Stephen

I believe all the talks were related to Nitros-9, perhaps in this thread: Seeing that was from 2012, I don't feel bad for having hazy recollection.

Am I making up false memories again? Maybe it wasn't about multi-tasking, but I swear there was a lot of conversation about windowing, various methods for rectangle based redraws, determining "dirty" areas for the drawing, and it ramped up when the 6809 board was being worked on. Sorry if I'm wrong on all this - it certainly wouldn't be the first time.

Also - the 1030 used the PoKey to generate the dialing tones, while the XM301 did not. Really big size difference too. Pretty safe bet it was an all new design.

Now that's a prize!!! Fantastic game. I have a copy, so I will not be registering this month, but will definitely try to keep dialing in regularly.

Yes - a beautiful machine. Switchable PAL/NTSC on the fly, as well as various turbo modes, 2,4,8,16,32X. Supports real peripherals (disk drives, joysticks, etc.), as well as USB keyboard and USB gamepads.

There exists a 6809 adapter board for use in the Atari 8-bits. Also, @flashjazzcat spoke with a author of the liber09 OS for some tips on multi-tasking in his GUI OS. Sorry I don't have better links, posting quickly while finishing up work, but a quick search here should turn up all the details.

http://gury.atari8.info/vbxe.php Upgraded video for the Atari, came out in 2005. Sadly under appreciated and even more under utilized. Perfectly emulated in Altirra too, for people that don't like upgrading their hardware but still might want to see some demos of it in action.

Here's a video showing a single pass copy of a 180kB disk using APE USB version, and divisor 0. Here's writing to a US Doubled 1050 And now for something completely unrelated. This is how fasts are drives could be, if they were not saddled with the slow SIO port. This is a MegaSpeedy doing a single pass copy of a disk. I got scared the first time I tried this - I thought it was formatting the disk. Since it holds the entire copy in internal memory, you can read once and write as many times as you want. Excellt way of mass duplicating disks.

Excellent news! Thanks for this.

Dude - I can take a 140 watt soldering iron, leave the tip on for 30 seconds, press it hard against the PCB for 30 seconds, and not lift a trace. How the absolute hell does this shit happen? I want to see video of it. I can use my 240VAC 50 Amp TIG welder and not pull traces from a 130XE PCB. I demand to see video of how people are fucking up these machines. Because I don't think I could do it blindfolded with my right hand tied behind my back while in a centrifuge.

Here's an idea. Why don't all of us users, that have more than 16kB, CTIA, and cassette, tell all the people making new hardware and upgrades to fuck off and stop wasting their time. We don't need upgrades, we don't like upgrades. We'll keep pretending it's 1978, and stop trying to advance the platform.

Why use a floppy drive or a hard drive when we have a great 600 baud cassette? Better yet - let's phrase our question in 2021 to make it sound like anyone using this machine in 2021 is an idiot. Why would I use a hard drive on the Atari that can give me 100kB/sec when I can use a PC and get 60MB/sec.

Well, don't come in here and say that all we need is 16kB. Don't come in and ask why do we need extra RAM and then get pissy when I give examples.

Nothing would be exciting about it today. If you want Intel core I-9 and GTX 3080 GTX level stuff, then perhaps you should leave a forum devoted to 1978 era hardware. If you are not excited by the modern era stuff we can do such as: VBXE2 for 80 column 640*240 pixel screens, or 320*240*256 colour out of a 21-bit palette, then I can't help you. If you don't think it's amazing to do word processing on this machine with 80 column screen, 160kB single file, or 10 16kB documents, then again, leave. We have a DOS that offers 16 32MB partitions, nearly 90kB/sec R/W speeds, full batch processing.

God damn it. I wish we could have a get together for a simple soldering class. This is kindergarten level shit but all I keep reading is people killing 1970s era machines because they can't solder 3 or 4 wires for an upgrade. It's not like we have an easy supply of spare parts for these machines. How can we stop the slaughter?

If all you do is play games, then no. There is nothing for you. If you are an app coder, or use the machine as a content creator rather than a content consumer, then you wouldn't even ask this. Go back to playing Combat on the 2600. 2kB is all you need.

What are you looking for? Porn movies? Did you have one of these machines in the 80s? Going from16kB machine to 128kB and then above was a major event.

With SDX, the machine becomes like an early generation PC. Hi-mem, relocatable device drivers. Last Word can open 10 documents at once, or 10 different 16kB documents. It's damn impressive working on a 160kB document on this machine.

That's what she said?

The term is normally used regarding downloading way more than one would upload (in the days of peer to peer). Maybe the site only allows a certain number of downloads per day? OK - I tried to download one disk, and got the same error. We'll have to determine the site owner and contact them.

I'm sorry, but that's hilarious. Bubble mailer?

Didn't even see a picture - I was just showing my awesome rhyming skills EDIT Looking back, yeah, I see that came off totally wrong. Sorry - bad attempt at humour.

Oh yeah - I've been a Jag owner since 1995 so none of this is new to me!

OMG - this is the relief from work I have needed. If it is a dead mouse in there, please post a picture for us! I've heard all the talk of Jaguar and the fumes it gives off causing such strange behaviour, but just put it down to internet lore

Sorry - the 400/800 computer version.