Farb Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've played a little bit with Raspberry Pi and it's a pretty cool device with obvious limitations. One idea that immediately came to mind was using it as an SIO emulator since it's got a ton of memory and could easily accommodate some pretty advanced capabilities. Since it's running Linux, it should be able to leverage a lot of existing code (AspeQT for example). I'm thinking a standalone Raspberry Pi-based device with a touchscreen controller like this would be pretty cool: http://www.4dsystems.com.au/prod.php?id=114 Thoughts? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'd search the forum. It's already been done. Not on a mass production scale, though. Also, did you check the prices on those screens? They're priced at $79-$139 which kind of defeats the purpose of a cheap Arduino based solution.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) I didn't see any devices announced on the forum other than those that are display-less or use 4 line LCD displays. What project are you referring to specifically? I guess the goal here would not be a cheap solution but rather a robust, full-featured one. The Arduinos have limited RAM which makes it difficult to include more advanced features. Edited January 24, 2013 by Farb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 you can port sio2bsd easly, i just recompilled it for arm9 platform i had laying around http://drac030.krap.pl/en-inne-pliki.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cas Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've played a little bit with Raspberry Pi and it's a pretty cool device with obvious limitations. One idea that immediately came to mind was using it as an SIO emulator since it's got a ton of memory and could easily accommodate some pretty advanced capabilities. Since it's running Linux, it should be able to leverage a lot of existing code (AspeQT for example). I'm thinking a standalone Raspberry Pi-based device with a touchscreen controller like this would be pretty cool: http://www.4dsystems...prod.php?id=114 Thoughts? AtariServer from HIAS is (for my taste) the best Linux SIO2PC solution (but I'm a textmode console kind of guy) --> http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#atarisio I was planning to discuss a SIO2USB follow-up product based on RasPi and AtariServer with the SIO2USB team during a meeting in February. The RasPi could also serve as a network card for the Atari. An Arduino Solution is nice, but less accessible and extensible (compared with the RasPi), and without Ethernet. The price tag is almost the same, so I would prefer a solution based on RasPi. -- Carsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 Thanks, I will take a look at both of those projects and see what I can get running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 (edited) Btw: SIO emulation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKYgVIPCsfo ST is loading all the data, then it serves as a disk . From 1:11 it turns into communications between the 2 programs. Written in 1988 Had to buy a "new" ST for making the video .... the old one passed to computerheaven ( ) during the 1st try of recording this. Edited February 3, 2013 by emkay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I used ST as floppy emulator in the past (XL-ST link and 800XLDJ) but have not seen this game. Is it somehere for download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 From only a passing skimread of the specs (spoken like a true driver engineer ) it certainly looks possible, and possibly easier than doing a commodore equivalent. software-wise I would possibly use RISC OS on the pi, as that way you get a GUI and filesystem, then you can just ignore it and hammer the machine natively to get the timings right (or at least you could in the 90s, I assume the 'ignoring the OS is as good as turning it off' approach still works and you can still reset the ARM vectors) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) I have written a short article about Raspberr Pi (working as SIO Device): http://www.atariage....pi-as-a-floppy/ Edited February 19, 2013 by TheMontezuma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Nice - you've just solved the interface circuitry bit I was concerned about. Looks like you might've also sorted out the SIO side of things too, so I guess that leaves me to attempt the commodore serial bus instead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Please write a POST if you find a way to make RPi talking to C64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibus Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Please write a POST if you find a way to make RPi talking to C64 (Apologies in advance if responding to an old post is frowned on - but he DID ask... It just took 5 years...) I was actually searching via google on using an RPi to talk to an Atari via SIO - and one of the links it threw my way was this one: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46482 Spoiler alert - the initial posts in the thread pooh pooh that the idea is even possible - then someone out of the blue proves them wrong... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krawhitham Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 found this https://cowboy3398.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/raspberry-pi-zero-w-as-an-atari-8-bit-drive/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 found this https://cowboy3398.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/raspberry-pi-zero-w-as-an-atari-8-bit-drive/ We have an entire sub forum pinned to the top of the page. There’s a plethora of info there about running RespeQt on a Pi (I do myself). I gather the OP is looking for something more bare-metal without a desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Many times I just run sio2linux. A very easy to compile C program. I guess can be compile for RPi. It does not have many features but sometimes I need to try an ATR and I can do it very fast from the command line with this utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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