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    I agree. In fact I'm not even saying that I'd like to see long-filenames in the GUI, even though there are a lot of benefits to having them. From an aesthetic view-point, which is which my arena, 8-3 filenames are certainly more manageable, especially given our screen resolution. So, if I were to vote, I'd most likely go with 8-3. I was simply answering Jon's con list, for the sake of it.

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

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    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

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    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?

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    My configuration is the MyIDE+Flash cart with a Transcend 128MB and the OSS carts in Flash (Basic XL, XE, Action, Mac65). I start it up, select what cart I want to use, and it boots up. As a beginner, this works well for me and is a lot faster than anything SIO based. I'm assuming the new MyIDE II + CF works in about the same way.

    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?

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    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....

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    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?

  20. Posted

    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.

  23. Posted · Edited by Ripdubski

    An over simplification on my part. What is the 256k for that is mentioned on Side site?

     

    On-board SpartaDOS X

    Real-Time Clock

    Compact Flash card slot

    Switchable loader and SDX modes

    Programmable "SIDE button"

    256KB external flash application cartridge space

     

     

    With that in mind does MyIDE load ATR?

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