DarkLord

Geez, with friends like this...

Let me guess - but you'd be happy to "take one for the team" and take it off my hands?

Gotta wait till it gets here and examine everything, but for the 800, the Incognito looks like the way to go.

Wouldn't that be a "prequel"?

Umm...Windows10 here is reporting malware/virus on "dcport.images.zip".

Well, that would be "Welcome back...".

I had been looking at easing back into the 8bit Atari scene for a while and when this popped up on Ebay. The seller says it was all stored in an attic and probably doesn't have more than 20 or so hours use on it. When they sent me a discounted offer...I took it. I got everything in the picture for $199.00. Whatcha think? PS Assuming it all works, I guess an Incognito would be a good route to take?

It took me a while, but I finally have all -3- of the Ishar series for the ST. I love RPG's and never had the opportunity "back in the day" to play this particular series. I did dabble around with the Ishar versions for the Falcon. I'm looking forward to doing a play through. I don't remember it from before but the game boxes say both the Amiga and ST versions have 32 colors. Onward and forward...!

Right. One dedicated cable goes directly to the ST's serial port. The others have the jacks that plug directly into the DC-Port. The docs emphasize *not* plugging phone lines directly into it. Then you plug your RS-232 devices into the connectors at the end of those lines. Modems, WiModem232's, etc. You can see the cables in the pictures I posted. HTH's.

I have the ZIP archive of the DC-Port disk. It includes the AUTO folder with the programs in it. I'll attach it here. DC Port Disk.zip

Here's a picture of the schematics. Keep in mind, I don't actually have them - it's a picture from somewhere else. The other picture is one of their ads... Hope all this helps.

As far as the meetings go, I'm usually pretty flexible and can attend most, if not all. I can get the ball rolling on the pictures. Here's a handful - hopefully they are high enough quality...

I've been thinking about contacting tOri and seeing if he would be willing to take a stab at replicating these boards.

Ah, okay - no problem. Good things come to those who wait, eh?

I'm no artist by any stretch of the imagination but I've played around with DPaint a bit on my ST's and never had a stability issue. Just sayin'.

It's just one of those processes. When I installed BBS Express! ST the first time, it was such a bare-bones setup! Over the years, I've made multiple, multiple changes and adjustments. That continues to this day. Part of the fun of being a SysOp, IMHO.

Ouch - sorry to hear that. Hope you get to feeling better soon. Looking forward to the full report.

Hey, every little bit helps. Those people will tell other people, who... Well, we can hope it works like that. Thanks for going the extra mile and presenting the retro Atari BBS scene so well. I hope you had a really good time as well - that picture sure looked like everyone was... Oh btw - some of our eagle eyed comrades noticed a Tandy computer in that picture. Hmm...

I've only got 1 complete, assembled board (untested). I've got a bare board otherwise...

I don't know of any way to turn the cache on/off on the AdSpeed accelerator. However, the AdSpeed does have a fast ROM option. It's in the owner's manual. I never acquired the correct higher speed TOS ROMs to try this and now that I'm using TOS v2.06 with a Cloudy board, I guess it's not an option for me anymore. Using the Cloudy/Lightning ST setup, I pulled the original TOS v1.4 ROMs from my Mega ST's motherboard to avoid conflicts. I would have liked to have seen if it improved the scores but...oh well.

The lack of a cache is problematic though. It will give acceleration but without a cache it's a big performance "hit"...

The Atari BBS scene is actually doing quite well. You might want to check out some of the ones (heck, try them all!) listed here: http://sfhqbbs.org/ataribbslist.php DarkForce! <cough>, is on that list...

Ran into that issue a couple of times here myself. For example, FANSI (the ANSI editor) will not work with NVDI, neither will the IGS (Instant Graphics) software. I just leave NVDI disabled when I'm using them..

Check it out here - it's amazing! https://gribnif.github.io/downloads/geneva/