[Acronym Insanity]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for the info, at least now I can understand some of what I read in these forums. You really CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Thanks again

[Acronym Insanity]

I am new here, had Atari fever back in the 80's, just now getting back into it. This is one of the better A8 related forums, but to tell the truth.. I am a bit lost with all the acronyms flying around on here. I got no clue what you guys are talking about, for example APE, VBXE, SIDE, etc. I'm pretty sure those are projects/modifications for the A8, but what exactly are they (and should I want one?). Any help would be appreciated.

 

Dragon375

[Using m new SIO2SD]

I have the D2: slot in the SIO2SD configured as OFF, but I have tried it configured as EMPTY as well, still the same thing. Are there any settings within the SIO2SD that would account for this?

[Using m new SIO2SD]

BillC, I dont think an expander is going to help my situation at all. The 1050 has 2 SIO ports, so hooking it and the SIO2SD up arent the problem. It's just getting the atari to recognize the 1050 and the SIO2SD at the same time. I get error 138/139 on the 1050 with the SIO2SD hooked up, when I remove it, the 1050 works fine. The problem is, I want to make some floppies out of the stuff I have on the SD card, so they both need to be recognized by the atari at the same time - which isnt happening. I need to know if there is a setting in the SIO2SD or the 1050 I can change to get them to work together.

[Using m new SIO2SD]

I just received my new SIO2SD and am a bit confused in the operation. I just cant seem to copy any of the ATR files from the SD card back onto floppies. I have a Happy 1050 hooked up & set as D2, but with the SIO2SD hooked up all I get from the 1050 is a 138 error, cant even get the Atari to see the drive while the SIO2SD is hooked up. I have the Atari hardware to run these programs, why can't I get it to work? Is there a different way of hooking it up? Or is it incompatible with having an actual 1050 in the same daisy-chain? This is driving me nutz, cuz it "should" work.

Any help available?

[spotted on craigslist not mine]

yeah, a nice lot... I bought it