Kyle22 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Is there any advantage with the LCD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 in my humble opinion, absolutely none. It's a power suck, and given how utterly awkward the SDrive-Max is to use, I'm completely turned off on the idea. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 7 hours ago, tschak909 said: in my humble opinion, absolutely none. It's a power suck, and given how utterly awkward the SDrive-Max is to use, I'm completely turned off on the idea. -Thom Oh, I just ordered it because it was 'neat'. I can always order another one. Need to find the rest of the parts anyhow, which I may or may not already have. At least I can 3d print my own SIO connectors, and don't have to butcher an SIO cable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 Cool. I understand. We just had to make some fundamental decisions when bringing the hardware together. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 I am very glad that people are going out and building these things. Build on! Build 'em for your friends! We will release a completed product eventually, but it's more important to me that this thing get used and in the hands of those who can do neat things with it. -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 @jeffpiep is checking in the now completed Atari 822 printing emulation, which now includes the 240 pixel wide graphics possible with this printer. The secret? The Atari 822 firmware has an additional write command 'P' which accepts 240 pixels of graphic data per line, 1 bit per pixel, nicely mapping to a graphics 8 display, if flipped on its side, as seen in this test print. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) Hi, Would it be possible to overload the "Next ATR" button functionality, so that if you have defined disk slots, e.g. D1=AA.ATR, D2=AB.ATR, you cycle those ATRs, if you only have slot D1 defined, you cycle to next ATR file in the current directory. Personally I would put all ATRs from a multi disk product in the same directory (and only those ATR's), and only define one disk slot, which I would boot from. Also, is there any progress on a public design for ESP32 boards that can be sent off and made up (ideally one that doesn't involve the word "eventually"). I agree that the SDrive Max touch screen can be a little fiddly, but I've just asked @kbr if he can replace it with a Next Atr button, and use the SDrive menu program on the Atari for everything else. I think it would be fairly straightforward, but I don't know the electronics to do it, and would need the electronics done before I could hack the SDrive firmware. Edited March 28, 2020 by E474 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I guess an SDrive-Max, with just a button, would be an SDrive-???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, E474 said: Hi, Would it be possible to overload the "Next ATR" button functionality, so that if you have defined disk slots, e.g. D1=AA.ATR, D2=AB.ATR, you cycle those ATRs, if you only have slot D1 defined, you cycle to next ATR file in the current directory. Personally I would put all ATRs from a multi disk product in the same directory (and only those ATR's), and only define one disk slot, which I would boot from. Also, is there any progress on a public design for ESP32 boards that can be sent off and made up (ideally one that doesn't involve the word "eventually"). I agree that the SDrive Max touch screen can be a little fiddly, but I've just asked @kbr if he can replace it with a Next Atr button, and use the SDrive menu program on the Atari for everything else. I think it would be fairly straightforward, but I don't know the electronics to do it, and would need the electronics done before I could hack the SDrive firmware. It could be possible to overload the single button press, would be interesting for further investigation, as soon as I get some of the other bits of functionality dealt with, I still need to make CONFIG handle more than 16 files, and directories, etc. As for the board: Paging @mozzwald -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 depending on what's configured in the slots/fujinet parms.... it could intelligently decide what the button does... as in overlay... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 CONFIG now displays the MAC address of the #FujiNet adapter, when scanning for networks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierodoug5 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Ordered my parts to build up a fujinet. Should have everything in a couple weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojanhk Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Ordered the parts for an ESP32 build. Are you still developing for esp8266 or is the esp32 now the main target ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 The ESP32 is the main target. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltermixxx Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, E474 said: Hi, Would it be possible to overload the "Next ATR" button functionality, so that if you have defined disk slots, e.g. D1=AA.ATR, D2=AB.ATR, you cycle those ATRs, if you only have slot D1 defined, you cycle to next ATR file in the current directory. Personally I would put all ATRs from a multi disk product in the same directory (and only those ATR's), and only define one disk slot, which I would boot from. Also, is there any progress on a public design for ESP32 boards that can be sent off and made up (ideally one that doesn't involve the word "eventually"). I agree that the SDrive Max touch screen can be a little fiddly, but I've just asked @kbr if he can replace it with a Next Atr button, and use the SDrive menu program on the Atari for everything else. I think it would be fairly straightforward, but I don't know the electronics to do it, and would need the electronics done before I could hack the SDrive firmware. I created an SDRIVE, with no display and only one button, a reset. it loads the menu and I use the keyboard to select a disk image on screen. If I want to select a different disk image to boot from I reset the arduino so all 4 of my disk selections are dropped and I can reload them not sure if this is helpful, but it does seem to work ok :). Edited March 28, 2020 by Waltermixxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) Working on folder support in CONFIG: Edited March 28, 2020 by tschak909 replaced pic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Hi, @kbr pointed out to me via PM that the micro sd card is on the screen. On the other hand there is a micro-USB connector on the Arduino that I currently use for power, not sure if I could use the barrel connector instead, and connect a USB memory stick using an OTG cable in the microUSB connector? I think I would wire up 2 buttons: - reset - cycle ATR If I could set everything else up via the 8-bit menu program, I think that would be all you need. You could probably get away with not having a reset button if you powered down each time, but I think there is a reset button on my Arduino anyway. Just out of curiosity @Waltermixxx, how do you store ATR images if you don't have a screen with a microSD card on it? Also, sorry for (slightly) hijacking the fujinet thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) tap for atr cycle, hold for reset... always a way to get more out of a button... double click... Edited March 28, 2020 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 A reminder, there are two buttons. Currently one is the RESET button, pressing it causes device to reset, which re-mounts CONFIG. The other is the disk rotate button, which rotates each disk entry into the next contiguous slot, the edge of the rotation is the first found blank slot. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 make that first found unoccupied slot :) empty or blank ATR's exist... it will trip someone up otherwise.. inevitably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltermixxx Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, E474 said: Just out of curiosity @Waltermixxx, how do you store ATR images if you don't have a screen with a microSD card on it? the SDrive automatically loads the menu program, and the Atari boots to that, i use the menu program to load all 4 disk drive slots, browsing through the files on the TV/monitor. Then i press the reset and it boots from the image I selected for Drive 0. I put the disk images on the SD card from my windows PC, i load up the sd card, then put it in the headless Sdrive. (I hope I understood the question correctly) Cheers. Just a thanks to the guys developing this, another thing to keep us busy Cheers guys. Edited March 28, 2020 by Waltermixxx Add pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 48 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: make that first found unoccupied slot empty or blank ATR's exist... it will trip someone up otherwise.. inevitably *deep-breath* If you watch my vid on disk swapping, you can see the behavior. To fully articulate the feature's description: The rotate's edge is the first unoccupied slot, some examples: D1 DiskA.atr D2 DiskB.atr D3 DiskC.atr Hit rotate, it becomes D1 DiskB.atr D2 DiskC.atr D3 DiskA.atr Hit rotate again, it becomes D1 DiskC.atr D2 DiskA.atr D3 DiskB.atr Hit rotate again, and we are back as we were D1 DiskA.atr D2 DiskB.atr D3 DiskC.atr If there are gaps, the first gap becomes the edge of the rotation, so e.g. D1 DiskA.atr D2 DiskB.atr D3 DiskC.atr D4 --- BLANK --- D5 SomethingElse.atr D6 AndAnotherThing.atr Hit rotate, it becomes D1 DiskB.atr D2 DiskC.atr D3 DiskA.atr D4 -- BLANK --- D5 SomethingElse.atr <-- still in same place D6 AndAnotherThing.atr <-- still in same place So as you can see, anything beyond the blank slot is unaffected. This was literally put in to handle games and programs that only support a single drive. e.g. games, or productivity software that expects you to swap out data disks. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierodoug5 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Is there any documentation for how to setup PlatoformIO and get the ESP32 programmed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamm Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 39 minutes ago, Fierodoug5 said: Is there any documentation for how to setup PlatoformIO and get the ESP32 programmed? Yes, it's all in the Github wiki for the project. See here: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/atariwifi/wiki/Board-Bring-up-for-PLATFORM.IO-code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierodoug5 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Thanx, missed that somehow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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