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Okay, I apologize in advance that this is not Atari related, but it is Retro in a wierd sort of way. Jon Bois: ‘What Football Will Look Like in the Future’ Trust me on this, wether you like football or not (or even disagree on what football is) give this a chance, it is not in any way what it initially appears to be, and I have been mesmerized by it since I started following it last week. This is one of the coolest things I've seen on the web, well, ever really. A word of warning. If you do get sucked into this like I did, it WILL consume at least an hour or two of your time. I'd love to hear what others think of this, but I beg you not to give anything away to people that haven't experienced it themselves. -Todd

Uhm. Great?

Best won't do credit card orders under like $20 or $25 or something like that. Edit: nice setup, but it looks like you put it in a closet, it should be the showplace piece in your formal living room! 😀

Fun? Glad you thought so. I'm jealous. Enjoy the 1200's! Todd

Did you try putting a ./ in front of the command? ./a8rawconv MECCtrack00.0.raw MECC.atx

Ah megalegs! I played that one a lot when I was younger.

Probably an OCR failure.

I've been following this from the beginning, I know I'M exhausted! 😀

Looks like the Vic 20 could play 2600 cartridges!!! This was from the January 1983 edition of Compute! Magazine.

I tried that and selected an ATX file to copy to a disk and it said the length was incorrect. What else am I missing? Thanks!

How do I use the VAPI dll with APE? Thanks! Todd

Did you see my suggestion about swapping all the memory in case more than one chip is bad?

It's really easy to do the Arduino thing. This is a very simple project. You need a breadboard and some jumper wires and a couple of LEDs and an UNO. Breadboard with jumpers: https://www.amazon.com/microtivity-400-point-Experiment-Breadboard-Jumper/dp/B004RXKWDQ/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1498514350&sr=8-13&keywords=breadboard UNO (I've seen these for a couple dollars less on sale at MicroCenter, but not sure if you have one near you): https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-ATmega328P-Development-Microcontroller-Compatible/dp/B01AR7YJ3O/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1498514503&sr=8-5&keywords=arduino+uno LED: I'm sure you know where to get LEDs... Then look at this schematic: https://github.com/FozzTexx/DRAM-Tester/blob/master/schematic.jpg It shows which pins on the chip need to be jumpered to which pins on the arduino. It doesn't show the LED's. They need to be connected to pin 4 (status) and pin 19 (done) on the arduino. Just put the + leg on one of the rows on the breadboard and the - leg on the outside ground row and then run pin 9 and pin 14 to the same rows as the + side of the LED and run a jumper from ground on the arduino and to the outside ground row on the breadboard, It should look something like this: The chip you want to test will straddle the middle line right up against the top. The Author used a ZIF socket. You should be able to pit a ZIF socket on the breadboard if you want. Then, download the Arduino IDE (not the web editor): https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software Then run it and then cut and paste this code into the IDE (replacing whatever is there when the IDE opens): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FozzTexx/DRAM-Tester/master/Arduino-DRAM-tester.ino Then under tools->board, pick Arduino/Genuino Uno Then plug the arduino into a USB part and then from tools->Port, choose the one that lists your Arduino. Then sketch->upload (it will ask you to save it, go ahead and save it), let it compile and upload. The red light will come on for a long time while it is "testing" and eventually the other light will come on when it is done. Once the upload is complete, you can unplug it from your computer and plug it into any USB power source. Then unplug the uno from power, put in a chip and then power it up to start a test. According to the web site, it sounds like it takes a while to run the test. The author wrote this for Apple IIGS memory, I assume that is the same (or similar enough) that this will work on Atari memory. I do not have any memory chips available to test with, so I haven't tested this with actual memory. You might want to test with a "spare" chip first to make sure it doesn't damage the chip. If this still feels like something you do not want to tackle, I'm happy to put one together and load the software and send it to you. Todd

Maybe build one of these? http://hackaday.com/2016/03/18/testing-dram-one-byte-at-a-time/

If you've replaced all the replaceable parts, doesn't that narrow it down to a motherboard or solder issue? That Atari writer screenshot feels like a memory issue to me. It's like the app is building the character set but it's not "taking". What if you swapped ALL the memory chips? Maybe more than one is bad?

They don't really have anything. They put the site up and are monitoring the commentary to decide what to make.

Maybe it will be a calculator: Or a portable IBM PC Clone:

My wico Command Control joystick was too tight for a long time and then all of the sudden, it no longer springs back to center very well. I tried to take it apart but I cannot even get the bat handle through the hole and even if I did, there is a large plastic white part that looks like it might be glued together? I've read about replacement grommets, but can't figure out how to get to it. Anyone have advice on how to get to the actual stick assembly? (The leafs switches are fine...) Thanks.

Hmmm. Anyone know what this is?

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

I'm really glad you figured it out!

Thanks. This looks fun!

Perhaps this topic would be better received in the programming section? It looks like an interesting topic and I hope to see some more knowledgable people respond.

Incidentally, Paperclip got me and my girlfriend (now my wife) through 2 years of college papers before I got my Atari ST.... The funny thing is, I am way more attached to my 8-bit Atari past than my ST Atari past. I (so far) have no desire to try to recreate what I once had on ST, but have been obsessed with 8-bit for a long time (in emulation) and for the past 6 months or so looking at real hardware...

I had Paperclip for my 130 XE. (I don't have it anymore.) I also had a device that plugged into a joystick port and then you plugged a joystick into it. It had a dial on top that would alter how long a delay between pressing fire. So, in shooter games, you could just hold the button down and the computer thought you were hitting it repeatedly. I found that if I used that and held the joystick button down, Paperclip worked. I used to put a joystick button under a chair leg to make it work. It was more just because I could do it, since I actually had the dongle...