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Hi RJ, The extra font disks would be a great addition. I'm sure others would appreciate them if they were attached.

[email protected]: Your disks are the full version. Thank You! It looks like someone took them, and re-arranged them a bit, with an updated manual, but it's them! spookt: the disks I had were Maxell brand, with a white labels, There were two disks. Sweet! Now I just need to get my system up and running. Thanks all!

Hi all, I am looking for the Registered version of Daisy-Dot III by Roy Goldman. I use to have it, but the disks got damaged from being out in the heat in a Garage for several years. I use to have my copy on my old hard drive, but that died too. I've scoured the internet for files, images, etc. and all I can find is the shareware version. I did find the manual in PDF format. Thanks.

Hello all, I am searching for the Analog Computing Pocket Reference card. After browsing the many issues of Analog Computing generously scanned in by ThumpNugget, I would like to find one, or one of the others that was advertised in Analog. There is a Analog Pocket Reference available on eBay right now (Item number: 280204057539). The seller wants 24.99 + shipping, or best offer. I tried a best offer and they countered with a few dollars less than what they want originally. Does anyone have this or any other type of crib sheet made up scanned in? There were a few others out there, from Analog issue # 8, pgs 17 & 18, Tom Hudson reviews three of them. Thanks!

I used Winzip to unzip the files. I 1st tried winrar, but it gave me the same error.

I just joined the torrent for the disks and plan on seeding for a long time. Thanks again!

Just wanted to say I had a very good experience with PsychedelicShaman with a sale a while ago. Great communications and prompt. Thanks. -Spicy

Hey all, I've brought out my Jag system, and I'm having the same results with audio CD's. They show that they are playing, but no audio, and no visual on the screen. I have cleaned everything with cotton swabs and the old cotton t-shirt with the cut up credit card to clean the contacts inside the connector with alcohol. Regular cartridges will play fine. Game CD's will come up as audio CD's as well. I've tried two different Jaguar base units. I opened up the player, and checked any socket chips being popped out, ie EEPROM, checked all connections, etc.. I did find that the leaf switch for the lid closed is broken (plastic is brittle) so I jumped it with a shunt. Still no audio with music CD's, and Game CD's come up as audio CD's. Thanks!

That was pretty cool to watch. I know I'd never be that good to get a score like that.

I remember the first game I got was QIX on cartridge, but my mom told my dad to take it back. The computer was NOT to be used for computer games, only educational stuff. Well that only lasted for about a week. haha.

As promised, the ATR image of the utilities, and documentation for the Supra / K-Products Hard Drive interface. Supra_HD_files_from_Bob_Klaas.zip

An Update of sorts... Got a new cable modem from the cable co. (Time Warner), They said that the splitters on the outside, and in the attic died. A friend from work gave me a 4 port wired router and a 4 port kvm switch to get my setup working again. The wife's computer lost her video card, and onboard LAN port. So a new MB is on it's way and the video card was sent out to be replaced by BFG Tech. The File Server got a used MB from the same friend, which happened to have an onboard RAID controller, so no data loss to any of the drives. And finally the third PC needs a MB, and Video card replaced. I'm waiting on the MB to come, and I have a AGP card for this MB coming. (This system is going to go into my new MAME cab) I'm working overtime tonight, and tomorrow I plan on clearing off a place on my workbench to setup my 8-bit stuff to get ready to tinker. I'll dig out my Willem EPROM programmer and my UV eraser.

Hey Bob, The Init never started, so nothing got erased. The software reported an error code. I was at my last hope, and wanted to try anything at that point, to see if it talked to the drive, etc. The cover is back on. I do have a EPROM burner, it's a willem clone type. Now some sad news. Last night though the Columbia, SC area we had some nasty thunderstorms (Thanks, Fay.), and well even though things were on UPSes, and surge protectors, lightning came through the cable modem and blew up the modem, the network switch, three compuiters, a 4-port KVM switch and two TV cable boxes. While I was at work. So now I'm trying to pick up the pieces, and get things replaced. I'm going to hold off on any type of data recovery now. Give me a week or two for things to settle, and I'll get back to this. Anyonre have any old PCs (older celeron, athlon, pIII) they would like to get rid of? I'd like to get my file server up and running again. The drives are fine, but the controller cards (a PCI ata 133 and a RAID controller) popped.

Hey Bob1200XL, yes, I've opened the drive, the platters and the head look good. I think somewhere in my image archive on here I have photos of the drive. This beast is really, really old. 1985 old. The interface is SASI, not SCSI and it's a edge connector, not pins. That old. haha Anyway, I still have the interface, the software to do a low level format, etc. I used spartados X for the DOS, it has three partitions, a bootable 720 Sector startup, and two 4.5 or 5 Meg partitions. I know the drive responds to commands from the interface and software, I've tried to low level format it, and it tries to access, but stops and reports an error code ( I don't remember off hand ). When I first started tinkering with it, when I applied power to the unit, it started its init, and then I heard it knocking / buzzing type sound coming from the stepper motor. The lid of the drive is held on by clips, that came off with a flat head screwdriver, so I opened it up, and peeked inside while it was starting up, and saw the head hit some sort of stopper at the edge of the platters. It has an adjustment screw that I have tried to turn in small increments to stop it from hitting. I was able to get it to stop hitting, but I don't know if it needed to hit that stopper to tell the servo it was at home position, etc. Here is the info I have on the drive. I don't have my 8-bit setup at the moment, it's out in the garage, I plan on trying to work on it this weekend. But any help would be appreciated.

I have a ATR image with MyDOS, that has all the formatting, tools, etc for the Supra / KP interface. I have it at home (I'm at work now) I'll add it as an attachment later tonight.

The drive still spins, and tries to seek, I think sector 0 is bad (that's what the KP/Supra interface uses to store partition tables) I also think the head stopper is out of alignment, so it doesn't stop at the right spot for sector 0. (I've tried adjusting the stopper ever so slightly to get the drive to stop at the edge of the platter. Otherwise the stepper motor clicks as it's trying to get to sector 0 (edge of the platter) I don't know of all the details of how the Supra interfaces, but if I could get a BB from somebody, to loan, exchange some hardware for, leave a deposit or something, I'd like to attempt to see if I can sector copy this drive. Thanks all.

With MetalGuy's MIO updates, etc. Is there any possibility of data recovery from a hard drive? I still have the XEBEC 10 Meg HDD that was connected to the Supra/KP interface, and I would still like to attempt some recovery. Thanks all.

There was one other group I remember being on one of my disks as a kid was from Stokes Brothers Pirating, they quoted "only the best" or something like that, with a BBS number in area code 801 (Utah) Stokes Brothers use to be a computer shop that sold all the computers at the time, Atari, Apple, Commodore, IBM, etc. I would drool when my dad and I went there to get something.

Hi all, I am looking for some floppy cases. Either the bigger cases that hold 50 to 100 disks, or even a big set of the mini cases that only hold 10 disks. Need something for a huge collection of disks I recently got, and want to protect them, and pull them out of this cardboard box. Thanks all.

Hi, Does this use like a alien type character on the front of the cover or it was like a grasshopper, etc.. Was it three ring binder ready? If so my friend had this a long time ago, he had an Atari 400 and never could understand the thing.

That is very impressive!

Hi all, Any update on this project?

I remember some of the disks I had were cracked by Kilroy, of N.A.P.O. I think I had Goonies, and a few others that had that intro. With Infinite lives, etc.

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Is this the same book that shows a robot figure on the front? If so I have the book somewhere in terrible shape, and I think it's a bio-hazard now (cat got a little nasty with it several years ago, thinking the box it was in was a litter box), and I've lost the disk with all the programming examples. I don't have access to a scanner, otherwise i'd archive it and clean it up. Hopefully someone else out there got the book and disk set, and can archive it. EDIT: the book I have is Your Atari 8-bit comes alive, by Richard Leinecker. This is a book i'd like to get again with the disk, and try some of the experiments again. I remember building a light pen, and never got it to work, but it was fasinating to a kid in Jr. High.