joeventura Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Anyone had any luck getting SDX on an Atarimania 8m Cart? Flashed it tonight and it really hosed the cart to the point that the computer would not boot and I had to gently insert the cart with the erase software running hot <UGH> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 There is no flashcart image that I'm aware of, and if I'm correct it wouldn't be possible to make one without a lot of work or possibly not at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twh/f2 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 There is no flashcart image that I'm aware of, and if I'm correct it wouldn't be possible to make one without a lot of work or possibly not at all. remo, that's not true. see here: http://trub.atari8.info/index.php?strona=h...dx_upgrade.html I'm using the 1MB cart and it works well here! But I experienced in the past some problems with different 130XEs .. don't know why, but some machines are supposed to have "weak" components. maybe steve tucker can explain that in more detail. so in case you have a different Atari available, try it and test out if it makes a difference. good luck! grtx, \twh::taos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 There is no flashcart image that I'm aware of, and if I'm correct it wouldn't be possible to make one without a lot of work or possibly not at all. remo, that's not true. see here: http://trub.atari8.info/index.php?strona=h...dx_upgrade.html I'm using the 1MB cart and it works well here! But I experienced in the past some problems with different 130XEs .. don't know why, but some machines are supposed to have "weak" components. maybe steve tucker can explain that in more detail. so in case you have a different Atari available, try it and test out if it makes a difference. good luck! grtx, \twh::taos Yes that is what I was using but was trying it in an 800XL, is a 130XE required to run SDX? If so I can grab one off the shelf and try again. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 that's not true. see here: http://trub.atari8.info/index.php?strona=h...dx_upgrade.html See - that's what I've been waiting to see all this time but never did. I'll have to give that a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trub Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Yes that is what I was using but was trying it in an 800XL, is a 130XE required to run SDX?If so I can grab one off the shelf and try again. There is an issue with SDX 4.39RC and Maxflash 8MB (not the 1MB version). To successfully boot the DOS, you have to create a custom config.sys. See this topic for details. This will be fixed in the 4.41 version which is to be released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 Yes that is what I was using but was trying it in an 800XL, is a 130XE required to run SDX?If so I can grab one off the shelf and try again. There is an issue with SDX 4.39RC and Maxflash 8MB (not the 1MB version). To successfully boot the DOS, you have to create a custom config.sys. See this topic for details. This will be fixed in the 4.41 version which is to be released. Great news and thanks! What is the expected release date for 4.41? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trub Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 What is the expected release date for 4.41? It should be released within a month (if nothing goes wrong ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twh/f2 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 What is the expected release date for 4.41? It should be released within a month (if nothing goes wrong ) great news!! I'm now using the upgraded SDX for a year or so, it works great! I'm looking forward to test the 4.41 ... btw, why is there no 4.40 ? Marketing reasons? :-) grtx, \twh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trub Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 btw, why is there no 4.40 ? Marketing reasons? :-) Not really Since publishing the SDX 4.39RC, we have prepared a few temporary editions marked as 4.40 for beta testers. However, this made some people thought that 4.40 had already been released. So, to avoid misunderstanding, we decided to skip the 4.40 (a "development" version), while the SDX 4.41 is going to be a "stable" release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Has anyone tried this with an SIO2SD? I did and while Spartados loads correctly from the flashcart, it refuses to read any drives on the SIO2SD, giving NAKs or not present errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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