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Sloopy (on AA) has SIO2pcUSB for sale, he is in NE USA.. he is pretty quick too.. I think he has a couple left. There is also RAY in Toronto Canada - he has his SIO2PCUSB as well. Atareiwarez - actually one of the first that pops up on google. James

You should put a link in your signature to your BBS.. I would like to call. James

I come into the topic once a week or so to see whats happening and how this is progressing. I know from following it. ( I think) that this was ment as a DIY project that Mytech did the board up for.. congrats on getting the first board to where it is .. WOW. looks awesome. I am interested in this as a finished (minus the add on boards) product. I can plug in chips, and U1mb etc.. but all the headers and resistors etc.etc.. not interested. So I remember way back in the thread where people stated they were interested, as far as I remember Mytech said no to building these for people. IS there a enough interest to get a firm to build MOST of the board? and sell it that way? This is an awesome project, and I would love to have one. James

I am using Bobterm myself right now, and I found one issue.. small thing.. but would be nice if someone could modify it to suit a modern use. The dialing menu only allows 16 characters for the number. Also with both IceT and Bobterm.. so far anyway.. I have not found a way to type a "-" .. so I have to type out the number address not the url. Is there a way around this I dont know.. for example bfbbs.no-ip.com this cannot be typed in Bobterm or IceT because either VT100 or Ansi as far as I can tell there is no way to type the dash. James

Famous saying here in North America.. maybe in Slovakia as well.. if you have nothing good to say - say nothing at all.

Did you get a chance to look?? James

Eh... he could be just ignoring me, as his SIO2PC kacked out on me .. I am looking to troubleshoot /repair.. replace.. warranty.. it has a lifetime warranty right??? Maybe its just that.. James

Feb 26 was my last email from him. So he was good up until then James

Anyone know if Steve Tucker is all good? I have been trying to get ahold of him for weeks now, no response. James

Byran, on some programs, I am noticing what looks like artifacting on the LH edges of the text/graphic.. I will try and take a picture.. but you have to look to see it I wonder if my phone camera will pick it up off the screen. Is this something I adjust? maybe its a saturation thing? I wonder if its things that are being continually updated by the software, so its almost like a refresh haze.. I will try and post a pic. James

I love my upgrade BTW!! Best looking 8bit on the screen I have ever seen.. and con80.sys now very read-able. I can use TLW wp looks great. My issue I thought I had btw -- - this 800xl was already modified with the simple video mod you originally did Bryan. SO i had lifted L5 and ran a +5 from another source. BUT - when I installed your UAV, I removed the various wires from the previous on board mod, because I figured I wont be using the onboard circuit anymore... BUT I still needed the +5 volt which I had removed.. THIS is why I got the BSOD, AKA nothing!.. put the +5v back.. and I am off to the races. LOVE IT!! James

Never mind.. figured it out

I guess in order to add the code so that it would do Ultra speed etc.. something had to go? Otherwise as far as I can tell seems to be working fine. James

Ok, but do I put say a dos disk in.. and try and boot it? wedge the stepper motor - ONE end in out? or both? The stepper on this drive is not even.. one end is a noticable difference in or out.. Do I line it up first?? then wedge one end or the other to get it to read? or both sides.. in.. or out?? (by in or out I mean left or right etc..) James

ok, suggestions on the best way to do an alignment if I dont have a scope? I was talking with SLOOP .. I am going to take it all out of the cases and put it on its side so that I can get to the stepper motor screws and wedges while the drive is spinning.. but since I cant read anything.. the only thing I can think to do it put a disk in to boot, and then adjust the motor until I get it to read.. HOPEFULLY James

Well I installed the INDUSGT_12mm to my drives.. works fine.. so far.. not sure best way to test speeds. But one thing I have discovered.. and if you are reading this and put this rom in.. did it happen to you... DIAGS will not work now. There are several funtions that done work anymore.. if I put the 1.2 rom back in.. no problem. But the MM rom.. no go. James

Thanks so much Brenski.. VERY nice response.. helps a ton. James

I am reviving this thread.. because I am having the same issue. Also because no one ever came up with what the G5 indicated on the LEDs ment. This is the G5 I am getting. I assume others are getting the same bars. I have been working on my IndusGTs over the past weeks. Putting in the MrMartian ROM and also repairing a LED display on the one drive. Last night when I put them back together (I had hoped for the final time in a while) they both came up with this error and would not read disks. I cleaned both heads again.. and tried again.. switched disks a couple of times on one .. and eventually with a lot of stutters and hicups one started reading.. got faster.. faster.. and now back to normal. All checks passed and works great on DIAGS. The other.. I have not got past this yet.. If I boot with another drive and use DIAGS.. I can get status.. I can config the drive.. but all calls to anything MOTOR related get a drive NAK. More than anything I would love to know what G5 means, as there is nothing about this code in the Field Service manual. James

My modification of my Rana 1000 worked great. I replaced the 8mhz crystal with 12mhz and burnt the new rom from MrMartian on my willem and tada.. I have a much faster drive. I have tried several loads.. Qmeg os saw the Happy speed right away and booted with that, but even regular speed was faster. James

Yes.. what I ended up doing.. was taking machine sockets.. cutting them up into SIP lines of 12.. soldering them into the display board and main board. Then using a ribbon cable from an old header card.. solding those to the pins on the display board and then to headers that plug into the main board. Its not as pretty as I would like, but its worked.. everything is good now except I think in my soldering I have one trace now touching another causing the middle segment on one display to be on all the time. Otherwise its working fine. James

For people who design boards, and need headers etc.. how do you identify what type of header is what? I need it flexible on the display board end.. or right angle.. if I use a 24pin header, am I amble to keep the pins 12 to top row and 12 to bottom row? Hope someone can help.

What about doing this? with a row of sockets or pins on the board and the display board?

Well people, I have been trying to fix up an old Indus GT I had .. that had a bad display. I had thought it was the Seven seg. displays themselves. Now Im not so sure. I removed the old displayed.. replaced them with the same part # but was not able to get them to fit the same way the old ones did.. because the pins have been re-arranged. But they are in. Now I am still getting segments flaking out and disappearing.. and I think its the display board ribbon cable and its connection to the main board. See the attached pics. If anyone knows what type of ribbon or connectors I should search for? or what I could replace it with. I would really like some help on this one. Thanks James

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/176545-topic-for-newbies/ has all the various SIO2... devices in it.. and reviews or descriptions. James Yes you can make your own sio2pc serial easy enough.. or grab one of those FTL boards off of ebay for $2 or $3 bucks.

There is more stuff .. look at the pic with the 800xl in it.. there is a bunch more hardware behind and in the box. It is more than $120 by a long shot.. but $1200 - NOT A HOPE. Parting everything out on Ebay.. maybe 4-500 but as a lot.. if he got $250-$300 I would call it a good day. James