santosp Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Do you have any of those beautiful cases left / extra? Unfortunately no. Ordered and routed specific for this version of Ultimate Cartridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 The carts look great. I'm happy i got on the second list. It would be good to hear from some people on the first list as they receive theirs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritas Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 so...is it too late to get one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentarian Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 (edited) so...is it too late to get one? MacRorie has an Ultimate Cart run going on now: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/256980-ultimate-sd-cart-run-us-source-nov-30-ship-date-25-in-run/?p=3610625 Edited October 13, 2016 by Brentarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentarian Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I received my Ultimate SD Cart yesterday in the mail. I always feel like a kid at Christmas every time I open the mailbox and something Atari is there. The cart looks fantastic and I won't have to sacrifice a cart shell this time. I bought the "PCB Arrangement" Ult cart months ago from Santosp and totally destroyed an XE cart shell in the process. I ended up modifying a Spinnaker cart shell to fit the PCB and it worked quite well. It is definitely nice this time around to have one fully assembled. Many thanks to Electrotrains for his design, Santosp for constructing, and FJC for his revised BIOS. ? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Man - I wish I got one of the cased models! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDean Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) How does this work, i have siosd2 that i use, tried to run roms from this but they dont load. Would i be able to download rom images and load them on my 130xe with one of these ultimate carts. Edited October 15, 2016 by AtariDean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrotrains Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 How does this work, i have siosd2 that i use, tried to run roms from this but they dont load. Would i be able to download rom images and load them on my 130xe with one of these ultimate carts. Yes. It emulates pretty much every cartridge type up to 1 megabyte (8mbit) in size, and will also launch XEX files. It doesn't do disks though - so you'll need to keep your SIO2SD for ATR files. Robin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDean Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 CheeRs , wasn't to sure. Who do I pm to get on the order list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santosp Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 CheeRs , wasn't to sure. Who do I pm to get on the order list Look at the Nr.129 post here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Yes. It emulates pretty much every cartridge type up to 1 megabyte (8mbit) in size, and will also launch XEX files. It doesn't do disks though - so you'll need to keep your SIO2SD for ATR files. Robin Does it emulate the 1mbit and 8mbit Atarimax carts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozar Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Does it emulate the 1mbit and 8mbit Atarimax carts? Yes it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Those carts allow loading of ATR files, so maybe it's possible to use Maxflash studio to create 1mbit or 8mbit images with ATR's and then run those images and load the ATR. Has anyone tried this? I'm really looking forward to getting my cart when batch 2 is complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Those carts allow loading of ATR files, so maybe it's possible to use Maxflash studio to create 1mbit or 8mbit images with ATR's and then run those images and load the ATR. Has anyone tried this? I'm really looking forward to getting my cart when batch 2 is complete. Well, I did not convert an ATR image into a 1MBit or 8MBit ROM file yet, but have downloaded more than one-hundred of these ROM and CAR files at the atarimax forum. Many of the ROM / CAR files do load ATR images, you can hear some floppy-like noise - and all I have tested so far worked fine with the Ultimate Cart. So, in general, the Ultimate Cart cannot load ATR images directly (not yet), but if you use the Maxflash studio and convert ATR images into working maxflash ROM/CAR images, then the Ultimate Cart can load them. (Not all ATR images will work as maxflash ROM/CAR images though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Woo! Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Miccoli Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Today in my Home 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santosp Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Hey Marco, just thought Diana Ross here.... upside down 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Yes. It emulates pretty much every cartridge type up to 1 megabyte (8mbit) in size, and will also launch XEX files. It doesn't do disks though - so you'll need to keep your SIO2SD for ATR files. Robin Some Max flash cart games save data (new Pac-Man, Summer Games).Is it possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrotrains Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Philsan, Theoretically possible given the hardware, yes. But not supported at present. As far as I know, AtariMax has never publicly released the documentation on how to save data to an AtariMax cartridge. However, this is emulated by Altirra (which is open source) so I could base it on that. However, without the nod from AtariMax that he is ok with me doing this, I'm probably not going to add it. A second issue is lack on space in the current firmware. I'd have to really re-organise the current firmware to fit in the extra code to support writes to the SD card. Robin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1NG Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I have implemented writing to the cart for the Jim Slide Cart (which is final since saturday). I think it is easier than that: Writing is done like the flash chips documentation. But because of flash chips availibility there are different chips for Atarimax carts over the time. So you have to adress the two (!) chips of 512KB on the cart like in the documentation of the manufacturer of the flash chips. Since the chips ar nearly all the same (except for some minor details like erasing block size), Implementing a write is not Atarimax specific. It is done like in the flash documentation of the manufacturer. Basically the chip listens to the adresses and values, that are written to itself. If they form a specific code, then it is activates writing, erasing etc. A wait is necessary after each write and reading of the status result. It may happen, that writes to the chip fail. I got that Information from the The!cart team, especially hias. And I have downloaded the documentation for the actual used flash chips from the manufacturer. Writing from MADS Assembler looks like this: ; copy a byte into the flash at adress (source) to (dest) ; dest within A000-BFFF. ; source outside A000-BF00. ; Bank select in X WriteByteSST39SF040 ldy #0 jsr SigWriteCommand ; Send Command for writing a byte lda $D500,x lda (source),y sta (dest),y jsr WriteData ; Write to flash via DQ7 algorithm bne WriteError1 lda #0 writeError1 rts ; DQ7 polling algorithm WriteData lda (dest),Y and #$80 ; Highest bit sta AtariMaxBit7 WriteDoneLoop lda (dest),Y eor AtariMaxBit7 bpl WriteOK ; done if bit 7 is inverted and #$20 ; check Bit 5 beq WriteDoneLoop lda (dest),Y eor AtariMaxBit7 bpl WriteOK jsr SetReadMode ; error accured! lda #$FF rts WriteOK lda #$00 rts SetReadMode ldx #5 jsr Wait lda AtariMaxModuleType bne @+ ModulePokeA $80000,$F0 ; write $F0 to any memory location ($80000 means second chip only!) rts @ jsr SigIntroCommand ; write common signature intro ModulePokeA $85555,$F0 ; lda $d500 ; set bank (for reading ID etc) rts ; send common signature intro SigIntroCommand lda AtariMaxModuleType bne @+ ModulePokeA $80555,$AA ModulePokeA $802AA,$55 rts @ ModulePokeA $85555,$AA ModulePokeA $82AAA,$55 rts SigWriteCommand jsr SigIntroCommand lda AtariMaxModuleType bne @+ ModulePokeA $80555,$A0 rts ModulePokeA $85555,$A0 rts Wait ldy #0 ; wait X times 5 us @ dey bne @- dex bne @- rts .macro ModulePokeZP ; ModulePoke $5555, a ; ModulePoke :1 cmp $D500+(:1/$2000) ; 8k = $2000 "high" as banks access sta $A000+(:1)-((:1/$2000)*$2000) ; 8k low as store .endm .macro ModulePoke ; ModulePoke $5555, constant ; ModulePoke :1 :2 ldx $D500+(:1/$2000) ; 8k = $2000 "high" as banks access ldx #:2 stx $A000+(:1)-((:1/$2000)*$2000) ; 8k low as store .endm .macro ModulePokeA ; ModulePoke $5555, constant ; ModulePoke :1 :2 lda $D500+(:1/$2000) ; 8k = $2000 "high" as banks access lda #:2 sta $A000+(:1)-((:1/$2000)*$2000) ; 8k low as store .endm The documentation for the used chips is all over the internet. http://www.metatech.com.hk/datasheet/sst/standard_mem_pdf/398-39SF040-03-DS.pdf Similar other chips are there too. If you put in write support, then Jim Slide+ can save to the cart. This means, that playing adventure mode a second time on another day can be continued. Jim Slide also has support for erasing the saved data - Not the game of course :-). And BTW: Altirras emulation works perfectly, it even asks to save if the cart has changed (because Jim Slide+ had saved data) And I would like to have one cart of these! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santosp Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Update!! FPGA's loaded today and expected to arrive here in 2 days. So it's time for this second batch also to complete! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santosp Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 One more and I think the last update! All cartridges from second and last batch are ready for shipping. Members have already informed to proceed with rest of payments on their PayPal mails. Thank you all! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinez Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Got it! Just received a new cartridge from the 2nd batch Haven't tested it yet. For now I can just say, it's a cute little piece of hardware Thank you santosp,Are you in the mood to elaborate some Turbo Freezers now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimvodka Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 mine just came in the mail today.... thanks Santosp!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Tracking says mine is waiting for me at home. Wish I could sneak out early. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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