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Great Hierophant

Member Since 5 Nov 2003
OFFLINE Last Active Jan 13 2012 5:06 PM

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In Topic: Just Purchased Atari 800, Advice Needed

Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:12 AM

View Postsloopy, on Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:49 PM, said:


well, your more then welcome to sit around, and wait while the data is written out to the floppy, then swap the disk into the 1050 and boot.

most people just like the convenience of booting straight from the PC... no floppies at all...

one of the programs to do this (and the only one i have tried), is WriteATR from Hias.

sloopy.

That is the type of program I had in mind! Thank god I bought a 1050!

In Topic: Just Purchased Atari 800, Advice Needed

Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:30 PM

View PostBryan, on Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:02 PM, said:

The smaller brick is for computer use only. The larger brick can be used with either the drives or the computer.

You can buy brand new keyboards on ebay or from places like Best Electronics or B&C Computervisions. Someone here probably has parts. Is the center contact actuator White, Yellow, or Green?

I will try the small brick with the 800, but it seems weird that the drives require more power than the computer itself, especially one with so many chips. On the other hand, the drives have motors that require higher voltages generally than a system.

View PostGuitarman, on Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:07 PM, said:

Your best bet is to get the APE software and an SIO2PC interface. This allows you to load up disk images on a PC and use the PC as a virtual disk drive. I will also allow you to connect, preferably, the 1050 drive to the PC and write the disk images to actual floppies. You can then use the floppies with the drive connected to the Atari. Here is the links to the APE software and SIO2PC interface.

Atarimax Universal SIO2PC/ProSystem interface

Atari Peripheral Emulator (APE)

Okay, I get the idea. However, I have a true IBM PC with a discrete Diskette Drive Controller. The NEC u765 or Intel 8272A on that card can write FM or MFM data. The drives are Tandon TM-100/2A, which can also write FM or MFM data. I even have a Central Point Software Copy II PC Option Board which boasts being able to write Apple II GCR and Atari FM formats. With double density media, I figured there would have to be some solution that did not involve hardware like an SIO2PC.

In Topic: 8 Megabit Game Boy Games

Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:19 AM

Kirby's Block Ball is a 4 Megabit game, but Mortal Kombat I & II is an 8 Megabit game. So, the number of US Licensed non-Color Gameboy Games are 4/5 (WLII, MKI&II, PKB, PKR, PKY)

In Topic: Any thoughts on the new MCC? it emulates the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64

Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:46 AM

This seems to be to be a hardware version of MESS, which I consider to be a Jack of All Trades emulator.

The S-Video output seems to me to be rather overkill for the 8-bit systems. I assume his hardware is trying to convert RGB values into NTSC or PAL values. Most 8-bit systems generated NTSC or PAL color values directly, for better or worse. The artifact color of the Apple II should not work well with S-Video.

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