+slx Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Is there any software that allows the 10502PC (in my case a combination SIO2PC/10502PC from Atari8Warez) to be used on a Mac, i.e. giving the Mac direct access to the 1050 drive? The documentation seems to mention ProSystem only but AFAIK that's Windows software. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 (edited) I don't think so but what exactly are you trying to achieve? To write ATR's from my Mac to disk with my Happy 1050, my usual method is to stick an SIO2PC at the end of the SIO chain. Use SIO2OSX/Aspeqt/SIOServer to act as drive 2. Leave emulated D1: turned off because this is our real floppy drive. Fire up Happy Sector copier booting from 1050. Set D2: as source and D1: as destination. Other sector copiers work but this one is my preference because I can hand type the start and end sectors for weird ATR images. And I have a Happy Drive. I have had good luck with other software too. You could go the other way around with this too, just stick a blank image in emulated D2:, format it and use it as destination to copy a real floppy to ATR. I have had no problem mixing emulated and real devices in chain as long as I pay attention to the drive ID. Edited September 28, 2014 by kogden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 I don't think so but what exactly are you trying to achieve? To write ATR's from my Mac to disk with my Happy 1050, my usual method is to stick an SIO2PC at the end of the SIO chain. What I'm trying to achieve is to archive a couple dozen old discs to .ATRs. I am aware of the setup you posted but would have preferred not to have to set up an 8-bit-System next to my Mac to do this. I hoped to be able to hook up the disc drive only to the Mac and use a Mac based software to read the files and copy them to .ATRs. If the 10502PC functionality does not work with Mac software I'll rather use a SIO2SD with "pre-made" .ATRs, leave my Atari where it is and just carry the SD card to the Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 First let me say that I'm not an Apple guy at all. But, having said that, have you considered using Parallels to run Windows XP or 2000 on the mac and then using ProSystem? I don't know if it will work because of timing issues, but if you have nothing else running, it may work. Just an idea.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 What I'm trying to achieve is to archive a couple dozen old discs to .ATRs. I am aware of the setup you posted but would have preferred not to have to set up an 8-bit-System next to my Mac to do this. I hoped to be able to hook up the disc drive only to the Mac and use a Mac based software to read the files and copy them to .ATRs. APE ProSystem will run inside a virtual Win7 installation running inside VirtualBox. That's what I did when I imaged about 100 floppy disk sides into .ATR files a couple months back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 Thanks. Any experience with Wine which would be a bit more lightweight than VirtualBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Thanks. Any experience with Wine which would be a bit more lightweight than VirtualBox? I just checked - it also runs under CrossOver, so it should work fine with WINE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Yeah, unfortunately, nothing to run the 1050 straight from OSX that I know of. In my current setup, I have my 130XE next to my Hackintosh which makes it fairly convenient. With my setup, I just wish the "shared folder" features of Aspeqt were a little less limited. I seem to have issues with big files and/or SDX a lot. Being able to copy ATR images to an SDFS partition on my IDE+ without having to jump through hoops would be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I will add the 10502PC functionality to AspeQt hopefully before the end of 2014. I know it is quite inconvenient to depend on a proprietary software that only runs in Windows but that's the way it is for the time being. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madi Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I will add the 10502PC functionality to AspeQt hopefully before the end of 2014. I know it is quite inconvenient to depend on a proprietary software that only runs in Windows but that's the way it is for the time being. What a great news. Can't wait.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I just wish the "shared folder" features of Aspeqt were a little less limited. I seem to have issues with big files and/or SDX a lot. Can you be a little more specific, i recently fixed an issue with folder images where copying a large file was entering an endless loop. Is there any other issues that need attention? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Um... no that was the issue. LOL I must have an older version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I don't think so but what exactly are you trying to achieve? To write ATR's from my Mac to disk with my Happy 1050, my usual method is to stick an SIO2PC at the end of the SIO chain. Use SIO2OSX/Aspeqt/SIOServer to act as drive 2. Leave emulated D1: turned off because this is our real floppy drive. I was unable to mix the SIO2PC/10502PC with a real 1050. Forced to unplug the SIO2PC/10502PC from the 1050 in order for the Atari to see the real drive. Yes I had the DIP set right. tried it as D1 and D2 using the opposite in the SIO server (tried with both SIO2OSX and SIOServer). Aspeqt won't complete a boot - Stops at track 37. BTW, is there any way to get the emulator to boot from the real 1050? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) I was unable to mix the SIO2PC/10502PC with a real 1050. Forced to unplug the SIO2PC/10502PC from the 1050 in order for the Atari to see the real drive. Yes I had the DIP set right. tried it as D1 and D2 using the opposite in the SIO server (tried with both SIO2OSX and SIOServer). Aspeqt won't complete a boot - Stops at track 37. BTW, is there any way to get the emulator to boot from the real 1050? Do you happen to be using a 65XE or 130XE? If so, the caps which look a lot like resistors on the SIO connector in the machine may need to be removed. I often had issues with more than an SIO device or 2 in the chain because of this. If your an 400/800 or XL user, this is a non-issue. Basically, make sure your real 1050 is D1:. Make sure Aspeqt has no disks or directories mounted in D1. Every once in a while, I see Aspeqt attempt to respond to requests for D1: even with nothing in there but not every time. Now, I did just check and make sure Aspeqt will work in this config but it did screw up on me once like it did with you. After that it seemed to work ok. It may help to make sure your 1050 is on when you fire up Aspeqt. As for booting the emulator from a 1050, that's probably not happening with Atari800MacX. Aspeqt is very finicky for me even with the latest version. Edited October 16, 2014 by kogden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 For the record, here's my hardware setup.... Stock 130XE/modded 576K 800XL SIO Chain from 1st to last device: Atari XL/XE -> Happy 1050 -> 850 (serial/parallel) -> USB SIO2PC (1-chip FTDI FT232RL) On the Mac side my current config is: Core2Quad (4x3.0GHz) Hackintosh w/ 4GB RAM and OSX 10.9.4 MacBook Air (dual-core i5) w/ 4GB RAM running OSX 10.9.4 With my XE, having more than 1 device in chain often causes problems. I haven't modified it to remove caps yet so I often have to bypass the 1050 or the 850 to keep it working stable with SIO2PC. With the 800XL, I have zero problems. I've also had this working in 10.6.8 before I upgraded my Hackintosh as well. It's worked well for me for years so it most likely boils down to configuration and/or whether you have that ugly cluster of caps in your machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I had to remove the caps on SIO on my 1200XL for my PoKey FIFO to work at high speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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