Getting a Mega STE onto Internet

[Getting a Mega STE onto Internet]

Uh..well I dunno. You'd need some sort of LocalTalk/10baseT adapter...the LocalTalk port is just a serial port if I recall correctly. SOme kind of old Apple to Ethernet card maybe?

[Sprite Routine Development (for Atari 8bit)]

I know...I said it was an unnecessary comment

[Getting a Mega STE onto Internet]

I don't know about earlier versions of TOS, but it works under the TOS I have on my TT030 and Falcons. You could run either of those OS's on a Mega as far as I know.

Really though I think the easiest and cheapest would be dial up. Still, 75$ for a working atari ethernet card is not all that much, if you ask me. Stuff is getting rare these days.

[Sprite Routine Development (for Atari 8bit)]

In the unneccesary comments dept., I feel compelled to mention that the sprite display strategy you are calling a 'ring buffer', technically is not a ring buffer. A ring buffer is a double ended queue that has a read pointer and a write pointer, usually implemented as an array and two indexes. It's used in communications and other 'producer/consumer' applications, especially when multiple threads could be reading and writing to the buffer at the same time. The pointers wrap around back to the start if they go off the end, so thats similar to what you are doing, but really thats the only similarity. What you are doing with the sprites is just a sorted list, with a windowing algorithm to control which ones and how many are 'active' at any one time. It's much more like a classical scheduling algorithm than it is a ring buffer.

[Getting a Mega STE onto Internet]

There are a couple of ways to get it on the internet. Through dial-up you could get it on via a SLIP type connection with the STIK software :

http://www.flinny.demon.co.uk/download.html

You can use a Daynaport SCSI ethernet :

http://www.anodynesoftware.com/ethernet/main.htm

Or, you can use a Ethernec :

http://hardware.atari.org/ether/

http://home.arcor.de/thomas.redelberger/prj/atari/etherne/

Here's one for sale :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

I have a couple of the Ethernecs and they work great.

 

As far as IDE goes, you could use a SCSI-to-IDE adapter, This is a small board that puts a 'fake' SCSI interface in front of a standard IDE. You would still need some good scsi driver support, such as Extendos or HDdriver.

[Strange Easter Egg in MULE]

Isn't a jump to $C000 the Omnimon addr?

[800XL Problem]

Are you using the composite or the tv connection?

 

If the composite, check your cable to make sure the Chroma is coming out. If its TV, make sure you are actually using a color TV . No, really, check the color knob setting.

[old toshiba laptop]

?

What do you mean by 'original windows'?

 

And why old toshiba...if all you want is a crappy laptop there are plenty to choose from.

[Total noob with noob questions about Display Lists]

That sounds right. You will need to remember to flip the bytes around so that the LSB comes first...but if you load the word at 560 with the address of a valid dlist, it ought to take. You might need to hit wtsync or something to make sure the switch happens during VBI. It's been a while so I don't remember exactly but what you are saying sounds right.

[I don't understand.. WHY?]

He is trying to save ebay fee's. The fee is calculated on the price less shipping charges. The bidders know this, most of them, and so the bid is lower than it probably would be otherwise.

[Price check]

No, that dropped out would make it around 100.

[Price check]

How much would you pay for the following :

 

An adapter that :

 

1. Provided a standard RJ45 ethernet connection.

2. Provided a 16MB RAM 'hard disk' emulation.

3. connected via standard SIO cables.

4. Could be installed inside the atari or used externally

5. Imposed very little overhead in terms of RAM or processor speed on the atari.

6. Came with libraries for C, Action, Assembler, and Basic for using the ethernet card, both as a full standard TCP -IP API and as byte stream file operations.

7. Was reliable and hardy, with no moving parts.

 

Would you pay 50$? 100$? 200$? I am not asking for an idea of profits, I am wondering how much I need to keep the component cost down. Right now the component set will cost around 150$ in hardware. I don't know if people would be willing to pay that or not. There is no soldering and very little assembly required.

[Atari on Discovery Channel]

Haha 'While you were out' we replaced your crusty old sixer with a BRAND NEW PSP! yay!

[Atari on Discovery Channel]

Put cocked mousetraps in the boxes?

 

Replace them with Commodore/TI99 stuff?

 

Or maybe like 60 copies of the TS1000 tape software "The Accountant"?

[I got a DS for cheep]

I got one for a single french fry and a ball of lint.

 

 

No, not really. Let's hear the BK tale.

[Timex Sinclair 1000 new in shrinkwrap on ebay]

Even shrinkwrapped those things are a dime a dozen.

[Frying Past-Time Reality (LONG) TRS80/2600]

(Now , could someone PLEASE tell me where the hell these words would be stored in on a TRS-80 Model III?)

 

Well, it could theoretically have been stored on some disk sector if the disk you booted from ( or had in the drive while 'frying' ) had been previously used to store text. An entire sector gets loaded even if only 1 byte from it is actually used by the current file, so old junk from deleted files may still have been there. It seems pretty highly unlikely but I suppose its possible.

[Frying Past-Time Reality (LONG) TRS80/2600]

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[My experiment]

I am getting ready to hook up a 64k sinclair to the internet. Really. What I'll do once its on I dunno. Not much, probably.

[Fair price for ST system.]

I reccomend a mega 1/2/4 or a mega STE. They are pretty compatible and are easier to find HD's for. If you want an HD for any of them you'll have to get one that already has one...the boards and forth and pretty rare now a days. Keep an eye on Ebay.

[Fair price for ST system.]

I am gonna have to disagree with the prices mentioned. Falcons in particular go for 400-600 dollars. ST's might be 50-100 ish, megas for 250 or so. TT's that are loaded can go for around 500ish too. Go look at the historical prices and you'll see what I mean.

 

The falcons are not particularly compatible with ST software. Your best bet in that dept is to get a mega 4 or mega ste. Those rae good machines with pretty good comptaiblilty.

 

Falcons are wonderful machines, though. I have 3 of them and am waiting for the 100MHZ CT63 upgrade from R. Czuba!

As far as the activity goes, 8 bit is just more popular.

 

*edit*

hmm, I just took my own advice and looked. He's right about the 1040's and 520's, they are pretty cheap. The others are still about where I mentioned, especially if geared out with extra RAM or large HD's.

[Powerfully clueless]

Ok....I'm a software guy, and usually stay far clear of anything involving actual electrons. However, I have a little board that I would like to get power to, from the inside of an atari computer. The power supply that came with the board is a little 5volt DC brick that goes to a 3 pin jumper. Of the 3 pins, only the two outside ones are connected. What I would like to do is be able to pull power off of the power switch on my 130xe, so I dont have a seperate power cord dangling out all the time. The inside of the atari looks like it has 2 large-ish wire connectors from the switch area down to the board, and I was wondering what would happen if I connected those two to the two outside pins on my little board. Anyone have any advice? Does polarity matter? Is there a positive/negative side or is that different with DC?

 

The tech docs for the board say :

Power Requirements 5V ±5% DC regulated, 2 Watts (nominal)

[540 Guests Online]

Guests, methinks.

[Frying]

And there you have it, from Dr. Opinion himself.

[Commodore Reverse Engineers Atari 8-bit Hardware]

Well, given an existing technology environment, there are only so many 'good' ways to accomplish the same kind of task. Similarities aren't necessarily ripoffs, its just that there may be only one general way to get stuff done.