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seems load to load fine here

may 28 to july 30, i won

i will, when it's not beta anymore (which could be in a few days unless someone comes with some bug report)

i didn't intend to take part in this silly discussion because i'm sure that in the end i'd end up looking like an idiot and make some enemies in the process which is really not worth it but since it's starting to take a turn i don't like, just a few words - i don't control what other people post so please do not connect that with me or my cart - as fjc correctly stated a few posts above, current capabilities of side3 are largely unknown, it's also unknown what it will be able to do once it's shipped or what it will be able to do in a year or two so for a fair comparison, i'd give it a year or so and then compare the current (at that time) features of both carts, both standalone and with help of extra hw like u1mb - and most importantly, i don't care, buy whatever you want SIDE3, just don't pull me into crap like this thanks for paying attention and keep on fighting

last time i checked i haven't found any alternative means of transportation that would cost less than the cart itself

it can be shipped and i'm 99% sure it will eventually arrive how much time it will take to arrive, i have no idea, i don't have current data (i've shipped one last monday so it's too soon to judge, those sent months ago took almost 2 months to arrive) europe seems to be mostly back to normal (although hiccups can probably occur) price is in the first post

originally? apparently trying to open a file with rw access doesn't quite work with read-only files (quelle surprise) shame on me for such a stupid bug

reuploaded ea20 with a fixed fix

nice, that's a pretty nasty bug should be fixed in ea20, thanks for reporting EDIT: of course i messed up the fix, i'll redo

E020 (0020 beta) is available notable changes - support for SIO cable (allows much better ATR support (including HSIO), adds support for ATX/CAS) - shortcuts/bookmarks - support for AUTORUN.* file in _AVGCART was removed, replaced by setting autorun dynamically via key shortcuts - template dir (_AVGTMPL) for easy creating empty disks, ... - support for file copy (ctrl-c) and delete (ctrl-d) - INV or Z will scroll filename that's too long to fit the screen OSXEX file was renamed to OSXEX2 (due to incompatible change), included in the zip with update and some more changes that i don't even remember, read the fine manual by @Mr Robot that is up to date with the latest changes as always, report any bugs encountered with as many details as possible to allow me to reproduce them, thanks

sure, there's no writing whatsoever the limitation of files not being fragmented comes from playing phaeron's videos, due to transfer speed needed, it was quite futile to try to handle fat cluster chains on the other hand, some time ago i tried to create a fragmented file and had quite a hard time (simply copying files, deleting some and then copying again wasn't working, i had to fill the card to the max, then delete some files and put some larger file in the remaining space), either fs drivers are intelligent these days and try to allocate single chain or i was extremely lucky

yes, i forgot, it uses the same mechanism as avf player so files need to be contiguous on the card

current version is compatible with what fjc's ide player is using (i believe there's such option in the converter)

thanks to @Xuel, you can now play PDM files directly from the cart browser without having to run side loader cart first and then pdm player for side copy PDMPLAY from this zip into the root of your SD card and you should be able to directly run PDM files (you need firmware 0016 or higher) (ESC to quit, SPACE/RETURN for settings)

yes, using altirra is probably most user friendly, load rom/bin via "Attach Cartridge", find the type that works and then save it as .car via "Save Firmware->Save Cartridge"

one should use car files instead of bin/rom since they contain cart type in the header (in this case it's a kind of a bug since apparently the smallest rom i had was 8kb so there's no type forcing for 4kb/2kb files, i'll fix that) try using attached car, if that doesn't work, i'll look into that DT80.car

i've sent you an invitation yesterday, you need to accept it

unfortunately my guess is that it's dead (it shorted 3.3v rail (which shouldn't be a problem) and put 5V on jtag pins (which could be a problem)) if you have a DMM, measure resistances on that jtag connector (on the solder side (top side with AVGCART label), black probe on the rightmost pin (ground) and measure against the remaining 5 pins), i can compare it with a healthy one (it's non-conclusive but there's not much that can be done remotely at this point) i'd be very surprised if reflashing would help since flash is a separate chip

i hexedited the s2dx3.car to change config.sys (in my usual "i have no idea what i'm doing but let's try and see" fashion), it now seems to load fdisk on stock 64kb but i haven't tried to go through the whole partitioning procedure let me know whether that works and also don't use it for anything else but running fdisk (on stock machines) s2sdx3_fdisk.zip

you don't need to load side.sys, that's being loaded on sdx startup your current issue is that 64kb is not enough for sdx+fdisk and i'm not sure whether there's a solution for that

i just downloaded latest s2sdx3.car from fjc's site and fdisk seems to be included on CAR: running fdisk from s2loader3.car doesn't work because it most likely uses some api to enumerate devices that is provided by sdx (just a speculation, fjc will clarify)

1. shift-ctrl-s enables automatic side mode on powerup (basically equivalent to holding right button), its only use is if you have u1mb installed and you prefer to boot to internal sdx or autorun side loader (from u1mb) instead of going to avgcart menu in this scenario, don't use it, just run s2sdx.car, it will enable side emulation automatically 2. sdx supports only fat16 partitions so if you plan to run anything from sd card (e.g. fdisk, via side emulation), use that

well, with this amount of information it's pretty hard to diagnose the issue there seems to be a problem with either command or data out line (or both)

nice i also received similar/same cable braids from china few days ago but didn't have time to try how would that work, seems fine