rcamp48 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I just picked up a nice little haul of Atari related stuff, a couple of things that are not Atari can you spot em? I also picked up a box of 150 floppies, looks like some of them might not be Atari disks but a lot of them might be , still its not as promising as the owner of them said they would be... and the drive cleaning disk is almost new.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Photography 101: put the light source behind the camera. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 7 hours ago, ClausB said: Photography 101: put the light source behind the camera. Top Tip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 150 disks will keep you busy for a while! have some isopropyl alcohol handy tho - they may foul your read/write head after being in storage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 @rcamp48Cool. From what I can make out those boxed Carts look in ok condition. I bought a haul/box of Atari software incl 5 1/4" floppies off Ebay UK last year........... Lady just snapped a pic of it with the decription "Atari disks". I took a gamble. It arrvied and whilst there were a few Atari carts I knew about, most of the 5 1/4" disk in there were IBM PC software and data disks from her husband from the 80s and 90's. Perhaps 6 x actual non commercial Atari disks with games on them - all of which I had anyways! I have 1000's of Atari 5 1/4" floppies anyways... now I have a few more spares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, xrbrevin said: 150 disks will keep you busy for a while! have some isopropyl alcohol handy tho - they may foul your read/write head after being in storage @xrbrevin ya not wrong there - might end up having to clean the drive head every few days going through all of those. I had to clean my 1050's drive head very regularly when I was looking at some of my own disks last year. Also found many disks had developed the dreaded surface mould. Edited March 28, 2022 by Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 That's some awsome stuff indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcamp48 Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 I got my Happy drive working both reading and writing and I have a Fujinet, is there a way to write atx files to floppy with my Happy drive ie: archiver ?? I have just about every program that is listed on Tosek, and about 50 Kwest disks to finish archiving... lots of work to do and I am getting bored with BBS stuff anyways much more worthy project... I do have some originals about 10 of them that came with that haul I picked up. You should see this guys garage , he inherited about 200 computers and software , mostly Apple stuff if anyone wants an Apple with the screen and disk drive built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilsaluki Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 20 hours ago, ClausB said: Photography 101: put the light source behind the camera. Funny, Yep. But, good going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcamp48 Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 1 minute ago, gilsaluki said: Funny, Yep. But, good going. I had little choice it was a web cam and did not have a choice other than turning that light off , and yes I am having troubles writing to apple disks that are in good shape , this guy smoked and you can smell it on the disks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 1 hour ago, rcamp48 said: I got my Happy drive working both reading and writing and I have a Fujinet, is there a way to write atx files to floppy with my Happy drive ie: archiver ?? You might be better of using an SIO2PC(if you have one) with RespeQT, the later versions of which have Happy 1050 emulation. This would be accomplished as a Happy backup from the ATX mounted as D1: in RespeQT(with Happy emulation ON) to the Happy drive with a different ID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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