telengard Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have this set to auto boot on my Sio2SD and it works a treat on my 800XL and 130XE, but for some reason w/ the 800 it loads fine, but doesn't respond to joystick input (and seemingly keyboard input). Anyone successfully using this combination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Never used it with the older machines. In theory the loader might be incompatible but this is the first I've heard of such a problem. Are you running a recent firmware version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Never used it with the older machines. In theory the loader might be incompatible but this is the first I've heard of such a problem. Are you running a recent firmware version? Pretty sure I am running the latest. The version of the sio2sd.xex is definitely the latest, 3.5. I wonder if there is something in one of the config files that maybe is keeping it from working after using it on other machines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Isn't SIO2SD.XEX the configuration tool? Fairly sure the booted menu comes automatically as result of having an active drive with nothing mounted. Not sure what file that's contained in. But worth your while researching configuration stuff - I've not used my SIO2SD in over 2 years so I'm a bit rusty on info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Isn't SIO2SD.XEX the configuration tool? Fairly sure the booted menu comes automatically as result of having an active drive with nothing mounted. Not sure what file that's contained in. But worth your while researching configuration stuff - I've not used my SIO2SD in over 2 years so I'm a bit rusty on info. Hmm, possibly. I use it as a file chooser (it works quite well). On the working systems you can traverse the SD card with a joystick. On the 800, it loads up fine, just no input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemiel Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Disable Top Drive on xl/xe and try again on 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Disable Top Drive on xl/xe and try again on 800. Thanks for the suggestion! When you say disable, do you mean clear it of any entry? Or is there a way to disable one of the drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMartian Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thanks for the suggestion! When you say disable, do you mean clear it of any entry? Or is there a way to disable one of the drives? Top drive is an actual option.. Not meaning the highest number drive.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Top drive is an actual option.. Not meaning the highest number drive.. Gotcha, thanks. So, I have my SIO2SD Micro attached to my 130XE and neither holding K4 on boot or holding Shift for 5 seconds is dropping me into the config. I also see that the config is binary not text so I can't go edit by hand. Am I doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Check which firmware you are running... I think the latest SIO2SD.XEX needs v3.x of the firmware. I believe that Lotharek's devices, for example, still ship with v2.5 (because 3.x is technically a beta). Either that or try and older version of the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knimrod Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Ran into this same problem: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/230538-sio2sd-with-atari-800/?do=findComment&comment=3087209 Whatever the reason, it doesn't work on the 800 but works on my 800XL. As stated, it's probably some incompatibility with the 800 OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) I'm pretty sure that it can work on 800... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/230538-sio2sd-with-atari-800/?hl=%2Bsio2sd+%2B800&do=findComment&comment=3087814 Edited April 13, 2015 by bbking67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knimrod Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I'm pretty sure that it can work on 800... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/230538-sio2sd-with-atari-800/?hl=%2Bsio2sd+%2B800&do=findComment&comment=3087814 No... The discussion is about the sio2sd.xex on-screen loader. This feature does not appear to work on the 800 as stated in the thread you mentioned (which is also the thread I posted above).. However, the SIO2SD unit itself works just fine as a drive emulator if the image is selected from the SIO2SD buttons first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Okay sorry... I didn't pick that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Wow, thanks for the info. Looks like I'll stick w/ the XL/XE for now and use SIO2PC if I'm using the 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Took a look at the binary... looks like it's hardcoded to the XL/XE OS, probably unnecessarily. It uses KEYDEF to translate keyboard scan codes, which is at least a documented XL/XE OS feature, but it also has an illegal jump into the OS at $F983 for the key click sound that OS-B definitely doesn't support. I can't get it running far enough in emulation to test it but this is probably not too difficult to patch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Give this a shot -- I patched in a replacement keyboard table and key click routine into page six, which seems to fix the lockup under OS-B and should let it work with non-XL/XE OSes. Sio2SD-v35fixed.xex 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Awesome! Thanks for doing that. I will try it out tonight on the 800 and report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knimrod Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thank you! Will try this today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Got around to trying it out last night and it works perfectly on my 800! Thanks so much for doing the changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Wow that is completely awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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