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Geister

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  • Birthday 07/21/1953

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  1. As a beginner Linux user who has just managed to get Altirra to run on wine in Linux Mint, I'd love more information on running Atari on Linux. I'd like a video on setting up a developer load of tools for Linux and Atari as I intend to never run Windows again after I get that done. Well that and proving that I can do my taxes on a Linux machine as well. This is well under way.
  2. I don't want to ask for too much, so I'll leave Quake II and III, and all the new Wolfenstein's off the list.
  3. Well, now that we have Doom, how about Doom II, Duke Nukem, and Quake?
  4. Two questions, does anybody have sheet 2 (Analog section), and are Amy chips even obtainable?
  5. What about an rp2040 Z80CPM emulator? https://github.com/ExtremeElectronics/RC2040
  6. Would this also require the original 80-column card as I expect that the original design had no video out of its own. Could the current 80 column card be used as a terminal from the Atari side?
  7. Sound like a good step by step plan to bring it up. What changes need to be made to the ram card I bought to make it work with this? Is it ready as is? Are the ROM and character ROM we have for the Z80 for this particular board or were they from the external Z-80 build?
  8. Waiting with bated breath. So any idea what's going to happen when you plug it in and power it up? I assume that it will need a ribbon cable to connect it to an adjacent ram card since there's no ram on board...or is there? Is there rom on board? How does this puppy work?
  9. That's lovely but it has no room for more than 1/2 height expansion cards based on the back panel. It's similar to the HP mini case I'm planing on putting the backplane in. If you remove the front panel and the USB/Audio connector bits, the ribbon cable connector lines right up, and the power connector and switch line right up with existing holes in the back of the case. The lid slides off and I think 2.5/3 inch printed slide panels could slide on and take the original lid. New front and rear panels could be printed to close up the front and back of the unit. White PLA could give a very Atari-like appearance.
  10. If you are going to wed the motherboard to the expansion board, why not go with the Apple II layout and put it all into a single case with the power supply, keyboard and MB/Expansion in a single chassis. If you look at the 1450XLD as an example, you can have a very Atari-like design that can support a monitor on top with minimal bulk. But, skip the internal FDD. A flash-drive that plugs into a card on the expansion bus (ie Side cart) makes much more sense to me. i suppose a single Disk Drive to support the Atari/CPM system could be considered but is it necessary? Again, the Apple II with its external drives could be an option, but I wouldn't think stacking them above the computer and under the monitor would work as well. ETA - there's still the SIO port for external drives.
  11. Maybe it's time to do updated 65XE, 800XE, and 130XE motherboards and add in PBI's to the 1200XL redesigns. Sign me up for the CPM card remake. Any ideas how it's going to work?
  12. SPC =Serial/Parallel card...nevermind. I'd rather see a Sound card with mouse and/or keyboard support.
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