tmp Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 i don't think it's here, probably stuck somewhere else, maybe austria (i think majority of airmail from here goes through there), unfortunately there's never a tracking info after it leaves slovakia and before it's scanned in the destination country (and i've also seen royal mail not scanning stuff at all a few times, basically downgrading it to unregistered and untracked although they always delivered so far) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Even though mail is less used in business for message delivery you would think in these times that they would try and keep this simple channel open just to aid both people and business. Our post service here where I am are still firing on all cylinders, I just had mail about 20 mins ago at the usual time. I don't expect zero disruption but a suspension of service seems strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 I'm sure it will turn up some time, and obviously I do not hold you responsible. I knew the risk when I ordered. I have checked the royal snail site and that just give the same info. Royal snail are being really slow at the moment, it took 2 weeks for them to deliver a birthday card to my friend 50 miles away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mclaneinc said: Even though mail is less used in business for message delivery you would think in these times that they would try and keep this simple channel open just to aid both people and business. Our post service here where I am are still firing on all cylinders, I just had mail about 20 mins ago at the usual time. I don't expect zero disruption but a suspension of service seems strange. if there are no flights in or out of a country then there is no way to deliver, and as there are less flights even to countries that are open then there will be delays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Worley Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 14 minutes ago, Mclaneinc said: Even though mail is less used in business for message delivery you would think in these times that they would try and keep this simple channel open just to aid both people and business. Our post service here where I am are still firing on all cylinders, I just had mail about 20 mins ago at the usual time. I don't expect zero disruption but a suspension of service seems strange. Here the mail, which I have until recently been quite proud of, turned off all business mail for several weeks. The states and municipalities had closed for business and made being open illegal, so the mail service enforced that by refusing to deliver. I have had to visit the disease vector ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ post office numerous times in the time intervening to retrieve our business mail. Residential mail has remained uninterrupted and timely. Best, Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Maybe I'm being harsh but the way I look at it is people in these situations no matter what they are look for some form of normality to keep their head focused on it not being out of control around them, be it a post office delivery person out on the road to Pizza's being delivered, if people stop seeing these people we start to worry more. It just makes me wonder why after all the pandemics the world has seen spreading across other countries why we still have no central system to kick in to cope with certain important area's. The second we simply shut down supply routes with no backup then serious issues start mounting. Stopping people spreading is important but supply shipments can be put through the mist machines (that's a simple term for them). Stopping all flights of people makes sense but kick in a plan to keep supply running, it can be done but we simply don't seem to have a global strategy, sure some countries are less able but there's enough military might to keep services going. All this for an AVG cart, probably not but keeping a flow would be nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 I'm still patiently waiting for my cables from China - Bought April 26 on ebay. Last tracking info: April 30th - Planned air transportation, flight number CZ327, departure time 21：00 Guangzhou, Guangdong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Wow...My cables must have caught the legendary "last boat from China".. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 26 minutes ago, NISMOPC said: I'm still patiently waiting for my cables from China - Bought April 26 on ebay. Last tracking info: April 30th - Planned air transportation, flight number CZ327, departure time 21：00 Guangzhou, Guangdong I ordered the same day and mine arrived 2 days ago, so yours should be any day now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, AtariGeezer said: I ordered the same day and mine arrived 2 days ago, so yours should be any day now... Are you still offering yours? how much should be to mail one in an envelop to Wash, DC area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 13 minutes ago, AtariGeezer said: I ordered the same day and mine arrived 2 days ago, so yours should be any day now... That would be nice. I'm not out much in terms of $$, but still would like to receive them at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, manterola said: Are you still offering yours? how much should be to mail one in an envelop to Wash, DC area? Yep, shouldn't be more than $2 in a letter envelope with extra postage with the weight. Send me your address... Edit, same for you -DOC- Edited May 22, 2020 by AtariGeezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Hello guys I work for a company that delivers packages for Royal Mail in our region. Sometimes packages aren't delivered for weeks after they arrive at our company. A) because we only get € 1,50 per package, meaning they have zero priority, B) if you're not at home when we arrive at your door and your neighbors are not willing or able to accept the package for you, you don't get a notice that we have a package for you and you also don't get a number you can call (not my choice, not the choice of my colleagues), C) because management doesn't have a clue when it comes to planning (not just my opinion, but widely shared within the company). BTW most English people have no clue how to pack something. We see books wrapped in nothing but a sheet of plastic we in NL use for garbage bags. And that's just one example of what we see. If you want something to be sent internationally, use an international company like DHL, FedEx, etc. They handle your package from sender to addressee. All others (former national postage companies that have gone privat) have contracts with small subcarriers that are chosen by price only. Plus "one carrier" means "one track and trace system". Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmp Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 10 hours ago, Mathy said: If you want something to be sent internationally, use an international company like DHL, FedEx, etc. the only issue is that it usually costs more than the actual product which is not that great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshe vazana Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I want to order avg cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Hello tmp I know. And it sucks. Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) I'm probably having a senior moment so don't shout at me Trying to workout how to run a Translator that then reruns the cart. I've got stuff on the cart that is OSA or B but its a 65XE. Translators disks seem to do a warm reset to boot any disk but I want the AVG to re-run. Senior moment? EDIT: Think I've sussed one easy way, make sure the game is on an ATR and use tab to select the Translator and then the other disk you want to run, run the tRanslator and then press the right button to cycle to the next disk you selected and then hit select...In my head that seems to work...Now to try it... Small problem if both files are not in the same directory, the multi tagging only works per directory...Not a big issue but wasn't expecting that Edit: Yes that works if you put them in the same dir and swap over Edited May 24, 2020 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmp Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 that should work but only via sio mod (otherwise translator would kill the patched os needed for standard atr emulation) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) Aha, the mod makes it possible...Excellent...This mod is getting better and better by the minute! Cheers tmp, the tab thing isn't a problem, its not exactly hard to drop a copy of a translator in to any separate directories..Some people like me have directories for different genre's rather than one big ATR / ATX dir.. Apart from that, the bigger the dir the longer the navigation time. I don't know if its just my machine but when I run the cart from cold the cursor always goes to the bottom now, thought it might be the joystick but no and I've got zero stuck keys, one you use either cursor keys or joystick the cursor stays where you leave it, its just from cold.... Edited May 24, 2020 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 are there some titles in need of an XL/XE patch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I doubt it Mark, I think most have been patched but to test the cart SIO out I just dumped directories on it just to throw stuff at it, I'll look through my collection properly for any OSA / B titles to replace with patched stuff. Can't imagine there's any bit not patched these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 I would love it if the tabs-drive # assignment persisted across directories or even a screen update for that matter..... ctr-r re read etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder666 Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Mine's now up and running with the SIO firmware. A little different to others, I'm really pleased with the result. 3.5mm 4 pole jack socket in the corner, with the tabs bent down to fit, corner of pcb cut away, with an area filed for the cable. If I do this again. I'll just take the entire corner out, much less filing to fit afterwards. Filed lip on the other cart shell, where the cable goes. Final pic, Gridrunner loaded from "tape". Beta firmware does odd stuff when HSIO is enabled on U1MB as tmp and myself found out today. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Those headphone/mic/iphone jacks always get static/noisy on me after a while... I have to de-oxit them to make them clear up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickJock Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I don't know if it will be an issue with your setup, but there is a possibility that inserting/removing the plug may short adjacent contacts. Back in the 80's, I rigged up a remote plug in the top of the A-pillar trim for my radar detector so that I wouldn't have to have the cord hanging down to the cigarette lighter, and it would be easy to remove the detector so that it wouldn't be a theft target. My first attempt had a short wire going from the detector to the A-pillar with an 1/8" phono plug on the end, with the jack in the top of the A-pillar trim. Every time I plugged it in, I blew the fuse. After going through several fuses, and checking my work, I realized that the plug tip was shorting between the two contacts on the jack. Argh! I ended up going with an RCA plug on the end of the wire to the detector with a little RCA jack sticking out near the top of the A-trim. That worked great for years. The RCA jack was still in place when I sold the car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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