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    Yeah, I know... but the 5200 Tempest would be more like 8-bit Tempest would have been, had it been done back in the day... whereas the new 8-bit version has a very "modern" look/feel/sound to it. Why shouldn't there be "Tempest Classic" and "Tempest Xtreem" to choose from?

     

    I agree - I would certainly buy both.

     

    Stephen Anderson

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    Hi everyone

     

    Now how well does the Atari XEP80 work???? I found Atari Word Writer 80 on disk, and I am going to use that for word proccessing.

    I guess that I will stick with ATARI BASIC LANGUAGE Rev. C 1985 version........I even have both books that go with that cartridge. It does work

    Quite well on the Atari 800 computer.....I have 48K of memory right now, but I will have to find a 32K card to open up that last slot for the

    XEP80 card. Anyways Thanks for all the help on this.

     

     

    sean39

     

    Sean, the XEP80 won't take a slot in your 800. It interfaces via joystick port 2. It's not a great interface, it is slow. Somewhere (I think on Mathias' website) exist drivers that can make it work at 9600 baud when using BobTerm. I have found the XEP80 to be most useful when used on an XE series machine with the Sparta DOS X cart. There is a parrallel printer port on the back of the XEP80 as well - I have not used that feature, but Atari Writer 80 has an option to use a printer connected to that port.

     

    I got my 1st XEP80 just a year back. I think I got it from B&C. It was still new in box. I almost felt bad about taking it out of the box, but curiosity got the best of me. I guess I like i enough to keep it hooked up all the time (just rarely used)

     

    Stephen Anderson

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    Would the fact that MyIDE does not have Percom support stop it from working with parta?

     

    I currently have no idea. Must look up the sources. Certainly, SpartaDOS establishes the density now according to the PERCOM information returned. If none is returned, Atari 810 SD or Atari 1050 ED density is assumed.

     

    Is is so much trouble for MyIDE author to release an upgrade with READ PERCOM support? This command is de facto standard.

     

    I know Ken Jones (aka Metalguy) has been begging him to do just that. It seems that Sijmen has no intention of doing this though, which is why there is no support in Real DOS for the MyIDE device.

     

    P.S.

    I have never seen Sijmen post here. He does frequent the forums on Steve Tucker's site though, and he does occasionally drop into the Sunday telnet chats.

     

    Stephen Anderson

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    Back up and running folks. I finally got another Lantronix box in. They no

    longer make the UDS10, so I had to get the 1100. Happily, I can report

    that it seems to function indentically to the UDS10, at least as far as

    working with my BBS goes.

     

    Apologies for taking so long, and many thanks to all our patient callers.

     

    The Fuji Lives! :)

     

    Congrats! I'll make a call later this evening. I've missed BBSing. I finally have my complete Atari setup working - 2 real disk drives, 24-pin dot matrix printer, 64K print buffer, XEP80, and SIO2PC USB version with APE for PC connectivity and "modem". I did score a used UDS-10, not sure if it works yet. Need a 25-9 adapter so I can configure it on the PC.

     

    Stephen Anderson

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    I was trying to remember how to keep track of time in Atari Basic. My son needs to do a certain number of math problems in 5 minutes for his second grade class. So I wanted to do a countdown from 5 minutes in a program to help him.

     

    Any tips?

     

    Courtesy of Mapping the Atari, memory locations 18,19,20 (decimal) are used for an internal realtime clock. 20 increments every 1/60th of a second (assuming NTSC) until it hits 255, then 19 is incremented, and 20 wraps back to 0. When 19 reached 255, it causes location 18 to increment by one.

     

    Here is the simple second counter

    TIME = INT((PEEK(18)*65536 + PEEK(19)*256 + pEEK(20))/60)
     
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    But is there an actual speed difference?
     
    

    AFAIK, the quickest SIO replacement out there only uses 3x speed, or a little over that, which falls well within what RS232 can do.
    

    

     
    

    Using certain programs (MyCopier for one) the USB version can be double the speed of the serial SIO2PC. At the moment, not even Steve's Warp OS support all the PoKey divisors (meaning only regular speed and 3X are supported). But, as long as the programs supports all divisors, the USB device absolutely screams along.
    

     
    

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    switched from XASM to MADS, Notepad++ and Atari800win plus 4.
     
    

    and i am using the XASM tool (included in the 2.x versions) XBOOT.
    

     
    

    assembling is done in with a batch file like
    

     
    

    mads %1.asm -l -t:labels.txt
    

    xboot %1.obx
    

     
    

     
    

    the labels can be loaded into the debugger of atari800win (in the monitor by LABELS labels.txt).
    

    

     
    

    Heaven, I also use Notepad++. Do you have a 6502 syntax file for it, or did you manually add the opcodes?
    

     
    

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