Bunsen Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 I like to have one or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 the german Floppy 2000 showed a menu when you booted without a disk (some other floppy upgrades too). You could then choose which program you wanted to load. Maybe for those that do not want the LCD display you can create a similar menu for the MegaSpeedy, where one can choose the speeder (Happy, Turbo, Speedy, SuperSpeedy, etc.) he wants to use, so the LCD display is not nescessary anymore...?!?That's what I meant with "adding to the flasher". The flasher software is loaded from the drive if you select the "flasher mode" and boot with an open drive door. Actually the flasher mode is identical to the mega speedy mode, but you are usually not supposed to update this slot (if you mess things up, well, you might have a problem doing further updates). In mega speedy mode there's 24k of space for "bootable software", in more or less the same way as with the Speedy (speedy had only 8k of space). So people may write some super-nice configuration menus with DLIs and whatnot, if they like, and just upload them to one of the mega speedy ROM slots. I'll release the necessary programming information with the added registers etc, but first I have to write it I find the beeper much more annoying. What does it do, other than beep in high frequency (ouch, my ears, tinnitus alert!) when an error occurs or an unformatted disk was put into the drive ?!?IIRC there were some programs that used the beeper to play a tune, but if you don't like it, just remove it Anyways, only the speedy modes support the beeper, so if you use Happy, Turbo, ... your drive will be quiet so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Well, two upgrades for me, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 I absolutely do not want to derail this topic, but I need to know the following... What is the expected lifespan of a 1050 from now on? These drives are overall 30 years old now, and what can I expect? 10 more years? I have a rather cool stack of 1050's here, and I really want to invest in this upgrade for myself… but if my 1050's will stop working in a few years, I might regret it (that's why I ask). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 What is the expected lifespan of a 1050 from now on?That's really hard to predict. But since the MegaSpeedy replaces CPU, RAM and ROM there will be 3 30-year-old parts less in your 1050 that can fail so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 That's really hard to predict. But since the MegaSpeedy replaces CPU, RAM and ROM there will be 3 30-year-old parts less in your 1050 that can fail so long, Hias Thanks! But what about the drive belt… is there any thing useful to say about that… or something I can do to let it last longer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guus.assmann Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 (edited) Hello MrFish, Here's two pictures of the front. One with the final display PCB on top. The switch to the upper right of the picture is to select the drive number and has nothing to do with the Mega-Speedy. The rotary encoder is supposed to go to the right of the displays. A switch with 3 positions may also be placed there. And the wireing can be connected to the PCB and the encoder placed elsewhere. Or if you want to leave the drive intact, route the flatcable below the drive, between the bottom and the front bezzel. The PDF contains a printout of the complete display board. As to how long the drives may last, at ABBUC they still send disks to the members. These have been copied with the same 1050 for many years. And it still works fine. BR/ Guus Assmann P.S. @ProWizard When in doubt, please do not buy this unit ! MEGA Speedy Display 1050 WF rev 24-aug-2014.pdf Edited October 27, 2014 by guus.assmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guus.assmann Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 @The Doctor, If you mean Euro's, then maybe we're there. But if you mean $, I'm not so sure, $39,95 is a very low price. It also depends, if I can get more CPU's at a good price. Up till now, I've bought enough to make about 50 units. As this unit replaces most other upgrades, You can sell those to earn money to buy the Mega-Speedy. :-) BR/ Guus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarex Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 please one of the art of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britishcar Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 It is compatible with "TOMS turbo drive"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemiel Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Sikor - turbo speed should work - Turbo 1050 mode - but TDK copier, etc. won't work for 99,99%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 It is compatible with "TOMS turbo drive"?After correcting the obvious errors in the jsobola schematic, the memory layout seems to be identical to the 1050 duplicator (8k RAM at $2000-$3FFF, 8k ROM at $E000-$FFFF) and this TOMS ROM seems to be working - at least I can see the boot menu and use the integrated disk copier. But I need some more information about this upgrade and some links to (diagnostics-)software: Do you have some known good schematics of this upgrade? Do you have installation instructions in english (or in some text-format that I can run through google translate)? I guess CPU and ROM have to be removed and then the board plugs into the CPU socket - or do you need to do further modifications to the 1050 like soldering some wires? I also tried to run "Toms Turbo Drive Kopier 1.15" (v1 and v2 from atarionline.pl), but didn't get very far - I still need to find out how to use google translate on my 800XL I just pressed return a few times, saw "0", "39", then "T" at the bottom of the screen, then "S" appeared on the top right (I had an SD disk in my drive), but when pressing return another time I just hear the drive "fart" and then the "CTRL-2 error tone". Not quite sure what's going wrong here :-) I'd be happy about any information, maybe I can add support for TOMS, too (I won't promise anything, but I'll try to). so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Great news - i think, that Seban can help with this. I'm not electronic, but I ask later on atariarea forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeless Joe Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) Count me in for at least one. I think the 1050 doesn't get enough love, so thanks for developing this! Edited October 28, 2014 by Smokeless Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazmat Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Very cool device ! I need two !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hi Guus, I did mail you for 1 extra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragos Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I'm in for one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Thanks! But what about the drive belt… is there any thing useful to say about that… or something I can do to let it last longer? Drive belts are available from B&C and Best, at least for the time being... If you ask me, I'd say get one upgrade put it in one of your 1050s and if that 1050 goes bye bye after a while, you could move the upgrade to another one... I guess you have enough 1050s to last you a lifetime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guus.assmann Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Hello All, The pre-series is (almost) done. Just some Flash-roms missing. So we're ready for the more extensive testing and I'll start the first production run. This will take a while, also due to not so fast shipments. More information will follow, once there is any. BR/ Guus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vazquezrick Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 You can sign me up for one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Great news - i think, that Seban can help with this. I'm not electronic, but I ask later on atariarea forum. Unfortunately - we has not other info as on Jurek Sobola site... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Count me in too greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumzyman Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I'm in for two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Even I'm mostly using various SIO2XXX devices instead of real floppies I'm interested in one too. Amazingly those 5 1/4 floppies still work after 30 years while 5 1/2 floppies for my ST seem to be less reliable over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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