danwinslow

Look down at your keyboard, and find the A key. Good. Just to the left of that you will see a larger key marked 'Caps Lock'. What happens when you press that?

1. Yes. This guy makes a very nice card called an Ethernec : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5173161818 Other links : http://home.arcor.de/thomas.redelberger/pr...herne/index.htm http://hardware.atari.org/ether/index.htm You can also connect via SCSI with a Daynaport SCSI->Ethernet adapter. 2. Yes....just get it on your home lan behind a router and you are all set. Don't expect to browse the web like lightning...the web browsers available are not great. Usable, but not great. Very slow, there just isn't enough horsepower in an unaccelerated Falcon. 3. Yes, tons. Google and put in 'atari falcon games and utilities'

Its spelled nybble, and its 4 bits. Thats pretty much all I have to add to this discussion, so I'll shut up now.

Plastic bags? plastic BAGS? Let me tell you, that isn't going to stop the *worst* scourge of our precious carts, and thats MR. COSMIC RAY! Yes, thats right, there are literally billions of highly energetic particles streaming towards your carts at THIS VERY MINUTE, all of them eager to change bits in a random manner! Even XEBEC can't stop them! They have been accellerated to ridiculously high energies in the hearts of exploding stars and THEY HATE CARTRIDGES!11! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhggg *foam* *thud*

*crickets*

Hmm maybe its not YOUR leg thats getting pulled.

Great story! Thanks.

Thanks, guys, great info.

Xebec missed a point? Wowsers, thats news.

You may think so, but the discussion is really about what you want. You think that you know 'what is best for the game'. That is also what you want. Anybody who disagrees with you, therefore, does not have the best interests of the game at heart. Most of us are avid gamers, so we probably just don't understand. And even if we do understand, but yet still disagree, there is no chance at all that we are right, because....YOU are right, and you know that. So there's no point. We are either stupid or secretly hate the game. Because you, Xebec, are right, and if we just listened to you and thought about it, we would see that too. Because it is whats the best for the game, and we like games, and you, Xebec, are right. You are just plain right. Why can't we see this? It should be easy. I mean, with you being right and all, and it being the best for the game and our playing experience. I mean, its so clear. To you. Who are right. You might have toyed with the idea of pretending that you WEREN'T right...that maybe other people's opinions might be right...or at least valid....but, that would mean that they disagree with you and yet are still right, and that is an impossibility, as you very clearly know that YOU indeed are very, very right. Right?

Remove the hook from your mouth and swim away.

We should just stop talking about it. Xebec isn't going to change his mind, and the 95% of the rest of us that think he is way off base aren't either. One thing I think we *can* agree on is that this cart is just going to be GREAT.

Ok. Is there a question in there somewhere?

I don't know what you mean by 'my data'. You mean like a save game or something thats seperate from the disc? I don't really know jack s**t about xbox but if different program discs cause the same crash then yeah, it's something besides the program itself, which I guess leaves 'your data'. Do you have any earlier saves of this data?

Well, I would reccomend explaining what the problem is.

? I don't think I understand the question.

Non geeks missed what Atari was about. Management especially always missed it. The engineers knew it, but couldn't communicate it to mgmt.

Does anyone know of any soft-font tools or examples? I mean something that does not use the built in font at all, but lays down a bit map font of its own...not to build up pictures but to increase the character count across the screen. I have heard of a 64-char wide font and of course the 80 column fonts. Just wondering if there were any tools or examples in this regard.

Eeeeeeeeehxcellent.

How fast does a bank switch of a 16k block on the XE line take place? Is it practically instantaneous, or does it take a few cycles?

I don't know specifically about EPROMS, but my impression is that the radiation level and type does not cause problems with electronics or memory. I have taken many types of electronic devices through, and never had a problem.

Thanks, Ijor, very good info. Also reading up on it in the refernces.

So fill out an IOCB and JSR to $E459?

I would like some advice about the best way to generate custom SIO commands on the bus..ie., device/command/parm1/parm2/checksum. I was thinking that XIO could be used, but I am not really sure about that. I guess I could go find the actual IOCB and fill it out, but can I do that and JSR to some routine without messing things up? The basic thing I want to do is to be able to send custom SIO commands to arbitrary devices. Just looking for advice on the best way to approach. I am using cc65.

A ROM chip is memory. ROM=Read Only Memory. The sound generation hardware is special IC chips. It's not entirely clear what you are trying to do, but what is clear is that you don't have a good understanding of the basics. Without that understanding you don't have much of a chance. So read on on everyhting you can find out about the basics. Try the google mentioned above.