PFonck Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 http://www.fonck.nl/atari/#sio2pc [/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Congrats! It's a great way to expand the muscle of the 8-bit. Now you should check into adding the ATOS windows environment, now that you have access to a hard disc (it requires 16megs of HD space). Basically it turns your 8-bit into a PC/MAC/ST/AMIGAjr. type machine and is compatible with basically everything. Soon you'll be using a mouse and have cool modern-day-computer like system with the ability to have screen-savers and the like... Is your SIO2PC board going to be internal in the 8-bit, a disc drive or are you going to connect an SIO cable to the other end and leave it as a seperate external device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 how much did it cost to make you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 i meant your cable thing there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFonck Posted September 15, 2002 Author Share Posted September 15, 2002 It has cost me 6 euro (somewhere around 6 US dollar) of which (surprisingly) the largest part was for the PCB... 4,50 euro I didn't buy the serial connectors as I have a box full of them from old PC's. The 1489 IC is only 90 eurocents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFonck Posted September 16, 2002 Author Share Posted September 16, 2002 > Now you should check into adding the ATOS windows environment, now that you have access to a hard disc > Soon you'll be using a mouse and have cool modern-day-computer like system with the ability to have screen-savers and the like... AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! Windows! The 8-bit is a way of escaping the modern multi-megabyte GUI mess I have to deal with every day... I even prefer SIO2PC DOS over APE/Windows because I get stressed over a GUI I just want to play all those games from two decades ago! > Is your SIO2PC board going to be internal in the 8-bit, a disc drive or are you going to connect an SIO cable to the other end and leave it as a seperate external device? Have a look at my webpage http://www.fonck.nl/atari for updated pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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