JimBe937

Yeah, it's like that with everything it seems. Cars, homes, electronics, etc. I will say some of the "newer" stuff has held up pretty well and people did some good hacking! The original Xbox, for example, has been modified several ways to expand on its original design! I was excited when the PS3 allowed you to installed alternate operating systems until they took it away. sigh I don't like the way software licenses are going that give the company more rights than the license purchaser.

That is pretty damn sweet!!!! I watched a couple of the demos off there and I'd love to have his 800XE!! I'm sure you can emulate it on the PC, but there is just something special about changing things up in the Atari itself! Make it more than it the creators intended! I think this is a major problem today. People stop looking at ways to make existing things better and just keep creating new things. Game systems are a prime example! Do they really get everything out of these systems that they can? In 30 years will people be hacking them and making them do more? I certainly hope so, but sometimes I'm afraid that the youth today doesn't have that mentality. They're falling more into the throw it away and buy something new mindset.

Not to change the topic, but has anyone tried making a 16-bit Atari to kind of follow what would have been the natural evolution of the 8-bit? I'm not talking ST either. I mean backward compatible with the 8-bit type stuff.

I certainly see what you're getting at, but relying on Atari for backing up data isn't exactly what I would call reliable. Today it should really all go to the cloud if you want it to live on forever! Historically, backing up on floppies or a hard drive, if you were lucky enough to have one, wasn't really a solid plan either. Not that I have a great archive, but if I were an Atari genius and backed up all my stuff on the Atari and died today, it would most certain be lost forever simply because so few people know how to access data on the Atari. At least on a PC it would have a little more chance of being discovered, though not likely anyone that found it would know what it was or care.

The CF adapter I got my wife can take two micro SD cards and combine them into one big one. I thought that was pretty cool! The WiFi one is also very intriguing! What is the SDX/APT size limits?

Funny you mention these! I bought one off Amazon and put a 64GB msdx in it to replace the 2 x 2Gb I stole from my wife! I'm now thinking that's exactly what I'm going to do!

It does appear to be a CF card issue. I used a 512MB card and it's retaining the data through the power cycle. Very strange as my wife has been using it for her DSLR camera for years without issue! I ran a full format on it without issue, so I'm guessing just an incompatibility with this card. Finding smaller CF cards these days is getting harder! Thanks guys!

Hey gang, First time poster in the forums! I did a search for this before posting this and nothing obvious jumped out! I recently got a Side2 cart and put in a 2GB CF card. I set up a 256.1 MB APT Partition and left the rest to FAT32. I set up 8 x 32MB drives and "formatted" them. Everything seemed to be going peachy until I powered my system down at night and turned it on the next day and it showed "Invalid partition table" and appeared all my work was gone! So I did it all again and had the same results thinking I messed up a step. Nope. Still got the error. Then I noticed that if I went into FDISK and created the drives all over and saved, the previous data was still there and readable. I'm posting pics showing after a hard boot, creating the drives, cold booting (and the drives are fine) and then back to a cold boot with the error. Thoughts?