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  1. MacRorie
    I can do them. I have done them on my personal Lynx I and Lynx II as well as for other people. I also have done the BennVenn LCD upgrade for a couple of people. The Lynx II is about an hour of labor+parts. The Lynx I is about 90 minutes of labor+parts and cursing. LOTS and LOTS of cursing. I charge $40/hour. Let me know.
  2. MacRorie
    Hello! It is available for sale here: https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-2600/products/uno-2600-cartridge
  3. MacRorie
    I did. I gave it to somebody here I thought. It was a loooooooong print just for the main base.
  4. MacRorie
    All of the CF3s we sell have been tested on dual and single CF setups and never had any problems. They all have genuine TI chips. Ours also use resistor networks where called for and not single resistors.
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    There are some pictures of the boards fitted to the machine on the website. I will get the rest up asap. However, I am not sure about posting the modifications to the case as it is only being sold pre-installed. The rationale being that retro-fitting it to an existing XLD would be . . . daunting. However, comments are always welcome.
  6. MacRorie
    If after this post and the facebook post and the tweet from the twitters, then perhaps this reminder will get you excited: As part of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday push: All purchases over $500 are 20% OFF at The Brewing Academy! You could order a completely built 1088XLD with the I/O ModSystem for only $740! That's a $185 savings! Plus, free shipping anywhere on the planet! "My God, it's full of stars!"
  7. MacRorie
    Sorry for the delay. At first I couldn't find it and then had an epiphany as I was writing an email explaining that I couldn't find it! There are two files, one blanks the eeprom, the other blanks it and puts the original bootloader back on the arduino. Use at your own risk, not responsible for quantum time fluctuations, bricking of arduinos, I am not a lawyer and I do not play one on television, etc etc etc eeprom_clear.ino.standard.hex eeprom_clear.ino.with_bootloader.standard.hex
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    When you say "flashed S-Drive.atr" what do you mean? When you flash via the ICSP port, it does not set up the chip correctly and you need to take it to its factory defaults. I have the file here somewhere.
  9. MacRorie
    Here you go: https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/half-sio-cable-for-s-drive
  10. MacRorie
    Point taken. Always happy to make improvements.
  11. MacRorie
    As the person who wrote that, I wholeheartedly concur: approaches is in no way whatsoever meant to imply that it is the same as s-video. At the end of the day, composite video is composite video. It will never be the same as s-video. It is a different signal.
  12. MacRorie
    There are also limitations on how the screen you have it hooked up to processes Composite Video and S-video. S-video is going to be a higher quality image.
  13. MacRorie
    Yeah, this one had a real mishmash of DRAM. One was even from Apple! Thanks! I figured it couldn't hurt.
  14. MacRorie
    Thanks for the suggestions, folks! Tried the battery, but that was not it. Did some R & R. No joy. Did some testing on the XL without success. Shouted curses at the 8-bit gods and they caused me to release the magic smoke from a CD4050BE. Made obeisance to the 8-bit gods and genuflected my way to removing, socketing and replacing said 4050. Pulled all of the base RAM (4564s of varying manufacture) and replaced it with 4164s. Made an offering. Installed U1M. Time advanced. All other things appeared stable. Did a 24 hour burn-in and all seems well. Did a proof of life video, all went according to Hoyle. Boxed it up and sent it to my friend. Whew!
  15. MacRorie
    Well, I am presuming that if the U1M is retaining the time, then the battery is working. Here’s an interesting thing: if I boot into SDX via the Side2 cart on this machine, time progresses as normal. Again, this is SDX on the Side2 which is many many iterations old. Just out of curiosity: Isn’t the time supposed to advance in the BIOS screens as well? That is independent of ULTIME.SYS, right? The time should advance with power off, right?
  16. MacRorie
    Installed the newest firmware in an Ultimate 1M tonight and all went well until I happened to notice that the time was not advancing. It does not advance in the Ultimate BIOS screen or in SDX when I turn TD ON. If I power cycle the machine, it retains the time, but it does not advance, even the seconds remain the same. That seems odd. Any suggestions? Thanks -M
  17. MacRorie
    There was a lot of interest at PRGE, so we shall see!
  18. MacRorie
    22 sets for XLD I can also let everyone here know that there is a Black Friday/Cyber Monday special on these coming!
  19. MacRorie
    Actually, I am in the process of making one that hangs off the PBI/ECI ports. I have it laid out, just need to test and perfect it. It should, in theory, work with any XL/XE with an Ultimate installed in it.
  20. MacRorie
    A couple of things to check: 1. Is the FTDI set to the correct voltage? There is a little switch on it and it needs to be set to 3.3v 2. Have you tried a different USB cable? I had to try a NUMBER of microUSB cables before I got one that would work on it reliably. Could be my collection of cables is wonky, but you never know. 3. I think you said this was set, but the jumper on the XEL is set to DSR? Hope this helps. -M
  21. MacRorie
    Glad it all worked out! If you are coming to PRGE, I will be there in Booth #166! Enjoy your "high definition" 65XE!
  22. MacRorie
    AMAZING! Can't wait to get my hands on one!
  23. MacRorie
    DirtyHairy seems to be on it!
  24. MacRorie
    If the most current version of firmware is the 09 Oct 2018 version then that is what carts are currently being shipped with. I will update the manual to note that it does BF/BFSC up to 256k
  25. MacRorie
    I hear that. Seems like time is moving faster all the time
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