accousticguitar Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 I'm using Windows 7 and it won't recognize the flash cart. The manual says go to the website for more drivers but I can't find any there. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 I'm using Windows 7 and it won't recognize the flash cart. The manual says go to the website for more drivers but I can't find any there. Any ideas? If you follow the link to the download page for the GUI, it also has a link for the FTDI drivers. I believe the GUI also has a link within it for installing the drivers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 I'm using Windows 7 and it won't recognize the flash cart. The manual says go to the website for more drivers but I can't find any there. Any ideas? Strange that Windows didn't just install the drivers. But, as intvnut mentioned, there's a handy menu item to take you to the Virtual COM Port Driver install page: EDIT: "Jewel">>LTO Flash!>>FTDI Virtual COM Port Driver>>Visit FTDI Driver Download Page (the "Jewel" is the little Intellivision icon in the upper left corner) Mac Users: There's a similar menu under Tools>>LTO Flash!. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Update to the LTO Flash UI is available. For Windows users, "drag scroll" is there now. I.e. when you are moving something around in the menu, it'll scroll when you hit the top or bottom. It's a relatively small area, but you'll get the idea. Also, you can right click and sort ascending or descending in the menu (on folders, for example). There were a couple of <ahem> bug fixes, too. Thanks for the patience for those who encountered them and tried the fixes. And thanks to the intrepid souls who tested out the sort feature early! It should perform a bit faster than the one you brave testers had. (sure hope nothing got busted!) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Strange that Windows didn't just install the drivers. But, as intvnut mentioned, there's a handy menu item to take you to the Virtual COM Port Driver install page: Thanks for posting the screen shot. I was posting from a phone in an airport earlier, hence text-only. (Still at the airport, but at least on a Mac now.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 BTW, I added a note on the website that the link for the GUI also includes driver download links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 My Windows 7 computer is not hooked up to the internet. Could somebody post the url so I can go there and copy the drivers onto a flash drive and put them on my Windows 7 computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) My Windows 7 computer is not hooked up to the internet. Could somebody post the url so I can go there and copy the drivers onto a flash drive and put them on my Windows 7 computer? Here is the direct link to the FTDI drivers page for all systems, including Windows: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm And here is the direct link for the Windows FTDI drivers. http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.18%20WHQL%20Certified.zip EDIT: And I keep forgetting, there's a direct installer executable for Windows here: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM21218_Setup.zip Fortunately, FTDI's site isn't one of those that tries to guess what type of system you're visiting from, so you should be able to visit FTDI's site from nearly any Internet-connected machine* and download the drivers for whatever computer you need to, whether or not that computer is connected to the net. In theory, you could even download the FTDI drivers to your phone, if you have a way to get the drivers off your phone to your computer, such as a USB cable. _______ *I say nearly any, because if there's anywhere on the net someone will complain they can't download it with their Commodore 64, it'll be AtariAge. *chuckle* Edited October 9, 2016 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 *I say nearly any, because if there's anywhere on the net someone will complain they can't download it with their Commodore 64, it'll be AtariAge. *chuckle* Tru dat! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I tried downloading via ECS, and I think this is a feature that should be supported in the next release. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) Maybe my new Aquarius modem comes now to good use. Edited October 9, 2016 by Intymike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Here is the direct link to the FTDI drivers page for all systems, including Windows: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm And here is the direct link for the Windows FTDI drivers. http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.18%20WHQL%20Certified.zip EDIT: And I keep forgetting, there's a direct installer executable for Windows here: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM21218_Setup.zip Fortunately, FTDI's site isn't one of those that tries to guess what type of system you're visiting from, so you should be able to visit FTDI's site from nearly any Internet-connected machine* and download the drivers for whatever computer you need to, whether or not that computer is connected to the net. In theory, you could even download the FTDI drivers to your phone, if you have a way to get the drivers off your phone to your computer, such as a USB cable. _______ *I say nearly any, because if there's anywhere on the net someone will complain they can't download it with their Commodore 64, it'll be AtariAge. *chuckle* Thanks, I will give that a try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 (edited) I tried downloading via ECS, and I think this is a feature that should be supported in the next release. Testing is a bit tough with the built-in 300bps cassette modem in the ECS. (click to animate) Edited October 9, 2016 by intvnut 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Testing is a bit tough with the built-in 300bps cassette modem in the ECS. cdm_dl.gif (click to animate) Wait, this only has 58 seconds of download time... How big would a GIF of the entire download be? ... let's see.. 19:11:03 / 00:00:58 * 41.7KB = ... 48.6 MB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 (edited) Wait, this only has 58 seconds of download time... How big would a GIF of the entire download be? ... let's see.. 19:11:03 / 00:00:58 * 41.7KB = ... 48.6 MB I get a slightly different number. It's about 9.83 bytes per frame, and the total file size is 2071898. At 30CPS, that's 2 frames per byte, so you're looking at 2071898 * 2 * 9.83 = ~40.7MB. (using 1,000,000 for 1MB) I suspect it'd be only slightly more interesting than this extended dance remix of John Cage's 4'33". Edited October 10, 2016 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I get a slightly different number. It's about 9.83 bytes per frame, and the total file size is 2071898. At 30CPS, that's 2 frames per byte, so you're looking at 2071898 * 2 * 9.83 = ~40.7MB. (using 1,000,000 for 1MB) I suspect it'd be only slightly more interesting than this extended dance remix of John Cage's 4'33". Hmm... I'm not seeing 9.83 bytes / frame. I get 81.78 GIF bytes / GIF frame (42771 GIF bytes / 523 GIF frames) or 3.32 FDTI bytes / GIF frame (1739 FDTI bytes / 523 GIF frames). Also, I used 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB. That said, I think your idea to use download bytes is better than the estimated remaining-download-time I used. The current GIF has 42711 bytes, 523 frames, and animates the downloading of 1739 FDTI bytes (out of 2071898 bytes). The final GIF should be 1191.43 times larger than the current GIF (based on 2071898 / 1739 for the FDTI driver). Thus, the final GIF should be 42771 * 1191.43 = 48.60 MB. I think this number comes out close to the first estimate since there isn't much jitter in the CPS. I agree that this is probably only about as exciting as... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mHPeMGTJM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Hmm... I'm not seeing 9.83 bytes / frame. I get 81.78 GIF bytes / GIF frame (42771 GIF bytes / 523 GIF frames) or 3.32 FDTI bytes / GIF frame (1739 FDTI bytes / 523 GIF frames). Also, I used 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB. Here's something interesting. I was using 4351 NTSC frames for my calculation, as that was what imvtogif reported: . Decoded 4351 source frames (3829 dupes, 0 dropped) Encoded 522 unique frames Encoded 42771 bytes (9 bytes/source frame, 81 bytes/unique frame) . At 60fps, that would be ~72 seconds. I suspect that's the real crux of the difference in our calculation. There really is only 58 seconds of download time shown in the GIF, which suggests my download timer is running slow if the NTSC frame counter is correct. Good thing I haven't released that yet. I wouldn't want anyone to get concerned about my timekeeping. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 It still runs faster than the Xbone simulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Testing is a bit tough with the built-in 300bps cassette modem in the ECS. cdm_dl.gif (click to animate) In a few days, there will be an "Out of Memory" display on screen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Here is the direct link to the FTDI drivers page for all systems, including Windows: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm And here is the direct link for the Windows FTDI drivers. http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.18%20WHQL%20Certified.zip EDIT: And I keep forgetting, there's a direct installer executable for Windows here: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM21218_Setup.zip Fortunately, FTDI's site isn't one of those that tries to guess what type of system you're visiting from, so you should be able to visit FTDI's site from nearly any Internet-connected machine* and download the drivers for whatever computer you need to, whether or not that computer is connected to the net. In theory, you could even download the FTDI drivers to your phone, if you have a way to get the drivers off your phone to your computer, such as a USB cable. _______ *I say nearly any, because if there's anywhere on the net someone will complain they can't download it with their Commodore 64, it'll be AtariAge. *chuckle* That did the trick. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nurmix Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I agree that this is probably only about as exciting as... I'm partial to this one, myself: https://youtu.be/nGA-GCq7JWM Sent from my Intellivision ECS using Intelli-Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I'm partial to this one, myself: https://youtu.be/nGA-GCq7JWM Sent from my Intellivision ECS using Intelli-Tapatalk This one is quite exciting: https://youtu.be/Lph7agMb1po Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I set up a timelapse to literally watch grass grow, out at a backcountry site I frequent. Added highlight: watch a lake freeze over, then thaw in the spring! Video proof that Canada's winters are indeed 6 months long. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I set up a timelapse to literally watch grass grow, out at a backcountry site I frequent. Added highlight: watch a lake freeze over, then thaw in the spring! Video proof that Canada's winters are indeed 6 months long. Or a few days long if you're on the left coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I think there has been a light dusting of snow only twice in my entire life here in sunny NorCal. if it gets below 72 degrees we pull out our winterwear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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