walter_J64bit Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I've just got my hands on the Diamond OS, thanks to Goochman. :thumbsup: Because I'm curious, I like to see who here has the Diamond OS and if anyone has made any applications for the OS like a Screen Saver or calculator program even games that they would like to share with other Diamond users. Oh more thing Diamond Car doesn't work with the MyIDE cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I used to be in the club - Glad oyu are enjoying it Walter. I will give it the college try getting my XF551 drive working and send you a .atr with a version of SpartaDos that worked with Diamond. You can still get a decent amount of stuff from a 720k disk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I have had it since the mid-late 80's - haven't booted it up more than 10 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Have one here. Version 2 rather than the final version 3, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 tried it once, a fellow club member had it, used it for like 5 mins, but never could justify the cost... sloopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Yeah it's more of a novelty, than a viable GUI based OS front-end.. Its so limited because of resources and screen space... It worked well to "shut up" the commodore/GEOS guys back in the day though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Hello guys I bought a Diamond GOS cartridge from USA Media. Shelton Merrill, who was the owner of that company, is a criminal. He sent me a rubber check. And IIRC Diamond Paint instead of Diamond Publish which I ordered. greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Anyone have the Diamond Publish and Diamond Write disks? The copy I sent Walter just had the Paint in it also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) Anyone have the Diamond Publish and Diamond Write disks? The copy I sent Walter just had the Paint in it also. I've got copies of the other apps for Diamond OS from a post here, on the 8-bit forum. I'll repost them. Diamond Paint.zip Diamond Startup.zip Diamond Utilites.zip Diamond Writer.zip Edited November 17, 2009 by walter_J64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I have a couple of the carts, but I haven't done anything productive with them. Does anyone know what the original packaging for these carts was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) Yeah it's more of a novelty, than a viable GUI based OS front-end.. Its so limited because of resources and screen space... It worked well to "shut up" the commodore/GEOS guys back in the day though... Agree. I rented it once from the user's group in Ottawa for a month. It was a really cool novelty but I couldn't find it practical in real life. Here are some cool things from back in the day: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v9n2/reeve.html http://www.atarimuseum.com/articles/diamondgos.html Reeve Software is still in business: http://www.reevesoft.com/ShowPage.aspx?page=19&content=Corporate%20History Edited November 17, 2009 by DracIsBack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 This is for Walter but thought Id share with everyone. When I had my Diamond cart I set u p a bunch of 720k disks with games on it that I could run from Diamond. It has SpartaDos 3.2g and boots with Diamond. A kind soul here repaired my XF551 so I went to make an ATR of it - it copied and I can see the disk contents but it wont boot for some reason? I tried it a # of ways with no luck. Its attached and Ill update if for some reason I get it to boot. This has some 'S' games on it DIADSDD80.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 This is for Walter but thought Id share with everyone. When I had my Diamond cart I set u p a bunch of 720k disks with games on it that I could run from Diamond. It has SpartaDos 3.2g and boots with Diamond. A kind soul here repaired my XF551 so I went to make an ATR of it - it copied and I can see the disk contents but it wont boot for some reason? I tried it a # of ways with no luck. Its attached and Ill update if for some reason I get it to boot. This has some 'S' games on it This might be a dumb question, but if you did a file copy, you need to make the disk bootable: BOOT X32G.DOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 This is for Walter but thought Id share with everyone. When I had my Diamond cart I set u p a bunch of 720k disks with games on it that I could run from Diamond. It has SpartaDos 3.2g and boots with Diamond. A kind soul here repaired my XF551 so I went to make an ATR of it - it copied and I can see the disk contents but it wont boot for some reason? I tried it a # of ways with no luck. Its attached and Ill update if for some reason I get it to boot. This has some 'S' games on it This might be a dumb question, but if you did a file copy, you need to make the disk bootable: BOOT X32G.DOS I did a DUPDSK My stuff is put away - if someone wants to boot this as D2 with Sparta and do a BOOT command let me know the results! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 This is for Walter but thought Id share with everyone. When I had my Diamond cart I set u p a bunch of 720k disks with games on it that I could run from Diamond. It has SpartaDos 3.2g and boots with Diamond. A kind soul here repaired my XF551 so I went to make an ATR of it - it copied and I can see the disk contents but it wont boot for some reason? I tried it a # of ways with no luck. Its attached and Ill update if for some reason I get it to boot. This has some 'S' games on it Cool, Now, I can see how someone else setup Diamond on a disk! Thanks! :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 i thought I remembered another geos clone for the A8, but it didnt look like this one. i would assume to make something like this happen for the A8 or the C64 the code would have to have been hella tight. very neat what people used to be able to do within the constraints of low powered hardware. This is for Walter but thought Id share with everyone. When I had my Diamond cart I set u p a bunch of 720k disks with games on it that I could run from Diamond. It has SpartaDos 3.2g and boots with Diamond. A kind soul here repaired my XF551 so I went to make an ATR of it - it copied and I can see the disk contents but it wont boot for some reason? I tried it a # of ways with no luck. Its attached and Ill update if for some reason I get it to boot. This has some 'S' games on it Cool, Now, I can see how someone else setup Diamond on a disk! Thanks! :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 Small update I've was reading the users manual for Diamond Paint, I've found that I have 2 versions of Diamond Paint one that just runs only with the Cart version of Diamond and other is just for the Disk version of Diamond. I've all ready posted the Cart version so there's the Diamond Paint for the Disk version of Diamond. Oh one more thing I'm posting up the Disk version of Diamond too, for the life of me I can't get this version Diamond to setup right, I can't get it take the mouse driver or any other divers. :? Disk based ver of Diamond Paint.zip Disk based ver of Diamond.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Hi Mathy, Yeah, I spoke many times with Shelly Merrill, talked a big talk and made many promises, he really screwed over Alan Reeve on the whole Diamond deal. I later found out he was also trying to represent Steve {something} from TCS (Total Control Systems) who was boasting about his GUI being far superior to Diamond, but it never materialized. Shelly sent me a free copy of Electronic Receipt Encyclopedia to write a review about, but I never got around to writing a review as I got very heavily involved with Alan and testing debugging Diamond for him, and redoing the icon's for Diamond release 2.1 (I think) where I replaced the file cabinets with XF551 disk drives and redid the garbage can. Curt Hello guys I bought a Diamond GOS cartridge from USA Media. Shelton Merrill, who was the owner of that company, is a criminal. He sent me a rubber check. And IIRC Diamond Paint instead of Diamond Publish which I ordered. greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi Mathy, Yeah, I spoke many times with Shelly Merrill, talked a big talk and made many promises, he really screwed over Alan Reeve on the whole Diamond deal. I later found out he was also trying to represent Steve {something} from TCS (Total Control Systems) who was boasting about his GUI being far superior to Diamond, but it never materialized. Shelly sent me a free copy of Electronic Receipt Encyclopedia to write a review about, but I never got around to writing a review as I got very heavily involved with Alan and testing debugging Diamond for him, and redoing the icon's for Diamond release 2.1 (I think) where I replaced the file cabinets with XF551 disk drives and redid the garbage can. Curt Hello guys I bought a Diamond GOS cartridge from USA Media. Shelton Merrill, who was the owner of that company, is a criminal. He sent me a rubber check. And IIRC Diamond Paint instead of Diamond Publish which I ordered. greetings Mathy WOW, what didn't you do for Atari? Are there any Easter Eggs in Diamond and do have any Diamond Software that you can share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 That I don't know, Alan never mentioned any and to be honest, he was cramming a hell of a lot of code into his work, so I'm not sure he ever had time to hide anything. I wish the Tramiels had opted to sell Diamond GOS with the XE's, but when you think about it, that would've made the XE's similar to a low res ST and I'm sure the Tramiels didn't want anything internally competing against their top end systems. I had always hoped that in 1989 for the 10th anniversary of the Atari 8bits, the Tramiels would've done a special edition Mega XE system - just taking the Mega ST case and putting an XE into it and giving it what ever Atari 8bit user dreamed of - a system with a detachable keyboard.... ahhh. to dream :-) Curt Hi Mathy, Yeah, I spoke many times with Shelly Merrill, talked a big talk and made many promises, he really screwed over Alan Reeve on the whole Diamond deal. I later found out he was also trying to represent Steve {something} from TCS (Total Control Systems) who was boasting about his GUI being far superior to Diamond, but it never materialized. Shelly sent me a free copy of Electronic Receipt Encyclopedia to write a review about, but I never got around to writing a review as I got very heavily involved with Alan and testing debugging Diamond for him, and redoing the icon's for Diamond release 2.1 (I think) where I replaced the file cabinets with XF551 disk drives and redid the garbage can. Curt Hello guys I bought a Diamond GOS cartridge from USA Media. Shelton Merrill, who was the owner of that company, is a criminal. He sent me a rubber check. And IIRC Diamond Paint instead of Diamond Publish which I ordered. greetings Mathy WOW, what didn't you do for Atari? Are there any Easter Eggs in Diamond and do have any Diamond Software that you can share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 That I don't know, Alan never mentioned any and to be honest, he was cramming a hell of a lot of code into his work, so I'm not sure he ever had time to hide anything. I wish the Tramiels had opted to sell Diamond GOS with the XE's, but when you think about it, that would've made the XE's similar to a low res ST and I'm sure the Tramiels didn't want anything internally competing against their top end systems. I had always hoped that in 1989 for the 10th anniversary of the Atari 8bits, the Tramiels would've done a special edition Mega XE system - just taking the Mega ST case and putting an XE into it and giving it what ever Atari 8bit user dreamed of - a system with a detachable keyboard.... ahhh. to dream :-) Curt Hi Mathy, Yeah, I spoke many times with Shelly Merrill, talked a big talk and made many promises, he really screwed over Alan Reeve on the whole Diamond deal. I later found out he was also trying to represent Steve {something} from TCS (Total Control Systems) who was boasting about his GUI being far superior to Diamond, but it never materialized. Shelly sent me a free copy of Electronic Receipt Encyclopedia to write a review about, but I never got around to writing a review as I got very heavily involved with Alan and testing debugging Diamond for him, and redoing the icon's for Diamond release 2.1 (I think) where I replaced the file cabinets with XF551 disk drives and redid the garbage can. Curt Hello guys I bought a Diamond GOS cartridge from USA Media. Shelton Merrill, who was the owner of that company, is a criminal. He sent me a rubber check. And IIRC Diamond Paint instead of Diamond Publish which I ordered. greetings Mathy WOW, what didn't you do for Atari? Are there any Easter Eggs in Diamond and do have any Diamond Software that you can share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 (edited) I've found a small App for Diamond but I don't know anything about assembler so I have noway of trying this out. Edited January 15, 2010 by walter_J64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyBritish Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I've found a small App for Diamond but I don't know anything about assembler so I have noway of trying this out. Do the cartidges come up for sale on ebay regularly? It would be fun to read and play with this. Have the docs, programming guides been published? As always amazed at how much 8-bit fun I missed out on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyBritish Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I've found a small App for Diamond but I don't know anything about assembler so I have noway of trying this out. Well I cannot code assembler (yet) but I am a coder so reading this it tells me that it is source for the mac/65 assembler..so i have one of those cartridges. It also give the command to assemble the app to an EXE. It also then give some BASIC code to open the EXE from a floppy disk and chop of the first 6 bytes then write it back to make it an accessory. looks pretty straight forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyBritish Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I've found a small App for Diamond but I don't know anything about assembler so I have noway of trying this out. Well I cannot code assembler (yet) but I am a coder so reading this it tells me that it is source for the mac/65 assembler..so i have one of those cartridges. It also give the command to assemble the app to an EXE. It also then give some BASIC code to open the EXE from a floppy disk and chop of the first 6 bytes then write it back to make it an accessory. looks pretty straight forward Spoke too soon noticed it is inluding two libraries of Macros. One for the Mac 65 assembler and the other a set of Diamond macros. So no way to get the exe unless you have both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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