David_P

Went to the post office today to pick up two packages.

Lots of wonderful Atari times coming soon - I just need the free time to enjoy them!


Thanks to Candle and Zaxon!

Not my auction, but somone's selling a SDX cart. As of this posting, it's at $13.50 + S&H.

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 160673751192

Background: Many moons ago, David & Sandy Small wrote and article for ANTIC magazine where they pointed out the Bit3 board was a fantastic programmer's tool, as you could output 80 columns of text to that display while ANTIC did its thing on the main display. (http://www.atarimaga...complished.html) The XEP-80 could be used in a similar fashion, but they are getting increasingly hard to find.

There's an additional bonus beyond debugging, though - multiple displays could be used for multi-player games, run off a single computer. Obviously, most external display generators are text-only (or text and ATASCII or ASCII only), but that still provides additional capabilities - for example, a two player poker game, where each can see their own hand and the betting (and possibly even a simple AI player as well).

I did find a vendor offering a TTL device (built around an ATMega) that provides TV output (NTSC or PAL). It's the Batsocks Tellymate - http://www.batsocks....r/TellyMate.htm . The kit sells for £10.50. Any interest in establishing an Atari community around it?