danwinslow

For me, the point of mods is new software. What can I use 4MB of ram for? Packet buffers. Tons of stored game levels. Movies. Giant word processing files. Apps space for the GUI OS that fjc is doing.

Mine are 1 for 1200xl and 1 for 130xe.

A general hardware question - Can I take a CPU from an XL series computer and use it in a 130XE motherboard?

That's easy : don't make mistakes

Yeah, you'll need to get a CPU socket put in, which means de-soldering the CPU and re-soldering a socket down. Some 130's have sockets, some don't. I happened to get lucky.

Yes, MG is right, I decided to do it based strictly on the easiness of the situation and the fact I had a socketed CPU. You should not assume it's the same as a good solder job, because it isn't. It worked, but it's not suitable for anything but the most obviously easy situations.

It worked! That stuff is great for simple things like this. My Rapidus is up and running.

Because I can't solder, which makes it much less time consuming and more reliable.

Well, I'm trying it with conductive silver epoxy instead of soldering. It's drying now....will let you know.

I'll take one. Looks great, Santos, nice work.

As a side note to this very nice post, I'll observe that Jon does have a donate button on his website.....

Yeah, I have to wonder too. Whitespace insensitivity is almost exactly the very last thing I would care about.

So. Back from Africa and what do I find in my mailbox? Rapidus! Nice. What are all the pinblocks for? I see CON5, CON3, CON4, and an un-labeled block of 10 pins. Is there a diagram that shows what all these are for? For the 10 pin block of holes, I have seen a black socket laid overtop of that in some pictures, is that a commonly available part, and does it ( I bet it does ) require soldering to affix? Also, what is the name of the 3 pin plug that would fit over the the three wires to be soldered? Something to google for is what I need. More also - so I've got it in, but the three wires are not connected. The Atari boots fine, so good. Reset+inverse hangs with a black, tan, or stripy screen, but I suppose that's due to the three wires not being connected. Right?

I thought this was about a incontinent alcoholic finding Jesus. I am dissapoint.

I dunno, I emailed him too and he said he doesn't want one...confused.

I'd be glad to send him one...keyboard might be spotty but works otherwise. Leaving town for two weeks, but I cna get it when I get back. Have him PM me with a mailing address here.

Uh. Someone is wrong on the internet, film at 11.

Pasiu, you guys are doing fantastic work. Do we know that adaptus board is available or not?

I'll just say it. Fallout 4 sucks in comparison to III or FNV. It was a big disappointment. I hate crafting and trash collecting and repetitive meaningless tasks. In 90 of encounters, even bosses on survival mode, I just run up and point blank them in the head with my largest weapon and they go right down. I have so many chems and so much money that it makes encounters meaningless.

It is time, Jon. Put down the drivers and step away. Your real task awaits. And then when you're finished doing what your wife wants, then get to work on the GUI!

Which makes sense, non-tv synced speedups would render a lot of games unplayable, a-la the old 'turbo mode' issue back in early dos days. I bet there is a selection of well-written software in which you'd see speedups, stuff like The Last Word, assemblers/compilers, BASICS, other utilities, and games. DOS itself might speed up for all I know. Giant RAMDisks also come to mind. But really the point of this hardware is expansion, not enhancement, at least for me.

Well, he's got some videos up there of 6502 stuff being sped up, right? Rescue on Fractulus for one.

Thanks, Beetle. I had already seen that, and in fact have already ordered the Rapidus. I just didn't see anyway to order the adaptus with it. Or does it just automatically come with the XE version?

Has anyone ordered the adaptus board? Is it even available yet?

I visited! If you keep it up, I will hit it with my Atari 8bit running dragoncart sometime this week. No, I don't have an actual browser, but I can make a telnet style connection!