[Atari ST External Floppy Connection]

Completely wrong. Putting resistors there will make it not activating drive and side selection.

I solved it btw. with adding transistors.

 

You know, there's difference between "may not work in this particular application" and "completely wrong".

Current limiting resistors are pretty common on signal lines.

 

The original problem as stated "...damage PSG chip (what gives drive and side selection signals) - because pull much more current on those lines"

 

True, it is possible the drive may not detect the signals, which is addressed by the solution you came up with, but the ST won't be damaged.

[Atari ST External Floppy Connection]

I don't recommend to attach 360 K drive to Atari ST, Falcon, MSTE ... They can damage PSG chip (what gives drive and side selection signals) - because pull much more current on those lines than 720/1.44 drives. Talking from own experience. Only if add there line amplifiers.

 

If it is just a signal line, put a current limit resistor on it.

[Jaguar ST Ports 2.4]

I have just been given an update & it looks like I will get the new boxes no later than 31st of the month, so I will do my best to get these shipped out on Saturday 1st September. I will update if anything changes i will update.

 

No worries. I (for one) greatly appreciate your attention to detail and focus on delivering a first rate product.

[Virtual Jaguar 2.1.4 for Mac]

You did build it 64 bit, right?

[Does ANYONE have an Atari PC1 ONLY (not other PCs)]

Been looking for one of these forever. Some day....

[Power Mac G5 1.6 GHZ pickup, problem.]

I'd almost guarantee bad caps. I've replaced bad caps on dozens of G5 iMac motherboards and power supplies from the same era.

[Jaguar ST Ports 2.4]

Happy Birthday, and, SENT!!!

[Replacing video card - thoughts?]

The market will have to collapse soon. Each card that gets added to the mining pool reduces the profitability of all existing cards, soon they wont be able to cover the cost of the electricity to run them.

[Amiga 1200 vs Atari ST.]

No one developer ever ever liked intel programming, especially stack and addressing/memory map related items. And. Yet. The ENTIRE INDUSTRY embraced the model and supported it at every turn. The 286 was loathed and everyone wanted 6809 and 68000 or PowerPC. And..yet.. x86 rules the roost. So someone is bullshitting someone and hating just to hate, because bandwagon.

 

Segmented memory was the devil. 6 different memory models in Borland C.......

[Preferred Monochrome Color?]

Amber for the win!

I almost miss my VT-320 from way back in the 80's (software developer on a DEC MicroVax II)

[Atari 1040STe Torched By Soldering Iron! Can Anybody Help?]

Where are you located?

[How I almost used an Atari 8-bit for school]

Exactly the opposite of this topic, but how many people took programming classes and the tests required that you wrote programs on a sheet of paper with pencil/pen?

 

Now THAT was stupid. This was the early 90's... Writing Pascal and COBOL programs on paper.

 

FORTRAN coding sheets.... an abomination unto mankind....

[Brand New Atari Jaguar Pro Controllers- For Sale!]

cool. email sent for 4

[Jaguar ST Ports Series 2.2]

Well as I dont appear to want to sleep at the moment, thought Id update here. For whatever reason parts are stuck in the postal system. Im wondering if Royal Mail/Parcelforce have forgotten to send me a customs notice AGAIN! I know the items are in the UK and should have been delivered last week. This is the same issue that held up the 2.1 releases being shipped.

Once I finally get the parts we will get the Orion releases finished off first as about 70% of those have already shipped. Then we will concentrate on banging out these 2.2 orders, so we can concentrate on 2.3. Its all very frustrating, but we will get there in the end.

Thanks for your patience everyone. I will try to catch up on any emails in the next few days. Peace out

 

On the plus side, that does give me time to save up for the next round =D

[1088XEL Atari ITX Motherboard Pre-order & Interest Thread]

i would like at least 2 bare boards please

[Favorite Operating Systems of all time?]

In the 'classic era':

 

OS/2: Easily the best OS of its time, what Windows should have been (literally)

MacOS 9

Windows 2000: Stable and solid, a little weak in the driver department

[Jaguar ST Ports Series 2.2]

No invoice here

[Is a vintage PC worth it these days?]

As much as I chased after 3D graphics cards back in the day, I was thoroughly elated to see the passing of 3DFX and the Voodoo boards. While 1 and 2 were near groundbreaking, the format and eco-sphere never really grew beyond geek gaming. I particularly disliked you could only do 3D only, and that the cards had to do passthrough gymnastics to co-exist with your existing graphics solution.

 

When the 2D+3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the Banshee came around, it was too little too late. The company went stagnant. Much of 3DFX would eventually be absorbed into Nvidia.

 

With the arrival of Riva-128 and soon the TNT2 and GeForce, we were well on our way to finally getting a world wide standard that'd be accepted by everyone.

 

TRVIA: The Riva-128 had the fastest and most compatible 2D engine of its time. Eclipsing offerings from Matrox, Permedia, s3, and other contemporaries. The second fastest 2D card would be the GeForce GTS2 Ultra.

 

I believe the 3dfx Banshee card actually had the fastest 2D engine of the era. All 256 windows raster ops were implemented in hardware, and if I recall correctly, it was one of (if not the first) to hit the maximum theoretical Windows 2d performance. It had some ungodly wide internal 2D engine (128 bit?). It was significantly faster than the awesome Tseng Labs ET6000w32, which had been my 2D card of choice before then. 2D was really the banshee's only saving grace, since it was missing the 2nd texture unit from the Voodoo2.

 

Perhaps you are thinking of the Riva TnT, which had similar 2d performance to the banshee, voodoo3, and an assortment of Matrox cards, as by then pretty much everyone had maxxed out 2D performance.

[Open source 3d printed shell for Ultimate Cart]

Hi Larry,

 

I bought a Wanhao Duplicator i3 v2.1. I think this is sold in the U.S. as the Monoprice Maker Select v2.

 

I'm generally very happy with it - I spent a long time researching 3d printers, and this seemed to be the best compromise between price and quality. If spending a bit more, and feeling a bit braver, I would have gone for an Original Prusa Mk2s kit - http://shop.prusa3d.com/en/3d-printers/59-original-prusa-i3-mk2-kit.html

 

I was really looking for something to produce enclosures for electronics projects, and other retro-computing projects. e.g. the Wanhao did a pretty fine job printing a SIO plug from thingverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1831769

 

I've made the plug up into a cable which fits beautifully into an Atari and I was planning to build myself a new SIO2SD at some point, since my current one is a bit shabby looking.

 

Robin

 

I have the 2.0 version of that printer, it is a good value, and lots of people making bits and pieces to improve it.

Adding diagonal braces, better bearings and a borosilicate glass bed really helped it make great prints

[Open source 3d printed shell for Ultimate Cart]

Is there a cut out on the back for the programming header?

 

I'll also voice interest in a US based 3D printer owner running some of these up

 

Time to fire up the printer and do a test print...

[Linux on Atari Jaguar?]

http://www.uclinux.org/

[New Hardware: Atari 400 RAM-Card 48/52 KB & external OS-ROM]

I'd take one

[Sinclair zx81 and Timex 1000 in America]

I was going to Navy ET "A" school in late in 1981. I had a TRS-80 Model at home but I couldn't bring it with me. I missed using a computer, so I ordered a ZX-81 kit through the mail for $99. It was pretty cool that you could have a real microcomputer for only $99. The kit was extremely easy to assemble, being only 4 chips. With only 2K of RAM it was extremely challenging to write any programs in BASIC that actually did anything. I did manage to write a Mastermind game, but I used every byte of memory.

Later on I got the 16K RAM pack. I wrote a text adventure game that just barely fit into 16K. It was quite difficult to type on that tiny little keyboard without jostling the RAM pack and causing a crash. I think I had to poke some values into memory and then to save and load the program, it wasn't a regular CSAVE and CLOAD It was like a memory save state. I don't remember what it was called now. That was 35 years ago now.

 

We used to call those crashes "random NEW"

[5.25 pc floppy drive (working)]

Pretty sure i have some, any brand/model preference?

[Atari ST/STE Low Res VGA Cable from coolnovelties.co.uk]

I just ordered mine! Thank you very much for the recommendation!!

 

I purchased a supposed "manufacturer reconditioned" NEC Display Solutions 1970NX-R which was awesome because it was listed as "Beige", WHAT A FIND! Well, what I received was a Dark Blue NEC MultiSync 1970NX with crazing around the screen bezel like what you would find from blunt impact. It wasn't bagged or shipped in the retail package so it's likely handling damage. After about ten emails back and forth with their "Customer Service" outsource I have decided to keep it, not worth using the RMA that they finally sent to me since they would never even answer the question as to whether or not they ever even had the monitor that they had listed. BEWARE NewEgg!!!

 

Many have recommended the NEC 1970VX in past threads. Is there any difference between the VX and the NX that will effect the connection with this cable?

 

Thanks,

Michael

 

I have both.

The NX has a built in USB hub, the VX does not.

Otherwise, they appear identical to me.