Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I was working on my ATR-8000s today at the AHCS meeting, and took a couple of pics of them. Got a couple more if anyone is interested. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 You get it working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Is that a white ceramic-package 8088 with gold plated pins? Sweet! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I was working on my ATR-8000s today at the AHCS meeting, and took a couple of pics of them. Got a couple more if anyone is interested. you have copower-88! I'm jealous My ATR8000 still works but the only upgrade it's ever seen is a move from 180K drives to 360K drives (about 7 years ago) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I think he recently acquired this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I hope the EPROMs for these things have been dumped someplace? I dream of the day the ATR8000 is reduced to a single FPGA. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 I think he recently acquired this...Yes. I have had a “regular”64k for a while. Showed it at a couple VCFSEs with an 8” drive and running Dbase II.Fellow club member and all around great guy Kyle found another one rotting away in some guy’s barn or something and thought i might be interested. Opened it up and after brushing aside the bug remains, lo-and-behold, Copower! Now I’m hoping to have that running by this VCFSE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 I hope the EPROMs for these things have been dumped someplace? I dream of the day the ATR8000 is reduced to a single FPGA. I hope to dump the ROMs sometime soon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) You get it working? I dont have any of the Copower software yet, so today after transplanting, I did some quick testing to make sure the Copower wasnt impeding the normal operation. So far, so good. Edited March 10, 2019 by Subby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 it won't impede anything and with the proper stuff the Atari can access a hard drive through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 it won't impede anything and with the proper stuff the Atari can access a hard drive through it. What does “proper stuff” entail? I’ve got several 5 1/4” and the 8” floppy drives going. But hard drive might be an interesting challenge. That said, my challenge capacity has been rather low lately I do have a couple of old 5.25” hard drives, but since I’ve never tested them, I bet they’re all dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 there would be a 50 pin connector, did you look under the main pcb and case from the gap on the side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Maybe different rev than mine? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 CoPower board 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentarian Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Now Im hoping to have that running by this VCFSE. Hopefully you get it working as I want to see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Hopefully you get it working as I want to see it!Only way you’ll not see it is have your eyes closed.Which actually might be a good idea! I’ll keep watch on your 1088 then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 I still want to see the Indus-GT UltraSpeed ROM applied to the ATR-8000. They're both bit bangers so the code should transplant nicely. A creative programmer could make both the Indus and the ATR-8000 act as a Happy, or other copy-busting drive. Z80 is powerful. All we need are good programmers. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin1968 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 You make me wish I would have held on to mine with the rest of my old A800 stuff, no idea why I didn't. Hope you get it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricortes Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 IDK, I still haven't fixed & hooked up an 8" drive to my ATR8000. Had it for years now. I get in a ground loop when thinking about things ATR. I just watched a video where another 8 bit was talking about how he has changed to the point where the old rotating media is just to much of a PIA to use anymore. Most modern hardware like Raspberry Pi relies on SD & WiFi. There's also the sentiment that has merit ~anything that you can't bang on directly with the 6502 isn't an 8 bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Only way you’ll not see it is have your eyes closed. Which actually might be a good idea! I’ll keep watch on your 1088 then. BTW, do you have a way of creating non-Atari 51/4 floppies from images? I’m still trying to find MS-DOS disks for the ATR, but if I do, I don’t have a way to create them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Grew up with a friend who is now a BIG TIME security geek for Cisco (Micah Newsom(e)? - Plano TX) who had an ATR8000 with a couple of percomms attached to it i believe... When he found out I was doing phreaking related stuff he put a fake letter from the Secret Service in my mailbox... I pooped myself. Love the pics as well as the device itself. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 That is one huge and complicated motherboard. Makes the A8 look so simple by comparison. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Gotta love the simplicity of TTL. But, Years later, I would think the ATR (or even an IMPROVED) ATR could be put on a single chip these days. Maybe a faster Z80, faster Disk I/O. The possibilities are almost endless. This has possibilities. Atari functions, + fast Z80 and a video chip? A Word Processor would really perform fast if the terminal was at a high baud rate. I ran WordStar at 19.2 and it was smooth on the TeleVideo system. Run high baud rate (38.4+) to ATR device will feel the same as if it's running locally on the 65xxx chip. In other words, it will seem fast to the user. Explore every option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 wordstar on an Altos over 9600 was smooth from what I recall at my dads office (Rockwell International in the late 70's...)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I just scanned a SWP (ATR8000) newsletter from March, 1983. https://archive.org/details/ATR8000NewsletterMarch1983 Does anybody have (or remember there being anymore newsletters from SWP? Allan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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