Mrshoujo
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It would have been nice to see this ROM dumped and shared with the community considering its uniqueness.
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This sounds like a very bad business move and like the creation of the universe made a lot of people very angry.
What happened which required this series of unfortunate events?
And it's not like Atari Age is the only means by which those games can be produced. It may have been the easiest but doesn't preclude individual authors from making their own stock.
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We didn't know the flashing caused problems until that Pokemon episode did it.
Just make sure you don't sit too close to the screen and play in a brightly lit room!
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Has anyone converted this to an audio file and loaded it with the Starpath Supercharger? Does it play nice with the device?
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Get a voltmeter / ohmmeter and check each card edge to ROM pin for continuity. Inspect the PCB board traces as well. You might find a broken trace or bad solder. I've never had a Popeye cartridge so I don't know if there are other passives in there. Your last worse case scenario would be a dead ROM. In which case save the dead cartridge for parts. ☝
That thread mentions Star Wars The Arcade Game on cartridge. I bought this and Q*bert and they work on the 800XL.
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TextPro 4.0 or something like that. I even used it to edit binary files and the occasional GIF ('jiff') picture file, like extracting individual animation frames.
Speedscript 3.0 was also useful.
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Umm.. There is no "master / slave" switch on the 1050 drive. There ARE drive numbering switches. And no RS232 port. If you mean SIO, then that's no RS232.
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If Vertical Blank timing is a critical part of code execution, that would affect things. Some PAL designed code crashes on NTSC machines. It might require some DLI adjustment to squash the display down (or up?) a bit for those extra bits for extra time because you can always shut off the screen for a little bit but you must always hit that VBSYNC. It's really odd (and sad) this is basically the difference. The OS might also be a little different. Anywho, something to think about.
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4 hours ago, Ray Gillman said:
links here are shut down or banned as "suspect"
I have no problem downloading from the link on that page. Using Chrome on Android, I just tell it to Keep it after the false advisory pops up. The owner of the page / server really needs to update their security certificate. Otherwise, it's perfectly fine to override your browser's alert and tell it to shut up.
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On 12/3/2022 at 10:19 AM, sideburn said:
How do I do this? In BASIC?
Yes!
Laat time I tried posting with a BASIC listing, some weird security check blocked it.
10 OPEN #2,8,0,"P:"
20 PRINT #2,"This is a test";CHR$(10);CHR$(13)
30 CLOSE #2
40 END
You open a channel, output to it, then close it to force the OS to send the data and get dumped and sent. The interface gets forced to deal with it and sends it to the printer.
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Try using an Open #2 8 0 P: command
Print to #2 whatever you want
And then Close #2
You can add the Chr$ 13 and chr$ 10 if you want but do not end with a semicolon.
Sometimes Atari printer channeling is funky like that.
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On 11/28/2022 at 5:29 AM, Beeblebrox said:
Are you sure?
I believe is is a capacitor which looks like an oversized resistor. It's much bigger than standard sized resistors on the board
Stick a meter across it and measure. It looks like a 22 ohm resistor.
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I typed in Easy Find and then spent hours going through my collection and using TextPro, typed up my own indexes. All that work and I never used it.
I did one for The 2600 Connection newsletter and for Tim Duarte, wrote a program to print it out and sent that to him.
Fun times.
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9 hours ago, Beeblebrox said:
I am still curious what this extra cap is doing btw:
That looks like a resistor. The drawn arrow is pointing at a resistor. At the time the 800XL was made, resistors looked much like that.
There is a capacitor near it, but the arrow isn't pointing at that.
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Mom bought our 1st 2600 at Service Merchandise in 1978 and for 2 years we had only 2 games: Combat and Space Invaders. Eventually we got more. My father bought me my 1st 800XL from Kmart in 1984? Methinks. I say 1st because I had to take it back and get it replaced when it wouldn't go to BASIC... It had sustained some "abuse." Have had the same computer since.
Mom bought our 2nd 2600 in 1983, a Vader model. We didn't deserve it but she liked the games, too.
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11 hours ago, mykgerard said:
Sorry if this is a retread because it makes sense that it would have come up before but I didn't find anything in the search option so I figured I'd go ahead.
Has anybody made aftermarket end labels for the 8-bit computer catridges like they have for the 5200, SNES, N64 and Jaguar to cover up thos Left Cartridge ends with the game name?
What's a JFIF??
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36 minutes ago, slx said:
Could it be that the screen needs re-calibration? While the documentation says that touching the screen during startup will force calibration mode, this does not happen.
Are you holding down your touch long enough? Think Long Tap using Chrome on Android to save an image.
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8 hours ago, BillC said:
it doesn't boot from drive
It will access a Config.Sys and Autoexec.bat on D1: if present.
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Perifractic over on Youtube was looking for examples of such things over a year or so ago. I even read about it in U.S. magazines. Then I never heard more.
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Why not sell the business to someone else?
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ANTIC's RAMbrandt software works with the Atari Touch Tablet.
http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-rambrandt_12480.html
Atari Artist was little more than a rebranded cartridge of Koala Micropainter but still useful.
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16 hours ago, Stephen said:
No - that looks like a bad 2600 game
It is a 2600 game. Bad or good - is the opinion of the player.
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I hope the coils in the Drive head are OK and there's no board level component gone bad.
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On 10/22/2022 at 5:23 PM, binglesnatch said:
Hey, I have a problem with my 800XL. I'm using my 1050 disk drive with it but I can't seem to load or save programs and I don't know what to do. I have Atari DOS 2.5, SpartaDOSX, Atari Basic, Basic XE, and a lot of blank disks. What should I do?
Insert SpartaDOS X in the 800XL cartridge slot. Insert a disk in the 1050 and close the latch. Connect the SIO cable. Make sure the 1050 drive select switches on the back are set to Drive #1. Conect the power cables. Turn on the 1050. Turn on the 800XL.
Let SDX go through its boot up process. When the prompt comes up, type FORMAT and press RETURN. Its disk formatting utility will come up and will let you select drive, density, etc. Go for single density for now. Maybe give it a name. Let it format in SpartaDOS and finish.
Now here's where you need to determine if you have Double Sided Double Density (DSDD) or High Density (DSHD) floppies. DSDD has a protective hub ring usually around the center hole. High Density does not and won't work in a 1050 drive. The magnetic coating is why.
After the drive hopefully finishes its job, ESCape out and type DIR and Return. There should be a directory now. You can now use the floppy.
Report back on how it's going.
I believe is is a capacitor which looks like an oversized resistor. It's much bigger than standard sized resistors on the board
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So how fat was that stack of money they slapped in your face? 😏
(That sounds rather disgruntled but I'm sure I'm not alone in these opinions. And you could've disagreed to let Atari wave that cash stack.)
That explains July.