AtariGeezer

Me too My leg is healing better now, doesn't look like I'll need skin graphs after all. No, my mother had a stroke 6 weeks ago and it zapped a lot of her memory affecting her speech with the pronunciation of many words. I've been helping her with speech therapy since then. We have a big list of words that we practice every day and every day we find new words that are difficult for her...

Received mine on Saturday, now to decide where to install it. Either the XEL, 800XL or 800XE...

Not yet, still need to make the cables between the 2m Radio and AEA PK-232, plus the cable from the Atari Joy Port and the AEA if it's different from the Kantronics TTL Port (which I already have)...

Sorry, but ain't gonna risk damaging the case. It doesn't use a screw to hold it together. All you need is a standard 8k board that uses 2 2732's or 1 2764 Eprom...

There is a rom dump of DT80 here https://atariage.com/forums/topic/161828-hooked-on-8-bit-carts/?do=findComment&comment=2476148

Here are some programs that I typed in from some QST articles. The packet program might work on the pk-232, but haven't tried it yet on mine... Jay

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https://atariage.com/forums/topic/260646-new-hardware-atari-400800-super-color-cpu-card/

And I've seen them sell for as much as $200 for the 800 only in the US in the past 2 months... What is tf_hh SCCC's project?

Prices of 800's are going up, time to think about selling some spares. Only thing is that I charge $60-$75 for double boxed shipping in the U.S. with bubble wrap and packing peanuts...

Received my 5200 Pac-Man cart, now I can test my 5200 thank you again.

That's true for a lot of us these days. If you were to go the way that @Vandal968 and I have done by using a 1200xl and 800xl as parts donors to build a 1450xl mobo using the same parts Atari did, plus buying parts from Best Electronics and Digi-key, the final build costs would be over $400 if you didn't already have a spare 1200xl and 800xl to use...

I think there 100 of them as mine has #99 written on it...

Yes I know, but your kind act made me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy You could always ask one of the guys here on AA to sell you their unfinished board as long as it's not monkeyed up...

I still have a BB, but no desk space to use it. Still looking for a Floppy Board to complete it...

I never insulted him... And NO, I DIDN'T STEAL FROM HIM, as you said I did... The Ice Cream Sandwich board was offered to me freely if I shared my work, as I have done. There was no stipulation on posting my complete source code...

Sure would be nice if a moderator can "un-ban" me from"#FujiNet - a WIP SIO Network Adapter for the Atari 8-bit" Thanks, Jay

And I should mention That I wouldn't wish this mental problem on anyone, not even tschak909 After we get our next $timulus check, I'll buy the latest fujinet board and test my code on it, already have it ported to platform.io ... Also want to get the new Side3 cart as well...

You bet! Gotta keep those positive thoughts Exactly I stopped drinking caffeinated products when the anxiety started...

Thanks for the thought, but when you have extreme anxiety, it's like having all the negative thoughts of 100 minds all at once, you don't want to sit still for one second because it drives you mad/crazy. Talking, walking or going for a long ride on the motorcycle doesn't help. Being alone with all those thoughts isn't a good thing, you just want to die... Only thing that helped for a few hours was to go to a massage parlor

Thank you Allen

Thanks Paul I know how much you have been going through, not good either. I've been fighting depression for far too long also... I have been taking Zinc and multi-mineral pills to help rebuild my immune system (helps skin healing too)...

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you That's nice to hear Thank you Very true... Thank you Yep, I had bad anxiety attacks back in 1994 (after my divorce) when I drove a 18 wheeler, had to quit driving after I almost drove a family in a small car off the road. Thank you I'm sure my guardians will be listening...

Thanks Jon, me too...

Back in January I gouged my left calf on an old ST Hard Drive Case I had sitting on a box. I applied some hydrogen peroxide to clean it up and left it to dry out. A month later I felt some pain there and when I looked at it, the skin had split open revealing some muscle tissue. So I put some Neosporin on it, covered it with gauze and used some old medical tape to keep it in place and replaced it every 2 days. I had noticed some redness under the tape so I just rotated the position of the tape (bad choice), but the redness kept repeating. Figuring the tapes adhesive went bad, I switched to cur-aid band aide tape. The redness got worse and worse until it ended up reaching a 6 inch diameter circle of infected skin. I contacted the Veterans Administration Hospital in March and was advised to go to a urgent care facility in my home town. The Nurse Practitioner said I had a cellulitis infection and prescribed some weak antibiotics which didn't do squat after 10 days. Twenty days later I went to the VA Emergency Room because the redness had spread to the whole lower leg having red bumps and the skin felt hard as leather. This time the Doctor prescribed 2 kinds of stronger antibiotics which resulted in new scab growing around one part of the original wound a week later, but that was all. I ended up going back to the ER for 3 months getting the same diagnosis and more meds... This left me feeling hopeless and I started having panic attacks thinking that if this doesn't get any better that I would loose my leg due to this skin disease that the doctors couldn't narrow down and treat properly. Those panic attacks didn't go away and resulted in severe anxiety to the point that nothing I tried would calm my mind down. Talking, trying to think of anything else or breathing exercises didn't help. I made an appointment at the VA 3 months ago at the mental health clinic, but they didn't mail the meds until a week later, witch was too late as I had a breakdown a few days before they arrived. It's going to take awhile for full recovery, but I'm using magnesium to help calm the mind during the day time and anti-anxiety meds to help in sleeping more than 2 hours at a time at night and during the daytime as needed. I just have to learn to not dwell on something like misplacing an object or a task being too complicated to do at the moment as stupid stuff like that re-ignites the anxiety. When the severe anxiety is triggered, it's really difficult to come out of without the help of the anti-anxiety meds or magnesium. I just hope I don't have to go trough this the rest of my life... Over the past 2 months, I have been going to the wound care clinic, parts of my leg are healing now, but if the worst area doesn't clear up soon, they'll start doing skin graphs... Jay