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  6. Posted

    Lack of 80 columns was huge for me when I started college in fall of '87. That and good VT100 emulation. Most work was done on the IBM mainframe and Vax, which I couldn't access very well. The Chameleon terminal emulator was passable, and I would have killed for Ice-T then.

     

    AtariWriter was awesome though, and guys from my freshman corridor wrote papers on my 800XL in AtariWriter.

     

    Two years later and I'm taking a 1040ST to college, Uniterm was the bomb on the monochrome monitor, 132x49 FTW!

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    Like Bill said, companies at the time didn't really know how to market computers and were trying anything. Atari had a chance, since in '79 the Apple ][+ was a joke compared to the 400 or 800. They would have owned the education market if they would have pushed at all.

     

     

    But, Atari needed to lower the production costs of the 8-bit line. The 1000X concept drawings look fantastic, but Atari went with the 1200XL instead. And the 1200XL suffered from two flaws: lack of 80 columns and no PBI. If the 1200XL would have launched with 80 columns and a PBI, it would have smoothed over the issues with compatibility since the newer machine added capabilities over the 800. This enhanced version of the 1200XL would have competed favorably against the Apple //e that was being released with 80 columns.

     

    With such a machine, Atari could have competed well in the education sector and the business sector. The final piece would have also been released in '83, and that is Action!. What would have happened if Atari built Action! into the 1200XL (Basic would still be available as a cartridge)? How could the Apple //e compete with such a system?

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    Note: Since the XEL-CF creates a fast parallel IDE44 interface, there is very little reason to use an SIO2SD or any other similar CF/HDD solution. Especially considering that I just bought 20 bare PCB's for close to $1 a piece, and the components to stuff it probably are in the area of $5. Since it is a Through-Hole board, it is very easy for the DIY person to build, and due to the limited amount of parts required to do so a relatively quick job. With Jon's XEL-CF specific BIOS flashed into the U1MB, it is the same as accessing a CF card on a SIDE2, and just as fast. Theoretically any IDE device could be accessed, assuming a supporting BIOS for such were in use. The IDE44 header is directly compatible hardware-wise with 2.5" laptop hard drives, and a 2 mm to 0.1" header adapter with a suitable PSU could be employed to access larger devices.

     

    - Michael

     

    I know this was brought up earlier in the thread, but now that the XEL-CF is pretty much finalized, my question is, will it work on U1M machines such as my 800XL? I dislike the SIDE2 taking up a cartridge slot...

  15. Posted

    I'm never the one to stop beating a dead horse....

     

    Tonight I dug out my original copy of Rescue on Fractalus:

     

    post-3959-0-03698200-1504311412.jpg

     

    And booted it up on my Incognito 800 that has never (to my knowledge) had anything ever done to the video, and here's what I get on my Commodore 1702:

     

    post-3959-0-36075300-1504311475.jpg

     

    Exactly as I remember, goldish characters on a brownish background.

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  19. Posted

    Same.

     

    SD media files copy protected? I think not. If you can read a simple .Rom file then you've copied it.

    And sure, you could use an obscure file system on the SD card that's not supported by default with Windows or MacOS, but then it's just a case of using a utility to do a raw dump.

     

    Well, the SD in SD card is an acronym for secure digital, and the standard does have DRM built in.

     

    But, yeah, this has WTF all over it. Why not include the 8-bit computer line too?

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    I am willing to let people look at the binary and source, but privately and those that I can trust. I require their personal information and need them to sign a confidentiality agreement. I cannot track who does what on here. I will not post the binary publicly, nor will it be available for pay-per-download. The cartridge game is available from www.atarisales.com for $49.99. http://members.tcq.net/video61/tempestelite.html

     

    Are you requiring personal information and a confidentiality agreement with every person who has bought a cartridge? They are now in possession of a binary of the game and can do whatever they want with it.

     

    Cartridges can easily be read, they do not offer any copy protection.

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