Fourth Horseman

USB sounds ambitious. Perhaps a little over-ambitious considering the OS and drivers and such. But I'd be interested in such a devide for its ethernet functionality, and if USB does come to pass down the road then so much the better. Will be watching this one, for sure.

I hope that what our 5200s are saying has something to do with being happy to be in service still and not in a land fill.

Don't mean to hijack this Falcon030 thread, but I'm curious what software you're using to drive the Crazy Dots card. I've been using the Tseng chipset version of NVDI but it seems that NVDI's config gets corrupted every couple of weeks, which is frustrating. I'm not sure what the problem is with it, but I was hoping to find a good alternative. Any recommendations?

Cool. Thanks for the links, folks.

Is the MagiC OS for Atari systems still being made? Where would you all recommend I go to get myself a copy? I've been keeping my eyes open on eBay hoping that somebody would sell a copy there, but no joy so far.

River Raid! Man, as soon as I get my 5200 controller rebuilt I'm going to spend some quality time with this game again. Damn I love 5200 River Raid. Great game!

Yup, great port. Like others have said here, though, once you get it mastered you can play forever. Still a helluva lot of fun, though. One of my favorites.

Really? I always assumed XE was the last DOS Atari released. I'll give that 2.0 formatting trick a try. Thanks for your help!

That is actually what I do. The problem arose when I got the XEP 80 driver disk. I'd like to use the XEP 80 under DOS XE, but can not get DOS XE to read the XEP 80 (DOS 2.5) driver disk. That is the problem here. Don't get me wrong, I love defending my choice of DOS environments and explaining to everybody why I'm using the DOS that I am, but what I'd really like is some help with the problem I asked about. Seeing as nobody but me uses DOS XE, though, it looks like I'm fighting an uphill battle.

I have games and such that are on DOS 2.x disks, but my own files and programs? No. My XF551 was the first drive I had on my 8 bit, so I started using DOS XE, which came with the drive. Obviously nobody else uses it.

A ROM based DOS isn't a good solution for me, as I like to switch out between my rev. C BASIC and assembly editor carts. I prefer it disk based, but like to keep both my drives free for other tasks. No, I don't "live in DOS" but I do make frequent use of it. Frequent enough that I prefer to have it load up immediately rather than hit a disk for it. As I said, I've never had any trouble with DOS XE until this incident. It's been stable and fast for me. I don't know what compatibility issues others have seen, but I don't have an extensive library of software on disk in DOS 2.x format, which is maybe why I haven't seen any compatibility issues until now. I suspect I'd get lit up by somebody no matter which DOS I decided to run. Thanks for your suggestion, though. I'll give Sparta a try. Is there any documentation on-line anywhere that you know of for it?

Well, I've never had any troubles with it until now. I like the fact that it stays memory resident and doesn't have to hit the drive when I type "DOS". I like the way you can stack commands and run batch files. What would you recommend instead?

Hey all, I haven't played around with my 8-bit gear in a while, so maybe I'm just forgetting something really simple, but I can NOT get a file from a DOS 2.5 disk to a DOS XE disk to save my life. I purchased a new XEP80 interface from B&C and the driver disk is DOS 2.5. When I boot into DOS XE, it won't read the driver disk. So I go to the system menu and tell it to allow DOS 2.x access, which it seems to do. But then when I try to get a directory listing on the driver disk (or any DOS 2.x disk, for that matter) I get an error. I've tried reading DOS 2.x disks in both my XF-551 and my US Doubled 1050 drive. What am I missing? Any help or advice appreciated.

The mystery powerup is in the arcade game as well. Back in the day it was quite a mystery as well. Rumors circulated like mad about it shortly after the game's release, along with the rumors that you could split the spinning shields if you shot them long and hard enough. *laugh* I eventually realized the shields could not be split, but I still don't have a clue what those "power-up" like things are. - FH - [ 05-05-2002: Message edited by: Fourth Horseman ]