xrbrevin Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) this just turned up on ebay - anyone know what it does? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Atari-MAGICAL-ELECTRONICS-cartridge-for-6502-8bit-machines-PURPOSE-UNKNOWN/402249001776?hash=item5da7e8ab30:g:bmAAAOSwfxReqwNf Edited April 30, 2020 by xrbrevin typo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder666 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) Not sure, but I had something that looked similar as a teenage dirty pirate. Plugged it into right cartridge port on the 800, and it allowed some software to load and dump the left cartridge to tape. Edited April 30, 2020 by marauder666 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Yup, that rings a bell.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Maybe a clone of "The Pill" - but with a neat little "I'm active!" status light when engaged by software. http://www.nleaudio.com/css/products/pilldocs.htm Software here: (who knows if it's compatible) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) an intriguing bit of A8 history. i note that the ICs have been de-labeled... heres a pic for the archives Edited April 30, 2020 by xrbrevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1050 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 De-labeling is not an obstacle these days with any modern USB eprom programmer of the $40 eBay variety. They have an option of "guess which logic chip this is" and with the help of that testing facility, the number they used to carry can found very easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Can't say I've heard of a Right Cartridge copier. I imagine such a thing would have Rom onboard to do the copying. Or alternately, be able to modify what the system sees in the cart flags area to allow disk boots to occur. The usefullness would be questionable. I'm not sure what happens if you have a 16K left cartridge - I'd imagine it would override whatever right cart is present. Or maybe it's the other way around and this cart can disable itself, so a copy process could just move the copy code to Ram, jump to it, disable right cart then commence the copy. The process of copying carts can be done entirely in software anyway - really the only necessity of hardware like this is to be able to write-protect the RAM just before you run it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 acetone and swabs work wonders on clearing chip ID # covering goop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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