Atari 800 Modern Power Supply

[Atari 800 Modern Power Supply]

Has anyone ever tried something like this to power an original Atari 800?

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00B886CWS/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1502120464&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX150_SY217_QL65&keywords=9vac+adapter&dpPl=1&dpID=21Y8gXVFA6L&ref=plSrch

 

Thanks.

[Printer vs Atarimax SIO2PC]

Greetings all.

 

I have been trying to get printing working for weeks now. Mostly, I want to use Print Shop.

 

Anyway, I bought an 850 interface and I bought a Panasonic KX-P1091. Then, I loaded the print shop disk into the APE software and tried to do printer setup. The results were really bad. Sometimes, I would get a little bit of output, sometimes I would get garbage, sometimes it would just form feed paper.

 

So, I figured the 850 was bad and bought an Ape Face printer adapater. It only has one SIO port, so I could not use my SIO2PC. So, I wrote the print shop images to disk and used real disks with the APE Face and everything worked. So, I took apart the 850 and reseated all of the chips and hooked it up and it worked with real disks. But, when I attach the SIO2PC, it does not work.

 

I know the SIO2PC has printer capabilities. I have the setting turned off, but it appears it is still interfering. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

 

Any advice on getting this to work?

 

Thank you.

-Todd

[Another 800XL issue.]

I just ordered one of these:

https://smile.amazon.com/Controller-Interface-Olufsen-Stereo-SystemsCable/dp/B01CQR5L1C/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1501966008&sr=8-4&keywords=7+pin+din+cable

 

2 male 7-pin DIN's and according to the QA, all seven pins are wired across. Cut it in half and you have plugs for 2 cables!

[Three-headed SIO Cable?]

You can

 

madi

Wiring the ends together will work?

[Three-headed SIO Cable?]

So, is that a "no"?

[Three-headed SIO Cable?]

I have an APE face and an APE SIO2PC.

 

Each one has only one SIO port.

 

Can I create a cable where I take three SIO ends and wire all three of each wire together to plug them both in? Or does there have to be some "hardware" to handle that?

 

Thanks.

 

-Todd

[Calling All 800s!]

Just got one off eBay.

 

No 463113, date code #063

[Best flashcart for most/all cart games on XEGS]

I love my Ultimate Cart. I use a Toshiba FlashAir WiFi card with a custom script on it that makes it part of my network. All I do is go to its address with a web browser, and I can upload or download files from / to the Windows laptop.

 

Edit: Spelling

 

Are these still available? If so, can you link to the site or thread?

 

Thanks!

[SDriveXEL and XF551XEL Pre-order announcement]

Hmm. Interesting.

 

Thanks.

[1088XEL Alternative Mother-Board Project]

Oops. I posted in the wrong thread. I asked over in that thread and was told that it wouldn't work that way. (These threads have similar names...)

[SDriveXEL and XF551XEL Pre-order announcement]

Do any of these options allow me to connect a 3.5" drive to a standard SIO connector on a real Atari computer?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

No.

 

For that you would need to do the 3.5" mod to a XF551 disk drive.

 

I asked before and was told this would not do that.

[1088XEL Alternative Mother-Board Project]

I know I asked and the answer was "no", but I would love to see an option where you could hook a board to a standard 3.5" IBM floppy and then connect to to SIO. (Kind of like what you can do with an XF-551, but without the XF-551.)

 

Thoughts?

[New to 8-bit Atari computers - 800 XL Trouble]

Is it at least a soothing shade of blue? Maybe use it to help with meditation while you curse it out?

 

Sorry, at this point, I have nothing helpful to add, so I'm trying to help with a (admittedly weak) attempt at humor.

 

-Todd

[Small thing. Memtest 1.0 1996 JAKU-B]

I have dug through a bunch of .ATRs and extracted the memtest programs and made up an ATR with all the best. The file called PAGEMAP.COM is only a bload data program for one of the Atari basic programs.

 

This is an awesome compilation! Just what I was looking for!

 

Thanks!

[Atari 850 Interface]

It does beep if I do not have any drives connected. In that configuration, if I type LPRINT "HELLO" I get an error 138 even though gah printer is on. I'll assume my jury-rigged cord is to blame. The documentation on what goes where is difficult because it's not always clear whether I am looking at a diagram of the cord or the port. Plus I'm translating from 15-pin to 25-pin to centronics so there are three chances to get it wrong.

[Atari 850 Interface]

So, I got an Atari 850 Interface off of eBay. It lights up, but I've never used one before.

I'm trying to print to a Panasonic KX-P1091 that powers up and prints the test lines of text when you turn it on with the button pressed.

Then, I bought a DB15 extension cable and a DB25 to Parallel cable and then used breadboard jumpers with the male pins bent at the tip so they get friction inside the female side of the DB15 cable and forced the female sides down over the pins on the male side of the DB25 end of the printer cable.

I used this pinout for the female cable (My logic is that this should be exactly like the female port on the 850 interface):

850 Printer Port (15-pin female connector):
                     1. ~Data Strobe
                     2. Data bit 0
                     3. Data bit 1
8               1   4. Data bit 2
  o o o o o o o o    5. Data bit 3
   o o o o o o o     6. Data bit 4
15             9    7. Data bit 5
                     8. Data bit 6
                     9. Data pins pull-up (+5v)
                     11. Signal ground
                     12. ~Fault (Must be +5 for printer port to operate)
                     13. Busy
                     15. Data bit 7

And ran them to the equivalent (I think) correct pin on the DB25 that corresponds to this:

36-pin Centronics (male)  |     DB15P (850 Interface)
                1                         1 - Data Strobe
                2                         2 - D0
                3                         3 - D1
                4                         4 - D2
                5                         5 - D3
                6                         6 - D4
                7                         7 - D5
                8                         8 - D6
               16                        11 - Gnd
               32                        12 - Fault
               11                        13 - Busy
                9                        15 - D7

Using the translation on this web page:

https://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/cable/parallel.html

(Using the parallel printer cable table in the second section.)

 

Of course, when I hook it all up, it doesn't print. (I'm using Print Shop test page telling it I have Panasonic to test).

 

So, do I need to do something special to get the 850 interface to work with Atari? Or does it just work when you plug it in?

 

I mean, basically, I don't know if the 850 is bad, the printer is bad or the cable is bad. (I suspect it is the cable given the way I jury-rigged it together...)

 

Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MyDOS 4.53 for Dummies]

Mydos set density only accepts Single or Double. What if you want to format enhanced density?

 

Thanks.

[Just got 800XL with memory upgrade]

I just recieved an 800xl off eBay. The dos disk it came with loaded a ram disk, which I thought was odd. I opened it up and found this memory upgrade inside. It's pretty clear this is some kind of 256k upgrade for the 800xl. (Akthought the Google doesn't seem to find much about it... Anyone have any information in this one?) Is there software out there that can tell what kind of memory mod a computer has without opening it?

 

Is there software to test these larger memory mods to make sure they still work?

 

Thanks.

Pictures:

[AtariMax?]

People will just create a new thread.

[AtariMax?]

Honestly, there are some people on this board I would like to ignore. There are so many helpful people, but there are a very few who just really don't offer value.

 

I'm sure there are people that would want to ignore me too....

[Bad news about myselve (Stormtrooper /Richard Vermeulen)]

I am very sorry to hear this. Take care of yourself and make sure your family and friends understand what you are going through so they can help you and keep you safe.

 

Post here often we'd love to hear how you are doing.

[850 Interface 4 Serial Ports]

But. But. But.

 

It just seems like WAY overkill four ports!

 

Did anyone EVER actually use more than one or two back then?

 

Like I said, the 850 was out of my price range (or at least out of my priority list) back then...

 

Thanks!

[850 Interface 4 Serial Ports]

I never had an 850 interface back in the day. I had one of those SIO devices with a little box that ended in a centronics port for my printer and I bought the Atari modem that did native SIO ports.

 

My question:

Why did the 850 have FOUR serial ports? What else besides a modem could you plug into them? And could you actually use more than one at a time? (If you had more than one phone line, could you hook up multiple modems and run a BBS that could handle more than one simultaneous session?

 

Thanks!

[Not sure where to drop this / ataribox]

There is an empty field my my house. The sign that said that a new retail building was coming in 2001 deteriorated and fell down in 2004. The one that replaced it that said 2010 is barely legible.

 

 

How many times will this copyright date change (or maybe it will just get outdated) before they stop renewing the domain and it all just quietly goes away?

 

Todd

[An Incredible Experience]

You can't have gotten through it all already.