy program is working for you and your setup. The program you are using is Diskcopy from TurboDOS XL/XE by M.Reitershan, it supports normalspeed/slowspeed, Happy, Speedy, Turbo and XF551 and also mixed floppy drives / floppy speeders. But this program is limited to 360K (DS/DD/40T) max. and Pokey divisor 5 or 6 (if you set your SIO2SD to Pokey divisor 0-4 it will not work anymore).

     

    It is always hard to find a copy program that supports normalspeed or ultraspeed and XF551 highspeed. Most XF551 copy programs support only XF highspeed and do not work with other drives then (many of these XF sectorcopy programs do not even work with standard/normal/slow drives).

     

  9. Posted

    Some more tests for drpeter...

     

    1) Test 1a after 15 minutes:

     

    Test1a_15.thumb.jpg.cdd30be849787fb7d2794e65aed0b333.jpg

     

    2) Test 1a after 17 minutes:

     

    Test1a_17.thumb.jpg.db031df9cef266b490fe88175bf087bc.jpg

     

    3) Test 1a after 20 minutes:

     

    Test1a_20.thumb.jpg.fa5b42fc6c38285578c14e506b10c8dd.jpg

     

    4) Test 1a after 23 minutes:

     

    Test1a_23.thumb.jpg.1473192c79ffe674e36f9b20af23f2e1.jpg

     

    So for Test 1a the two black lines appeared in this order: row 1, row 3, row 2, row 4.

    After that I switched the A8 off for one hour, then I did run Artefact test 2. Result after 23 minutes looked like this:

     

    Test2_23.thumb.jpg.ff4073978184c9880088fc5ed8221660.jpg

     

    Enough for tonight (1:30 am here in Germany). Now I am running the DGF init over night, let's wait and see what happens after 8, 10 or 12 hours...

     

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, Philsan said:

    In fact it seems similar but not the same.

    I've run DGFINIT.XEX but after 80 minutes progress is always 0% (screenshot is from Altirra but on my 800XL it's the same, time elapsed on the right apart).

     

    DGFINIT.png.10093398f81c17f4557ecc2ff660d44c.png

     

     

    Same here, after running 90 minutes on real Atari with AVG cart. the DGF init program still showed 0%, so I gave up. Maybe the program should run over night, until the next morning (approx. 12 hours) ?!?

     

  12. Posted

    Alright,

     

    did the Artifact 1 test (from post #3191) and all four colour stripes (nr. 1-4 from left to right) showed one black line at the start. After eight minutes stripe nr. 4 showed two black lines, after nine minutes stripe nr. 2 showed two black lines, after twelve minutes stripe nr 1 showed two black lines and after fifteen minutes stripe nr. 3 showed two black lines - so after 15 minutes all four stripes showed two black lines. (But I only took three pictures, after 9, 12 and 15 minutes.)

     

    Test1a.thumb.jpg.023f10fa2f34334c8c13ce8ed7065553.jpg

     

    Test1b.thumb.jpg.70307b98176afc07231dd0cacbccd4ff.jpg

     

    Test1c.thumb.jpg.0fb7e3cfdd352caa4f1bb0053381ac0e.jpg

     

    After that I switched off the A8 for thirty minutes to cool down, then I did Artifact Test 3_1. After three minutes the first stripes began to disappear and then every minute something happened and several stripes disappeared - after 17 minutes all stripes had disappeared. In this test the stripes of row nr. 1 disappeared first, then the stripes of rows nr. 2 and 4 disappeared and at the end the stripes of row nr. 3 disappeared. (I only took one picture, 17 minutes after the start, when all stripes had disappeared, maybe I should do a video?)

     

    Test3_1.thumb.jpg.29dd535bd4745a98e6a0e78104b02d6c.jpg

     

     

    Will do Artifact test 1a and Artifact test 2 next...

     

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  13. Posted

    Updated the RAM and System test programs a little bit (see attachment). On an XL/XE the disk / ATR boots DOS 2.5 with Basic enabled, programs named *.BAS can be started from Atari Basic then; programs named *.COM will disable Basic automatically (except one *.COM program that requires Basic on side B); programs named *.TUR must be loaded from TB XL (and programs named *.OBJ and *.DAT cannot be loaded and belong to another program). If you cannot return to DOS from a program, then try Reset for a coldstart - alas, some programs are reset-proof.

     

    Patched and shortened the "Pagefind.BAS" program a bit, it will no longer search in a MyDOS subdir for additional files, but load files from maindir D1: instead; it will also no longer try to configure your XRAM for the TK Macro Assembler which is not there anyways. (This utility was originally taken from the TK Macro Assembler disk, which uses MyDOS and was therefore placed in a MyDOS subdir.)

     

    SYSTEST.zip

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  15. Posted

    Hmmm, could it be that you (re-)discovered DGF...?!?

     

     

    Besides, one of my Atari 800XL computers (PAL, XL-OS Rev 2) showed your GTIA temp monitor pict. (from post #3258) and displayed 15 degrees when loaded, then after about ten minutes it displayed 35 degrees, thirty seconds later it displayed 25 degrees and one minute later 45 degrees...?!?

     

    EDIT: Three minutes later 55 degrees appeared... and all other temperatures were still shown and all of them were stable after a few seconds (they started with flicker, but in less than ten seconds flicker disappeared). So the total running time was approx. 14 minutes 30 seconds.

     

    GTIA_Temp.jpg

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  17. Posted

    15 hours ago, Roydea6 said:

    Using the RasterView program I have turned the above conversions into a slideshow for my Side2 computer.

     

    And I must say they just as good as any of the other files I have used RasterView batch file on.

     

     

    Was so evil to cut the slideshow into two halves and put the files onto two 130k ATR images for those that would like to use them on real floppy drives or floppy drive emulation...

     

     

    Beetbro.zip

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  18. Posted

    3 hours ago, Larry said:

    Was this ever hacked to a disk file or disk boot?  I see that Atarimania just has the tape version.

     

     

    Available as COM/XEX at dozens of places...

    - Fandal

    - Homesoft

    - atarionline.pl

    - pigwa

    ...

     

    Would be nice to get a patched version of the Extirpator, where the collision detection fully works (including the walls), the ship is smaller and faster and the shots are faster, so we can play it like a real shoot-em-up.

     

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  19. Posted

    50 minutes ago, Level42 said:

    So....after getting married and my dad passing away (at 87...not much to complain about) I'm getting back to my hobbies a bit and the one thing still irritating me is that I still don't own either AVG or SIDE3.

     

    I still love The!cart for it's interface and ultra-fast search function but I can't get myself to setting it all up to add just a few new games...I really need to be able to simply copy files to SD card and pop it in my A8 (cartridge).

    Anyway: the way I use my beloved 600XL most of the time is simply playing games and demo's. 


    Now, I've read all about ATR compatibility, but nowhere do I see a list of games/demos that won't run on SIDE3......
    I'd think that at least the vast majority of games are available in XEX or CAR and don't need ATR. For demo's, I wouldn't mind using SdriveMax.

    So, what ultra-important ATR games will not work on SIDE3 and will work on AVG ? Names, not percentages please :D 
     

     

    Well,

     

    I do not own a SIDE-3 cart, but afaik most (all?) A8 bootdisk programs that use their own (custom) SIO routines (and absolutely rely on SIO) will not work with SIDE-3. You want names? Hmmm, there are only a few programs (that I have heard) that use custom SIO loading, e.g.:

     

    - Alternate Reality (The City, The Dungeon; unsure if one or both; CAR versions available, but afaik not fully working yet)

    - Seven Cities of Gold (Electronic Arts)

    - one or two Lucasfilm games (most likely Koronis Rift or Eidolon or both; luckily available in CAR format)

    - a few demos (a bootdisk demo from Copy Service Stuttgart, some polish bootdisk demos)

    - maybe the Big Demo by HTT? (original version worked alright with 1050 drives, but not on the XF551; HTT made a patch available and after I used it, the patched version would work on the XF but not on the 1050 anymore; curious if it works on other/3rd party drives, from harddisks, from carts, etc.)

    - programs that were (are) coded intentionally (on purpose) not to work with U1MB by XXL, in case you are using SIDE-3 together with U1MB

     

    For me it is hard to tell (notice), since I am using real floppy drives, SIO2PC, AVG with SIO cable and SIO2SD and I do not own a U1MB. If the mentioned programs are ultra important for you or not, you have to decide yourself.

     

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  20. Posted

    On 5/5/2011 at 11:05 PM, Marius said:

    Hi

     

    When I was a kid I had a tape "The Extirpator" ... I did not have much games, so I had enough time to play this game over and over again.

     

    It is definately not the best game released for Atari 8bit, but for some (nostalgic) reasons I still love it. The music is great too ofcourse.

     

    But now this:

     

    Every Zone ends with one or more brick walls.

     

    I experience two 'issues' with these walls:

     

    1. Sometimes the bullets don't do a thing, so you can shoot what you want but nothing happens.

     

    2. Even when you hit enough bricks, and they break out of the wall (so there is enough room to fly through) you still get hurt by the wall. Even when you are 100% sure the wall did not hit you.

     

    I think these are flaws in the game. Especially issue #1 is a bit frustrating. It happens a lot...

     

    Well,

     

    believe it or not, the "issue" with the wall was done intentionally!  Quoting the author G. Rimmer from the above mentioned youtube page:

     

    "Hi, I was the author of this game. Lots of people have said about the poor collision detection. This was programed into the game for the wall. The detection for the wall was randomly accepted as a hit or not a hit so destruction was not certain. This was to make the game harder."

     

    Pure evil I would say. And errrmm, I also read the sentence "this was done to make the game harder" in several other A8 programs - most of them do also contain some unfair elements/enemies/whatever.  Time to change that, e.g. give the Extirpator a proper + fully working collision detection, including the walls.

     

     

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  21. Posted

    In my opinion, the ship should be smaller and somewhat faster.

     

    I still do not understand, why this looks like a typical shoot-em-up type game, when we in fact should avoid shooting and our main goal is simply to escape (would have prefered to shoot everything with quick lasers, photon torpedoes or whatever).

     

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  22. Posted

    Some Bomb Jack alike versions for the A8:

    - Gun Powder Charlie by Atari User mag.

    - Bomb Squad by Antic mag.

    - Little Devil by Red Rat, later Byte Back

    - Bomb Fusion by Mastertronic

    They all work on 48k / 64k machines, but errmmm, they are... let's say "not so good".

     

    And there is Bomb Jack by TeBe, Vega, Tezz and Miker from 2008 which is very good, but requires a minimum of 320k RAM for the disk/fileversion (the rare and expensive cart. version Bomb Jake comes with its own RAM and therefore works on 64k machines). I would happily welcome a 64k Bomb Jack version...

     

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