doctorclu

You know what has always confused me is when you talk about the 68K chip, I have seen many varients of the 68K from a rectangular chip about three inches long (like in the ST and early Macs) to one that looks like a one inch by one inch math co processor (which I think the Jaguar has). That said, I have been tempted at times to look into the AdSpeed ST and other processor accelorators for others machines and see if this couldn't be applied to the 68K on the Jaguar with a speed switch. My favorite Processor doubler was the AdSpeed ST that boosted an ST from 8 mhz to 16 mhz. Nice! Made some games play better and definately made net surfing a bit more tolerable.

Speedster II! Nice!

Oh... had to think on this... Speed Reading module for the Atari 400/800. I have been trying to collect beige stuff (Atari 400/800, 810 drive, 850, 830) and all the programs in the big dark boxes, and the language modules. Basically I have been shooting for things before they XL style and design came in. There was once a commercial where the older brother says to the younger brother "One day this will all be yours" and you see shelves of Atari 800 software in boxes and folders, all matching and looking good in that late 70's way. I want to get that look for my 8-bit collection. So Speed Reading was a part of that.

Well, you have made a flash cart so have a good grasp to that say that. But something has me scratching my head... what if a Jaguar could access a hard drive much like the MyIde interface? To me the way the MyIde reads movie files, and how the CD roms pulls its information seems similar. Well, as Spock would say "Deserves further investigation Captain."

i hope you dont got something against checkerd flag. Easy there Tex... being a Bubsy fan I'm used to the idea that people like to have Jaguar games to mention in fun. Congrats on the Catnip cable. So could you tell us what this cable will do? I am talking to someone about a device that would involve USB but don't want to promote that too far if you already have something going.

I've been round and round on this already. Most Jag fans out there WANT to eventually get all the cartridges, games, and assessories for bragging rights. I know I do. There are times when images come up to "try out" and it would be nice have something that could play them. (Cart images, the ones that will not play on JUGS, BJL, and other loaders like that). If anything, when you look at the Cuttle Cart for the 2600 & 7800 and the image loaders for the Atari 8-bit and 5200.. those have probably inspired people to buy MORE games. Sure they play rom images off the internet. Sure they have multicarts, but then they get hooked on a game they would not have tried otherwise, and they buy a copy when it comes available. Really, making image loading would only help, not hurt.

Yeh that card of yours and all that was being done with the ethernet and Contiki was just awesome. Glad to know it is still being tinkered with somewhat. You speak of flash and alpine cards like they are quickly available. They are not. They are hard to find and expensive. Sure I would like to see upgrades to the Jag, but to be honest for trying out cartridge images of prototypes (like Arena Football which was just released on JS2), I would like a device that can play those images. I'd like to have 30 games in one cartridge. Or my entire library. That would be cool. I would like a device that could play CD images and not have to use my 2x Jag CD unit. And while I will probably pick up one these extra ram, keyboard/mouse thingies you talk about, inside I am saying "Well, if it doesn't do existing Atari formats, what is the point?" It might as well be the ST emulation module, or some other platform, because it won't be a Jag then. And coming from the ST realm and other platforms, there is nothing worse that taking an aging platform and splitting the format down the middle. In the ST we have the joys on that dimenishing platform of having the MintOS, MagicOS, TOS, and Linux users. yah. So based on that, forgive me that I do not jump for joy that the Jaguar may be inheriting development on a device "That will not support Jaguar programs".

I am starting to wonder, with all the amazing things going on for the Atari 8-bit, 5200, and Coleco Vision at Atari Max... http://www.atarimax.com ...If in time if something would not be possible for the Atari Jaguar. http://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/documentation/ These flash carts are able to run rom images, or floppy disk images. They are really neat, I have owned a 1 meg flash cart before, and it really simple to use. All you had to do was plug in the cart, and then bring up a image that was created for the cart by either a computer connection (SIO2PC) with the Atari 8-bit computer, or by using a floppy disk. It boots the computer up, asks if you want to write an image, and from there, writes to the cartridge. After that, you have a continual cartridge with that game or utility till you write over it. Wonderful device! For the Jaguar, I wonder first off if the Jag cart port would be able to write to a catridge like that (Voltage and all that). The fact that we have the memory cart with game saves and memory saves on various games seems to suggest so. So how would you start up a image? Several ways I can think of. Not original ones either. JUGS BJL image for Jag CD module. In all three cases it would pull up a simple file (since the resident memory on the Jag is under 2 meg and most cart images are larger) to acknowlegde that a flash cart is plugged in and if you want to program it. After saying yes, the program would pull information from the CD or from a computer through JUGS or BJL, and flash the cart. After that, you would have the image on the cart till you wrote over it again. Like the Atarimax carts, you could in theory have a cart that would be menu driven, allowing multiple rom images to be selected. As for CD images, you could make a large enough flash cart to hold a CD image. Or in those cases, this flash cart could have a cable going from the cart where it could access CD images from another source. At that point, you could break the 700 meg barrier of the CD technology and be limited to whatever hard drive you were working with. (This would be great for cinepak movie files for example). So with one cart you could have a flash and CD interface, (and a great way to pull in information from a host computer.) To matter the fact, if you had the cable coming out of the cartridge itself you would technically not need the BJL or JUGS setup, but could pull straight in from a host computer. But it would be nice to have a CD setup in case you wanted to load a image without hooking up a computer. -- The crazy but not so crazy idea... a Jaguar Hard drive -- Of course if we wanted to have a LOT of fun, we could take a page from the MyIde technology of the 8-bits and have a hard drive hooked directly to the Jag. Make it where the cart brings up the directory on a IDE drive that is connected to the Jag. CD images could be stored to the hard drive in a format similiar to the movie files that are simply tracks stored to a much larger media. And rom images could be stored on the hard drive similar to the disk image selector that the MyIde also uses. In that image selector you use a controller to select and load an image. -- To summarize -- So in the end as I see it, you could have a flash ram cart that could be programmed by a CD image, BJL, or JUGS, similar to the flash carts on AtariMax. Or, you could have a harddrive system that would be standing to work directly through the cartridge port. The information would be stored on the hard drive, and to execute that information, it would simply write to what I would imagine would be a static ram cartridge. This would effectively turn the Jaguar into the typical computer scenario of ... load a game, play it, turn computer off, game is gone till loaded again. As for the static ram cart in the cartridge port of the Jaguar that is being addressed.. will it be 4 meg? 6 meg? Or more? What is the real limit of the Jaguar hardware? All this to say, let's take a moment and look at what is already happening in the Atari 8-bit world and see if this concept could be adapted here.

Can't wait to try this when I get home. I love this game on the Jag!

That's what made me bid on the stuff. But even the black home vision carts don't have these grips and numbers on the back ... Pirates for sure. And indeed inspired by Home Vision: Don't let them fool you. BTW, here's Pet Boat: http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft.php?MEN...n_sauver=Search Interesting. When do you think these pirated games were made? Seems there was a lot of off country knock off of games.

My final score: 24,690. No more tries. This is one of the most stupid games I've ever played on A8. F. You say that so much it has lost all meaning. So yeh, the usual question, can someone point me to a good copy of this online?

Playing Tempest with a the rotary on the bonus levels works something like this... Left-Right = Paddle Up = A Down = C Something like that. The rotary left right on these levels is very jumpy and hard to control, not that it wasn't anyway. But possible all the same.

Cutest one yet I think.

You REALLY can't get your mind off this game, can you ? Actually been playing a lot of other titles on the Jag lately (mainly CD titles), but the Bubster deserves mention every now just to be odd if nothing else. Thank you. I realized after the fact that his name is Bubsy and not Busby, but makes the name all the more unique, and strangely looks like "Bubsy" at a glance. Ok, Google says...? Appears Busby is a bunch of people's name. When entering Busby cable you get some reference for a Direct TV company, which appears to be it.

Hey, best way to go about this, first make sure there is no disk in the floppy drive (unless this is a floppyless 520 ST) and then look at the above pull down menus till you find the tab that looks up the information on the TOS and see what it says, or better yet, take a picture of that. Very cool desktop and all

Artist: Lyrics Song: My Girlfriend, Who Lives in Canada Lyrics ROD Ohhhh... I wish you could meet my girlfriend, my girlfriend who lives in Canada. She couldn't be sweeter I wish you could meet her, My girlfriend who lives in Canada! Her name is Alberta She live in Vancouver She cooks like my mother And sucks like a Hoover. I e-mail her every single day Just to make sure that everything's okay. It's a pity she lives so far away, in Canada! Last week she was here, but she had the flu. Too bad 'Cause I wanted to introduce her to you It's so sad There wasn't a thing that she could do But stay in bed with her legs up over her head! Oh! I wish you could meet my girlfriend, But you can't because she is in Canada. I love her, I miss her, I can't wait to kiss her, So soon I'll be off to Alberta! I mean Vancouver! Shit! Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancou- She's my girlfriend! My wonderful girlfriend! Yes I have a girlfriend, who lives in Canada!! (All this talk of Canada and me listening to Avenue Q this morning... had to throw that in.)

Got a mega 2 without keyboard. What would you offer?

CatTail? Here we go.... It can be a "Jagu-SB" cable. Or how about calling another cat related name.. "bUSBy" Sure Bubsy Bobcat is copyrighted, but Bubsy is a common name. And who knows, Bubsy is not doing anything these days. We might be able to approval to use his charactiture on the packaging or something.

You've heard of a "Cat 5" cable? Well, to Jag fans this would be a "Cat 2 cable" or claw marks for the "Cat II cable". (USB 2.0)

Atari chat tonight at 8 pm!! Hope to see you there!

Sure bring it!

Just a reminder of the Atari chat (placed in the morning US and evening Euro) taking place in 2 hours, or around 10 am CST. Directions in previous replies above.

Oh now tha is just cool!! Thanks Steve!!

If you enable the R:Patch. The RS232.com will fail to load, but the R: emulation handler will remain. This is because the emulator puts its own R: handler in the handler table every video frame... I think, if I remember correctly from looking at the sources. So, it doesn't matter if the RS232 fails. I believe that the emulator will transmit a "RING" and a "_CONNECT 2400" to the R: handler. Why the underscore in the "_CONNECT 2400" I do not know. Good luck... Cybernoid! You're still alive!

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