orpheuswaking

Thanks for such a detailed reply Anyone else care to chime in?

Ok guys, I've posted sporadically in here asking random questions but not actually having my Atari at hand. I have just been able to pick up for cheap a couple of Commodore monitors that will enable me to have my Atari set up full time (along with a bunch of commodore equipment that I may explore, can't beat it for $50 along with the two monitors, even if I part them out on ebay I'll make back what I put out) Anyway, my point for posting... 1) I'm going to get the SIO2PC and APE but I'm really interested in what else I should get if anything. My setup right now is an 800xl stock and a 1050 stock (and a second drive of an 810 stock)... I had been looking into the SIO2IDE or the MAXFLASH IDE, anyone prefer one over the other? What about using CF? how hard would it be to get a CF slot inside the 800xl? 2) I have a composite cable (Video and Audio) but should I attempt the Chroma mod and wire a new cable for the Commodore monitor (1902 and an Amdek 80) 3) Memory upgrades? 4) Other upgrades? 5) The 32 in one OS looks way cool, but why would I really need it? Thanks to you all as I know I will get some good ideas here, you guys rock... Orpheuswaking

Being from the UK originally I can tell you that the second one was released that way, I picked one up at one of the Alexandria Palace Atari shows in a pack of about 20 games for a fiver, so that goes to show you the quality The first one looks to me like the original owner lost the insert and printed a new one...

Sorry to jump into the thread here, but that looks like a cool product, only question is, how do you load images onto it? my computer has a CF slot, but nothing that would dump onto a ide flash module, do you have to open the computer and hook it to an ide cable?

I say if it has the Atari name on it why have it be something else? The FB2 was real hardware and it appears to have been much better recieved than the FB1 that was not Atari HW based. If I had the option of playing my Atari 800XL or a "Clone" that wasn't hardware based then I know I would choose the 800XL, however if I had the opportunity to have new Atari hardware that I could plug and play, with the option to MOD for full capacity then I would buy the new hardware... The only reason I didn't get a FB2 was that I never owned or collected for the 2600... The 800XL on the other hand I have tons of stuff for... Ok I'll quit rambling on now... I think we all get the point

Well being from the UK originally I can see why these shows do not play very much in the mainstream. There is a difference in the humour that a lot of people I know here just don't get. This can be attested to by the aweful remakes that have been tried here. Red Dwarf is a huge example (and there is a big section about it on the series 7 DVD I believe) The "Suits" just didn't get it and tried to rewrite it and in the process killed it... "Men Behaving Badly" Was another, they didn't realize that the key to the humour in the original was the fact that the characters are everyday people and not the US standard of "Pretty People" Ok after rereading this I revise my statement, it's the "studios" that don't get it, and thus fear the audience wont either... I will say that although I don't watch it the US version of "The Office" is very good, and I think the reason is that they didn't just try to remake it, but tried to take a basic premise and rework it for the US audience, but then Office work is universal ... And if you haven't figured it out I LOVEEEEEE Red Dwarf (seen every season, and I just hope they finally get the movie made, if the movie doesn't work no Season 9) ANd I want to appologize for derailing this thread several times now...

Just out of curiousity,what is your opinion of the new Dr.Who? Personally,I think it sucks. I think that for what it is, it's ok. They needed to make something that would have an appeal to the US audience to be able to make it a viable product. Therefore they are trying to focus more on the relationship aspect of the show as well as the "last timelord" thing. This way they can have single episodes that can be watched and not have to have seen the previous one as well as underlaying story arcs... I prefered the older series because you had to watch a number of shows to get the whole story and thus it could have more detail... My one complaint is that Series 1 (sounds weird saying that) had Christopher Eccleston who could have done a wonderful job, but botched it.

This is me I'm 32 and live in Indianapolis... I grew up however in South London (moved to the States in 1997)... I was given an Atari 800xl when I was about 14 or so and I loved it. I never had a console (the only computer I had prior to the 800xl was a Vic-20 that went back because I hated it)... I rememer when I was 16 going to one of the big computer shows at Longleat house (mixing my love for Atari and Doctor Who) all by myself, lugging back two huge boxes of Atari gear on the National Express bus and then transferring it onto a train at Victoria Station was a pain in the Arse I tell you, but well worth it... Got a ton of stuff from Derek Fern and Les from Page 6... I still have a bunch of stuff here in the states but I just don't have the room to get it back up and running (sorry for the poor post, but I'm writting this on the way out the door)

Personally I think it's ghastly. Ugly, and it's not a patch on the other moulded plastic portable Jag for me. However, each to their own, that's what I say. As much as I don't go for emulators, a Jaguar emulator with USB adapter for the Jag pad would be great. This unit actually looks so flat that I'd half expect some slot loading JagCD replacement drive to be in it! The fact that the guy hates the Jag and is so wrong about it technically hardly endears it to me either... Cheers, JustClaws. Wow Justclaws is REALLY hard on that... Posting 3 times

I think it's a typo. It's probably CD-R rather then CR-R. CD-R discs are a little more reliable than CD-RW... I have also heard that black colored discs work more relaibly also if you can find them

WOW, I started an interesting thread here I have enjoyed reading all your replies, but again I come back to the original question... My computer is a PII and the video card is pretty jacked up (and I'm too cheap to buy a new one) Soooo.... Just for arguments sake does anyone recomend or have any experience with either of the options I listed earlier? ___________________________ And don't get me wrong, I'm very appreciative of ALL of the posts and replies here so far, and when I finally break down and buy a new PC I'll incorporate the ideas expressed previously... Orpheuswaking

The only drawback with that is I am running a POS computer that would probbly die if I added any new hardware to it, All I'm really trying to do is be able to use the monitor for both the Atari and the PC... Now if I had the money I would just buy a brand new PC and go the video in MPEG route... But I appreciate the idea

Hey guys, I'm moving in August and will no longer have access to a TV in my computer room at the new place. I know that there are products out there that allow you to hook up the atari to a PC Monitor. I have a regular cable that hooks up to RGB outputs (Video and Audio L/R)... I have been looking on the internet and found that the Cheesebox and the JAM are no longer produced... Therefore I would like to ask all of you out there if you have used or recomend any of the following products... (obviously I am going for ease of use and low cost VS a clear picture and good resolution). http://www.grandtec.com/videomate.htm http://www.baysoftgames.com/vgabox1.html http://www.avtoolbox.com/uhrgamer.shtml http://startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm...ID=COMP2VGA&mt= Thanks for all your help... Simon

Ummm... Possibly the drive belt, If it's loose it can slip and slow down the drive (don't know how it would +speed though). Just a thought!

See and this is where the reality kicks in that everything is objective. I LOVE the 7800 Proline, it fit my hand perfectly and I kicked some serious butt on my 800xl games with it And as for the Jagpad, well I like it too. I think the worst sticks I ever used were on some old apple IIe systems my friend had.

Nice, My collection is in 3 locations.... and fairly large, photographing the software would be a nightmare LOL

Slightly off topic, but what the hell did I miss... What Atari Email List???

I think U4 needed 48K 968278[/snapback] 32k in addition to the exisiting memory I am sure, so U4 would run fine

This is where I get stuck; the metal clips are bigger than the slots they fit in. Even if I bent them, I'd have to clip them off to open it. 968375[/snapback] you will probably find they are longer on one side than the other, allowing you to twist them straight and then angle them out (be careful you don't slice your hand - I did twice on an 800XL)... They went in so they HAVE to be able to come out don't you think?

Wow dude, can't sneak the screamingly obvious past you! 968002[/snapback] Bit redundant there dude Since SCs post was in response to T2KFreeker's Also.. nice way to pick on someone communicating in their second language. YOU SURE look big and clever 968025[/snapback] OK guys, lets all cool it before we lose another member to a flamewar... We all know it's a joke... I mean Starcat DID use a smiley face :)

Wait a minute, this obviously has a keyboard upgrade, maybe that is part of it.

Oh.. and for the comedy of it.. what is this man doing: My word! 953154[/snapback] I am a little scared about the man flailing around with a giant green dildo... But I am interested in the hot chick in the background LOL

You shouda said something, myatari are AWESOME when it comes to stuff like that... sometimes mistakes happen and they have always been really good for me...

The game was called "Softpom." In the Spring of 1981, Ken had met a programmer who had been talking to publishers about an adventure game he had written and was trying, with little success, to market himself. This game was not your usual adventure where you quest for jewels, or try to solve a murder, or try to overthrow some evil Emperor Nyquill from the Planet Yvonne. In this game, you were a bachelor whose quest was to find and seduce three women. The programmer had written the program as a training exercise to help teach himself about data bases, using the sexual theme to make it interesting. It was the kind of thing that hackers, at least the ones who were aware that a thing called sex existed, had been doing for years, and it was rare to find a computer center without its own particular sexual specialty, be it an obscene-joke generator or a program to print out a display of a naked woman. The difference was that in 1981, all sorts of things that hackers had been doing as cosmic technical goofs had a sudden market value in home computer translations. The program in question was a cleaned-up variation of the original. It would get vile only if you used obscenity in your command. Still, in order to win the game you needed to have sex with a prostitute, buy a condom to avoid venereal disease, and engage in sadomasochism with a blonde who insisted on marrying you before you could bed her. If you wanted to do well in this adventure, the replies you typed into the computer had to be imaginatively seductive. But there were perils: if you came across the "voluptuous blonde" and typed in EAT BLONDE, the computer would type out a passage intimating that the blonde was leaning over and performing oral sex on you. But then she'd flash her gleaming choppers and bite it off! To those with a sense of humor about that sort of thing, Softporn was a uniquely desirable Apple game. Most software publishers wanted nothing to do with the game; they considered themselves "family" businesses. But Ken Williams thought the game was a riot: he had a great time solving the adventure in three or four hours. He thought the controversy would be fun. He agreed to market Softporn. One day not long afterward. Ken walked into the office and said, "Who wants to come over my house and take pictures in the hot tub naked?" The idea was to get three women to pose topless in Ken's hot tub for the Softporn advertisement. Somewhere in the picture would be an Apple computer, and in the tub with the three naked women would be a male waiter serving them drinks. They borrowed a waiter from The Broken Bit, a Coarsegold steak house which was about the only decent place to eat in town. The three women, all On-Liners, who took their blouses off were the company bookkeeper, the wife of Ken's assistant, and Roberta Williams. The full-color ad, with the women holding wineglasses (the water in the hot tub tactfully covering their nipples), the fully clothed male waiter holding a tray of more wineglasses, and an Apple computer standing rather forlomly in the background, caused a sensation. On-Line got its share of hate mail, some of it full of Bible scripture and prophecy of the damnation ahead. The story of the game and the ad caught the imagination of the news services, and the picture ran in Time and over the UPI wire. Ken Williams loved the free publicity. Softpom became one of On-Line's biggest sellers. Computer stores that wanted it would be reluctant to order just that one program. So, like the teenager who goes to the drugstore and says, "I'd like a comb, toothpaste, aspirin, suntan oil, stationery, and, oh, while I'm here I might as well pick up this Playboy, " the store owners would order a whole sampling of On-Line products ... and some Softporn too. Ken guessed that Softpom and its ripple effect just about doubled his revenue.

Well me for one... but thats nothing to do with Gorf, and everything to do with the fact I'm a lazy bastard who didn't want to post 10 posts... finally did it yesterday...