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  2. Posted

    Testing in my 800XL with U1M and VBXE. No issues whatsoever. I played Mule from an .atr, and several .car and .xex files.

     

    Features that would be nice:

    • Ability to load a .car and mount an atr. So you could do something like play with Altirra Basic or Action! and save your work to the atr.
    • Mount multiple .atrs
    • Stackable carts?

     

    I can't get it to work in my Antonia 600XL, but neither does the Ultimate Cart or Side2 work in it, so I'm blaming the machine and not the cart.

  4. Posted

    Hi,

     

    Recently I designed a 10x10cm MultiJoy8 PCB. I have six of them left, so if anybody is interested, I can send you one. Cost will be €4,= plus €4,= international shipping and packaging, so that's a total of €8,=. Note that that's for an unpopulated PCB. The picture of a populated PCB is just for illustrational purposes.

     

    It's based on this schematic: http://raster.atariportal.cz/hw/mj8_2007.gif

    Bill of materials to build one:

     

    1x 100nF capacitor

    1x 74ALS138

     

     

     

     

    Any source for a small quantity of the 100nF capacitor? BG Micro only has it in a big set.

     

    Can I use a 74LS138 in place of the 74ALS138?

  5. Posted

    I voted for Jobs.

     

    Without Woz, I believe Jobs would have still gone on and created something like Apple.

     

    A lot has been written about his role at NeXT computing, but a year after founding NeXT he was buying Pixar for $5 million dollars, and invested another $5 million into the company to start. He saw the brilliance and importance of Pixar, and kept investing into the company until he was in control of the entire company. This investment paid off later on when Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion dollars, and in the process, made Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.

     

    Once he came back to Apple, he was on fire. The iMac, OS X, iPod, iPhone, all major products that changed how we use technology today.

     

    Yes, he wasn't a very nice person. But he just had this uncanny vision.

     

    And this isn't meant to diminish Woz's contributions in the least. He is a brilliant engineer, teacher, and all around awesome guy.

     

    I wonder what products are in the Apple vault waiting for technology to catch up?

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  6. Posted

    Yep stock Atari ROMs, no multiple OS possible via that route. I keep wondering what that 20 pin green socket was for ? Maybe some kind of SRAM or FLASH ROM chip, but I don't recall something with that small of a footprint. I'll have to look.

     

    - Michael

     

    Static ram chip/No OS/Lock, could be some way to play copied cartridges. Load the cartridge into SRAM, lock the SRAM, then boot the machine.

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    Here is the list of the interested. Please verify and report corrections. The price is US$55/pcs. Shipping cost - US$10 in continental Europe and US$15 outside, regardless of the number of devices. Necessary informations you will receive as a PM shortly.

     

    I'm confused with all of the confirmations. Simius asked for corrections, not confirmations.

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  9. Posted

    There is also another route. Combine a new motherboard with the 1090XLR into a micro-atx form factor, kind of like what the C64 reloaded project did 3 years ago with the C64 main board. There are tons of 600XLs out there for donor chips (6502, Pokey, Antic, GTIA, etc.).

     

     

    If you have to modify the 800XL or 130XE to use the 1090XLR, then you've added another hurdle for the users to leap over, and there are quite a few Atari users that don't like modifying their machines (me on the other hand have an addiction to it :-).

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  19. Posted

    Does anyone have any pictures, docs, links or anything at all about the

    setup Atari Corps used back in the day when they ran a multi-line BBS

    with Michtron BBS software and some kind of mult-serial port board?

     

    I found this, but it's not the setup I'm talking about:

     

    http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n10/ataribulletinboard.html

     

    Thanks.

     

     

     

    Interesting angle, pushing the STs for telecommunication services. I wonder how Atari would have gone if they pushed that angle, maybe using the MIDI ports for networking between the nodes. Not as fast as Apple's AppleTalk, but a lot cheaper. In '85 a 520ST was a quarter the price of the Mac 512.

  20. Posted

     

    No there isn't.

     

     

     

    It's not a technical issue, it's a copyright issue. The original Frogger used copyrighted music, so all the newer versions of Frogger don't have the original music.

     

    That being said, there isn't a reason why they couldn't have just put different music on it.

     

    I'm disappointed with this version of Frogger, which was the main reason I wanted a FB7. Back to the Supercharger version I guess.

  21. Posted

    The only bad news is that there is some kind of rubberized coating on all of the black plastic parts of the mouse that probably due to age (made in 2004-2006), was very sticky to the touch. Mine was so bad that I resorted to using denatured alcohol to take it off, and then followed up with a little auto polish to bring the sheen back to the finish. after doing that, it feels so much better. Not sure if this will be the case with all of these, but mine was brand new with the factory seals still on the box, and it had an extremely sticky finish. So be warned.

     

     

    - Michael

     

    I had a wireless controller for my Xbox that did the same thing. What I did was coated it with baby powder, took care of the stickiness.

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