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Hello - I'm sure I cannot be the first to encouter this, but I cannot find anybody writting it up, not can I find a solution. I have a setup that works perfectly fine on actual hardware where I have a 130XE, U1MB, and a Side3 cart. On the SD card I have hard drive partitions, including a SpartaDOS 3 partition. With this configuration I can boot to SD3 on that partition and everything works swimingly. However, I have tried to replicate the configuration using Altirra and the SpartaDOS 3 partition will not boot. It does not tell me "NO DOS" or "BOOT ERROR", it goes directly into the internal self test menu. I can access all of the partitions on the SD card using SpartaDOS X on the U1MB. I have the latest firmwares on all devices, both in actual hardware, and in Altirra. I have also made an image of the physical SD card to use in Altirra, so I am certain that the card itself is not the issue. Has anybody else been able to boot a SpartaDOS 3 partition from a Side3 cart within Altirra? If so, how did you get that to work?
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I have a new Side2 cart and would like to run Atariwriter Plus from a partition on the cart. I am unfamiliar with Spartados. I have tried starting with the X command, but it hangs. I assume there is a memory problem, and that there is some configuration that needs to be done to get this to run. The computer is a stock 130XE. I have three partitions on the cart/compact flash, and the first is set as bootable.
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Not sure if this is a bug in SpartaDOS 3 or maybe a misconfiguration (but I have no idea how to fix it in the latter case), but here is what I stumbled upon some day: I have a binary program which consists of several init segments and one run segment. This program loads fine and works under DOS 2.5, DOS XL 2.30, MyDOS 4.55p, BW-DOS 1.30 and, last but not least, SpartaDOS X. But with SpartaDOS 3.2d, 3.2g and 3.3a there is only a less or more spectacular crash during loading. I have found out that this crash occurs, because after the second init segment SpartaDOS 3 thinks that the loading is finished, thus (since the run vector has not yet been set at this point) making a call to the "beginning of the program", i.e. the first init segment, which at this time is of course long non-existing. Now the second init segment opens and parses a configuration file. And this - particularly the OPEN call - causes all this confusion. The file does not even have to exist: it is enough to make an OPEN 4,"D:FOO.BAR":CLOSE in an init segment to trigger this problem. If this is not fixable in a simple manner (like by changing a default parameter in SpartaDOS binary), I would say that this looks like a flaw disqualifying SpartaDOS 3 as a DOS. For opening a file during loading a binary is to my knowledge in no way a forbidden operation. And even DOS 2.5 tolerates this well.
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Back in the mid 80's... I wrote my own SpartaDOS disk directory sorting utility out of sheer necessity having some fairly large drives and dirs on my BBS system. While playing with this program the other night, I accidentally sorted a DOS 2 disk... oops. My brute force sorter trashed the disk as I suspected it would. So I need to be able to detect a SpartaDOS disk before sorting. I know the SDFS version is stored at offset $20 in sector 1 of the Sparta disk. This would be easy enough to check but I feel I need something additional. It looks like offset 8 in sector 1 = $80 on the SpartaDOS disk but I am not sure if this is definitive enough. I have checked a few different disks and so far I have only seen $80 in offset 8 on the Sparta disks. Any other ideas??
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The SIO2PC-USB gadget is pretty cool and if you are using it this is the place we can share our problems & discoveries! I'll start with an experience and problem and if you can answer it please do if you have had that experience and have a solution. As I familiarize myself with this using the Aspeqt program, and the 800XL w/256K & US Doubler 1050 I hope we all learn and you can share some of your hills & valleys in the use of this gadget! Problem 1: With the configuration above the last step to formatting, writing DOS and an initialization step is where it's freezing for me. This is version 1.1 of SpartaDOS and if you know what happened to the FORMAT files in the 3.2 versions I'd like to know.
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Hi everybody, I'm hoping somebody can help me configure Spartados x 4.48 to run with basic XL. I'm using a stock 130XE with the Super SpartaDos X cartridge I bought from Bits of the Past. My Basic XL cart is an early orange one (not basic XE). I'm using a custom config.sys that looks like this: USE OSRAM DEVICE SPARTA DEVICE SIO DEVICE ATARIDOS DEVICE ULTIME I've tried lots of other options including USE BANKED and USE SPARTA OSRAM. I've tried no using DEVICE ULTIME or DEVICE ATARIDOS and every possible combination of these. When I go to the cart I can type in a basic program all day long, but any attempt to save or load causes the drive to spin forever and the computer to lock up. Any suggestions? Anybody running a similar setup?
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First of all, sorry if this info is found elsewhere. I searched but couldn't find it. It is my hope that if a solution is found that it helps others with the same issue. I am running Sparta 3.x on my Incognito 800, and the clock is wrong. I remember something about Incognito being different from RT8, but I don't remember if it's just hardware addresses that need patched, or what. I am trying to get Carina BBS running. It claims to use the Z: handler, but I haven't seen any Z: references in the code yet. I have seen COMTAB+16 in the code which indicates that it reads the time from Sparta directly rather than using Z: Ideas? Edit: To clarify, the clock is CORRECT in SDX, and in anything (DOS 2.x or whatever) that uses Z:. Is is only wrong in disk based Sparta.
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I was looking at past auctions on Ebay and saw one where somebody had sold an ICD SDX cartridge. It said that it also included "Cart Dumper 2.07 ROM Chip - You can pop this in replacing the SpartaDOS ROM and you have the ability to dump atari cartridge ROMS to a file." I've never heard of this rom/chip. Does anyone know anything about it and if so, has a copy of it?
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The manual for this is available (Atarimania), but have the disks been imaged yet? According to the R-Time 8 / SDCS Supplement, the contents are as such: The SpartaDOS Construction Set package includes: 1) a diskette containing the standard SpartaDOS version 1.1 on the front and public domain games with the LOGOMENU program on the back side 2) a diskette containing both SpartaDOS version 2.3 and 3.2 with their supporting command files I'm interested in hosting information and files for this on a website currently under construction. Any help in obtaining copies would be greatly appreciated. Also, it was noted in the "Software Preservation" thread that the ATX for the SpartaDOS Toolkit "may have a dump error". Was this ever confirmed or discounted? I'm currently planning to host the ATX from this archive, but I'd prefer not to if the dump isn't clean. Thanks, MF
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OK, this question is going out to anybody who knows anything about details of the SpartaDOS file system. I'm using the information posted at: http://atari.kensclassics.org/dos.htm#sparta. I've determined that there seems to be a mistake in the information posted, and I'm trying to fill in the gap. Specifically, the info on that page says that bytes 9 & 10 of the boot sector contain the "First sector of sector map for main directory" but I have determined that they actually point to the first sector of the directory itself, not the sector map. Now I need to figure out how to determine the sector map for the main directory. Or, maybe the main directory is a fixed size and doesn't use a sector map. I dunno... anybody who has a clue about this, please let me know. If you're asking yourself what a "sector map" is in this context, you're probably not the one with the answer to my question, but I'll try to explain. With Atari DOS, and most of the other variants that are compatible, the directory entry for each file specifies the first sector used by the file. The last 3 bytes of each sector specify either that this is the last sector of the file, or the number of the next sector in the file. SpartaDOS does it a bit differently. For each file or directory, there is a sector map which indicates which sectors are used. A sector map is one or more sectors which contain a list of sector numbers that belong to the file.
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I hope it is appropriate to post "for sale" items. Cleaning out the attic, and selling some old Atari 8-bit stuff on Ebay. I was a big Atari geek back in the day, I'd like to see this stuff go to somebody who will appreciate it, instead of the landfill. SpartaDOS X cartridge with SpartDOS Toolkit disk. www.ebay.com/itm/301844912080 Original Atari literature, lot of 5 pieces: (1200XL users guide, 1982 Atari Product Catalog, etc) http://www.ebay.com/itm/301844916921 I'm also selling some Atari ST stuff, if you are interested check out my ebay user page: http://www.ebay.com/usr/chris82369 -
Howdy everyone! Recently I read a post by someone here on AtariAge, in some forum or another, who mentioned how much he dislikes the key click sound on our beloved A8 machines. I don't remember who or which forum right now but, I got thinking about it, and decided that for the most part, I too really don't care for the artificial key click sound the Atari makes. There are times I like it, but mostly not. Anyway, I use SpartaDOS X and thought that it would be handy to whip up a batch file which can turn the click on or off. I did that, and it worked. The problem is, it isn't callable from another batch file except as the last command. The reason for this is SpartaDOS X only allows batch chaining, not nesting. So I decided to just go ahead and make a .COM file which does the same job. Of course this can be called from anywhere in an AUTOEXEC.BAT or of course manually at the command prompt too. I just finished it and tested it some. Works good so far. I will post it tomorrow after I get everything put together into a package that is fit for distribution.
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Hello, SpartaDOS X 4.46 with Toolkit is now officially available for download on: http://sdx.atari8.info (or http://spartados.com and http://spartadosx.com). List of changes is available here: http://sdx.atari8.in...46/whatsnew.txt Since the manual will be updated to 4.46 a little bit later, please review the whatsnew.txt file carefully. You may also like to visit SDX upgrade project on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SpartadosX Although still in the early stage, the page contains highlights of the new release and other announcements. DLT team
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Hi everybody, I tried to use symbol U_LOAD of SpartaDos 4.46 to run another program but I don't understand how to deal with FLAG symbol. I don't see the solution in the documentation (translated by Google). Basically, I am doing something like this: ldy #0 lda #<executable_filename sta FILE_P,y iny lda #>executable_filename sta FILE_P,y sty FLAG jsr U_LOAD It does not run anything. Of course, all uppercase labels (FILE_P, FLAG and U_LOAD are binded at runtime). I can see the value in Altirra ($0CE3 for FILE_P,...) The filename is also correct. When I place in executable_filename a wrong filename I got an error. With a right filename, the call to U_LOAD returns but nothing is run. Maybe the problem is with FLAG symbol ? I am not sure about 1) the way to fill it and 2) the value to set to run the executable. I don't know if I should store something in FLAG or consider FLAG as a pointer and if I can/must change FLAG to point to a byte inside my program ? And which value to use (the doc says bit 7 should be cleared but what is the use of the other bits, if any) ? Thank you for your help.
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Hi, I am using the atari800 emulator on my Ubuntu machine. I own several 800's and I am an old 8biter. In the emulator I am trying to access subdirectories on H1:. I have tried dosxl and spartados. Has anyone gotten this to work? I have searched the forms and cant find anything useful. I can access the main H1: directory, but when I try to access the subdirectory, I get a write protected error. I also can not CWD to the location I want. It seems that the H1: access is limited to one level. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Edward
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