manterola

I was pointing out that the colors are still not right. In the first post of this thread you asked about color. I am still getting colors close to the Altirra windows running on Wine you posted in the first post. The picture is a Dell 2007fp all color controls in the middle, using svideo from a NTSC 600XL with UAV. I got very similar greeninsh and blueish colors (for moon terrain and close montains) from my 65XE NTSC via SVideo. In general, I am getting colors very similar to Altirra ones.

This is the a05c. Calibrated with salt cartridge color bars.

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I agree. However, I still think the buggy front is weird. it looks like there are a missing part in the front. The colors are not right in my opinion. I already posted the screenshot from a real NTSC 600xl with UAV. If I "unadjust" the color pot I got a very close original colors. But If I do the calibration with the super salt colorbars, I get very similar colors to the ones from Altirra NTSC in which the lunar soil is greenish and the mountains like fluorescent . I must say that all this work is amazing. Just yesterday I was checking these common comparison videos for moon patrol in youtube, and the atari 8bit implementation was already great when compared with other computers. Now is even better.

I had that problem when I received my esp-01. Then I discovered those flashings is a really error messages sent at a weird baud rate:74800 baud. something like: ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:1, boot mode:(3,6) load 0x40100000, len 1396, room 16 tail 4 chksum 0x89 load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, room 4 tail 4 chksum 0xe8 load 0x3ffe8308, len 540, room 4 If you set the switches in your programming board to programming mode you can see in the terminal (windows terminal program set at 74880 baud) you will see that the module will say that the module esp-01 is in programming mode. So, in conclusion, I don't believe the esp-01 is a lost case. Try setting the terminal at 74880, see what the module is telling you. Then try re-writing the module with the originalp firmware, then again with the zimodem, or several times with the zimodem, until you make it back to life. I can always try to help if you send me the module. I can try to reproduce what I did with mine by checking the linux machine command line history.

It looks fairly simple to build. I've seen some to coonect to LPT (printer) port for PCs. The Atari ones are connected directly to the D0-D7 lines. This one connected to the joystick looks easier to build. Is the covox player software available compatible with the joystick version? (like the on in the picture from the last post). What are the advantages of the data lines one? (sample rate maybe?). I am about to embark in putting together this circuit in a breadboard and connect it to the joysticks... will it work?

Is this Zimodem 3.4 saving the Wifi config and Address Book and do those survive a power cycle?

Atari NTSC 600XL UAV

no for me. The buggy color is not strong pink. My screen is similar to the one _doctor_ posted before (#6) . Using UAV in a NTSC 600XL, Dell 2007fp monitor direct connection to svideo connector. Every color control in the center.

I am very interested. My 65XE one is full of conductive paint to make it work. Any day it will stop working, and i'll need to put more paint to repair it. I will love to have proper keyboard for my computer.

Maybe with one pair of quotes only? like: ATW "SSID,PASSWORD" Your problems with the menu could be due to translation settings in your terminal program? like parity, or ascii, atascii, ibmpc, vt100 , etc. I would use plain ascii, but try changing that to see if the menu accept your selections.

So you can change flow control, but not the {w}ifi config? i.e. f worked but not w?

and just w [Return]? I wish I had my Atari around to check, Edit: I checked the source code in github and you need to use the first letter, look: if(c=='a') // add to phonebook { currState=ZCFGMENU_NUM; showMenu=true; } else if(c=='w') // wifi { currState=ZCFGMENU_WIMENU; showMenu=true; } else if(c=='h') // host { currState=ZCFGMENU_NEWHOST; showMenu=true; } else if(c=='f..... and so on.

Is there are any test program that will perform a long term test? By that I mean a program that write to the extended banked ram, and then keep checking the data written is still integral and not corrupted after several minutes, hours, etc.

And UAV wont bypass the color adj pot.I also have color problems in my 600XL, I thought it was the pot or a capacitor. At the end it was a bad connection of the Phi1 signal that goes to the color adj circuit due to a broken socket. I changed the Sally socket and the color went back to normal. Check that too.

Great! so you got it! The zimodem firmware worked for you. I mean at least is booting up. Sorry but the new firmware is totally different: different commands, etc. And it also overwrite every previous settings. So, first connect to 2400 baud and then you can start using the menu (at+config) as you did. You can set the wifi and when exit the menu, save the config. WRT the baud rate use atb1200 or atb9600. if it work at&w will save it. I have never used the atw way of setting the wifi. I just did it with the menu, I know I dont remember the menu that good, since I just use it to add entries to the address book. But it was something like press 1 or the number for wifi, then connect to wifi or something like that, then the module will scan for wifi networks, then you select the one you want and then enter the password. something like that. Then the last option is to exit to main menu, then I choose address book, then you put broadway1.lorexddns.net:23 then assign a number ex: 777. And so on, and at the end you exit the main menu and it will ask if you want to save config. That's it. So you are very close to make it. I am glad that we have confirmation it is (kind of) working for someone else. Sorry that I forget to say that the default baud rate is 2400 after writing the new firmware. Edit: I re read you post, maybe I am wrong and there is no numbers for each option, maybe it is just the first letter, like w [Return] for WIFI. Tell me if that works. I don't have access right now to my SIO2Wifi Thing to check.

In zimodem you have to use atb9600 or similar for other rates (just Return , no more ctrl j needed) to set baud rate.. For wifi and address book use the nice menu included: AT+CONFIG Check the project page for more at commands. https://github.com/bozimmerman/Zimodem

Stefan used espmodem aka wifi sixfour. I have never tried that firmware. I used zimodem. The original zimodem failed to save my settings, wifi and address book, so I have to do the conf after every boot up. That is a documented problem in some esp-01 models. Therefore, I manually made changes in the esp8266 supporting files and sources to fix that (spiffs problems). I also overwrote the petscii translation tables to atascii ones and compiled again. That is the .ino I posted weeks ago. And that is the version I regularly use in my own and only esp-01 module.

It did work for me. But it could be that my memories are not correct. I can upload the sources of the Zimodem modified version I used so you all can compile and upload that version directly from Arduino ide.

I see that the programmer you have has a convenient switch to put it in prog mode. That is cool. I used something called esptool.py it is a python tool I used in ubuntu linux. I don't know how to do it in Windows, but I found this website very useful, it explain how to write the image to the esp-01 without arduino ide. http://subethasoftware.com/2018/02/25/how-to-load-zimodem-firmware-to-an-esp8266-without-arduino-ide/ If you have arduino ide, you might also try with it, configuring the COM port, and I don't know what else to make it work with you new programmer. In linux, I used "pip install esptool" (I already had python) and then I put the esp-01 in progr mode, power it up and I used sudo esptool.py --baud 115200 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --before no_reset --after no_reset write_flash --flash_mode qio 0x00000 zimodem.ino.generic.bin to write to it. you can try other baud rates if 115200 is too fast, this is just the speed in the writing process, not the rate in normal use. I am sorry I cannot be of more help. I barely know something about the arduino IDE to say how to configure it and use it.

Not sure, but it would exist 12V in the circuit associated with the color adjustment. The O1 signal drives a charge pump which generates the right voltage for the color circuit (probably @ very small power level) it might be enough for SCART. Just a crazy idea that it might worth a look.

I don't mind that either. I mean it would be great to have a Sio only solution, but the option of using joy2 optionally when you want or need flow control by connecting the additional cable to joystick port it actually sounds cool.

Btw, and sorry for asking probably something obvious. What's the reason of not using proceed or some other signal of the SIO bus to do hardware flow control? Isn't sx202 modem implemented flow control using those? Please educate me

Yep, I am using gpio2 to turn the led on/off of the atari 1030. The only thing is to be careful since there are also used to put esp-01 in run mode and in programming mode, so gpio2 for example need to be pulled up during booting to make the esp-01 start, after that can be used as input or output.Another simpler option is to get a esp12 or adafuit or similar with all the gpios exposed. A third, poor man option, is to solder very thin wires to the esp-01 main chip to get additional gpios that are not currently used. There are particularly 2 of them which are located at corners of the IC that are easier to wire. I've seen videos on YouTube of people doing that an adding those gpios to additional header pins.

Sorry still not sure which atr contains all this utils you are talking about.. It looks pretty handy.