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That looks really nice. Stephen Anderson

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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

Awesome. Looks to good to be on our little 8-bits! Stephen Anderson.

Or an LED board that shows the $D301 status via 8 LEDs. Or in HEX via 2 7 segment LEDs. That would kick ass. Stephen Anderson

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

I am sure he would. Why not? Would the fact that MyIDE does not have Percom support stop it from working with Sparta? Stephen Anderson

They're two completely different games: http://atarimania.com/lst_soft.php?SOFT_LI...;btn_sauver.y=0 I thought 'Gunpowder Charlie' was quite a fun little game. Could have done with a few more screens though. I remember Goodbye Charlie - I think I still have the Compute! it appeared in. Stephen Anderson

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

Thanks for all these great posts Curt - I seriously envy your collection! Stephen Anderson

That shield is not necessary. The only way to get another one would be from a donor machine, or you could always cut your own fom a thin sheet of aluminum. Stephen Anderson

Great - glad to see this project is still moving forward! Stephen Anderson

I'd take one cart at $60. Don't care what number. Stephen Anderson

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) Stephen Anderson

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. Stephen Anderson

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

Any chance you can fix the terrible sound in the emulator? That's the only thing stopping me from using it on my XBox. Stephen Anderson

Very nice site! I just spent the last 2 hours checking out some of the new stuff. Stephen Anderson

I got one too! I'm sending payment tonight. I'll let you know when it arrives. Stephen Anderson

Oops - thought I posted this earlier. Here's my 2nd one. 72R DA 03577 173 There is a sticker inside the unit, on the RF modulator which says "April 21, 1983". Stephen Anderson

The reason I am building (I know - I am slow to get this done) is for the Neo Tracker program. It works with single PoKey, stereo PoKey, and CoVox. If you guys have not tried this program, check it out. It is an amazing piece of software for our little 8-bit machines. Stephen Anderson

This is one program that requires BASIC to be enabled. It definitely works on a stock 130XE with no translator disk. Stephen Anderson

Got my R-Time a couple days back. Works beautifully! Stephen Anderson

Didn't know we could still get them - email sent. Ditto! I hope I can get one since I now have a Sparta Dos X cart (Atarimaz flash version) and an original ICD ECI+cart to PBI adapter (allows 2 carts to be plugged into the 130XE and they stand up like in an 800XL) Stephen Anderson

I'd guess we are getting dangerously close to the time of bad snowy Ohio winter weather. Might be best to start planning for a big Spring get together. Stephen Anderson Yes, at this point I am going to be pretty busy through the holidays, so sometime in the early spring would be better for me. ..Al Maybe now would be a good time for people to start listing what equipment they have, what they would be willing to bring, what they want to demo, etc. Stephen Anderson