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    My Software Library: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee
    Added request to test

    On 3/7/2023 at 7:31 PM, SoulBuster said:

    Forms Generator (1986)(Twenty-Fifth Century)(US)[disk]

    This disk misses the needed copy protection which should be a bad sector. If you select a printer, a copyright screen shows up and the system reboots.

    Forms Generator (1986)(Twenty-Fifth Century)(US)[disk][f].atx

     

    Weird-o-Fact:

    This is the second dump of this program and the third from this company which shows this error.

     

    Can you please try if this disk works on hardware?

    I really don't want to believe that several non-working disks were sold.

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    My Software Library: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee

    On 7/7/2021 at 3:14 PM, SoulBuster said:

    Concorde's Atari Compatible DOS XL 2.30 - My side B was unformatted, but the label was there.

    Do you have a DD capable drive and did you try to boot side B there?

     

    ATX currently does not support DD disks. I have not tried to convert a DD flux image but not detecting anything on a DD flux dump would be a valid option in this case.

     

    On 5/23/2023 at 4:57 PM, SoulBuster said:

    CPS 1050 Diagnostic Disk Rev. 02 (198x)(Atari)(US)[BASIC][disk]

     

    Boot with BASIC.

     

    Can you please redo this disk in INDEX mode?

    For a diagnostic disk this might be worth the effort.

     

    Oh, and I see no need for BASIC with this title.

    Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee
    typo

    43 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said:

    With all due respect, use both sites concurrently as we also have many references that don't exist elsewhere. For a number of reasons, checking both places will make the archiving process easier and more efficient, even if the disks end up on https://www.a8preservation.com first.

    I agree with a particular BUT regarding preservation:

     

    You still have many titles marked "Missing original disk image!" which are actually flux-dumped and part of a8preservation's releases.

    Now if someone like @seastalker_returns tries to find out which titles still need to be preserved and buys dumps particularly for this reason, (s)he might end up buying something which was already preserved.

    (Disclaimer: These dumps are quite often still valuable and needed due to the fact that many titles had several differing releases which you can only distinguish by comparing the disk dumps.)

     

    In any other case I fully agree with your statement.

    Chip8 emulator version 1.0

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    5 hours ago, pirx said:

    @cas I've heard there is a nice article about chip-8 in the latest ABBUC magazine - could you share the highlights or a scan with me - I'll have an excuse to use a bit of my long-neglected Deutsch!  

    cas is offline this week but you have a PM.

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    My Software Library: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    On 7/17/2023 at 5:42 PM, SoulBuster said:

    Maxi Golf (1984)(Adventure International)(US)[disk]

     

    Boot without BASIC.

     

    This disk has physical damage on the surface of both sides.  I took several recordings.  I hope these can help with another set.

    Yep, they could.

    I had created a pair of Frankendisks six years ago and could happily repair your dumps taking the needed 13 sectors from them.
    In the end only the two bad sectors differ between my handcrafted disks and your repaired dump. :)

     

    Maxi Golf Side 1 Try 1[f].atx

    Maxi Golf Side 2 Try 1[f].atx

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    Call for help fixing ATX support.

    in #FujiNet SIO Network Adapter

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee

    1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    I didn't bring altirra into it but it supported XP for a hell of a long time for which many were grateful please don't make it sound like I am currently complaining about it. To your credit, you appear more than capable to keep up with the current update practice which you now employ. As noted something you do currently but not necessarily as aggressively in the past.

     

    I didn't use that as an example someone else did in any event.

    This is true, it was me who brought i up.

     

    And for a reason:

    If you need a new toolchain for technical reasons (like compilers are no longer running), you must migrate to it to enable further development, even if you would like to stay with the old one and even if it breaks compatibility with certain OSs/platforms/whatever.

     

    This happened to phaeron developing Altirra and the same happened to the team of developers working on FujiNet.

    But you are welcome to cry over the old days for a while longer.

     

    Oh, and similarly to Altirra: Old versions of the firmware are still working on new devices. Unless you need one of the later added features, there is no need to update it.

    Call for help fixing ATX support.

    in #FujiNet SIO Network Adapter

    Posted

    2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    a viable solution would be to settle on the best tool chain possible and stop chasing the latest shiny new one unless it fixes something major and has been working in the general public for some time. You have had almost every part of fujinet working at some point and then toolchain this or that breaks this or that, so everything is never fully working all at once. This is problematic not only for you but for the thousands of FN owners such as myself.

    Moving targets are hard to hit, and not everyone is a marksman.

    To me that sounds like "Why does anyone switch to Windows 10, when XP is still running stable and fulfills all MY needs, but why is this weird developer of Altirra no longer supporting it?" 

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    Preferred game disassembly/reconstruction toolchain?

    in Atari 5200 / 8-bit Programming

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee

    2 hours ago, xxl said:

    about 10 years ago I also started with saving hiscore in a separate file on disk in old games but in retrospect I see that this was not a good idea.... fujinet can improve this by downloading the saved hiscore in a shared file on the network.

    Thom's approach combines both.
    For easy implementation and to keep independent from the network, high-scores are saved to the disk (image). It is advisable to re-read the high-score data from disk after each game to catch other players' entries in the table.

     

    If (and only if) one wants a webpage which shows these high-scores, then a server based process grabs the high-score data and writes it to per-game webpages. This process is based on small per-game "scrapers" which interpret the high-score data from the disk.

     

    Perhaps you can contribute your patched/modified games for FujiNet's servers.

    My Software Library: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    On 4/4/2023 at 4:01 PM, SoulBuster said:

    APX 20083 - My First Alphabet (1982-03)(APX)(US)[BASIC][disk]

     

    Requires BASIC. I do not know how to configure Altirra to boot it.  Please reply with your configuration if you can get it to boot.

    Does the physical disk work?

     

    This is the copy protected version as it was released by Atari but without sector 367 being bad.

    Therefore it fails protection and keeps rebooting.

    ABBUC magazine 153

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, mutterminder said:

    I just joined, at least I think I did.  Anyway I sent payment per instructions.  I haven't got any reply e-mail yet confirming my membership.  Once this occurs how does it work? Do you get an email with the magazine and then later get the printed one?

    I forwarded your request to the club's board for answering.

    Where in the chain should a 1050 be positioned?

    in RespeQt SIO2PC Software

    Posted · Edited by DjayBee

    On 7/21/2023 at 4:57 PM, MattM1121 said:

    However, I am having some issues with the 1050 positioned before the RespeQt.

    You can only position the drive before SIO2SD since the cable has no outgoing SIO port.

     

    If you talk about drive numbers:

    It does not matter unless you assign the same drive number to a physical disk drive and an image loaded into RespeQt at the same time. This cannot work because the drive ID is the unique identifier of a device on the SIO bus.

    ABBUC magazine 153

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    48 minutes ago, manterola said:

    Oops! I need to check when my membership expires....

    Check the address label on your last magazine's envelope.
    I guess that it will show the date like it does for German members.

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