[Night Knight for the A8]

looking great!  And a fun game too.  Keep it up and thanks for sharing.   

[Found Old Magazine Clippings - Anywhere to post them? (PSAN / SPACE)]

That's awesome. Lots of folks here would love that!  Post here and people will download and read it for sure.

 

But I suggest reaching to Kay Savetz at internet archive. 

kay @ savetz.com

https://www.savetz.com/

He really takes Atari Archiving seriously and will appreciate this find for sure.

 

Sounds very special.

 

Thanks for sharing with the community.

 

Eric

 

[Where to shop for 400 800 1200 xl xe games]

Check eBay and search "atari 800 cartridges".  They won't be cheap or plentiful, but some will almost always be available.

 

You can also search "atari 8bit cartridges" .

 

 

 

 

[Fun with the Ultimate 1MB Upgrade]

Very cool. 

[Retrobrighting Caution]

yeah, i did the same thing one time to a 130xe top case.  I didn't both to remove the "Atari 130XE" insert/label thinking it would be just fine.  In the end, the case looked terrific but the label looked awful afterwards.  Had to be patient for a long time to finally find an acceptable replacement for that label.  Would have been much easier to carefully lift it and remove the label first.   I've never tried retrobrighting a 410.  Not sure if that label lifts off easily or not. 

[800XL Case variants.]

I have one "Frankenstein" system I built out of various leftover/extra parts, including a pal motherboard and two difference pieces (top and bottom) of ntsc cases, and a random keyboard I had available.  It all works fine, but the case fit at the seams isn't perfect. It's like some of the tolerances are just a bit.  

 

[The difference a cable makes...]

Yep. Had same experience.  I was shocked. 

[Binary Parasite evolution]

Very cool.

There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

Game looks great! 

[Cable for RetroTink]

I will also throw in my endorsement for the Hercules workshop cables.  By far the best I have experienced.  And they will customize them for whatever lengths you might want too.

 

[New Atari 1200XL owner]

Assuming it really works, that's a very good deal.  Actually, even if it doesn't that's still a good price these days! 

[YOUR TOP 5...]

If I could have about 20 packs of extra strings(at least the high e and b strings!) Then I would go for an acoustic guitar for sure!  

[YOUR TOP 5...]

Oh man, how in the heck did I leave Archon off of my list? Especially if the monkey enters the equation! 

[YOUR TOP 5...]

Top 5 is so tough!!

 

If I stick with only "old school back in the day games" and only one-player (no monkey):

Necromancer

Alley Cat

Shadow World

World karate champ

Mr. Do! 

 

If a monkey shows up, then:

M.U.L.E.

Zombies(Realm of Impossibility)

 

 

I really hated that I could not include...

Jumpman junior

Ultima ][

Gladiator

Load runner

Zone ranger

Drop zone

Ixion

 

And later releases... 

Assembloids XE. 

Yoomp! 

Bosconian

Animal party

 

[Dragonwood - little game for the Atari 8 bitters]

Very nice looking.   I'm looking forward to it.  

[Scorch - full game for Atari 800 and up]

Nicely executed!  Fun classic game, done very well. 

 

[Are there any "Old School" Joysticks for Altirra (etc.)?]

Your can also use a 2600-dapter, they work very well, and you can use any of your real joysticks you love, and paddles too.  

 

http://www.2600-daptor.com/

[New SIDE3 Loader Testing and Development Thread]

2 hours ago, flashjazzcat said:

Here's an update of the beta loader and the user manual:

 

https://atari8.co.uk/firmware/side3-beta-loader/

 

Lots of transitional stuff going on, so I wouldn't be surprised if something got broken. Changes described in the changelog.

 

Excellent! Thank you. 

[New SIDE3 Loader Testing and Development Thread]

I like it. It buys back some real estate and still looks nice and clean.

[Atari 800 SVIDEO cable wiring]

You should be able to use the same cable you are using for the 800xl.

 

[1050's wrecking floppy disks...what I think happened]

Definitely the cause. clean thoroughly, both drives  before you run any more disks through them.

 

It's a good habit to get into to just run a cleaning through every so often when you are handling older disks.  In fact, if you are dealing mainly with old disks i'd recommend a light cleaning run between every disk swap you do. Just give it a minute or so after each cleaning to be sure moisture is gone before putting in next disk though.  In addition to avoiding the disk damage, you'll also probably be surprised how much better success you have reading order disks in general when you start doing this more often. I was! 

 

This is a case where "being groovy"  is NOT cool. 

[SDrive-MAX -- change device ID to 2?]

9 hours ago, Mrshoujo said:

I've been able to set the SDrive Max as emulating D2: while letting one of my 1050 drives be a booting D1: and they coexisted.

That's exactly what I was trying to do and could never get it to work.  Then I was told that the boot drive needed to be sdrive max otherwise the system wouldn't know it was there. So I gave up.  I'll have to give it another try if people are saying they can indeed get theirs to work this way though.  That's encouraging.

[SDrive-MAX -- change device ID to 2?]

48 minutes ago, TGB1718 said:

Set whatever disk you want as disk 2, make disk 1 empty.

Select Cfg

Select SaveIm

select Save

 

that's it

My experience has been that you can't pick a drive 2 assignment on SDM without also having something assigned to drive 1 on SDM as well.  

[Software to showcase Ultimate 1MB RAM Expansion]

Both of those demos are terrific.  And yes, it's very cool to see them just load up memory all at once using the U1MB.  I did the same with bad apple.  Very nice. 

[The Best Atari AV Cables?]

11 minutes ago, massiverobot said:

I think I found the best Atari AV cables. It started when I wanted a reasonably sized AV cable for my Atari (NUC in this case) - DIN to SVIDEO so that it could go into the XEP-802 sitting right on top of my NUC. The one I had was about 5 feet long and took up way to much space. I looked around on ebay and came across this very interested cable from Hercules Workshop...

 

http://herculesworkshop.com/

 

They looked amazing and super clean- he has a single cable from the DIN to the SVIDEO with just a small RCA out to pull the audio. I contacted the company and they were willing to make whatever custom sizes I wanted. I ordered a tiny one for my NUC and two others for connecting to a RetroTink. They arrived today and are just as advertised! Amazing craftsmanship and work perfectly on my Atari. If you are interested in getting something that is going to perfect your setup consider HWS! Robert there was easy to work with.

 

You can see below the nice connection between my NUC and the XEP-80 now with this custom sized cable. It's 6".

 

I've had great experiences with their AV cables as well, they are truly shielded properly.   All other things equal, all my systems look better going through their cable. 

 

[Software to showcase Ultimate 1MB RAM Expansion]

I'm new to the U1MB world too.   I've always primarily used AtariMax MyIDE2 (along with MyBIOS and Sys-Check2, which is a great combination for expanding memory and/or alternate OS without any hardware mods needed, in my opinion).

And also the S-Drive Max device, which is also really useful.

Or I still use SIO2PC-USB with APE straight off my PC.  

 

I recently installed U1MB and it is up and running, but I haven't done much with it yet. 

I am thinking I will probably get a SIDE3 before I make the "full plunge" into the U1MB world. 

Seems very cool so far!

 

All that said, what are most "U1MB folks" doing for ATR image loading/execution and manipulation?

 

PS: I too am interested in the OP question about suggested things (games/demos) that really showcase the U1MB capabilities.  But I also just want to know best way to use it in a daily driver... load some XEX files, load some ATR images, etc. ?

 

-Eric