+CharlieChaplin Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 hmm, think I already have a Degas viewer program from Antic or Analog for the 130XE in my collection, it will display a Degas picture in 640x400 or 320x400 on the small A8 using page-flipping (and/or interlaced/interleaved) Gr. 8 screens. Alas, in both resolutions the display is flickery as hell on my PAL Atari - and I guess its not so much better on NTSC machines... Yep, just found it, its VIEWDEG.COM on the attached disks. The other program can convert/save a Degas picture as a standard Gr.8 picture - but one requires a joystick in port 2 (press the fire button for the menu to appear)... -Andreas Koch. Well..... you could do 640x400 without interlacing if you had a monitor to display it. Most of our modern LCD TV screens will handle 480i and 480p thru the component input. Set up four GR.8 screens and digitize the video - run that thru a look-up table. 640x400 as you like it! You could boot in 480i and switch to 480p on the fly. The monitor will follow along. What you would lose, for the most part, is the 60hz frame rate. Using four screens would choke it down to 15hz, I would expect. Unless you have a VBXE - not sure what one of those can do. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 You wouldn't want to actually interleave the video... the output would be one frame of 640x480 every 16ms. What would take time is to digitize each of the four 320x200 screens. Four cycles, to be exact, so the frame update rate would be limited to 15hz. (although a single 320x200 panel could be updated at 60hz, it would only be digitized every fourth frame - you could probably force an update out of sequence, I suppose) Bob hmm, think I already have a Degas viewer program from Antic or Analog for the 130XE in my collection, it will display a Degas picture in 640x400 or 320x400 on the small A8 using page-flipping (and/or interlaced/interleaved) Gr. 8 screens. Alas, in both resolutions the display is flickery as hell on my PAL Atari - and I guess its not so much better on NTSC machines... Yep, just found it, its VIEWDEG.COM on the attached disks. The other program can convert/save a Degas picture as a standard Gr.8 picture - but one requires a joystick in port 2 (press the fire button for the menu to appear)... -Andreas Koch. Well..... you could do 640x400 without interlacing if you had a monitor to display it. Most of our modern LCD TV screens will handle 480i and 480p thru the component input. Set up four GR.8 screens and digitize the video - run that thru a look-up table. 640x400 as you like it! You could boot in 480i and switch to 480p on the fly. The monitor will follow along. What you would lose, for the most part, is the 60hz frame rate. Using four screens would choke it down to 15hz, I would expect. Unless you have a VBXE - not sure what one of those can do. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syfo-Dyas Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I would most certainly want one of these!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 today i got the case and power switch still not complete, but at least assembled as you can see, hard disk fit - only 1mm is left of overall height inside the case and the whole unit i don't have front and rear panels machined for now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 It just keeps getting better! Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 little closer to finnish line memory mapping works, disk reads works modified version of kmkdiag running disk diagnostics via speeddrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 it been quite time i've did something for this project, so a little update would be valid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYTpqqOJKJg dos average using KMK genuine bios was 56kbytes/s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Brilliant. What's the approximate timeline regarding pre-order and manufacture, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 still unknown firmware development hasn't even started - i need to "write" hardware first it has to be user friendly, so i need atr support - one way or another Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 still unknown firmware development hasn't even started - i need to "write" hardware first it has to be user friendly, so i need atr support - one way or another OK - gives me time to start saving up. Will the system be entirely ATR based, or will be be able to use an attached IDE device at the "low level" (and perhaps use a CF card for transferring data via ATRs)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 primary function is hard drive with partitions up to 4gb (new version of SDX follows) but with the ability of disk image selector for fast boot and easy of operation (ie booting disk based game that don't use any dos) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Time to start saving... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EightBitWitch Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 (edited) What is the actual status, i'm very interested in Speeddrive. It is a great work in the original mind of ATARI - use PBI like 1090. But i have questions: Speeddrive have three way for conntectings storage (SD,CF and IDE). Can Speeddrive use all three at the same time as separate Disks? Ca it connect more then one Harddisk and/or CF-Card a the same time? Can we have in the future a Version with only SD-Slot, but more the one of these? I use only SD-Cards at the moment. Valerie Edited June 20, 2010 by EightBitWitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EightBitWitch Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Would be a IDE2SATA-Adapter work with Speeddrive, so we can attached SATA-Drives on it? Valerie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 What is the actual status, i'm very interested in Speeddrive. It is a great work in the original mind of ATARI - use PBI like 1090. But i have questions: Speeddrive have three way for conntectings storage (SD,CF and IDE). Can Speeddrive use all three at the same time as separate Disks? Ca it connect more then one Harddisk and/or CF-Card a the same time? Can we have in the future a Version with only SD-Slot, but more the one of these? I use only SD-Cards at the moment. Valerie I can at least say that Candle told me all three slots can be used at once, as separate drives. The rest I am not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 yes, all three slots are separate speeddrive is a work in progress as for now whether there will be some futher incarnations of this design depends solely on intrest in it Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EightBitWitch Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 GREAT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) Hello Candle Come to the Fujiama 2010 and show us your product. I'm sure you will find more then enough interested people there. sincerely Mathy Edited June 21, 2010 by Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 Hi Mathy I don't think i can afford going to Germany this summer, but i'll be on Glucholazy party I'll do better next year i promise Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Hi Mathy I don't think i can afford going to Germany this summer, but i'll be on Glucholazy party I'll do better next year i promise Sebastian That's sad, especially since Lengenfeld has a direct train connection to Kraslice/CZ - a ride of 46 minutes only. I don't know how long a trip it is to Kraslice though, or by car. I'll travel by train from Hamburg via Hanover, Leipzig and Zwickau. Thorsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 from my town it would be more than 10 hours driving, and 820km trip in one direction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 as it's IDE, does that mean you can use CD/DVD rw drives (assuming someone supplies drivers and also a burning program) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 (edited) It'll be a shame if this project doesn't get the support it deserves from the community, since it's one of the only PBI based storage options on the horizon. MyIDE is the only readily available parallel solution, but the non-standard OS required for that device has never appealed. Edited June 22, 2010 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 It'll be a shame if this project doesn't get the support it deserves from the community, since it's one of the only PBI based storage options on the horizon. MyIDE is the only readily available parallel solution, but the non-standard OS required for that device has never appealed. Someone could write a driver for SpartaDOS X and you wouldn't require the modified OS... I have no clue how to compile a driver for SDX myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 (edited) It'll be a shame if this project doesn't get the support it deserves from the community, since it's one of the only PBI based storage options on the horizon. MyIDE is the only readily available parallel solution, but the non-standard OS required for that device has never appealed. Someone could write a driver for SpartaDOS X and you wouldn't require the modified OS... I have no clue how to compile a driver for SDX myself. Never thought of that. I'm not too hot on SDX driver structure myself but I'm sure there are some MADS wizards who could come up with one, preferably with cooperation and endorsement from Steven Tucker. That wouldn't solve the problem of MyIDE and Internal SpartaDOS X fighting for the same physical space on the motherboard, however. Edited June 23, 2010 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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