Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Hi! This is my pre-beta release for 512KB (4Mbit) SIC! It is for Atari with 130XE compatible ramdisk (128K at least, and when more it should be RAMBO compatible; using banks $8x, $Ax, $Cx)* If you are interested, please read PDF first. This gives SIC very nice feature. You can SAVE your RAMDISK to SIC! Once the SIC cart is programmed you can code with Assembler or (Turbo)Basic and save your creations to ramdisk, and then backup ramdisk to SIC cart. Rather cool... now you don't need harddisk or floppy to save your stuff. It does not need modifications to your Atari OS. *) I have not found time and motivation to make this 'more intelligent' with autodetect and all that. Any feedback is appreciated. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional coder, and that code can probably be optimized a lot. Please read the important note(s) at the end of PDF first. (I did not describe how to install this on SIC, since I presume that when you are interested in this you are already familiar with SIC and the install procedure; if you need help, let me know) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 hmm, i try flash it to my sic!, restart atari, 2 seconds bzzz sound and black screen :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 Did you succeed in flashing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 yop.. sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 Strange. I downloaded the file from here, and tried on my equipment. Works perfect here. Are you sure it is a 4Mbit Flash Chip, and are you sure it is 39SF040? Do you run it on standard XL/XE OS. No other strange carts active? Do you have 128KB XE compatible ram? And if more: is it RAMBO compatible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 again i make epic fail.. i have 256kb sic! thats it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 It seems to be working good here. Next I need to dig out my SIO2USB peripheral and see if Yash is working ok.. I used the D8tosic program and it reload the ram disk on re-boot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 I found out there is a strange bug in XDOS which alters $d500 region when BON (Basic ON) and BOF (Basic OFF) commands are given. I created small tool that switches basic on and off now, which can run from command prompt on XDOS (store it on D8:) Will upload it soon to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 again i make epic fail.. i have 256kb sic! thats it I still find this strange... since the 128K feature only uses bank #$00 - #$07 which should be available on 2Mbit chip. But... does the flash program let you flash it, even when there is not enough space? What type is this 2Mbit chip (that is printed on the chip). I'm interested! You really 'should' get 4Mbit chips... they offer the best performance for SIC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 Here it is... BASIC.COM BASICOFF.COM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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