Farb

February 15, 2020

I confirmed that the right device appears on my Mojave installation when I plug the card in.

It looks like the SCP card uses an FTDI chip. It is possible, as previously mentioned, that you need to install a driver but I had thought that MacOS came with an FTDI driver already installed. Take a look here:

https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

Note: Make sure you unplug the SCP card before installing the driver.

February 15, 2020

And, just to be certain, you ran this with the SuperCard Pro board plugged in via USB?

At least in prior versions of MacOS, a file would appear in the /dev directory when the USB cable was plugged in and disappear when it was unplugged. We need to figure out what device shows up. I'll check with my Mac notebook shortly and see if I see anything.

February 15, 2020

@Savetz, I'm guessing you are running the version of a8rawconv that I compiled for Mac? When I initially tested, the SuperCard Pro was available on serial port /dev/cu.usbserial-SCP-JIM (no drivers needed). It is possible that it changed in newer versions of MacOS.

From a Terminal window, type:

ls /dev/*usb*

and see what you get back.

January 27, 2020

Thanks for the spot check, Roland. Fred_M already gave the reasoning ?

34 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

Atari BASIC Version B: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari BASIC#section-Atari+BASIC-CARImages

here the dump was made from orginal ROMs of an early Atari 800XL with BASIC Vers. B

33 minutes ago, dukdukgoos said:

I'm wondering why the OS ROM images aren't included anymore.

We've been focused exclusively on (and overwhelmed by) retail software. ROMs beyond cartridges just seemed out of scope so were removed.

33 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

OSS BASIC XE - BASIC XE Extension Disk: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Basic XE#section-Basic+XE-ATRImage

I have the original disk, untouched and I am quite sure, Dan has made an ATX of it. Else, next meeting.

We don't have a flux dump for this one that I could find.

33 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

OSS BASIC XL Toolkit: 2 sides!: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Basic XL#section-Basic+XL-ATRImages

Same as above

Both sides of this are already in the torrent, no?

34 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

Microsoft BASIC II (1982)(Atari)(US)[cartridge]: here the additional disk is missing

I have the original disk and brought it to a meeting, therefore an atx should be available, too.

This is already in the torrent as well, no?

36 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

Missile Command (1981)(Atari)(US)[cartridge].zip: here the version for the XEGS(?) is missing, which supports the trackball

This call goes to the XEGS owners. It is on rom inside the machine.

Same comment as OS ROMs.

37 minutes ago, luckybuck said:

Strip Poker (1983)(Artworx)(US)[disk]: the Data Disks are missing? OMG what a miss... please see the attachment, when > 18

The 1st disk dump was made, the additional disks are rarity 0, of course. My versions should just lead to the right ones.

We haven't come across original disks for any of the data disks yet. Thanks, your ATRs will be helpful for verification once we do!

January 22, 2020

Wow, that was fast! Well spotted everyone! ?

January 22, 2020

Hi all,

These games are from an Italian company (Lindasoft) who had a history of re-releasing magazine type-ins without permission. So, there's a really good chance that the following 3 screenshots are type-in programs from a magazine or book. Does anyone recognize them?

#1

#2

#3

January 12, 2020

Hi all,

I'm seeing two problems with the file browser used when mounting disks:

1. The "highlight bar" disappears when scrolling through the list when there are many long file names. It becomes impossible to tell what file is selected.

2. When folders have a lot of files with long file names (e.g. 200-300), the Eclaire just seems to lock up.

Anyone else seeing this?

December 31, 2019

7 hours ago, DjayBee said:

Regarding a8preservation: Get in contact with @Farb because the database already contains hashes for all our dumps.

It also has the information for every dump we track with the settings necessary to run it properly in Altirra.

October 28, 2019

8 hours ago, BigBen said:

The discs are from the luckybuck (Roland).

Thanks @BigBen and @luckybuck! This allowed me to verify our current dump of the SynTrend Graph disk ?

October 25, 2019

I ordered a back issue through the site and had no problem. However, the t-shirt I ordered along with it was sent in the wrong size. @powersoft, how do I get this corrected? I tried contacting through your website and have received no answer.

October 24, 2019

On 10/22/2019 at 7:34 AM, Porkchops & Applesauce said:

@Farb Woo Hoo, my first contribution to the project: Seawolf II + Gunfight [cassette]

Thanks for the contribution, @Porkchops & Applesauce! I've added it to the website!

October 20, 2019

I have to say the XF551 case I received is really well done. Highly recommended!

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Ultimate Cart - Users thread · October 16, 2019

Will do, thanks for the tip.

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Ultimate Cart - Users thread · October 16, 2019

Sorry, I should have described it better. The problem happens with the same file (e.g. I load the same CAR file and it fails 30-40% of the time).

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Ultimate Cart - Users thread · October 16, 2019

I just picked up an Ultimate Cart from the Brewing Academy and have put a bunch of CAR and XEX files on it. I'm noticing that when I load something up, it seems to just crash the machine with a blue screen roughly 1 out of 3 times. I have confirmed this behavior is consistent on both a stock 130XE and a stock 800.

Had anyone else seen this behavior? Did I get a defective cart?

Thanks.

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September 28, 2019

Hi all,

Would anyone here be able to help me (or point me at a third-party service) that can burn an EPROM?

Specifically: a 1Meg x 8 bit EPROM eg. 27C080, 27c801 or 27C8000

I have a ROM file that I can provide and would need it shipped to Denver.

Thanks in advance!

July 14, 2019

3 minutes ago, TobyJennings said:

I think we might have different definitions of "easy" but it's your rodeo.

My definition of "easy" is what makes it sustainable to continue the preservation work we do. Creating distribution channels for the dumps simply doesn't have a high priority and the current method works even if not ideal.

If you are interested in doing the work to maintain it on archive.org we can certainly discuss how to support that. Otherwise, you get what you pay for ?

July 14, 2019

5 minutes ago, TobyJennings said:

Is there a reason you guys don't just put all this stuff on Archive.org like the Apple guys are doing?

It's a problem of time and level of effort. Things are still changing so often in the preservation database that it would be a nightmare to keep things on archive.org up to date without building some custom tooling to support it. The torrent approach makes it easy because we can just re-generate the torrent from scratch every release.

July 14, 2019

Thanks to all that have seeded and/or made download links available.

On 7/12/2019 at 10:29 AM, dukdukgoos said:

This file looks to be named incorrectly:

Hi-Res Adventure #4 - Ulysses and the Golden Fleece (1982)(SierraVenture)(US)[a SierraVenture][disk].zip

Thanks for pointing this out. It should not have the [a] flag at all. It will be corrected in the next release.

12 hours ago, toddtmw said:

Can anyone provide an explanation on why the torrent is a zip of zips?

As others have said, you should not be seeing a "zip of zips" - if you are, you might be downloading an older torrent release.

What you should be seeing is a ZIP file for each release on the website. Each file within the zip is a dump associated with that release (also as shown on the website). So the zip file is leveraged partially as a grouping mechanism. More importantly, however, is that some of the cassette dumps that have audio channels are distributed as large WAV files -- the ZIP files help at least a little to get the size down a bit. 7ZIP at high compression would be even better but I assume that could cause some folks to have problems extracting them.

July 11, 2019

9 minutes ago, rcamp48 said:

the ones on a8preservation were cracked versions

What makes you say this exactly?

July 10, 2019

4 hours ago, Mclaneinc said:

But yes, if you ask Farb about a donation side as long as he's not offended I'd be happy to send a few quid every so often to help fund the cause...

Thanks for the offer, Mclaneinc. We don't have anything in place to accept donations at the moment but I do appreciate the gesture. Sounds like you have your hands quite full... I hope you can find ways to get assistance and GlowingGhoul mentioned.

July 9, 2019

5 hours ago, DrVenkman said:

But if you choose to ignore all that prior discussion and take offense anyway, my apologies.

I read everything posted both before and after your comment. Your point was valid... but the way you presented it was unkind and I felt obliged to point that out. Based on your "apology" and subsequent postings, I see there's little point in discussing the matter further.

July 9, 2019

On 7/7/2019 at 5:30 PM, DrVenkman said:

There are a lot of very smart people in this community but the refusal to understand the basics of retail economics is kind of depressing. Clearly you all have never tried to run a business.

Wow, the condescension here is really uncalled for. We're all grown ups and have taken basic economics. Many of us have run successful businesses for years.

Attacking people that have contributed to the community to defend ones that have contributed almost nothing is a strategy I have a difficult time understanding.

I honestly expect better from a community we are spending so many hours contributing our work to for free. Reading the responses of some of the people here frankly make me feel like an idiot for giving my time away. Thanks for that ?

June 27, 2019

Thanks for releasing it. Looks great!

June 24, 2019

6 hours ago, SS said:

I would say that the contribution of the people building and selling the SDrive-MAX is in providing a service for me (and others) that I feel unable and/or inadequately prepared to do for myself.

This will ultimately be a matter of opinion and perspective. Keep in mind that I am not the creator or maintainer of the S-Drive Max project and am not speaking for the project itself. I am merely someone who has contributed a significant amount of effort to improving it.

I agree these sellers are providing a helpful paid service to the subset of the community that can't or won't assemble the device themselves. I don't fault them for wanting to make some money doing it. But that is not, in my opinion, contributing back to the project. I would hope that those who monetize any open-source project contribute something back to that project directly. These contributions can take many forms depending on the skills of the people involved: code/hardware design contributions, knowledge sharing, community support, monetary donations, etc. Red Hat has created a very profitable business with this approach -- they create paid products using various open source projects. The thing that keeps them from simply being a company profiting off the hard work of others is that they funnel some of those profits to pay teams of developers that contribute improvements and bug fixes back to those open source projects.

What is unacceptable to me, however, is people selling SDM devices with enhancements and refusing to contribute back those enhancements (or creating barriers to open sharing) to retain some sort of competitive advantage. That is simply a slap in the face to those who gave their project contributions away for free and is exactly the type of thing that many open source licenses try to prevent.

Anyway, I've said my peace and won't belabor this point any further.

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