flashjazzcat Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 The last one I applied was the one which enabled flashing tools to be launched from the loader, but I have no idea of the date. If you have that, we're done, since I received nothing further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiggle Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Hello to you all, I recently tested on my Atari 800 with Incognito white board. I find strange problem. Is that normal ? When I put filename.atr for Atari OS B. it was returned to Memo Pad. For some reason, it only work in filenames.xex. Guide me somewhere to fix this issues ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) Do you have "SIDE Hardware" enabled in the BIOS Setup menu? Note also that ATR disk image mounting only works in XL/XE mode, since it's driven by the PBI BIOS. Edited June 24, 2015 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Finally installed my Incognito today. Apart from the ribbon cable installed wrong way on the chip adapter,install went ok. Had to install updated file on page 2 of this thread to get carts working. Now have a problem. XL/XE standard and Highspeed won't boot up at all (screen stays black) . Only Diag carts like Star raiders work. Q-Meg os works but sparta dos doesn't. Can boot up different dos and use it including using Ramdisk. Cannot get my external spartados to work in any xl/xe os. Coleen modes appears to work fine including sparta dos, external sparta dos cart works as well. What could be wrong? James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Hey, before I start, Sup8pdct, did you ever get your setup working? Just wanted to say the Incogneto 800 I have has worked great game playwise. Never could nick the overheating when serial was in play, but I do less BBSing on the Atari 8 bit now anyway. Just a great way to play all the Atari games on the beloved beige 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) No. Daughter decided to shove in 2 cartridges while it was going despite me saying "DON'T TOUCH IT" while i was setting up CF card. This totally stuffed it. So the problems with XL side of incognito now pales into insignificance. Board is currently on way to/at Candle for repair. James Edited December 14, 2015 by sup8pdct 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Oh wow. I hope the card is repairable (because they really are nice when they work) and ... what two cartridges? If she tried to shove in Star Raiders in the left slot and The Last Starfighter in the right slot for photons AND Lasers, I can totally respect that. j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Just 2 random carts. Both not in properly. Candle should have it by now. will se what he says. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Candle should have it by now. will se what he says. He doesn't have it yet. As mentioned via email, I'm posting this week having waited for your approval on the matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I will amend post to 'on way to candle' Oh wait i can't, edit time has expired. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Need a little helping loading ATR files with Incogneto. A fun little necrobump this morning. Just as it happened in 2013, here in 2021 Dallas is locked down in snow and ice for a few days. Even though we are working from home during Covid-19... we STILL got a snow day! So I used this day, like in 2013, to make updates to my Incogneto machine. This was also partly inspired by the Atari 8-bit High Score Club and needing to load games. Thanks to MoparStephen, SteveS, The_Doctor, and others on the "##Atari" IRC chat on Freenode.net, I was pointed to FlashJazzcat's website on updating the Incogneto. And the video on that site was very helpful. Have to say, like the new look... So the question on loading ATR images/files. In the video in Flashjazzcat's site in the Side loader there are com,xex, and atr files listed and a ATR file is even loaded. In my menu the ATR files are not showing up: in this directory there was a "ROH.ATR" file, but again, not showing up. What needs to be enabled or happen to let the ATR files work? My Incogneto is the white board variant I bought from Candle in 2012. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 4 hours ago, doctorclu said: What needs to be enabled or happen to let the ATR files work? Enable the PBI BIOS and Hard Disk settings in the main BIOS page, then go to the Loader and ATRs should be visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 55 minutes ago, DrVenkman said: Enable the PBI BIOS and Hard Disk settings in the main BIOS page, then go to the Loader and ATRs should be visible. That did wonders DrVenkman! It's a dream come true. Was hoping the Incogneto, back when I pre-ordered, would one day get the additional feature (that was not yet a thing then) of running ATR files. Also like how easy it is to change the time. Never thought a clock on the Atari 8-bit was all that important, but since it's here it's nice... Take this for a spin and see if all the bios changes improved the SIO performance and the random gibberish I used to experience after the 800 warmed up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) You don't need to go into the BIOS to change the time, just type TIME at the SpartaDOS prompt. Edited February 17, 2021 by BillC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 One last thing. Installed the new bios, it worked. Did somethings to improve the look of the computer, then Incogneto didn't fully work, but then I push in the chip next to the ribbon cable on the main 800 motherboard and it worked again. So did some final touches and, bear in mind this 800 was made from various 800 parts to begin with to test the Incogneto before installing in my regular 800 at the time. So continuing the parts theme, and since I like the look and feel of the 400 keyboard (as the 400 was my first Atari 8-bit), I completed the install of the 400 keyboard. As I told someone, the 400 keyboard is not great for a lot of typing, but perfect for not catching crumbs and food, and for the occasional key press. This has been a fun snow project in what has turned out to be a hellacious winter week for Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickJock Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 8 hours ago, doctorclu said: I never realized just how much smaller the 400's keyboard was, but this pic really shows the difference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 20 minutes ago, StickJock said: I never realized just how much smaller the 400's keyboard was, but this pic really shows the difference! Yeh the 400 is a wonderful compact machine. I like how the color scheme of the 400 and 800 match so well. So wonderful... late 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchennau Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) Well here goes nothing: I successfully got the Incognito to boot and all seems to work fine. I couldn’t get it to read the CF card. All else seemed good. And then the Atari went into what appears to be a continuous boot cycle to the BIOS screen. See video. I returned the system to stock and it works like a champ. https://photos.app.goo.gl/h73rprjt1HFRoaHbA IMG_1703.MOV Edited July 30, 2021 by rchennau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchennau Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 17 hours ago, rchennau said: Well here goes nothing: I successfully got the Incognito to boot and all seems to work fine. I couldn’t get it to read the CF card. All else seemed good. And then the Atari went into what appears to be a continuous boot cycle to the BIOS screen. See video. I returned the system to stock and it works like a champ. https://photos.app.goo.gl/h73rprjt1HFRoaHbA IMG_1703.MOV 9.24 MB · 1 download The reboot cycle was traced to a weak/bad connection between wire and pin 1,2 or 6. I reseated all and problem resolved. I am still encountering error 139. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) did you use a pc to format the cf card, did you use fjc fdisk and apt tools to set the card up? Edited July 31, 2021 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 12 hours ago, rchennau said: I am still encountering error 139. Have you actually put any APT partitions on the card? Logical drives will not magically appear when you put a FAT formatted CF card into the slot. https://atari8.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/APT-Software-Manual-8th-Edition.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchennau Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 15 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: did you use a pc to format the cf card, did you use fjc fdisk and apt tools to set the card up? Did you use a pc format the cf card : Yes Did you use fjc fdisk : error 139 NAK Did you use apt tools : error 139 NAK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchennau Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 11 hours ago, flashjazzcat said: Have you actually put any APT partitions on the card? Logical drives will not magically appear when you put a FAT formatted CF card into the slot. https://atari8.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/APT-Software-Manual-8th-Edition.pdf Understood. I get 139 Device NAK when attempting to use the apt-tools. I'm certain that something is blocking the software from detecting the InCognito PHI for HDD and I can't flash either as it give me 139 Device NAK. Are there further diagnosing tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 4 minutes ago, rchennau said: Understood. I get 139 Device NAK when attempting to use the apt-tools So how are you trying to access the tools? Do you have a copy of the ATR on the FAT partition of your CF card, mounting it in the Incognito Loader, and then running the tools from SDX? Alternately, do you have the 800 connected via an SIO2PC-USB serial device to your modern device running RespeQt, APE, etc. with the tools ATR mounted in one of the virtual ? slots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchennau Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, DrVenkman said: So how are you trying to access the tools? Do you have a copy of the ATR on the FAT partition of your CF card, mounting it in the Incognito Loader, and then running the tools from SDX? Alternately, do you have the 800 connected via an SIO2PC-USB serial device to your modern device running RespeQt, APE, etc. with the tools ATR mounted in one of the virtual ? slots? Mounting via FujiNet SD card. I have an old SIO2PC-USB I purchased a long time ago but I am Apple person now and haven’t tried it with RespeQt. The FujiNet is latest firmware and HW 1.3. I don’t have issue with loading off of FujiNet for SD or over internet (TNFS). Edited August 1, 2021 by rchennau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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