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  1. See my thread on the ST forum here about what I recovered from floppies for the ST and 8 bit. Almost 17mb of compressed files. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/272773-recovered-clip-art-for-the-st-from-the-action-annex-bbs/?p=3909830 A lot of time was put into reading every one of those 500 floppies. Some are still needing archiving tools to get the remaining ones. Enjoy!
  2. About 500 floppies of files. About 15 floppies of the 8 bit were mechanically toast. About 50 floppies of the ST MIDI were screwy to the point that it is going to take a Kryoflux archival floppy reader to get the files. There are MIDI files for ST. About 1500 files. See the catalog.txt The catalog for the 8bit files has a list of titles from what I could read from the labels or the insert paper of the original disks. This also helps decode the short 8 character filenames is which song. The filenames for the ST MIDI conversion pretty much stayed the same. The original .MUS files from the 8bit were converted and included in the ST archive attached. A sprinkling of .CFM, mode 0, and lost of standard MIDI files. I converted the AMS files to SAP format for pkey lovers on the PC/Mac/Linux. Just the AMS 1, 2, and Midi Music System files for the 8 bit (3000+ of those. ) .MID files are standard MIDI files playable on ST, PC, or hardware/software that supports MIDI. .MUS files play with Midi Music System 8-bit Atari version 1.0 or 3.0 or eqivalent. Can be ran in Altiris emulator with PC output. .SNG format files are for EZtracker. The catalog for the 8bit files has a list of titles from what I could read from the labels or the insert paper of the original disks. This also helps decode the short 8 character filenames is which song. The original disks for the BBS software itself. Action Annex version 3.0 and 4.0 for the 130XE ramdisk. It appears to run under Altirra with some coaxing. I worked on earlier versions pre-1986. It's basically an extended version of AMIS BBS. There is a story behind the creation on the document disk for the BBS archive, see the 8bit section when I get that done. There was a 10MB Miniscribe hard disk drive that died before I got the stuff out of storage. Alas, I don't know what was on there. Most of that "other" stuff was lost .... I loved the ASCII and ATASCII art of pinups when printed. :} The Action Annex BBS was 10 blocks from my house, I spent many an afternoons or Saturdays on the sneaker-net and bicycle-net. The original BBS Atari 800 with the 4KB SRAM mod for the assembler code for I/O still works. I booted it up, It needs a new top case though. The BBS was moved to a 130XE with the Omnimon ASM debugger around 1986 The assembler code that Mike was working on. He fixed a bug in the Midi Music System. I have a typed letter from the author thanking him. I have the source code for MMS, but haven't gone through it yet. I need to contact the author/company to see if it's ok to release it. MMS 1.0 as a binary is included in the 8bit files archive. The remaining hardware was sold off and two Amazon tablets were donated to the Sharehouse homeless shelter. A bunch of yarn scarfs and hats made from my ex-wife were made from Donna's leftover yarn and donated also. Cheers. ST_MIDI_CATALOGGED.zip 8bit_files.zip
  3. Thanks so much I hope this fixes my need for a Basic XL to get the BBS running on a SIO2PC cabled only Atari BBS with massive files on the PC side. I did get the BBS software with Basic XL 1.03 on Altirris .. Of course I need a real r: handler on there to allow telnet.. That is in the works.
  4. Not only that, the autorun.sys I typically load is for the old action Annex BBS R: handler for either the 850 interface or the ATR8000 loader. So let's say we have a simple .rom or .bin or .car file like Starraid.bin. How does one make a .com .exe or .xex. ?
  5. Mr. Xerox could do it. .... A long time ago in a silicon forest far away.....
  6. Did you get it to work? I like really like this. I was thinking of snagging an 850, but now you got my attention to make a r-verter. I vaguely remember it , does it install as a true R: handle with a binary? Using the motor control line, would that toggle the 410 recorder on and off if you have play pressed? Basically you have half a MIDI mate there.
  7. #1 Hoover Bover. Jeff Minter was whacked funny. I won't be surprised if there is a llama or goat level in the Tempest 4000 coming out. A llama will be there someplace. #2 MULE. Catching the WUMPUS. The pirate ship that takes ore has an eyepatch on the cockpit if you look closely. #3 Picnic Paranoia. You had to swat the ants taking your food with a fly swatter. Or, get the bug spray out. etc..etc.. #4 Infocom games. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The babel fish insertion puzzle. #5 The alien that attacks your ship in Rescue on Fractalus. At first it scared me.
  8. Old school 34 pin edge and 34 pin idc combo cables can be found on Ebay. Why not. I picked up two of them for my PC disk reading. They also worked on the ATR8K I had until the smoke let out of the chips.
  9. Will the thing read single density disks using a DD drive? I have several SSDD bare drives from an ATR 8000 that died. Willing to trade some drives for a controller like that.
  10. I have the original of MIDI Music system 1.0 by Synthetic Software. It's an unprotected disk. Written in assembler. Plays MIDI files and also includes a translator for AMS and AMS2 formats. I have tried to contact Atarimania to join their forums to no avail. It's listed as missing a dump file. I tossed in a disk.txt file explaining what it is and what format the disk is in. My BBS archive of 3000 songs for it is coming. Meanwhile MMS III is still a boot disk and plays the same files. midi_music_system.atr
  11. So the question is, how to make a proper .exe or .com or .bin from a .rom file. Add a header on it for load and not run, then call DOS I guess.
  12. Correct, I stand corrected. I was just given two 56K USR external modems. I just dug through a bin of a half of cubic yard of surplus wifi routers to get the ones that run dd-wrt firmware.
  13. As a registered $25 user of MyDos. I appreciate this. It should have been bought by Atari and became DOS 3 as far as I am concerned.
  14. Okay, so how does one make an XEX file to boot from RespeQt from a .rom or .car file? I have an Omnimon XE to dump a cart. The reason is thus: I want to boot a 130XE with Basic XL from OSS which the cart has gone missing. I know the .rom 1.02 and 1.03 runs on Altirris. I then want to boot an .atr of the old Action Annex BBS software. I can get the software to run on Altiris, but want to bring up the old Atari 130XE or 800 to run on the actual hardware. I do not have a real disk drive anymore. Just a few drives mounted on PCs for scavenging files. So all I have is sio2pc without the APE costly tools. I don't know if anyone has made a chain loaded bootable disk with sectors 1-3 load a loader, which loads a cartridge .rom file, then go looking for a DOS to boot. It's been about 30 years since I worked with asm 6502, but then again I helped the BBS author make a serial i/o routine to open and shut the R: properly on the 850 and ATR 8000. Xmodem was 'light speeded' up to 9600 bps
  15. My friend just told me that he has a 32kb upgrade for the atari 400, new in the box, never installed. He gifted it to my other friend and there it sits. I can ask them to snap some pictures. I know the upgrade card came from circa 1985 or so.
  16. Sad to hear that. I hope the source is out there. I like your avatar... " SHAKA! When the walls fell !"
  17. Maybe the "K" is for "Kompressor" in German? I still am looking for a solution to load a .ROM or .car file, then boot Mydos, Dos, or RDOS on real hardware from an .ATR disk image.
  18. Is the modem the 19.2 / 14.4 Sysop deal one? I had one of those, $600 back in the day.. The archive of the Action Annex BBS is coming.. Lots of Music...
  19. Is the modem the 19.2 / 14.4 Sysop deal one? I had one of those, $600 back in the day.. The archive of the Action Annex BBS is coming.. Lots of Music...
  20. Attached is MIDI Music System 1.0 disk Image..I think i found the source code from when Mike Calvin debugged it. Just load mms from the dos prompt. midi_music_system.atr
  21. Is there an Easter Egg level? I remember the skip level feature on the real arcade Tempest where you could warp to higher levels... Any hidden combo moves?
  22. Would that work to load a cartridge rom, which would then allow dos to load?
  23. When I had my 850 , I was always hooking up analog to digital converters, robotic, sensors for temp and switches. It was the Arduino of its day. I am not even going there on how bad it was to get the 1mhz Apple II to get a decent signal read in on it's joystick port. There was always the Supra MPP modem which would plug into joystick 1 an 2 as a sort of PBI device.
  24. Hi folks, The Atari 8 bit BBS ran from 1982-1988 at (206)-892-8969. I helped write some of the code for the BBS back in the day with Mike Calvin. Donna Calvin used to make newsletters and artwork from scanned images on her ST later. Some of which was hand edited after scanning. Some were put on the labels that she printed for her MIDI and Pokey music collection disks sold locally. You can have these as a gift and a blast from the past. I recovered these from Atari ST formatted disks that were in storage since 1996. I used my PC and the Omnifloppy program. About 3950 files, in .pcx , .img, and .tny format Free to use , public domain, put them on an archive site if you like. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8UbEU_f0GvGV0dqR3I0Z2ljN3c Enjoy!
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