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I wonder what the sales figures were for additional cards for the Apple II. We have the Microsoft CP/M card, and the Mockingbird, but what numbers are we talking about? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I used the XM301 and SX212, but for printing I bought an interface to use my Panasonic 1080i. I can't remember the name of the interface. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The 1090XL is something that barely made sense at the time. Yes, every Apple II user would talk about how great their machine was because it had slots. And almost every //e that I've used has exactly three cards - the 64k/80 Column card, the super serial card, and the disk drive card. Apple could have put those on the motherboard and removed the slots, such as what was done with the //c. In hindsight, the Atari's SIO system was user friendly and easily able to handle everything that was needed at the time. Where Atari missed the boat was not adding 80 columns to the 1200XL (and fixed the crappy video). That would have given people a reason to upgrade, and made the 8-bit line more competitive with the Apple II line.

I've never had an issue with real Sega Genesis controllers, I use them in all of my Ataris. I do have a newer knock off controller that exhibits the same issue. But, it only happens in a machine with expanded memory.

You can read the B button as the regular fire button and the C button (I think it's tied into the paddle inputs). Other than that, the A and the Start can't be read without hardware modifications. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm setting up a little Lenovo X120e as a dedicated Atari Emulation machine, but am running into performance issues. I have Windows 8 installed, but the little guy can't seem to hit 60 fps reliably. Are there any performance tweaks I can do? Maybe the 1.6GHz AMD Fusion E-350 dual-core processor isn't powerful enough?

I'm so jealous, that looks like the ultimate geekfest. Unless I retire soon, the closest I'll get to that is KansasFest, and then I'd have to use an Apple...

That's how I remember it. You could use the back side of disks, you just couldn't format them.

Ordered. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have three of the boards, and it appears that CTS or DSR don't work on any of them. Where did you run the line to fix yours?

That case needs an s-video out. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can't remember, can you switch PAL/NTSC is the control panel? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On the SIO2SD you'll use the buttons to select a drive, and then to put a "disk" in that drive. I'm not at home or I'd take a pic. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Star Raiders. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And the "disk" is inserted into drive 1? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I always liked the look of the Mega ST cases. I wouldn't bother trying to put a keyboard in the new case, make a pizza box case and let users bring whatever keyboard they want.

The Atari does not have a DOS built in ROM, you have to boot it from disk. I'd recommend MyDOS for your setup. Find the .atr of it and put it in drive one of the SIO2SD. Set your disk drive to be drive two. You can then boot the Atari (hold down option to disable Basic and boot directly into DOS). You can then use MyDOS to copy floppies (or any other copy program for that matter).

How big is the FAT16 partition? It needs to be less than 32MB (I usually use 31MB).

Castle Crisis! Four players too. Sent from my R1 HD using Tapatalk

I think you need a way to submit follow up questions. After finishing the podcast, I was curious on how the Rainbow GPU compares to what ended up in the ST. And, if the Rainbow GPU was better, did the Tramiels even know it existed? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You might want to make the modification to bypass the switch on the door, then you don't have to have it closed for the 800 to power on. I did this on my Incognito 800, along with removing the internal speaker.

Under OS X, applications are folders, which means OS X (and probably the new Snappy apps for Linux) could easily be distributed in this manner. Then, with Windows you could use an installer to install the emulator and put the Atari program where it needs to be and not have to GPL the Atari program either. You still have the issue of the OS. I don't know if you could get away with distributing the xformer.zip with the installer or in the app folder. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I doubt that the Atari code would have to be licensed GPL just because the emulator is GPL. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are two versions for the Atari Computer, the XE version and an earlier version. The earlier version is pretty crappy, no intermissions, jerky motion, etc. https://youtu.be/rA2lF9FX6L0 The XE version was a lot better. https://youtu.be/iLD_gD4VpY4 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I vote with Zetastrike, the XE version of Mario Bros for the Atari XL and XE computers is probably the best, with full intermissions and critters that look pretty good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk