Dopy25

I too have a 5200, I also have a 7800 if you'd like to have a package. Both have a few games as well as 2 controllers each. Both are modded with UAV. Both have been recently recapped. I also have a 7800 that only has a power mod but no video mod if you are interested. Will send a PM.

I too would be willing to give you some money, you know like a friend would need to borrow for gas or something, with no intent on ever returning said money.

Awesome. Thank you! I will give this a shot in about 8 and a half hours. haha. I have somewhere I need to be until then.

Got ya^ Back on point here, I absolutely welcome any useful information regarding the question at hand. I can and will check those other forums. I did not try those yet. Maybe that's what I was doing wrong. I downloaded that image from the github you provided. It says "works with TOS 1.00" but when I tried using it, nothing happened on my ST. It literally just loaded the original desktop as though I had nothing attached. I am sure I am incorrectly assuming something should show up on the desktop but I don't even get the same boot screen I do when I have the other image flashed. The other problem I have is that the one image I have that works, marks the whole drive as RAW so I can't create another partition in Windows. Is there a utility I can run in GEM that let's me alter partitions? Problem is I only have one piece of hardware that loads software, it's the SD solution I bought from masteries sales. The next thing I will try is to grab those files from sourceforge and add them to my SD card using the drvImg program.

Updated. Moved a few things to sold, and added some stuff.

I still can't tell if he is bashing me, or everyone else for not answering my question (or answering it wrong?... to.....him?) I have yet to build a solution that will allow me to accomplish my initial goal. I know the best method would be to update/upgrade the TOS, but I am looking for a software solution first. Sure running emu TOS might not be the "best" way to run a later TOS, but with 4mb of RAM I figure it won't be e terrible experience. I would rather not pay $40 to upgrade something and add $10 in future value to the machine. That seems like serious overkill to me. My main question here is regarding auto booting into a later TOS with partitions on the SD card that can be read in TOS 1.0, as well as later TOS, and Windows. I would like to have a partition that I can put files on in Windows, that can be used on my machine, that auto boots TOS from 1.0 to TOS 1.04. Example: Partitions of 200-256 MB, one that can be read in TOS 1.0 and ran. (C drive perhaps) and the rest that the files can be managed from within Windows. My machine has hardware TOS 1.0 (physical eeprom/rom in machine). I turn on the machine and it grabs TOS 1.04 or emu TOS (not sure exactly the terms for this) from AUTO folder. Machine then boots into later TOS from RAM (?) and can now read FAT partitions that can be used in Windows. If none of this is possible, that's fine. I am only asking if anyone either knows how to do this, or has done it before.

Well maybe I didn't do it right, or maybe my SD card hard drive adapter is not supported. I downloaded the pre supplied image and flashed it to a 4gb SD card. It made a 200mb ish partition so I made 2 more fat partitions, roughly 1.7gb each. I put the SD in the adapter and fired it up. I let it power itself first, then powered the Atari like usual. It just boots to nothing on the gem desktop. Using the 1.00 tos image I linked before, everything boots into a desktop with hard drives and floppy icons (but no floppy drives attached). I tried to move the emutos.sys file to an auto folder but it didn't do anything. Also not sure I made the auto folder on the right partition. Here is what loads when I boot from the image I previously linked: Then it loads this desktop: I don't think the driver this solution uses supports fat partitions. Any ideas?

Ok so what I understand is that TOS 1.0 requires a different format that my SD adapter can understand, and it is unreadable in Windows. I got it from here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/jajpcc8pcp623do/1GBRTWIKI1_6TOS100.RAR/file Reading this requires a program called drvimg. Using said program on windows, I can transfer files to it. It makes it kinda hard and I am not even sure how to rename the drive partitions, they are in Spanish. I would like to boot this image in TOS 1.0 with an emulated TOS in the auto folder. From there I would like to know if I can have a partition on the disk (SD card) that is FAT so I can read and move files easily within windows. I am completely new to this entire operating system and will most likely only use this for games for now. Any files I put on it would be easily replaceable. I actually goofed at one point trying to move files to the auto folder, and inadvertently made a partition unusable. I have no idea how that happened so I just wrote that image to SD again and went from there. It's the 520ST. External power, no internal drive of any kind, HDD or Floppy. I will totally check this out. Seems like it might be exactly what I was looking for!

That is my main complaint as well. There is a prg you can run called fastmouse. It basically doubles the speed of the mouse movement.

I do not have a floppy drive at all. Can you tell me more about this boot image from HD? My main concern is if I can have a partition that 1.0 can read, and a partition that 1.0 cannot read. Will that mess anything up with the sd card (hard drive) or the system itself?

Oh crap I should have specified. I have a 520ST that is upgraded to 4MB. I have the RAM to run an emulated TOS, but I am unsure if it will work like that. My goal is to start my machine running TOS 1.0 with an autoboot TOS (1.04?). Is that doable?

My machine currently has TOS 1.0 and it runs. I'm not ready to upgrade the TOS yet so I would like to know if it is possible to boot into a partition meant for TOS 1.0, then auto boot a later TOS from the drive, and use a second (or multiple) partitions that can be read in later TOS and DOS. I have the low cost SD solution from masteries, posted for sale here: Has anyone had any luck doing anything similar? I'm not even sure where to begin to partition the SD card image on a windows PC in order to do this. I am sure I could figure it out if my TOS was later, but for now I have no idea how to actually create an image with partitions in windows for use on older TOS. Thanks for any tips or direction.

Ohh nice! Another round. I'd like to put my name in the hat, please. Thanks!

Sent you a PM

I have one but shipping might be cost prohibitive. It's yours for the cost of shipping but any padded envelope or small package these days is $5. To be really sure the one I have will work, I can measure the height of the peg if you want. You'd have to measure yours as well to know if what I have is longer.

Did you get the one in the corner of the heatsink?

New want

oOOOOOHHHHhhhh. Me please! I will send my message before the deadline but wanted to be accounted for!

That's what to expect with a name like "hit a score". You think you hit a score? Nope.

Prices adjusted slightly. Offering split on Coleco & Roller Controller.

That's definitely an assortment. I would have kept mine but I needed to downsize, and money. At least now I can put effort into upgrading the one I have left. haha Definitely watching here to see what is suggested.

🤷‍♂️ It was there since aug 24th. I just checked. I would announce these things in their sub forums but I figured it was against the rules to double post. I am glad you got one. I ended up keeping my 800XL and parting with the 1200XL.

I had one in the AA market for that price for over a week with no takers. Ended up selling yesterday for $150 with free shipping. Not sure if geography restricts you as I am in the US. Was your purchase the one from Mercari? I saw one sold earlier today for around that price on there.

Free shipping if you can pay on Venmo (preferably not marked as purchase. Equivalent to F&F on Paypal.) Time for me to pay a CC bill. Temp prices in main post are still valid.

Added Super Nintendo. Prices in previous post still stand until further notice.