Xuel Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 There's a space at the end of that URL that prevents it from going to the right page. Here is a working URL: link. Please check out the video and the description here http://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tools/thecart Best Regards, Peter. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plx Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Hello, is there a way to get the 32kb Williams CARs to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commander Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Thanks. Today I got my the!cart too. I put it into an original classic Atari Case http://wolfsoft.de/wordpress/?p=2663 Now I need some help. Does anybody made a template for the “old classic” cartridges. Needed Dimension, Fonts colors…, position ? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Hello, is there a way to get the 32kb Williams CARs to work? Wiliams 32k is not of of the emulated bank switching schemes, but Wiliams 64k is. You can see the content types that are emulated by the The!Cart in the The!Cart Studio help. They have an "The!Cart Mode" value. But looking at the scheme definition I'd say padding the file with 32k of zero to be 64k should solve the problem. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Type 8: 64 KB Williams cartridge | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The cartridge has 8 banks mapped to $A000-$BFFF. An access to $D500 selects bank 0, $D501 - bank 1, etc. An access to $D508-$D50F disables the cartridge. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Type 22: 32 KB Williams cartridge | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The cartridge has 4 banks mapped to $A000-$BFFF. An access to $D500 selects bank 0, $D501 - bank 1, etc. An access to $D508-$D50F disables the cartridge. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I put it into an original classic Atari Case http://wolfsoft.de/wordpress/?p=2663 Now I need some help. Does anybody made a template for the “old classic” cartridges. Needed Dimension, Fonts colors…, position ? Very nice one commander! Now I can imagine how this would have looked like in 1979 - I'll add that to my site once I have a working setup again. Yet looking at the effort you've put in there I'm really happy we found a more scaleable alternative for us From biobern's basement today: Good progress with the 2nd print run. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 ContentTypes.png Anyone have any ideas as to where I might be able to find some SWXEGS images? I have a small few but have been searching for some more. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 (edited) SW? Edit: never mind, just clicked on link you quoted... Edited March 15, 2018 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plx Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Wiliams 32k is not of of the emulated bank switching schemes, but Wiliams 64k is. But looking at the scheme definition I'd say padding the file with 32k of zero to be 64k should solve the problem. I don't know how to do this. Ahhm... how can I do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I don't know how to do this. Ahhm... how can I do this? Download this file made of 32K 0's: http://www.atariverse.com/files/blank32k.dat In Windows, you can use: copy /b cart.bin + blank32k.dat cartnew.bin This will add the blank32k.dat file to the end of your cartridge file. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 (edited) Thanks. Today I got my the!cart too. I put it into an original classic Atari Case http://wolfsoft.de/wordpress/?p=2663 Now I need some help. Does anybody made a template for the “old classic” cartridges. Needed Dimension, Fonts colors…, position ? So, does THE!CART board just drop in and fit right without modification to the original Atari cart case? I'm thinking about doing this myself once I get mine. I have a couple extra BASIC's and Pac-Man's laying about. I might decide I like the 3D-printed case though...with a couple small aesthetic surface changes. Duh...never mind, I just totally blanked out the link you posted. I happen to have everything required on-hand! Edited March 15, 2018 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Still my PC with Atari stuff is out of order, but tonight I spent some hours at Bernhard's place. After spending several hours on fixing one of his Vetrexes (man THAT is a weird hardware), we turned towards The!Cart. We successfully performed & tested the fix for the Atari 400, so the The!Cart V1 and V2 work 100% (read & write) by exchanging 2 resistors on the board. It was the first time I had to solder something in SMD, and it turned out to be a 2 minutes job. Thumbs up for tf_hh! Also yesterday Tigerduck tested The!Cart V2 on his unmodified Atari 800. The V2 PCB has a prepared location where you can cut & solder an additional wire to a 2nd cart for the right slot. You can do that in case you absolutely don't want to fix the Atari 800's left port for modern carts as described here https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tools/thecart/atari-800-fix I'll provide details, once I can update my site again. Yet also there are some bad news: Wolfram has been sick and in bed for two weeks now. He hopes to be back on track next week, so he can proceed with the shipments. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Thanks for the update, and very sorry to heart about wolfram's ill health. Hope it's nothing too serious and he's back to normal soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plx Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Download this file made of 32K 0's: http://www.atariverse.com/files/blank32k.dat In Windows, you can use: copy /b cart.bin + blank32k.dat cartnew.bin This will add the blank32k.dat file to the end of your cartridge file. OK, now how can I "extract" the BIN from a CAR file, how do I reomve the header? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 OK, now how can I "extract" the BIN from a CAR file, how do I reomve the header? You can use FRHED and cut the first 16 bytes or maybe you can PM the file, then I can tweak and test if it works. http://frhed.sourceforge.net/en/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 I get more and more requests about the shippment status. But since all the sending is done by mega_hz, I cannot answer this myself. He has send out the first bunch an some already arrived. So please be patient - or flood him with mails to get him going :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 I get more and more requests about the shippment status. But since all the sending is done by mega_hz, I cannot answer this myself. He has send out the first bunch an some already arrived. So please be patient - or flood him with mails to get him going :-) He answered me one line, that he did not ship yet. I know this is a hobby project, and I'm not in a rush. A slightly more detailed communication will help though. One of the persons here on AtariAge who does this absolutely fabulous is tf_hh ... his emails about progress are simply amazing. I'll wait, but I hope he will find time to complete this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 (edited) He answered me one line, that he did not ship yet. I know this is a hobby project, and I'm not in a rush. A slightly more detailed communication will help though. One of the persons here on AtariAge who does this absolutely fabulous is tf_hh ... his emails about progress are simply amazing. I'll wait, but I hope he will find time to complete this. Something a bit more is needed. Here I am looking everyday for my Xmas present to myself, and am starting to wonder if I will get it by Xmas...a year late...I can wait, just wondering... Edited April 6, 2018 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 If I am not wrong, I can flash The Cart with Maxflash USB programmer, isn't it? Easier and faster than ATR programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 If I am not wrong, I can flash The Cart with Maxflash USB programmer, isn't it? Easier and faster than ATR programming. No you can't. When The!Cart was designed in 2011 the goal was to not require any additional hardare (other than a SIO connection) and a regular Atari. Flashing the first time with maximum speed and a 90% full ROM takes around 5h. Updates then only flash the delta (incremental flashing) within minutes. The AtariMax flash is proprietary and closed source and from a commercial vendor selling carts himself. No way he'd cooperate anyway. Also with only 100 The!Cart V1, then upfront investment would have been too high. But: Now that the 2nd run is out and we have the option to provide more on request in future, I see a chance to also get an USB option. I've been in contact with somebody who did such things before. Nothing I can promise, but yes, it's on the list. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega-hz Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 >> I see a chance to also get an USB option... will you inform me too please? BTW: the next 8 Carts have been updated today and the full-test is running, they will be shipped on wednsday! Wolfram. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega-hz Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Today Carts are shipped to USA (3x people), Chile(1x), Sweden(1x) and Japan(1x). The soldering and testing is going on... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) Mail arrived today with The!Cart in an envelope. Thank you mega-hz Edited April 17, 2018 by rdea6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewKillerAmerica Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 PM sent to mega-hz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 (edited) Any news in the shipping phase? Like I write always (and again this time) I'm not in a hurry, and I understand this is hobby... so you can take my word that I'm not in a hurry. But the fact that I hear almost nothing, and that the only information is coming to me when I take action, is a bad thing. Please improve this. You people get my money, I even pay an extra money as a donation because there went something wrong in assembly of the pcb's, but almost zero communication? Come on, there is no need for that. As written before: please look how tf_hh does his 'business'. There is a lot of communication going on with him. Excellent. In every phase of the production/payment/shipping there is an e-mail from him. If things get delayed there is an e-mail from him. I repeat it one more time: no, I'm not in a hurry, and yes I fully understand it is a hobby and that people have their own life with struggles and priorities. All fully respected by me. But the incredible long period of silence, silence, silence and more silence is something I find hard to accept. I have no idea what is going on. From the outside it looks like there is a problem, and that makes me insecure. I would like to know what is going, and when I could expect my package to arrive or when it will be shipped. Thanks! Edited April 21, 2018 by ProWizard 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Any news in the shipping phase? Like I write always (and again this time) I'm not in a hurry, and I understand this is hobby... so you can take my word that I'm not in a hurry. But the fact that I hear almost nothing, and that the only information is coming to me when I take action, is a bad thing. Please improve this. You people get my money, I even pay an extra money as a donation because there went something wrong in assembly of the pcb's, but almost zero communication? Come on, there is no need for that. As written before: please look how tf_hh does his 'business'. There is a lot of communication going on with him. Excellent. In every phase of the production/payment/shipping there is an e-mail from him. If things get delayed there is an e-mail from him. I repeat it one more time: no, I'm not in a hurry, and yes I fully understand it is a hobby and that people have their own life with struggles and priorities. All fully respected by me. But the incredible long period of silence, silence, silence and more silence is something I find hard to accept. I have no idea what is going on. From the outside it looks like there is a problem, and that makes me insecure. I would like to know what is going, and when I could expect my package to arrive or when it will be shipped. Thanks! Ditto, can wait but updates would be nice so we don't feel like we have been forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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