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Hmm, I wonder if I'm running the wrong version. I didn't see the same closing screen. Anyway, 2815 is my first score for the contest. I can do better. - Steve p.s. Jelle, watch the title screen for tile descriptions. A couple quick tips: - Stay on the tiles and avoid holes (but not the bullseye hole, you need that). - The forward pointing arrow is for long jumps and you can push FIRE to force a long jump. Press it just before you land on the tile you want to jump from lest you jump to soon. You can side to side even while jumping.

Oops! I forgot again and there is no one there now, 6:08 PM EDT. Sorry. - Steve

OT: I remember the name, "KISS", but not what the cartridge does. Would you provide a little background information, please? (Googling didn't help). - Steve

Eru, please, please, please, please complete the NTSC version of Yoomp! Pretty please, with sugar on top. - Steve

A slight improvement 274,410 [update] 374,648 - Steve

Not very good but I will keep trying. 211,584

Hey I have issue #45, one of the last ones I purchased. #46 and #49 were the last for me. Wait! I don't have the disk version! Getting out my checkbook... Who do I make the check out to? It's in the mail Mr. Takumula!

It's that time again! And yes I've been lax! - Steve Sheppard

Grrr! Site does not respond for me! I'll try again later [Edit] DUH!!! I was in search mode. Thought I was reading new messages! LOL

75189 is just the SMT sized version of 14C89, I believe. - Steve

With USB 2.0 it's quite fast, but USB 1.1 is really slow. I bought a USB 2.0 controller card for my old computer and everything was a lot better then. BTW: It could also be the USB/CF adapter. I got an el-cheapo one and never got the ~8-10 MB/sec as advertised in the CF card specs. BTW2: also remeber that myidetool has to transfer twice the amount of data, since myide usually "throws away" half of the space. BTW3: I'm currently working on adding support for Shawn Jefferson's Image Manager. Using images with MyIDE + image manager + myidetool should then get a lot easier, too :-) so long, Hias Sorry, off topic but can linux dd be used to archive a MyIDE drive or flash module? Thanks. - Steve

A8 as a serial console is also doable with just a SIO2PC cable combined R-Verter/Bob Verter driver. Of course, you can't use normal SIO devices while using the SIO2PC serial communications in this way. - Steve

A while back Hias sent me this impromptu English translation of a quick reference card RESET keys: Shift coldstart Option Basic on (when booting) Select enter QMEG menu Start XL-mode (when booting) QMEG menu: ESC exit TAB toggle warm/cold A basic/cartridge off B basic on C cartridge on RETURN enter monitor SHIFT+Atari coldstart with OPTION START+B/C/ESC basic/cartridge restart CLEAR default settings DELETE XL-mode <-,->,1..8,SPACE select drive N normal drive (disable speeder) F fast drive (enable speeder) X ramdisk X Y ramdisk Y O slow mode SHIFT+O absolute slow mode I disable slow mode (drive init) SHIFT+I reset drive CTRL+I disable drive cache SHIFT+1..8 set boot drive S ramdisk X = single density M ramdisk X = medium density D ramdisk X = double density K function keys on/off E display list interrupt on/off V vertical blank sync on/off G generate DOS2.5 ramdisk on/off L list directory ; list directory (with 1050 density test) R copy disk to ramdisk X W copy ramdisk X to disk SHIFT+R read frozen program from disk SHIFT+W write frozen program to disk Function keys: SHIFT+HELP function keys on/off CTRL+4 key click on/off CTRL+5 cursor slow/fast CTRL+6 display on/off CTRL+7 cursor start of line CTRL+8 cursor end of line CTRL+9 cursor home CTRL+0 cursor bottom CTRL+SHIFT+N D1: normal CTRL+SHIFT+F D1: fast CTRL+SHIFT+/ D1: ramdisk X CTRL+SHIFT+Atari D1: ramdisk Y Freezer keys: CTRL+HELP enter/exit freezer SPACE disable sound CTRL+S save snapshot to ramdisk X CTRL+L load snapshot from ramdisk X CTRL+E swap with ramdisk X SHIFT+S save snapshot to ramdisk Y SHIFT+L load snapshot from ramdisk Y SHIFT+E swap with ramdisk Y HELP exit freezer 6 hex numbers (4 digits address, 2 digits value) + return: change memory address DELETE delete last hex digit CLEAR delete all hex digits Machine language monitor: N restart Q quit H hex mode on Z decimal mode on #number decimal number $number hex number ADR hex/dec + ATASCII dump ADR; hex/dec + ATASCII dump ADR" ATASCII dump ADR' screen code dump ADRL disassembler alternative addressing modes: ADR1,ADR2 address range ADR, 128 bytes address range *ADR address range ADR...$FFFF ^ print data (use as a prefix) ADR= hex+dec display of ADR ADR1+ADR2, ADR1-ADR2 calculate sum/difference = show address counter ADR;xxx change memory (byte/word) ADR"xxx change memory (ATASCII) ADR'xxx change memory (screen code) ADR1,ADR2 M ADR3 move ADR1..ADR2 to ADR3 ADR1,ADR2 V ADR3 compare memory ADR1,ADR2=byte fill memory ADR1,ADR2;xxx search bytes/words ADR1,ADR2"xxx search ATASCII ADR1,ADR2'xxx search screen code ADR<SECNO,COUNT read sectors from disk ADR>SECNO,COUNT write sectors to disk R show CPU registers W=byte change A X=byte change X Y=byte change Y P=byte change flag register M=byte change PORTB ($D301) ADR GO start program The alternative addressing modes do not seem to work with the image of QMEG (4.04) I am using, except *ADR (continuous listing) does work and I think ^ADR (print output) does work but I can't verify. No printer connected to my 800XL at the moment. - Steve

If I don't need to edit the images then command: copy a.rom/b+b.romb/b+c.rom/b+d.rom/b new4x.rom has always worked. Hi Steve- Is that a Windows "command?" -Larry I meant use the COPY command from the Command prompt. If you meant the COPY command itself then yes it's available. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...y.mspx?mfr=true - Steve

If I don't need to edit the images then command: copy a.rom/b+b.romb/b+c.rom/b+d.rom/b new4x.rom has always worked.

Hi Larry. As you know I'm not much of a programmer but this sounded like fun. Below is my quick and dirty literal approach to simulating 3 code wheels. 10 DIM W1$(26),W2$(26),W3$(26),HOLD$(1),INDEX$(1),PAUSE$(1) 20 W1$="ABC":W2$=W1$:W3$=W1$:SIZE=LEN(W1$) 30 INDEX$="A" 40 ITERATION=0 100 REM MAIN BODY 110 ? "ITERATION=";ITERATION 120 ? "WHEEL 1 - ";W1$ 130 ? "WHEEL 2 - ";W2$ 140 ? "WHEEL 3 - ";W3$ 150 ITERATION=ITERATION+1 160 GOSUB 1000 170 INPUT PAUSE$ 180 GOTO 100 1000 REM INCREMENT WHEEL 1 1010 HOLD$=W1$(1) 1020 W1$=W1$(2) 1030 W1$(SIZE,SIZE)=HOLD$ 1040 IF W1$(1,1)=INDEX$ THEN GOSUB 2000 1050 RETURN 2000 REM INCREMENT WHEEL 2 2010 HOLD$=W2$(1) 2020 W2$=W2$(2) 2030 W2$(SIZE,SIZE)=HOLD$ 2040 IF W2$(1,1)=INDEX$ THEN GOSUB 3000 2050 RETURN 3000 REM INCREMENT WHEEL 3 3010 HOLD$=W3$(1) 3020 W3$=W3$(2) 3030 W3$(SIZE,SIZE)=HOLD$ 3050 RETURN The wheels have only 3 letters for now but they can be expanded by changing the init string. Wheels 2 and 3 are assumed to index on the same letter. At present the wheels increment AFTER the letter "A" returns to the first position. If you wish wheel #2 to double increment, that is when wheel #3 increments (as mentioned in the wikipedia text), then add the following line: 3040 GOSUB 2000 Sample Output - Steve

I got to say DOS disk menus only for me as well. Fenders 3 sector boot (aka RadMenu) back in the day. However, now it's MyPicoDOS for my MyDOS formatted disks/images and Micro Sparta DOS, MSDOS, (from BeweDOS, I think) for SpartaDOS formatted disks/images. Both menu programs support subdirectories, long names, and high speed SIO. MyPicoDOS has the HSIO driver built-in. I believe MSDOS downloads the driver from the drive (or AtariSIO) As a side note, I sort of converted the old Yogi disk images to double density and MyPicoDOS. Connected 1.2MB drives to my ATR8000 and ported the images to real high density 5.25" floppies (format to 1.01 MB), just for fun. There's no high speed SIO for the ATR8000 but it was kind of fun to have 50 or so games per disk. -Steve

Hi Pengwin. Love your website but if it will be supporting multiple platforms you might want to change the title. Also, when using the Spectrum style the title reads as, "KRAZY PENGWIN'S ATARI 8-BIT HOMEC", with the "C" alternating betwween normal and inverse video. Hope to see you at Wednesday's chat! - A8ISA1 (aka Steve)

A8Maestro has a couple DIN to Svideo + Audio cables and a video breakout box or cable called A/V Bob. Link http://www.a8maestro.com/sites/mtgcat/proda8/a8-t1.htm - Steve

I thought OSNXL was the OS that contained Omnimon. My memory is very sketchy. Wasn't OSN XL the Fast chip (or something like that)? - Steve Hey Steve...how's it going? You can read all about it here: http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an25/onmiviewXL.htm Good JR. Except for this failing memory of mine. LOL! I still haven't gotten around to installing the 16-in-1 you burned for me. Living with the 4-in-1. - Steve

I thought OSNXL was the OS that contained Omnimon. My memory is very sketchy. Wasn't OSN XL the Fast chip (or something like that)? - Steve

OK, I'm destined for the "wall of shame" with this. 331 I'll have a screen capture if I ever get any better. LOL!

I have yet to test anything other than the MIO (works perfect) and the 130XE (not so good) from this lot. I am trying to get everything cataloged before going into test mode. I have the Vacaville lot to catalog, then I will be testing, cleaning, refurbing and making available the extras. You would think so!! I have had only one other Atari that looked anything like these and that was a 1040STf I got in Reno a while back. As far as the extras, I will be keeping things that I don't have to fill holes in the collection. I will check my ANALOG disks to see if there are any I don't have yet and will make the dups available, although I'm pretty sure I already have this range of disks. The ANTIC disks, I'm pretty sure, I already have. The reference card will be going into my doc collection (don't have one of those yet!!) As for the OSS carts, I got a varying set of these in all 3 lots!!! I will be keeping one of each cart and docs and making the rest available. I have 2 of the DOS XL disks but only one manual. One of the disks will be made available. My plan for the RamrodXL was to install the OmniViewXL OS in the 3rd socket (has OSNXL and Stock OS installed now) and put it in another one of my 800XL's or 1200XL's that has other mods already installed. This 800XL would be made stock (with BasicC, which is factory soldered, not socketed). I haven't decided yet though. The XF551 will be made available as I have 4 already (also have another in the Vacaville lot that will be made available). I installed a HyperXF chip in this one to see how it works (speeds it up, especially with APE/Prosystem, but otherwise unimpressed). I will sell it with the HyperXF and original OS included. I actually have 2 or 3 sets of ATR8000 disks, which is funny because I didn't have an ATR8000 until a couple of months ago, and it came without disks!! Got lucky there. I have not been able to test all the disks though, since I still need to get at least 1 PC 5.25 drive to attach to the ATR8000 to test the CP/M disks. I will probably make a set available once I can get them tested, or be able to make dups for those who need them. I'm curious about one of the disks myself. Autoterm-80 is unfamiliar to me. I have 3-4 options for communicating with the ATR8000 but nothing supplied from SWP, not AFAIK. I know Autoterm-80 was not supplied with my particular unit, back in 1983 or 1984. I have a copy of a program which I call "Autoterm 80 Column" but I don't know if it is the same as that which appears in your photo. Also, If anyone needs a working set of disks for their ATR8000 please feel free to PM me. [EDIT] Oops, I meant I have 3-4 80-column software options, but none of these were supplied by SWP. Autoterm, 40 Column version, was included with my ATR8000. - Steve

I know absolute nothing about PCB design or manufacture but I was curious if it would be cost effective to put some of the documented projects on a single PCB and just cut them out myself. Never got any further than just the idea but I did discover the following PCB service: http://www.futurlec.com/PCBService.shtml http://www.futurlec.com/PCB_faq.shtml Single board order is allowed. -A8ISA1 p.s. They accept Eagle files.

I've never heard of PL65 before that I can remember -- what is it "like" if it can be described that way? -Larry I just came across this summary of PL65. - Steve