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Yea-ha, finally this thread is on target. 😎
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5 hours ago, Atarigrub said:
@luckybuck I don't believe we have wav or flac files for those on a8preservation?
Except fur Luckybuck's dump we also have one from Soulbuster. You can find it in his Uploads/Multiformat directory.
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39 minutes ago, scotty said:
Warner Communications (Warner Brothers) owned Atari from 77-90.
Only publically.
You don't know the secret contracts between Nintendo and Walnel Gommunigations. 😎-
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7 minutes ago, Heaven/TQA said:
what's that? A8 scene gets trainers???
We're getting older. 😎
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@tschak909 get it for http://scores.irata.online/ while it's hot. 🔥
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56 minutes ago, bent_pin said:
For completeness any 6507 clone should include all utilized codes, documented or not. I was not aware that they had been removed from the Maria, thanks for that, it's useful in a project of mine.
Sorry, I was confused. I meant the 65C02.
But I guess that you are right that the 6507 has them as well.
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5 minutes ago, bent_pin said:
If the silicon runs it, is it really illegal?
"Illegal" is only colloquial. Like others have written already: They are not fully documented and developers are discouraged from using them.
And they no longer exist in 6502Cs.
From my understanding they are side-effects of how the chip was designed back then.
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4 hours ago, smesgr said:
ok. As described the setup:
Mitsubishi MF504A with greaseweazle 1.15.1 fw 1.14 > gw convert with step=2 > converted by a8rawconv 0.94 to atx. All steps are in the zip
One gone-bad sector 507 in driver field 2 which cannot be loaded, otherwise it looks OK.
Except for 12 sectors your disk is identical to our verified image. Educated guess: The save-game data (driver fields) differ.
These problems with getting 40 tracks from the 80 track drive are really weird.
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9 hours ago, jgkspsx said:
The RM800XL is a commercial product and they used Atari’s name and trademarked design without permission. That’s not smart. Atari didn’t even issue that C&D, Retro Games Ltd (the people who make TheC64 and TheA500) did.
You are right regarding Atari's name but (at least) in Europe design patents expire after some 20 years and cannot be extended plus a desing may not have been published before it gets registered.
The XLs' designs date back to around 1983 and therefore have expired around 2003. Plus they obviously have been published before RGL has registered them recently.I guess that this registration will fall as soon as somebody starts a dispute at the EUIPO.
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afaik this release - but my tape is not as nice as on the picture already uploaded - maybe just a label print error
Can you please take the inlay out of the case and make photos of the whole paper?
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1 hour ago, zzip said:
The better question is why are there 6 ghosts?
Errm, four in their normal colour and two in the being-eatable colour ...
... which makes it only four different coloured ghosts at once. 😎
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21 hours ago, smesgr said:
i also have dumped my copy. But it was a bit of a pain. Read the complete first head with GW than converted it down with "step=2" than a8rawconv to atx. My dump now starts, but dumping it directly with "step=2" didn't work for some reason.
Post it anyway.
I checked your other submissions:
Kennedy Approach is identical to the US release, which is common for Microprose.Trailblazer was not yet dumped. It differs very much from Mindscape's US release.
thanks again
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He does everything possible to hide his published information from the public.
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30 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:
The reason Atari keeps hammering the 2600 is that it’s the only thing the mass of consumers remembers and buys. Other systems, save for maybe the Atari 8 bits, are viable at the scale of the AtariAge store, sure, but not at the scale of mass factory production or sale in major retailers.
Now this is the exact reason why Atari should be flexible in giving out royalty-based licenses for small-scale commercial developments and generous licenses for non-profit homebrews.
Having legal access to the various BIOS and OS ROMs of the old machines for emulation purposes would also be a fine step towards our community which would not harm Atari's sales. Buyers of products like the 2600+ are either mainstream people who want/need something plug-and-play or fans like us who buy it even if we have the same stuff already in five other incarnations.
@TrogdarRobusto are this ideas thinkable inside Atari?
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@kenp You can also download a copy of PC Xfomer which legally comes with OS ROMs.
http://www.emulators.com/download.htm and scroll down to PC Xformer Classic 3.8. You can extract the ROMs from that ZIP.
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3 hours ago, tschak909 said:
You won't tell the Master of Divertion. 😈
He just drops his small heaps wherever he walks.
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15 minutes ago, Mercenary said:
For me, one of the more interesting projects is coming from Revive Machines. The Revived 800XL. That looks absolutely superb, and I've seen quite a bit of interest over it too from people.
Something like that really should be coming from Atari itself.As great as it would be, I doubt this will happen due to the price tag attached to FPGA devices.
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On 8/4/2023 at 5:35 AM, phaeron said:
Was that on an 810? You shouldn't be able to get $BF on a 1050 because the 2793/2797 only supports one of the data address mark bits. Unfortunately, ATX's encoding is modeled after the 1050 and reuses bit 6 for another purpose, so it cannot encode both bits either.
Dunno if it helps but @Yellowman tested Forms Generator on a 1050 and received $1C and $EF in DVSTAT and DVSTAT+1 for sector 84 but also for sector 85 which looks good in HXC.
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Or they still lie in the now inaccessible vaults of Curt.
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On 3/7/2023 at 10:07 PM, SoulBuster said:
SoftSide Issue #34 (1982)(SoftSide Publications)(US)[disk] - No Dos, Boot Atari Dos 2.5 first, RUN"D:COVER"
Side "B" appears to be overwritten. Write protect your disk if you are going to test it.
Dunno what happened there because the dump is OK.
Side B contains the Rotberg Synthesizer demo and its reaction to failed copy protection is to format the disk. Therefore the protection must have failed in your emulator.
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Another super-necro bump from team archivation
@SoulBuster recently dumped an original disk of SoftSide #34 (1982-10) with Rotberg Synthesizer on side B.
I was surprised how heavily protected this disk is; particularly with regard to the fact that it is NOT the synthesizer but only a DEMO containing five pieces to listen.
But at least we can now enjoy Disco Dirge "in its natural environment".
It contains:
NEW COUNTRY -- J. L. Ponty
Prelude & Fugue in Cm -- J. S. Bach
BOLERO ( unfinished ) -- M. Ravel
Pokey Percussion -- L. Actor
DISCO DIRGE -- D. Pliskin
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8 minutes ago, Rybags said:
Recent thread with the news
Thanks, I had checked the home page but not other forums and was not sure if the information was true.
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