what mod/upgrade is in your 1050 (or 1050's)

[carmel_andrews]

Well, like it say's on the tin...whats in your 1050 (or 1050's)

 

Or the ones I've had in the past, they include 2 SA2's (both died, one within 2 weeks), A Happy 1050, A Lazer/USD 1050, A speedy 1050 (though i hardly used this one due to the fact it didn't like British d/d boot menu's) and I did buy a pucka USD upgrade, just never got around to fitting it (and I can't remember where it disappeared to) and also 3 (or was it several, since i went through quiet a few) stock 1050's

Edited December 12, 2010 by carmel_andrews

[+bf2k+]

1 Lazer

3 USDs

4 Happys

lots of stock ones

[+Guitarman]

3 Happy (1 with controller board)

1 SA2 /w Bit Writer

Many US Doubler

 

May have others but need to crack them all open to see.

[spookt]

1 Happy

1 USD

Plenty stock

 

The Happy is used daily and the USD is parked under it.

[+wood_jl]

What is a Lazer (relative to the Atari 1050)???

[carmel_andrews]

Lazer (or to give it, its full name, warp lazer) and hyperdrive were basically UK/European knock off's or rip off's of the happy upgrade ...from what i recall it had less memory then happy and also the happy tracer program won't work with a lazer modded 1050 (the happy tracer program on actual happy software that is) there is a hacked/cracked version of the happy tracer program available on a later version of the lazer software, can't remember what version of the lazer software it is though, I did have this particular version of the software just i no longer have the disk as i inadvertantly overwrote the disk

Edited December 12, 2010 by carmel_andrews

[MEtalGuy66]

US Quadrupler

[marcokitt2000]

Hello i have mini speedy 1050 D/S (dos/floppy backup) and i have from css a happy clone 7.0 and works great.

[marcokitt2000]

Hello i have mini speedy 1050 D/S (dos/floppy backup) and i have from css a happy clone 7.0 and works great.

[+Stephen]

I have a US Doubled 1050, and another one I got from Europe. I haven't taken it apart but I believe it has the Las(z)er upgrade.

[GTIA]

1 USD 1050

1 Happy 1050

Edited December 13, 2010 by GTIA

[candle]

1050E

[Bryan]

1050E

How far along is 1050E development?

[candle]

reads/writes dd disks

firmware is upgradable from atari

still in normal sio speeds, but some experimental turbo code exists

Mikey should shed some more light on this

[Mclaneinc]

Lazer (or to give it, its full name, warp lazer) and hyperdrive were basically UK/European knock off's or rip off's of the happy upgrade ...from what i recall it had less memory then happy and also the happy tracer program won't work with a lazer modded 1050 (the happy tracer program on actual happy software that is) there is a hacked/cracked version of the happy tracer program available on a later version of the lazer software, can't remember what version of the lazer software it is though, I did have this particular version of the software just i no longer have the disk as i inadvertantly overwrote the disk

 

 

Just to add that this came from the 'Kent Team', got one of the first ones...

 

Not a patch on the Happy 1050 tho...

[HiroProX]

Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joy.

 

[1050]

In the other thread I claimed 8 1050s but on second thought I might have twice that or more. I forgot just how many places that I rathole Atari stuff and everywhere that is has at least one 1050 most much more. Among them are:

 

Duplicator one

Happy two

USD two

SA one

 

one or two roll your own Happy types that I'm not sure even fire up or what to call them.

 

Most work but at least three are dead with one that I completely wore down to the nub. That would have been my first one, poor little thing. I didn't realize that you could polish pot metal to rival a chrome bumper with just floppy jackets, but it was pretty shiny inside that one.

[Rybags]

There was an Australian made one too, no idea if it was unique or just a clone of something else.

 

Made by the same company that did SuperMon OS, IIRC it was called Super<something>. Also accompanied by SuperDOS which IIRC was just a hacked/improved version of the old DOS 2.0s.

 

Don't think it'd even qualify as a poor-man's Happy, it had sector skew formatting (only good if you had the upgrade, otherwise it read slower on normal drives), fast SIO (3x ?) and true double-density. I doubt it had many, if any protection duplication abilities.

 

Only one person I knew had one... it was the first time I'd seen/heard the high-speed SIO, so that aspect of it at least was impressive at the time.

[miker]

TOMS Multi Drive 1050

[Fox-1 / mnx]

There was an Australian made one too, no idea if it was unique or just a clone of something else.

 

Made by the same company that did SuperMon OS, IIRC it was called Super<something>.

 

SuperMax.

 

http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/freenet_material/5.8-BitComputersSupportArea/9.ProductSummaries/showarticle.php?45

[Rybags]

That's it... I've got SuperMon in my 400... it's OK but the Monitor is somewhat buggy and can easily crash.