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Indeed The Inverse key did the job !

@tebe How do you start playing a song in Protracker ? CTRL-M is playing a pattern but I haven't found the Atari (130XE U1MB) key combo yet to start playing back the whole song ?

Interested in Crypts of Egypt Imagine Janosik Midnight Mission Zircon Neron

Order placed for Volume 2 ,thanks for your reply !

I had overlooked that part, indeed U1MB set to 576Kb Compy instead of 320Kb RAMBO got it running, thanks for that !

I've tried to run this on Altirra (wine/Windows), Atari800MacX , U1MB 130XE, 800XE with 320Kb RAM expansion and the teaser loads the start music and then I get garbled lines and nothing further happens. (All PAL) Only thing I'm lacking is a stereo Pokey on my real hardware. Tried to emulate Stereo Pokey on Altirra but no luck. Anybody has been able to run this teaser on emulation or real hardware ?

Can I still order Volume 2 ? I already own Volume 1 but seems to have missed each time Volume 2 was available.

Tiny progress report Still working on my test topcase, I was able to fit the microswitches. I will need to use the low profile one on the righthandside and LEGO-tile alike 3D printed buttons.

@Mathy I noticed on this site that there is a sale of a eBook version also https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=https://www.gandalf.com.pl/b/oni-migaja-tymi-kolorami-w-sposob/&prev=search @Kaz atarionline.pl is ha.art.pl (the official publisher) also offering a eBook version ? Well either we all have to learn to read Polish, find somebody to read and translate it to us or wait for an English release

I had the exact same sentiment, I think that all my little change went into the arcade machine the year it was released. Fantastic news, thanks and good luck to the entire team.

Also arrived in Belgium, loving it !

After having collected several books on the Demoscene (Freakz, Masters of PixelArt, Breaking the borders and the sequels) I always wondered why there wasn't a book on the Atari 8 bit demoscene. This book apparantly tells the history of the Demoscene and GameDevelopment that came out of it. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://ha.art.pl/wydawnictwo/zapowiedzi/5427-oni-migaja-tymi-kolorami-w-sposob-profesjonalny-narodziny-gamedevu-z-ducha-demosceny-w-polsce.html&prev=search Now only need to learn to read Polish

Which Cisco PSU are you referring to ? I have a lot of Cisco gear so might be an interesting option.

I might be able to pull it off with the original PCB. Today I enlarged the cutout for 2 buttons. And on the inside made room for the PCB. Also removed the plastic insert of this case's power led so I can use it again for the trackdisplay leds.

Piotr Bugaj = zaxon on SellmyRetro and atari.org.pl . He is the person from whom I bought the XF551 internal floppy controller PCB . You can find his initial posting here (translated to English) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atari.org.pl%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Fid%3D15941%26p%3D6

In order not to ruin 1030XEfm version 2.0 , I decided to cutout my previous topcase to have an idea of how things would look. This is the 1.0 topcase in the pictures not the final one in the previous pictures. The idea is to use 2 ST eject buttons as buttons for the trackdisplay drive-cycle and memory preset button. I would situate them next to each other aligned with the Help button and label edge. The 2 LEDs which provide drive activity and storing your preset feedback would go above the reset button where I would place a bicolor LED under the transparent power-LED insert of this topcase. @Mq. I would need the 2 buttons to be next each other, can I transplant them using wires , you think ?

Yep 1030XEfm is a hybrid between an 130XE with an 1040STfm. As stated by Jon , my machine has a internal 3,5" drive , U1MB memory expansion, SIO2MIDI (where the TV modulator used to be) so the choice of the label was also hybrid. Since space was an issue and the machine already having an Sophia DVI installed, Jon did a miracle job of removing the modulator and putting the SIO2MIDI PCB in that exact spot. So the m now stands for MIDI ( thread here https://atariage.com/forums/topic/291928-crazy-idea-or-not/page/6/#comments )

A big thankyou to @R0ger. My package arrived today. Everything arrived with no broken parts, the packaging was done so good it reminded me (being half German) of the Advent calendars where you have to open a flap to reveal a toy or a chocolate. I can now use these to further prepare/complete the install of my TrackDisplay buttons and decide what to do with my floppy cutout.

Just as information PAL 130XE with U1MB, Stock RAM config, HSIO drivers, SIO2SD, 20 seconds for the red line to show, 56 sec in total to get to the PoP screen. And I prefer tapes so my patience runs up to 16 minutes

I bought these from Drakon over on atari.org.pl

And since it's freezing outside and my back hurts too much to do something meaningfull ( learn Assembler and digest FujiNet source-code) , I decided to continue inside. Using an angled iron I was able to quickly file the bottom of the cutout knowing I would need a few more mm to have a floppy clear it. So after 2 hours and a half of filling and checking , the rough draft is here : The eject button came out a bit ugly , every corner is still square not rounded yet . I can insert a disk but have to use a pencil to push it the final millimeter , I will probably have to file more on the top middle so my finger can pass to push the disk. Vice-versa , ejecting a floppy , I also have to pull it out so might have to carefully file top and bottom of the cutout further so it passes. The drive LED is difficult to see but I can't remove much around that area without risking the bottom of the side breaking or falling off. Will think about a better solution ( remove the little plastic sitting before it , desoldering it and moving it somewhere else ???) But the cover fits perfectly so on to the final chapter, the track display buttons. @R0ger if you can tell me how much I owe you for the ST eject buttons and to ship/mail them to Belgium, let me know, I could start to use them. Thanks again once more for printing them. Once the track display buttons are installed, all wiring will be fixed in place and the case can be screwed together with the 3 bottom screws . One more thing, the SIO2MIDI LED , still haven't figured out a place for it ...

And another hour of filing yesterday but it is simply too cold to be doing this outside. The goal was to use the filed down part from the previous pictures to create a view window so I know that I'm filing at the correct height and size of the gap. Also now I can insert a file to move sideways. The topcover now fits perfectly, the drive is sandwiched between pylons and the edge of the keyboard. I'm using a floppy with a removed bezel , the second picture is with the disk not inserted completely . The disk is pushing against the inside of the topcase at the same height it would be when you insert it from the outside. This gives me a better indication of the cutout before you push the diskette down into the drive where it sinks down a bit. Thinking about using an angled iron to clamp down so I can't file too much downwards. Babysteps ...

Next step the cutout for the floppy. Since I have a loose bezel from a floppydrive, I can use it to draft the cutout.

Astonishing work ! Here I am still trying to make sense of test #7 And here we were a week ago doing AT commands on an ESP82xx

YEEESSS I thought I had tried this with Vin disconnected, powered via USB but I guess my timing was off. Although this is still on internal LAN and with the debugging still on , slow WOW. Thanks a gazillion times for guiding me thru this and your patience. For thrills I copied REHARDEN.ATR (92K) Reharden Demo by HARD to TNFS and it took whopping 3 minutes 9 seconds to load with debugging on I should take a selfie of the smile on my face seeing a demo boot copied over the network , we're almost TFTPBOOT/PXEBOOTing . Turned off debugging, ran the same test, REHARDEN.ATR (92K) , booted at 1 minute 2 seconds. Now on to the next step ,connect NodeMCU to iPhone tethering , run a TNFSD on my server here at home and connect to it via Internet aka WAN. Then dissect the code.