Phlod Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Greetings Atarians, Recently I've been playing with my favorite Atari, the Falcon. I've inherited it from my dad, who in the mid 90's was a big Atari fan, and also an electronics technician. He installed a BlowUP FX in the falcon and 4MB of RAM which I'm sure at the time was all he had handy. The BlowUP FX always was a little flaky, and would crash or cause strange artifacts when the Accelerator was on. Because of that I mostly stopped using it. Recently I've spent some time re-learning how to set up an Atari properly, and have started playing around with the BlowUP. I installed the 1.7 drivers which are easy to find online, and lo! The Falcon is rock-steady at up to 36MHz! Anyway, long story short, in my investigations online into the BlowUP FX and the software, I learned that there was a rumor of a newer driver which would allow the Falcon to use RAM over 14MB as TT FastRAM, but no one knew for sure. Well, in my dad's stash of floppies I found the 1.9 drivers! The README file says it was a pre-2.0 release, and that it allows using RAM over 14MB as TT FastRAM, as well as a few other upgrades. My dad was in contact with the engineers who made the BlowUP when his install didn't go as planned, and they sent him the more recent driver for testing. I would like to release this so it can be preserved, but I don't want to get in any trouble either. In testing on my Falcon it seems one of my SIMMs is likely bad, and that might be what was causing the issues I saw before, so I can't really comment on how stable the 1.9 drivers are quite yet, but I've got them. Would posting them here be appropriate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter44102 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Well its almost 30 years abandonware and a discontinued product AND company so I dont see why not. People have posted similar items with no issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Yes, it would be good to get this driver on https://www.dev-docs.org/docs/ Right now Lonny has 1.7a version up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlod Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. I had to shelve my Falcon project for the moment and almost forgot about this post. Anyway, I'm glad this will get archived for posterity. I had to ZIP the LZH archive because for some reason it wouldn't let me upload a .lzh file. fx_1_90.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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