eflake Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) I want to slap a few images onto a usb stick and feed through the SIO2 port on an Atari 800. What product should I look for or use? Don't want to have to buy a 1050 drive to play games :/ Edited June 2, 2018 by eflake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I want to slap a few images onto a usb stick and feed through the SIO2 port on an Atari 800. What product should I look for or use? Don't want to have to buy a 1050 drive to play games :/ That's not gonna work as-is. The Atari SIO protocol has no way to "talk" to a USB stick. However, there are any number of ways to connect the SIO port on your Atari to a modern PC, Mac, Linux box (including a Raspberry Pi) or an Arduino and accomplish the same thing. You can also buy an SIO2SD device (Lotharek in Poland sells them and there are units available on eBay) which will let you put files on an SD card, select them with a tiny display on the device and boot them on the Atari. Another option is a flash-memory cartridge (lots of possibilities there these days - there's a sticky thread in the main 8-bit forum that discusses current options). Some of those can handle .ATR disk images, .XEX executable files and/or .CAR cartridge rom images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Hello Herb Eflake is talking about the SIO2USB, not the SIO2PCviaUSB. Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Well, what do you know. I've never heard of that one. Looks great. I was thrown off by his posting in the RespeQt subforum. I presumed he wanted to connect to a machine running RespeQt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Unless the OP is fixated on thumb drives, any of Herb's suggestions will work just as well, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Hello Jon But how many of those are still actively supported by their developers? Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 All of them, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eflake Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) Sorry I didnt mean to post in this forum as it was specific to the topic. Thanks, I wouldn't mind a portable solution but also open to the 'to-pc' connection if i have to squint my eyes to read the display Edited June 2, 2018 by eflake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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