[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

6 hours ago, akator said:

I love this.  For me the real determining factor will be price.

Agreed. And for once I’m glad this is coming from Europe. Customs and VAT for Sweden are expensive for stuff from US and Asia

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

On 7/29/2019 at 11:32 PM, P1r said:Hope to source someone to print the beautiful XL case from @wt808 soon as well.

Lots of water under the bridge and my Eclaire XL is still a joy. Just had a new case printed, since my first one was pretty warped. Colour choice perhaps to celebrate the AtariAge acquisition?  (nope, the guy printing the case made a mistake and so this turned up in gold instead of beige)

 

I think it works though?

[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

10 hours ago, ScreamingAtTheRadio said:

The XE keyboard is available now (XL keyboard early November), but the XE case needs more work, that I've been prioritizing in favor of keyboards for other models of Atari 8-bit (currently working on 1200XL). I'm having my prototype cases printed by JLCPCB and PCBWay and the finish is fantastic, very smooth, doesn't feel 3D-printed. PCBWay now also does post-printing spray painting which I'm experimenting with right now. I hope this answers your questions.

Do you have a URL for where one can see these wonderful things?

[Decent XE mechanical keyboard for Atari XE computers - how to order one]

Just found out about this today via the 8-bit and more video. Looks fantastic! Fingers crossed for a european distributor (or winning at the lottery  ) and the XL version.

[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

11 hours ago, Keatah said:

Emulators!

Gesundheit!

[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

I see folks saying that this is just creating hype. Well to be fair to the project creators, whoever they may be, they don’t seem to have written a word about this anywhere. Any existing hype comes from @Philsan’s posts on social media and the existence of this thread. I for one am indeed hyped about the potential and look forward to more information from the original source as it becomes available.

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

On 4/6/2022 at 8:35 PM, foft said:

It is highly likely there will be another run of these though, presuming this chip crisis ever ends!

I would definitely consider getting another one. For no particular reason other than being so incredible happy with my first one. ?

[SimpleStereo v3 and IO-Board]

Any news as to when Simplestereo V4 will be available, @candle?

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

9 hours ago, OmaOhneBH said:

I wish there were eclaireXL versions which fit into 600XL/800XL/XE casings right off the bat, monitor output, SIO port, Joystick ports etc. exactly on the right place. Like the Commodore Ultimate64.

Yes!

Or perhaps even better, a new one like the Spectrum Next. I would back that Kickstarter in a heartbeat.

[Announcing - Gravitic Mines]

On 11/24/2020 at 6:48 AM, CyranoJ said:

First successful flight on rotary controller!

Awesome! Thanks for adding rotary support!

[Announcing - Gravitic Mines]

On 10/4/2020 at 2:04 AM, CyranoJ said:

Rotary: Maybe, no guarantees.

I’ll keep my finger crossed! (And take a look at the other homebrews in the meantime)

[Announcing - Gravitic Mines]

On 9/29/2020 at 2:41 AM, CyranoJ said:

• Standard and Pro Controller (Recommended) support.

Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but any chance of rotary support?

This looks absolutely amazing, definitely going to be my first homebrew purchase for the Jag. Great work!

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

Just now, P1r said:

I have bought some silver self-adhesives actually ... ? I have yet to try using them but I can give it a go and see how they turn out.

Oh, right. There's a reason I haven't printed them yet. I have yet to get my hands on a case so I don't have the exact measures. Let me know how big they should be!

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

40 minutes ago, orpheuswaking said:

Who wants to print me one of these?

I have bought some silver self-adhesives actually ... ? I have yet to try using them but I can give it a go and see how they turn out.

[eclaire XL P.C.B. aka "Atari on FPGA project"]

5 minutes ago, Peruchi said:

How did you managed to do so?

Blind luck. ? I found the new thread: 

 

[eclaire XL P.C.B. aka "Atari on FPGA project"]

Just now, Peruchi said:

Is this project dead? Since 2017 we got no news about any availability of this device...

Well, I bought one in 2019 ...

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

Ok, so one of @wt808s excellently designed EclaireXL cases should be in the mail and on its way to me now. I've been toying with some ideas for a badge (to be printed on silver foil adhesives). Which one would you guys go with?

[Upcoming Jaguar Game Drive Cartridge]

5 hours ago, Hastor said:

She's mostly circuit-bending synths or corrupting game roms on emulators to use in noise performance - most of her stuff can be done from a Pi or laptop, though she does use my old consoles and sound software for them at times too.

Sorry for keeping offtopic but this sounds so cool! Where can we hear any of her work?

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

On 11/14/2019 at 8:06 AM, irich2 said:

Love the box art!  Very cool!!  One minor thing to fix though to make it perfect: the word "Periferals" should be "Peripherals".  But great job overall!!

 

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Glad you liked it! Fixed version here.

[Upcoming Jaguar Game Drive Cartridge]

1 hour ago, SainT said:

Not quite sure how useful it would be given only one game uses the spinner... if you only have a spinner controller you may as well just put T2K in the machine and be done!

Not entirely true (though T2k has indeed been fixed to my machine for the past couple of years at least), one of the reasons I look forward to ordering a cart is to try the homebrew games with spinner support. A number pad solution would be perfect!

[Upcoming Jaguar Game Drive Cartridge]

5 hours ago, Rugar said:

WOW Day One 500+ orders. I think you'll have to open your own production line

I believe there are still a bunch of people who waiting for full CD support like me, beacuse i already have all cartridges that interest me. 

 

Great work SainT!

Yup, same here. The price is completely fair, but a bit much when it isn’t adding anything in my particular case at the moment, I thought. Guess the joke’s going to be on me when I put an order in post-Brexit and land with stupid amounts in customs fees instead.

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

48 minutes ago, foft said:

Also to note, you can quickly load a new profile with hotkeys: F11 (settings), 1-4 (which profile), Esc (return)

Good one! Will make a note of that.

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

9 hours ago, foft said:

The process is:

i) load rom from from sd card using file selector (new rom is immediately available)

ii) save to flash

iii) on restart the new rom is loaded 

Nb: make sure there is no atari800/rom/atarixl.rom file, this will be loaded in preference to the one in flash

 

Got it! And if I'd like to have different ROMs on different profiles? One of which being the standard AtariXL?

 

Edit: Saw Santosp's answer after I wrote this. Excellent, will try as soon as the tv is free. ?

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

7 hours ago, foft said:

There are four profiles stored on the flash, each contains os rom, basic rom, system and video settings. Profile 1 is loaded on start up. The settings can be changed temporarily, but are only stored using ‘save to flash’. So to change the rom in slot 1 load an os rom with the file selector then ‘save to flash’.

 

The sd card can also contain a profile. This is stored in pieces in the atari800/rom folder: atarixl.rom, ataribas.rom and settings. These, if present, are loaded on startup with higher priority than the flash. Only the video/ system settings are stored to sd with ‘save to sd’ in the settings file (if it exists).

 

Generally I keep the rom folder empty on the sd card, then I can use the flash settings. However you could use it how you like - eg an sd card per system config.

Aha, ok, I get it. But if I change one of the profiles to us an OS ROM from the SD card, then save to flash, it defaults back to the standard OS ROM on the next restart. Is there a way for me to put my custom ROM on the flash in parallell to the others?

[Atari compatible hardware eclaireXL, in mini form.]

Your site seems to be down at the moment, @foft. I've noticed that my EclaireXL doesn't remember what ROM I used when it's been switched off. I guess this is because I don't have a "special settings file" that is mentioned in the documentation. Is there an example of such a file somewhere? (I know I could download the complete card image when your site is back up, but I'd prefer just the settings file)