massiverobot Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Just a quick note- since I had the 1088XEL and Sophia (now Sophia 1) it's always had a flicker and even sometimes a 1 second blank as I would go in SDX and be doing some operation like listing a large directory etc... Mildly annoying but not a show stopper. It didn't seem to flicker inside of games or apps. It seemed to get better with a different monitor but never was gone... Until the Sophia 2 arrived! I just got one from Brewing Academy and popped it in. You can probably guess that the 1088XEL has been rock solid and not one single flicker that I can see after using it for a few hours. So kudos to Simius, you did and amazing job with 1 and an even better job with 2 (and no GITA chip required anymore).... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Yes: just updated my 1088XEL from Sophia 1 to Sophia 2 the other day in order to test the U1MB Sophia 2 plugin and everything works very nicely indeed. I could think of no other target machine which would allow a 2 minute install. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massiverobot Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 1 hour ago, flashjazzcat said: Yes: just updated my 1088XEL from Sophia 1 to Sophia 2 the other day in order to test the U1MB Sophia 2 plugin and everything works very nicely indeed. I could think of no other target machine which would allow a 2 minute install. Ok, yes, I recall reading a post from you about that... once it's available I will be able to select video sizes right from my U1MB BIOS right? That will be another amazing addition to your BIOS work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 14 minutes ago, massiverobot said: I will be able to select video sizes right from my U1MB BIOS right? Correct, and without any risk of being left with a black screen if the resolution is out of range. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHA Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Thats a very NICE box!... (pls no wife/gf puns) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massiverobot Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 Yeah the 1088 finally freed me from what i disliked the most about my atari- the keyboard. And using SDX with CF and FN, it's like a little unix machine! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstar87 Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 One thing of note that made me go around in circles for a bit. If you have a VBXE installed in 1088XEL, and forget to reinstall the OSC jumper again, you will get nothing, not even sound. I thought I had fried something. Then I put the GTIA back in, and still nothing, then something niggling came back into my head. Sure enough I looked at the 1088XEL Schema, and there was the note about making sure that OSC jumper was installed if not using VBXE. My heart started slowing down after I put that jumper back on, and stuff started working again. Looks great now! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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