Faicuai Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 1 hour ago, scorpio_ny said: Does this mean if one enables this memory mode in incognito, that joystick ports 3&4 are disabled? In 800 HW, x4 joystick ports fully enabled in Colleen mode (AXLON 1MB expansion works beautifully because it has its own banking register in $CFFF), and x2 ports (in XL mode, due to PortB committed to logic / control of banked RAM, Basic-rom, etc.). However, you can still have access to (most) of those ports, by re-initializing PIA, etc... I am sure Candle will expand on this, with more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+scorpio_ny Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Faicuai said: In 800 HW, x4 joystick ports fully enabled in Colleen mode (AXLON 1MB expansion works beautifully because it has its own banking register in $CFFF), and x2 ports (in XL mode, due to PortB committed to logic / control of banked RAM, Basic-rom, etc.). However, you can still have access to (most) of those ports, by re-initializing PIA, etc... I am sure Candle will expand on this, with more details. Faicuai, Thank you for the explanation! I remember back in the day, there was lot of software that would not work with the 400/800 because it required 64K or more using the XL/XE memory mapping. It is great to see that now there are hardware upgrades out there now that expands the base of useable software for 800 series and now, hopefully, for the 400 series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 this 400 should have enough memory to run anything 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornchip Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Very impressive work Candle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 very little and very late update - this was in december 2021... i still have some timing issues between 6502 and SALLY CPU boards 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Numen NTSC would be nice, or NTSC w/ 802/816... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdunlapsd Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Very interested in buying one of these when it becomes available! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambda Mikel Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Oh nice, I'd be interested in one as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 On 6/2/2021 at 8:08 PM, chevymad said: Anybody else see Lotharek's post on FB this morning. Showed a few new products he hopes will be out in August. The scan doubler, and the externam U1MB are listed but the 400 Incognito surprised me. Not that I need another upgraded machine, but I'll still hotrod my original 400 when this comes out I think. https://www.facebook.com/lotharek/posts/3147533625477406 Just an almost-biannual check in on this. Seems like it's probably stalled, but perhaps @lotharek could clarify? (And yep, I'm aware of @reifsnyderb's 1056k Memory Upgrade Board for the Atari 400. Nothing against it by any means, but would like to have the same integration with SIDE3 as on my U1MB machines if at all possible.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) 2 hours ago, x=usr(1536) said: Just an almost-biannual check in on this. Seems like it's probably stalled, but perhaps @lotharek could clarify? I expect the answer will be that the firmware isn't written yet, and that this is my fault. I did, however, explain to Lotharek the last time the matter was brought up that I have just moved house, am backed up with work, and spent the last three months of 2023 with one of my fingers in a splint. I also pointed out that I'd spent several months in 2022 doing a complete re-write of the SIDE3 Loader which appeared to have gone completely unnoticed but which nevertheless counts in large part towards the firmware which will ultimately run on the devices currently in development. I also note that upgrades which don't depend on my input at all (Simple Stereo 4, VBXE 3, etc) appear no closer to release than Incognito Lite, Incognito 3 and External U1MB. Edited March 17 by flashjazzcat 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 @flashjazzcat How dare you have perfectly understandable reasons for any delays on your end No big deal, really. As it happens, it's lower-priority in amongst the Atari things I'm looking to do this year, but not having heard anything for a bit figured I'd bump the thread and see if anything shook out of it. Appreciate the reply! 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Good stuff. I'm chomping at the bit for some quality coding time, although I do feel we've yet to fully exploit existing hardware from a software point of view (or completely nail stability on the hardware, for that matter), and I think time spent on R&D will pay off big time even if this means a longer wait for stuff to actually become available. That's just my view, however. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinjinhawke Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I think you let flashjazzcat off too easily. I'll take a slightly more aggressive but still moderate approach. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!!!! That felt good. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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