+slx Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Willing but quite far away. Standing by if no US floppy copier comes forward, just send a PM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 On 3/7/2019 at 1:17 PM, Gavin1968 said: I was never able to get that one to work with my A800, has anyone had any luck with it? I made that one from Nir, and it works fine, This is the one I bought. https://www.ebay.com/itm/PL2303HX-USB-to-TTL-RS232-COM-UART-Module-Serial-Cable-Adapter-for-Arduino/322619331980 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I don't understand.... if you have a sio 2 pc that works... just boot with the sio2pc and create the disks yourself... the images are everywhere... you can swap the boot drive # in ape, respeqt, or whatever.... You don't need pro-system or the 1050 switch mod to make disks, it's just super convenient... You can always sector copy from one drive to another. If your sio 2 pc can't get along with other sio devices it need to be re done... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 For Turbo BASIC you shouldn't even need a sector copier, it's a normal DOS disc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: I don't understand.... if you have a sio 2 pc that works... just boot with the sio2pc and create the disks yourself... the images are everywhere... you can swap the boot drive # in ape, respeqt, or whatever.... You don't need pro-system or the 1050 switch mod to make disks, it's just super convenient... You can always sector copy from one drive to another. If your sio 2 pc can't get along with other sio devices it need to be re done... New cable will be here tomorrow. I will be certain to connect the handshake wire, etc. and test before heatshrinking this one. It will be a good excuse to hunt up my Fluke 87. Yes, the existing cable needs to be redone. Each wire and then the entirety was heatshrinked, so I decided to forego tearing into it and to start over. This next one will surely be better and cleaner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 9 hours ago, slx said: Willing but quite far away. Standing by if no US floppy copier comes forward, just send a PM. Thank you very much, slx! I sincerely appreciate it! A couple of minutes ago I ordered another cable from Amazon that will be here tomorrow and I will rectify the issues I had using the homemade DIY2PC-USB with the 1050. From there I will be able to make he disks. I was going to wait and save a little $ and get the compact SIO plug version from Lotharek, along with a couple of other things, but will go this economy route for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 I went into my storage container looking for a multimeter and found another 100 floppies. Today may be a good day after all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 100% satisfaction guaranteed! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 3 hours ago, xrbrevin said: 100% satisfaction guaranteed! A family friend gave me these about 15 years ago when he was cleaning out his storage I told him I’d definitely use them some day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 When you are poking around the web sometime, head on over to www.retrobits.net Check out Atari810. It was the ancestor of AspeQt and RespeQt. Of course, much has changed and been improved upon in the intervening years. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Larry said: When you are poking around the web sometime, head on over to www.retrobits.net Check out Atari810. It was the ancestor of AspeQt and RespeQt. Of course, much has changed and been improved upon in the intervening years. Thank you for the link! I will try that out in a little bit. Looks cool and makes me wish I had an 810. It was a pain in the ass, but I got the outer heatshrinked off of my cable and connected the CTS wire. The shell around the USB connector was loose, so I popped it off. There was a loose wire at a solder joint. I fixed it and super glued the shell shut. I made a TBXL disk and it boots and all, so I’m a happy camper. SIO speeds are improved over the prior incarnation. This 1050 definitely needs to be made Happy, however. Edit: Retrobits has an article about 1200XL keyboards being wonky and a guide to repair them. I pulled out one of my 1200XLs two days ago and some of the keys do not work. This is quite helpful! Edited September 28, 2019 by 777ismyname Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiv Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Here's my recent build: SIO2USB-1 by Desi Villaescusa, on Flickr (Note: The hot glue is holding in some plastic brackets to hold in my board, not the board itself. The case I found on Thingiverse didn't fit my board exactly, and there is something about the STL files I downloaded that print fine, but don't look good when I load them into Tinkercad to edit them. (I have been playing with Meshmixer to try to get something I can edit). Here it is in the case and attached to the 400: SIO2USB-2 by Desi Villaescusa, on Flickr Seems to work fine so far... I don't plan on daisy chaining it, so no need to order any diodes at this time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satoayanami Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 Hi everybody, i've used for years the following home made circuit and works perfect, it's really cheap and easy to do: https://retrogames.cl/sio2pc.html Excuse if it is in spanish, but the scheme and the materials list is universal, and you can easily translate with your browser if you wish. It is a serial to SIO port converter; you can use an old PC with a DB9 serial port and Windows XP; i personally, use it with Windows 11, and the serial port is an USB 2 serial CH340 (driver install required). The main chip, is really easy to find: https://es.aliexpress.com/i/4000696660700.html MC1489 and LM1489 are fully compatible: https://datasheetspdf.com/datasheet/LM1489.html VID_20230310_010434.mp4 The software, is a freeware called "AspeQT": https://sourceforge.net/projects/aspeqt/ You can emulate many disk drives using ATR or XFD images, plus, you can mount folders (with no subfolders) as disk images; plus, you can copy real disk to images and visce-versa. My hardware, is a 65XE GS with 64K of RAM, i can play Yoomp!, His Dark Majesty, Bosconian, Break it, Arcadia, Dr. Mario, JrPacman, etc., many ports and ABBUC games, any game made for 64k machines, on floppy or executables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 https://github.com/RespeQt/RespeQt/tree/master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satoayanami Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 12 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: https://github.com/RespeQt/RespeQt/tree/master Hmm, i've never used RespeQT but i'll try it, but as i said on my comentary, AspeQT offers perfect results; however, having open mind always returns options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satoayanami Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 9/27/2019 at 3:58 PM, 777ismyname said: I went into my storage container looking for a multimeter and found another 100 floppies. Today may be a good day after all. Hey! Incredible, you can record so many games on those disks, Have you ever played His Dark Majesty? Its something easy but a good strategy game which requires a disk. As i understood, you require your atari floppy disk drive back working, or a working drive, i hope you can get one soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 RespeQTs PCLINK under SpartaDOS X, that's the master mover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 RespeQt is great. I always assumed RespeQt was just the newer branched off version of AspeQt which I've therefore assumed was no longer updated, etc. Whatever works for you is great. I've never used AspeQt myself. RespeQt is easy to use and works great with my SIO2PC USB adapter whenever I needed to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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