leech Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Yikes! Yeah, especially floppy drives, and the room to set them up, etc. My thing is with the MiSTer, it is cool if you just want to load up a quick game here or there to kill some time... but for some reason I really crave for the real thing to do more serious stuff on. Also, MiSTer can't do TT or Falcon. (At least yet). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 On 8/6/2020 at 6:31 PM, leech said: Yikes! Yeah, especially floppy drives, and the room to set them up, etc. My thing is with the MiSTer, it is cool if you just want to load up a quick game here or there to kill some time... but for some reason I really crave for the real thing to do more serious stuff on. Also, MiSTer can't do TT or Falcon. (At least yet). Amen to the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolmoecraig Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Can someone point me to a step-by-step guide of how to mount this image on a card for my new Ultrasatan? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryleffaovell Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 hour ago, koolmoecraig said: Can someone point me to a step-by-step guide of how to mount this image on a card for my new Ultrasatan? This file hasn't to be copied to the sd card, i.e. by just putting/copying the file onto the existing filesystem of the sd card. The file is an image of an existing card. Therefore you'll have to copy that file/image back to your sd card by using an "image creation" tool. Under Linux you can achieve that by using dd: First unpack the archive then dd if=1000GamesT02.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M sdX is the name of the block device you're using for your sd card. Have a look at your desktop to detect which name is used for that. Caution: There's no follow-up question when using dd. Choosing the wrong block device for writing back the image will wipe out any data of it, i.e. your harddisk/ssd where your OS is running from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 11 hours ago, koolmoecraig said: Can someone point me to a step-by-step guide of how to mount this image on a card for my new Ultrasatan? Thank you! Size is 1.2 GB, so you need min 2 GB card. No problem if it is much bigger, by my tests UltraSatan works with 64 GB SD cards too. Of course, it is waste of capacity, because you will be not able to use remaining 62.8 GB (in reality it is less, since cards never have that capacity what is printed on them, usually some 5-15 % less) . As told in previous post not doing simple file copy on card. Image file must be written to very begin of card. Needs specialized SW for that. I will give instruction for my Windows program Drive Imager: http://atari.8bitchip.info/drimus.php First thing to do is to read what is on that page, especially section Important for users of Windows 7 and later (up to 10) There are other programs for same purpose available. Just don't use term 'mount' when search. 'Write' is much better . For instance: "image writing on sd cards" . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 On 7/22/2020 at 9:56 AM, ParanoidLittleMan said: Windows see by default only first partition on removable media. To see all them need to install special driver to override that limit. http:// http://atari.8bitchip.info/profb/cfadisk_x86_x64.zip What I noticed with my only one 2 GB SD card and UltraSatan is that it needs often restart to activate normally after power on. There's something odd about this link, as is it leads back to this same post. The double-http. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 Hmmm - I guess that sometimes too much help is counterproductive ? http://atari.8bitchip.info/profb/cfadisk_x86_x64.zip And to add that no need for it in latest Win10 revisions (dear God, now I'm advertising MS SW) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I don't have an UltraSatan, but wanted to try use this image under SteemSSE, I had a look at your extraction tool, Driveimage, but didn't find it very intuitive and the help files weren't very helpful either. What I did was use BalenaEtcher to copy the image to an SD card then I found that Windows 10 could see all the partitions, I copied the contents of each partition to a folder that I then mounted as a hard drive under SteemSSE. Nice collection, really happy with the results, when I can afford an UltraSatan, this will be one of the first images I will use with it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 Wow ! That's completely wrong way. You need to activate ACSI hard disk emulation in Steem SSE, set that image for it, and then will be able to access all partitions, games in emulator. And of course, it can be done in Hatari, in original Steem (3.2) - with help of Pasti.dll . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 hour ago, ParanoidLittleMan said: Wow ! That's completely wrong way. You need to activate ACSI hard disk emulation in Steem SSE Thank you for that, I generally use GEMDOS hard drives in SteemSSE as it makes it easy to copy files on and off the hard drive, will try loading as an ACSI image, thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolmoecraig Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I got it working mostly. When the desktop loads I am showing the following partitions: Hard Disk: C,D,E,F,G,H,J,L No I or K. Is that normal? Also, did a list of games ever get made for this image? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 That's not exactly normal. But it gives chance to people to learn something: how to fix it ? http://atari.8bitchip.info/astbegfaq.html I have now much more important things to solve than that list. + making list does not need some high knowledge about Atari ST and programming. Putting together this image took few days. Making all this game adaptations for hard disk took thousands of hours. So, if someone want to contribute, is welcome to do that list and publish here. And there are games not tested enough there, so another chance: to contribute, help to make it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 @ParanoidLittleMan can your image be used directly as an ACSI drive in SteemSSE, I turned off the GEMDOS drives, then allowed use of ACSI drives, selected your image as drive 0 but when I boot and install the C drive, it says it doesn't exist. I'm running SteemSSE with the same config as my STE, 4Mb with TOS 2.06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 I can not run at moment Steem SSE - it just works not in Win10 (missing some DX dll 43 ..) . But as I remember it has ACSI emulation with ICD extension (that's needed for image sizes over 1 GB). If it can not be set use Hatari, some later version. With it works for sure - I tested it with Hatari 2.10 . And write to Steven Seagal to update it with ICD extended ACSI + to work with Win 10 ? And will not work with regular Steem + Pasti.dll from same reason - more than 1 GB. Ask Ijor to update it ? What I wrote yesterday was general, and related - older game adaptations (before 2012) will not work with GEMDOS emulation, only with real hard disk emulation (ACSI) . For instance this image is under 1 GB, so must work with all 3 emulators: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0hacypqbierqatg/1GB.rar/file Sorry, today I'm in ask mood ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporny Kun Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 On 10/22/2020 at 8:57 AM, ParanoidLittleMan said: So, if someone want to contribute, is welcome to do that list and publish here. From what I see, one just need to write a program to list all folders for each partition, and extract title from up to 2 first lines of optionnal README.TXT, and save to a text file. No time for now, but I may do it later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 23 hours ago, Sporny Kun said: From what I see, one just need to write a program to list all folders for each partition, and extract title from up to 2 first lines of optionnal README.TXT, and save to a text file. No time for now, but I may do it later. That's good idea, although there are probably some games without that file. People can have idea what games are included by looking here: http://atari.8bitchip.info/fromhd2.php Order on disk image is approx. chronological - earlier ones on lower partitions D-G ..., latest ones on L - where is place to add more . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWoo Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 7/21/2020 at 5:22 AM, ParanoidLittleMan said: I made new image (for SD card, UltraSatan, Satandisk, ICD type adapters) with lot of hard disk adapted games, special for people with TOS 1.00 or 1.02 in their ST, Mega ST. Needed to take care about low RAM usage of driver and buffers, so partitions are smaller size. This works with higher TOS versions too, so can use with STE, Mega STE, TT . https://www.mediafire.com/file/hgkdnnwym334ilg/1000GamesT02.zip/file Size is 541 MB. Unpacked: 1.2 GB, so need card of min 2 GB size. Thank you.. This is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davero Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 On 7/21/2020 at 11:22 AM, ParanoidLittleMan said: I made new image (for SD card, UltraSatan, Satandisk, ICD type adapters) with lot of hard disk adapted games, special for people with TOS 1.00 or 1.02 in their ST, Mega ST. Needed to take care about low RAM usage of driver and buffers, so partitions are smaller size. This works with higher TOS versions too, so can use with STE, Mega STE, TT . https://www.mediafire.com/file/hgkdnnwym334ilg/1000GamesT02.zip/file Size is 541 MB. Unpacked: 1.2 GB, so need card of min 2 GB size. I try install write usb to 4gb sd card and nothing. I see 4gb free on pc, atari st dont see card too. What U use soft for install on SD card ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 4 hours ago, Davero said: I try install write usb to 4gb sd card and nothing. I see 4gb free on pc, atari st dont see card too. What U use soft for install on SD card ? How did you try to write it to the card? Should use dd or various image writing software in windows. should be able to read the SD card on either computer if you did it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davero Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 2 hours ago, leech said: How did you try to write it to the card? Should use dd or various image writing software in windows. should be able to read the SD card on either computer if you did it right. OK work, i bought another sd card and all it's fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardove Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Good day @ParanoidLittleManPlease can this be made available again? Link not working and would love to try out with an elderly, previously unloved STFM running TOS 1.0, to hopefully give it a new life. Or its new owner anyway ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 This image will be not available again. Something better will be - with more games, some new ones, some older releases updated - on what I work last weeks. Will be special image for iTOS, with Game Menu. Special image for TOS 1.00-1.02 - more games. And image for regular TOS versions 1.04 and above. For ACSI based adapters like UltraSatan, ACSI2STM(SD), Satandisk. In case of interest I can do special IDE, ACSI-CF adapter autoboot images too. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, ParanoidLittleMan said: This image will be not available again. Something better will be - with more games, some new ones, some older releases updated - on what I work last weeks. Will be special image for iTOS, with Game Menu. Special image for TOS 1.00-1.02 - more games. And image for regular TOS versions 1.04 and above. For ACSI based adapters like UltraSatan, ACSI2STM(SD), Satandisk. In case of interest I can do special IDE, ACSI-CF adapter autoboot images too. Nice! Will be using one of the images on the MiST and MiSTer as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitheaven Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Hi, is this still available anywhere as the link no longer works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 On 9/5/2021 at 9:19 AM, 8bitheaven said: Hi, is this still available anywhere as the link no longer works. This one is not, but there are new images, with practically all games - about 1500. Details here: http://atari.8bitchip.info/fromhd.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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