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@Subby when is the next meet? Im just a short drive away in Greenville and might try to make it.

Wow. I cant believe I never knew that even after owning 2 of them. Maybe I should have read a bit more manuals when I was younger. Very cool!

SF354 drive belt. Always searching for something special though!

@ratinthehat86 - Very late condolences, but glad to see a "Rat" active in Atari-land! I remember well the many articles published by your dad. They taught me a lot.

Yes. I have a 1050, several DOS's and a few disk games. Years ago, I should have kept the Rana and Indus drives I had. Hindsight...

Just ordered MyIDE ][ today and got a response from Steven that is was shipping today! Nice! Cant beat that.

I finally ordered an Atarimax MyIDE ][. If it doesn't work out like I want, I'll try the SIDE2. If that doesn't work I'll probably go to SIO2SD (or maybe IDE+2). Thanks for all your inputs.

Understood. I was not debating, just agreeing that 8.3 is OK.

Nothing at all wrong with 8.3. Nice site update!

Upon closer inspection i found the small brass roller the belt connects to on rear corner with pieces of belt on it as well. Belt ordered. Thanks for the info.

Thx. Ill have to register there to view it.

Ive had no luck locating the service manual (ver 1), only the ver 2 one which looks to be direct drive and have the typical small eject button.

Awesome, thanks for the link! Any chance you have a phot of how it should be connected? As i said i see evidence of a former belt, but dont see another point to attach it other then the large wheel toward the back.

Ive got a drive that I hear the motor spin, but not the disk. Upon disassembly I see a large wheel on the bottom with wht looks like part of an old belt stuck on it, about 3/4 of the circumfirence. I dont see anywhere else a belt could attach to. It is a chinon mech with a rhombus shaped eject. A) did this drive have a belt? B) where could i possibly source one? Thanks on advance

Post a list and pics

Any chance for more 320Xl's?

One last question. Can Side run ROMs?

if i want to preserve the ability to load ATR then i dont load the carts (action/mac) into flash - correct? I dont have any SIO or other high capacity devices at the moment, so recovering the flash with the ability to load ATR is ni if I understood correctly. In this case i can just boot and run the cart from disk?

Great great info! Thank you! So if i wanted to preserve the ATR loading, then dont load the carts into flash - if I read that right? I dont have any device at the moment so recovery is nil. In the latter i can just boot and run the car from disk?

Thats along the lines of what I want to do as well. How would you load the carts into MyIDE flash, assuming they would go into the extea memory in the cart?

Indeed which is why im asking so many "dumb" questions. I wont be using TurboBasic. Im thinking about this from my sons point of view. I imagine he switches on the machine. Boots to basic, likely internal basic for simplicity. Learns, plays, loads his work, saves his work. Minor interactions with dos. Powers off. Maybe he powers it up, goes into a menu, selects a game, and plays a bit, then powers off. He will be 7 soon. He might not be interested in the games since he plays xbox now. Ill be doing most of my stuff, games, programming, etc via emulator on my Mac. I do want to be able to run some of that on the actual hardware at some point but not on a regular basis. At least thats how i see it, maybe it will change a bit if the solution works well. So now im thing MyIDE][ for him and a 130XE, and IDE+2 for me using an 800XL or another 130XE. Or SIDE... Decisions....

Would MyDOS lessen the memory restrictions?

Thank you for the excellent info. For the cart solutions using the soft hd driver, what effect does it have on available memory? Ill be using this on an unmod 130xe, but possibly on an unmod 800xl too. I love both machines but favor the XL which sounds like it may not have enough emory to do what i want. What can the MyIDE memory be used for?

Well then the carts are best suited for read only program/game loads? So maybe this will help me understand better. Lets say i want to boot to basic, and save files/load files from the SD/CF media. What special needs to be done without modifying the machine? And how much memory is available to user at this point? Same thing, but with cart like Action or Mac65 loaded from disk? Memory constraints? Im thinking IDE+ 2 is my best best bet his point.

After reading through the long ide+ 2 thread, am I understanding that the myide and side 2 cant work as an hd on stock machines? I guess basically read only?