+MrFish Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Does anyone have a copy of this? I think I accidentally deleted mine, and I can't seem to find it on the net anywhere now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 how about 4.19 or 4.21? http://www.pipeline.com/~jhardie/roms.html or others http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/atari_forever/ROM/SpartaDosX/ I'm not sure what "SpartaDosXv419.bin" is... its © 1993 ICD/Garfield v4.20 MD5 (SDX418.ROM) = 3aafd7bbbb13a2d8980c41edd06d133f MD5 (SDX419.ROM) = e3baa6d7d7a43d3e3127f3618fd1cae6 MD5 (SDX420.ROM) = baf9cded718a19e04e2c45649a57c1b6 MD5 (SDX421.ROM) = 9c05b73626f289cc3084bf9f457853a9 MD5 (SDX422.ROM) = 7470286fc278b14f3d0d45ea7cfb439f MD5 (SDX42A.ROM) = 4d4072772dd4ab61839865f4685946f2 MD5 (SpartaDosXv419-420-Garfield.bin) = 29f79c5c2256593fd7cb7c8d68e0a36d I'm not sure what 4.2A is either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 Thanks, I've already got v4.18 through v4.22. I'm looking to have the complete collection (again). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 I'm not sure what 4.2A is either... I'm not sure either; it's the first time I've seen it. It's dated identical to v4.20, and it only has 6 bytes that are different in the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 I noticed this v4.2a also takes longer to start up. It looks like it's waiting longer to detect attached drives/disks. In Altirra, without any drives/disks attached: v4.20 takes less than 10 seconds to start up. v4.2a takes a full 15 seconds to start up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Do you know what year 4.17 was current? - Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drac030 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 It looks like it's waiting longer to detect attached drives/disks. SpartaDOS X does not detect attached drives/disks at startup. The difference is probably in the INDUS.SYS driver which is trying to engage Synchromesh mode in the attached floppies. A timeout value or something like that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) Do you know what year 4.17 was current? According to Atarimania, 1988: SpartaDOS X v4.17 (same year as v4.18). Edited October 7, 2017 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 According to Atarimania, 1988: SpartaDOS X v4.17 (same year as v4.18). I wonder if FTE got that version when they purchased the rights to all of what ICD owned? Although I think that happened in the early 90's so perhaps not. If by some freak chance Mike Hohman is listening in, maybe he can do an anonymous upload to Atarimania or some other suitable archival location. Hey you never know. - Michael 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I wonder if a little birdie heard and just then began tweeting that request gently into the ear of the kind fellow... and perhaps just mayhaps within a few weeks something would happen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I remember 4.18 being shipped to me as a chip upgrade to my 4.17 for some reason.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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