manterola Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 The Atari FAQ mentions several versions of the Rverter handler. It explicitly says that the original handler developed by AID supports flow control. The sx212 handler from S.P.A.C.E. that I downloaded from umich also mentioned flow control. But all those versions are basically lost. Or at least not easily available. For example someone here once uploaded an scan of the original AID Rverter source code, but I have never been able to find an image of the drivers disk. Maybe somebody here have it?.... And what about the fast Rverter handler included with bobterm? It is available but Does it support Hardware flow control?. Have anybody tested it? Or How do I test if it is really working? Like setting some Sio signal to ground and check if the terminal really stop the transmission, or something like that... In summary, any help/knowledge regarding this piece of software would be appreciated 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Probably software flow control. AKA XON/XOFF. Did you see specific mention of 'hardware' flow control? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 I have heard of this, and have been looking for it forever. Good luck with the search! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHobbit Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 But all those versions are basically lost. Or at least not easily available. For example someone here once uploaded an scan of the original AID Rverter source code, but I have never been able to find an image of the drivers disk. Maybe somebody here have it?.... It was me that uploaded the scan of the AID Rverter source code. At the time I said I had a disk somewhere hand-labelled "Rverter" but I had no way to read it. I can't remember where I got it, probably from a contact on an old 8-bit BBS I used to be a regular on in the UK way back in the day. I recently got a 1050 and retrieved this disk from a box in the attic. I tried doing a file copy over an SIO2PC to an atr but there was a bit of bad data somewhere that caused it to fail every time. So I downloaded a sector copier and managed to get the attached atr file out of it. There was one bad sector somewhere in the middle of the copy (sector $1D0 or $1DC I think, but can't be sure), so one of the files will probably be damaged somewhere. If there's such a thing as luck it'll be the source code file that there is already a printout of, I hope the binary files are mostly intact. I can give no explanation of what is on the disk, the only file I remember ever looking at was RHAND1C.SRC that contains the printout that I scanned earlier. There are four different (I assume) Rverter drivers on the disk, RHAND1.OBJ, RHAND1C.OBJ, RHAND2.OBJ and RHAND2C.OBJ, but there is only source code for RHAND1C. This may (or may not) be useful to you... Geoff rverter.atr 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 (edited) The disk could be carefully cleaned and the drive heads clean and dry on the best of you drives for reading disks and you might full well recover the bad data... If you look at some of our past posts you will see that even when some of the coating is lost, a recovery can still sometimes be made. it just depends on the material still left behind and where it falls on the disk... Edited February 16, 2019 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Thanks Geoff, this is amazing. I'll check if I can test the different versions regarding the use of proceed or other SIO lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Unless I missed something in Dis6502, there wasn't any use of VPRCED $0202 or VINTER $0204 in the handlers or main program... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Unless I missed something in Dis6502, there wasn't any use of VPRCED $0202 or VINTER $0204 in the handlers or main program... You are totally right, but maybe the other versions (or variations) might include the use of other SIO signals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropcheck Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Not sure if this helps, but while collecting information on the Supra P:R device I gathered this Supra .pdf manual. It contains about 2/3 into the manual source code for their version of an R handler as well as I think useful info in general on the serial/SIO communications. I don't have the disk, but I'm sure someone can supply it. P R Connection - Owners Manual.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Disks here: http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/atari_forever/Extension/PR%20Connector/ Another version of the disk and manual is on AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-pr-connection-system-disk_18530.html Hmm, looking at these more closely, all three ATR's compare slightly differently, but the directories of the 2 pigwa disks appear idendical. The AtariMania disk has a slightly larger RSCOPE.COM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 In what way is Supra related to ICD? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropcheck Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 In what way is Supra related to ICD? I believe I hadn't had my first can of Drpepper yet. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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