Break key solution.

[Break key solution.]

It is some sticky tack.   This way the break key feels different than the other keys so I know not to press it. Lol

 

I though of just popping it out but just did that so I know not to touch it. 

[Break key solution.]

Here is my bobterm break key solution.  Lol. 

[Atari 8-bit related BBS(s)]

Validate with the exception of Visitors is my current set up. I agreed, back in the day, validated and the tiers of access were incentive to contribute as well as controls access to warez. No longer needed 
 

That’s kinda what I thought. I gotta check with JP as he was validating people during my absence.

[Altirra 3.90 released]

Has anyone had any luck wrapping this up in wine for use on a Mac? I tried and didn’t have much success.

I know Big Sur is causing some issues but I tried back on a Mojave setup I had with no luck.

I did skim over the last few pages of this thread for this question but didn’t see it.

[Atari 8-bit related BBS(s)]

 
Yeah, we are all about the old school (or should I say old skool?) experience! That includes a "validation" process like back in the day.
 
-JP
 
 

I thought about making all new users validated. It isn’t really like the old days where we didn’t want someone loging in a d leech all our warez and then leave.

I know in some instances it would allow hackers to log on and post dumb messages but I don’t know how often this really would be an issue. What do you think?

[TNFS active host list]

You can put mine out there. As long as my nas is running it is usually up. It currently is kind of a mish mash of stuff but it’s there.

Alcatrazbbs.ddns.net

[Old pictures of our Atari 8-bit setups]

Wow! I would have loved to have the money to afford all that cool gear back in the 80s!

[Mrarkus]

I just completed a purchase with Mrarkus. He was easy to deal with, and I would purchase with him again.

 

 

[SOLD: NOS PAL Atari 130XE with Sophia 2 DVI and HS ROM upgrade]

I’d like to buy this. 

[Percom & ATR-8000]

I was thinking of checking the sio lines and see if there is 1 line that is causing the issue. I was going to disconnect that line from the sio chain and see if I can still use the percoms with the atr and fujinet.

Do you think this might cause damage to the percoms or the other peripherals if a line is disconnected?

[Message Base Archives]

Whew. Good thing AtariAge doesn’t delete anything. I couldn’t find where the file went. I knew I sent it around and sure enough I made an atr of it years ago. Attached is it. 
 

let me know if anything comes of it. thanks. 

MSGBASE.atr

[Message Base Archives]

Amis is working on getting a copy of xl on southern amis. When I get a copy of it I will see what I can extract. 
 

However, I believe his is the Corvus hard drive version so I don’t know exactly what all was changed as far as disk I/o on that version. So I don’t if I will Be able to get it to read the file. But I’ll give it a shot. 
 

I know I tried it with that copy of PhoReM I recovered from My download disks but it required basic xe. Didn’t have one of those so I tried it with Altirra and it didn’t really work.  Maybe now that I have an ultimate cart I will revisit PhoReM as well. 

[Percom & ATR-8000]

I have been playing around with it. It appears not on the atr doesn’t like the percoms but the Fuji net won’t boot with the percs on the sio chain.

Still playing around to see if it is just one of the percoms or all but something is hogging the sio bus.

[Message Base Archives]

I have one message base recovered. I asked a lot of people to figure out what it is from no one could figure it out, however, I am now confident it was a FoReM xl message base. I looked at it in a text editor, clearly there isn’t any ground breaking messages in there but I would like to recover it. 
 

I thought I had an extracted copy somewhere on my bbs pc but I can’t find it so when I get a chance I will put the floppy in and extract it and post it here. To see if anyone can extract the messages in a readable form. 
 

-Craig 

[Atari 8-bit related BBS(s)]

 
When I change screen mode under SyncTerm it doesn't seem to do anything. I don't run Windows, perhaps I'll try reinstalling SyncTerm. I might compile from source.
 

I had this issue with the Mac version many years ago. Something was wrong with the Mac version so I put the windows version in a wine container and it worked.

[Atari 8-bit related BBS(s)]

Not that I am aware of. Did you try hitting the enter button a couple of times?

[Atari 8-bit related BBS(s)]

Hmmm.
 
I select ATASCII mode and southernamis boots me off without letting me log in. Alctatraz BBS appears to be offline altogether?

I was actually logged on and I was doing a few things with it. I will try to implement John polkas busy bbs app in the near future.

[Percom & ATR-8000]

Holy moley, jumping through all those hoops. Wow. I just wanted everything connected through one sio cable.

I will play around a little more with it in the next few days see if I can find any easy way of doing it.

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

well it's not like a crt these days... what make and model insignia screen is that?
usually there is a spot for red green and blue adjust... tint... temperature (warm normal cold etc)... as well as colorspace etc...
i'll check for the specifics unless you have the manual or dig it up yourself
 

Never mind. I am being dense. Yes I can adjust my set. For some unknown reason I thought that was an adjustment in the 800xl. Doh! Thanks for putting up with my ignorance. Doh!

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

just adjust your red drive or lower the green and blue drive and your set.

Real dumb question. How would I do that?

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

Yeah that’s not right at all. You should see this, or a close facsimile: 
 

 
EDIT: I just realized you’re not using ACP. I don’t know what that program is but the colors seem off.

Looks pretty close! Thanks!

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

I followed the manual word for word. A great manual it is. So originally I had it set up how manual indicated and I just now flipped them.

Funny thing I was playing around with the terminals yesterday but never flipped the composite and luma (or was it chroma.).

But is it all working now even know I nuked two pins on the uav. It doesn’t seem to affect anything but I am going to order some pin headers and replace them.

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

I just so happen to be flipping around YouTube and came across flashjazzcat’s recent uav video.

The one he was working in was displaying the same symptoms as mine when the color line was connected. He determined that the composite and Luma wires were switched in the terminal block. I switched mine plugged the color in back in and wala perfect screen.

I am still going to search for that apc.xex and test it but at least I know all the lines are now connected.

Thanks again for the help.

[Percom & ATR-8000]

I gave it a try. None of the percs were plugged into power and even with the fujinet out of the loop it won’t boot. Weird huh? Like it said it is no biggie. I ordered another sio “hub” and going to connect all the percoms into that one as to isolate them from the rest of the systems.

[The UAV Rev. D Video Upgrade Thread]

Here is the output from the uav.xex.

It seems like all the colors are present. You tell me.

The reason I tried disconnecting the color in was I was getting vertical lines through everything when it was connected.